UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 27, 2019. Mezhdurechensk school students presented their projects at Children’s Foresight, a program coordinated by EVRAZ Holding, the Social Initiatives Fund, Mezhdurechensk Council, and the One-Employer Town Development Fund. According to EVRAZ Raspadskaya Coal Company’s PR Department, Children’s Foresight took off in March 2019. The students had to work in teams to develop and then present their projects and ideas at a foresight session. The program also covered workshops and master classes by the authors of successful social initiatives Alexander Shcheryakov and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 27, 2019. EVRAZ Holding keeps supporting Uralets, a martial arts school in Nizhniy Tagil, this year as always. The company supplies the funds for the sports players to take part in out-of-town championships and get new equipment and uniforms when necessary. According to EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center, the young sports players get coached by EVRAZ Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) Converter Shop’s Senior Repairs Engineer Vladimir A. Morozov, who used to be a successful fighter and Russia and the CIS champion himself. ‘Vladimir

UrBC, Moscow, May 27, 2019. 147,000 new automobiles got manufactured in Russia in April 2019, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 5%, Autostat reports. Also, 4% more cars got made in January-April 2019 than in January-April 2018 (531,000 units). At the same time, the Russian market’s truck output went down by 3% in January-April 2019 compared with January-April 2018 and only came to 29,400 units. However, 14,300 trucks were made in April 2019 alone, which exactly as many units as were made in April 2018.

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, May 27, 2019. First Freight Company’s Chelyabinsk branch handled 65,000,000 kg of piggyback consignments in January-April 2019, which was nearly twice as much as one year earlier, the company’s press service reports. The piggyback freight forwarding turnover rose by 55%, up to 158 ton-kilometers. The share of First Freight Company’s freight forwarding operations handled by South Ural Railways rose from 11% to 13%. ‘The increase has to do with the growing amount of consignments from our key customers: ZhBI 74, Kurganstalmost, and ChZSMK. Besides, we also resumed handling the

UrBC, Moscow, May 27, 2019. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects Russia’s gross domestic product to increase by 1.4% in 2019, TASS refers to the IMF as stating. The country’s GDP growth has remained at around 1.4% for the last three years, so a similar dynamics is expected to keep up throughout the year 2019, the IMF says. It is also reported that the state investments in national-scale projects and the changes in the pension/retirement regulations are expected to bring Russia’s potential GDP growth by 0.1% to 0.5%. Any GDP-supporting factors from outside will probably be highly