UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 25, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Iron and Steel Works (NTMK) was declared Sverdlovsk Region’s Benefactor of The Year (in the ferrous metallurgy sector) this month. The nominations were part of the Charity Days events that Sverdlovsk Region’s industrial enterprises joined to present their benefactors’ reports for the year 2018. According to the company’s PR Department, EVRAZ NTMK supports thirty schools and kindergartens in Nizhniy Tagil, as well as a number of colleges. This year, a student design office opened in Ural Federal University’s Nizhniy Tagil

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 25, 2018. A new online job-hunting service opens in Magnitogorsk with support from Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), Magnitogorsk Council, and G.I. Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University. Rustatus.pro is a platform that aims to bring students, colleges, and enterprises closer together, MMK’s press service reports. The project is meant to help potential employees find the best working conditions and to help employers select the most competitive applicants. Every applicant will have a personal web page within the platform, with data updates ensured

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 25, 2018. ChelPipe’s Board of Directors adopted a customer-oriented, digital technologies-based business transformation program on December 19. The company intends to direct some RUB 1 billion to the program next year, the company press service reports. ‘A customer-oriented transformation is only logical at this stage of our corporate White-Coated Metallurgy philosophy’s development. The person, that is, our customer, our employee, a resident of the town or constituency where this company operates, is the focus of this philosophy. Given the increasingly fierce

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 25, 2018. Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems (FGC UES) is currently testing a new digital monitoring unit at its 110-kilowatt Olenya-Yamburg Main in Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous District; this section of the electric grid is in charge of power supply to the entire district, including Gazprom facilities in the area. The digital monitoring unit will be used to make reference measurements of the grid and main parameters, which is useful for making on-the-spot repair decisions. According to FGC UES Western Siberia’s PR & Media Group, the digital monitoring

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 25, 2018. Ural Airlines bought yet another Airbus A321 on a lease within the framework of the company’s fleet renovation program; the air carrier thus now operates forty-seven Airbus planes all in all. The aircraft, now known as VQ-BGX, used to get operated by a British airline. There are 220 Economy seats available on board. ’This new purchase is meant to be used on both international and domestic flights. The first scheduled flight this Airbus is going to make will be Yekaterinburg-Tbilisi one, the airline’s press service says. Ural Airlines and Airbus have