UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 31, 2019. EVRAZ Holding is currently working on an investment project to develop Coal Bed 29a of its Yesaulskaya Mine (estimated reserves: more than 10,000,000,000 kg of valuable GZh coking coal). The company intends to start developing the coal bed in the first quarter of 2020, which will require over RUB 1.5bn in investments, EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company reports. ‘Four stoping teams are now busy preparing Coalface 29-37 (total distance: 11.5 km). The miners are using a new set of equipment, including Russian-made combines and self-propelled

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, January 31, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is currently coordinating an online auction to find a contractor for a layout and design and project documentation on a museum/educational facility/park/sports facility in Magnitogorsk, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The auction is part of the company’s large-scale, multi-purpose urban development program (aka Prityazheniye) in the city’s south-western locations. The site for the would-be multifunctional park in Magnitogorsk belongs to MMK and is 357.3 hectares large. The plant has the town

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 31, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Metallurgical Plant (NTMK) launched its Heavy Mill Department sixty years ago this month. The plant’s Managing Director Alexei Kushnarev congratulated the department’s best workers and long-service employees on the special date. According to EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR Department, work on the would-be heavy mill department began in 1957 as the nationwide Youth Communist League construction project. The very first product, a round shape (diameter: 90 mm) got made at the department as soon as January 25, 1959. EVRAZ NTMK’s Heavy

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 31, 2019. The number of appeal claims placed by Sverdlovsk Region’s locals against insurance companies rose by 35% in 2018 compared with the year 2017, Sverdlovsk Region Court’s press service reports. ‘The number of suits to do with personal and property insurance was noticeably on the increase: 1,235 cases got processed in 2017 and as many as 1,670 in 2018 (+35%),’ the press service says. Sverdlovsk Region Court looked into 19,923 civil lawsuits within the appeals procedures last year. The number of lawsuits to do with loan and housing disagreements also went up

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 31, 2019. Ural companies have sent their customers more than eighteen million ‘smart’ texts with MegaFon.Target over the last two years, MegaFon’s press service reports. ‘According to Deloitte’s recent survey findings, text messages are now 39% less popular in Russia. The Urals’ business community, however, goes against the national trend in that local companies keep sending increasingly more texts through targeted messaging services. The number of local businesses that started using smart text messaging increased by 1.5 times in the last twelve months,’ the press