UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 19, 2019. The construction of tram links connecting Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy to the city’s central locations and Solnechny to Vtorchermet will begin next year, the town council’s website says. A temporary ring road with a final stop in Preobrazhensky Park and a tram line along Wilhelm de Gennin St, Serafima Deryabina St, and Volgogradskaya St (total lengh: 4 km) will get built first. The line will then gent extended to Tatishchev St and will reach 6.7 km in length. The plan necessitates a number of major changes in the urban motorway network in the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 19, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s member enterprises are getting ready to celebrate the white-coated metallurgists’ most important day of the year on July 19-20, 2019, the Group’s press service reports. More than 10,000 employees at ChelPipe, their families, and former workers will all take part in the traditional Metallurgist’s Day festivities in Chelyabinsk and Pervouralsk. This year’s theme - Shine all the time, for ever shine - is borrowed from Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poem on the love of labor and social responsibility and is fully in sync with the Group’s corporate

UrBC, Moscow, July 19, 2019. Three employees of EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (NTMK) received government awards; the executive order to this effect was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin; the awards were given out by Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Nikolai Tsukanov in the course of a solemn ceremony, the holding’s press service reports. Managing Director of EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (NTMK) and EVRAZ Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (KGOK) Alexei Kushnarev

UrBC, Moscow, July 19, 2019. MegaFon now offers its customers SmartUtilities, a solution that relies on the Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) standard, the telecom company’s press service reports. The solution can control electric power, heating, natural gas, and water spending within a given home/building. SmartUtilities will be useful for electric power, heating power, and water suppliers, management companies, and housing developers. SmartUtilities is fully compatible with the popular systems 1C and GIS ZhKH, ensures automated collection of data (without the need for actual human

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 19, 2019. OOO FORES won the EcoBestAWard 2019, the prize given out for the best products and practices in the environment and resource-saving segment, the company’s press service reports. The company’s Cloud Filter Project was chosen as the Project of The Year. The awarding ceremony took place at Eco Life Fest in Moscow’s Izmaylovsky Park on July 13. The project relies on FORES’s rapidly advancing gas-filtering technologies. ‘There are about 200 up-to-date sock filters operating at the company’s plants at the moment. These filters trap over 99% of all the dust, which