UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 17, 2019. MegaFon opened a new store in Yekaterinburg featuring smart gadgets and interactive product demonstration, the company’s press service reports. The new shop can be found in Greenwich Mall at 46 Vosmoye Marta St. Visitors can have direct access to the advanced devices that you can test, hold in your hands, use to take a few sample pictures, unlock to take a look at the user interface, and compare with similar items in an online store. Sales assistants in the store can also help you get a bank card, set up your personal MegaFon account online, and register

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 17, 2019. 2,477,597 people flew with Ural Airlines in January-April 2019 (+8% on a year earlier); 1,258,815 passengers went on the airline’s domestic flights and 1,218,782 passengers traveled internationally. According to the air carrier’s press service, the airline operated 17,674 flights in the first four months of the year (+5% on the year 2018), including 9,059 domestic flights and 8,615 international flights. The passenger turnover rose by 10% and reached 6,117,793,000 passenger-kilometers. 696,515 people flew with Ural Airlines in April 2019, which exceeded the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 17, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s West Siberian Metallurgical Plant’s major power station is currently being upgraded, with gradual replacement of electric filters responsible for removing ash particles (the byproduct of coal-burning) from smoke gases, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Communications Center reports. ‘The upgraded filters ensure high-quality (98.5%) filtering of smoke gases and reduce our ash emissions by 3,000,000 kg a year. Investing in filter upgrades is one of EVRAZ West Siberian Metallurgical Plant’s top priority environmental programs. So far, the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 17, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region recently came sixteenth in the national rating of average car loan amount issued by banks in a given constituency. In February 2019, Sverdlovsk Region-based banks issued RUB 748,485 per car loan on average; a month later, the figure decreased by 6.8%. Sverdlovsk Region also came sixth (out of forty) in terms of the number of newly issued car loans; 2,775 car loans got issued in the constituency in March 2019 (+40% on February, when the number was 1,982). In Russia on the whole, the average car loan amount came to RUB 729,200 in March 2019,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 17, 2019. Every one in ten people in Sverdlovsk Region lives below poverty line, Svedlovskstat reports. According to the preliminary data available for 2018, there are currently 419,700 people in the constituency (9.7% of the total population count) wth incomes below living wage. In 2017, the figure was 424,300 (9.8%).