UrBC, Moscow, July 3, 2019. Yekaterinburg got chosen as the host for the Summer Universiade 2023; the decision was made at the Fédération Internationale du Sport Universitaire (FISU) Executive Committee meeting, TASS reports. Yekaterinburg is now expected to welcome 200,000 visitors from 150 different countries. The Summer Universiade comprises fifteen different sports: badminton, basketball, water polo, volleyball, judo, track-and-field challenges, ping-pong, swimming, springboard diving, artistic gymnastics, archery, tennis, taekwondo, fencing, and free callisthenics. Now the FISU committee

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 3, 2019. Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Vysokinsky hopes Yekaterinburg will get to host the best Universiade in history, the town council’s press service reports. ‘The decision has been taken, the Universiade will take place in Yekaterinburg. This is enormous responsibility in terms of getting every facility ready and every event organized in the next three to four years. The work must certainly begin as soon as tomorrow. For Yekaterinburg, this is a very solid chance to support its status as both a sports and culture center and to prove a truly global city. Large

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 3, 2019. Ural Airlines reintroduced their Yekaterinburg-Prague-Yekaterinburg flight this month, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Flight U6 701 (Yekaterinburg-Prague) and Flight U6 702 (Prague-Yekaterinburg) depart with a delay on July 2 due to having to wait for the departure permit,’ the press service says. Now Ural Airlines already announced that Yekaterinburg-Prague and Zhukovsky-Prague flights would have to get halted starting July 2 after Czechia’s air travel authorities had decided to annul their entry permits issued earlier.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 3, 2019. EVRAZ United West Siberian Metallurgical Plant’s (EVRAZ ZSMK) team proved the absolute leader at EVRAZ Holding’s WorldSkills championship, winning gold medals in ten out of twelve categories, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Communications Center’s PR Department reports. More than three hundred workers and experts from EVRAZ’s six large enterprises (EVRAZ United West Siberian Metallurgical Plant’s (EVRAZ ZSMK), EVRAZ Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK), Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise, Raspadskaya Coal Comapny, EVRAZ Vanady

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 3, 2019. Starting July 1, 115 branches operated by the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) will be able to collect customers’ biometric data, the bank’s press service reports. The procedure involves making the customer’s full-face photograph and taking a voice sample. The data will get entered into a single biometric system. Everything is done free of charge. ‘There are 46 locations in Sverdlovsk Region that have all the necessary equipment, as well as 14 in Chelyabinsk Region, 7 in Bashkortostan, 5 in Leningrad Region, 4 in Kirov Region, 4 in Perm