UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 28, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) now co-finances the projects of small and medium enterprises that are currently residents at MMK Industrial Park. According to MMK’s Information & PR Department, the co-funding gets provided on a competitive basis and must be used to set up a new production site or to expand an existing one. MMK supplies up to 30% of the necessary total amount (but no more than RUB 15 million). Teplopribor Express Analiz was the first company to use this financing mechanism to expand and localize production; the company is an MMK

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 28, 2019. EVRAZ West-Siberian Metal Plant (EVRAZ ZSMK) and EVRAZ Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) produced more than 3,000,000 kg of heavy-duty rolled metal goods for Baikal Sports Center in Irkutsk. The metal goods were delivered onto the construction site by EVRAZ Metall Inprom; there are more shipments to follow. According to EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Communications Center, EVRAZ ZSMK’s thermally treated reinforcing bars A500S (diameter: 10-35 mm) are being used to reinforce the metal structures at the stadium. EVRAZ NTMK’s hot-rolled H-beams

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 28, 2019. The major national marketing and advertising prize Effie Russia Awards’ organizing committee awarded MegaFon and ESforce’s cyber sports project the first prize in Sponsorship. MegaFon also won prizes in four more categories and proved Effie Russia’s Most Efficient Brand of 2019 in Telecommunications. According to MegaFon Ural, the company started working on its cyber sports project last year when MegaFon entered into a partnership with ESforce Holding Ltd, one of the world’s largest cyber sports organizations. MegaFon kept supporting Virtus Pro Team

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 28, 2019. EVRAZ Holding selected the finalists of its grant contest in Mezhdurechensk. The winners got announced in the course of a solemn ceremony and can now implement their projects, EVRAZ Raspadskaya Coal Company’s PR Department reports. EVRAZ Holding’s grant contest has been coordinated in Mezhdurechensk since 2017. So far, nearly two hundred applications have been submitted by the contestants, and 24 best projects (total funding: RUB 6 million) got implemented in 2017 and 2018. Thanks to EVRAZ’s grants, a number of children’s sports playgrounds got set up in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 28, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s 5th sports festival and charity race took place next to Sovremennik Concert Hall in Nizhniy Tagil on May 26, with some 4,000 people taking part, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. 1,200+ people joined in the race, including (for the first time) children with disabilities from Nizhniy Tagil Elementary School/Kindergarten 105 and a special-needs school in Kachkanar. The race gathered together adults and children from Nizhniy Tagil, Kachkanar, Yekaterinburg, Lesnoy, Kushva, Ivdel, Verkhnyaya Salda, Petrokamenskoye,