UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 30, 2019. Russian Auction House is currently advertising a new lot: a land allotment and a nonresidential building on the shore of Lake Tavatui, Sverdlovsk Region, the company’s reports indicate. Potential bidders are invited to buy a share in OOO MAV’s authorized capital, as the company in question owns the 2.5-hectare land allotment and the 925.7-square-meter building. The place is located in Nevyansk District, within 850 meters to the north of the settlement Tavatui. ‘This private, premium-class building is situated on the shore of Lake Tavatui, away from the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 30, 2019. 1,500 people are expected to visit the 4th Russian Cities 2020/Project Territory Forum in Yekaterinburg, Head of Yekaterinburg Council’s Department of Economics Alexei Pryadeyin said at a recent press conference. According to Pryadeyin, the venue has changed from Yeltsin Center to the Hyatt Hotel this year. ‘The forum covered two plenary sessions and sixteen separate sections last year. This year, we are planning on three plenary sessions and around thirty separate sections. About 1,000 people came to the event last year, whereas this year, the expected

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 30, 2019. Senior Design Engineer at EVRAZ West Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ ZSMK) Sergey Nagibin won silver in Mechanical Reverse Engineering at WorldSkills 2019 in Kazan, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Communications Center reports. ‘Sergey Nagibin competed in the Future Skills section that covers promising job skills that the hi tech production and digital economy will likely need soon. The section comprises 25 different subcategories, including Space Systems Engineering, Quantum Technology, In-Company Protection Against Insider Threats for

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 30, 2019. Vadim Akhmetov and Vladislav Yevdokimov, two students of Magnitogorsk Polytechnic School (founded at the initiative of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works/MMK), won silver in Industry 4.0 at the 45th WorldSkills 2019 Championship in Kazan, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘The section on Future Skills has been introduced in the championship for the first time in the history of the WorldSkills Movement. In this particular category, WorldSkills contestants compete in the kinds of blue-collar job skills that are needed in hi tech production and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 30, 2019. Small and medium enterprises deposit increasingly more money with banks, the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s website states. According to the Deposit Insurance Agency, the overall amount of state-insured bank deposits opened by small businesses and sole traders increased by 0.3% in the first half of 2019. The UBRD Corporates Development Director Elena Sorvina says the upward trend took off after the new law on the state insurance of bank deposits opened by SMEs (up to RUB 1.4m per deposit holder) came into effect on January 1, 2019. The

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 29, 2019. MMK Group’s member enterprise Magnitogorsk Plant of Rolling Rolls was founded fifteen years ago this month. Over the years, the plant has grown into the home market leader and one of Russia’s largest centrifugally cast sheet-rolling roll and section steel roll manufacturer, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. In 2005, one year into operation, the plant worked together with the Slovenian company Valji Group d.o.o. to master the technology for making two- and three-layer centrifugally cast sheet-rolling rolls. The following August, the plant

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 29, 2019. A solemn awarding ceremony was held for the Russian Bandy Super League teams in Pervouralsk this week; the winners — bandy players, their coaching staff, and Uralsky Trubnik’s personnel — received their Russian Championship bronze medals and other awards there. Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev, ChelPipe Group’s Chair of the BOD and President of Uralsky Trubnik Bandy Club Alexander Fedorov, and Director of Russia’s Bandy Federation Yuri Molotkov all attended the ceremony. According to ChelPipe Group’s press service, Uralsky Trubnik set its

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 29, 2019. Magnitogorsk-based Metallurg Charity Foundation recently held a meeting on the upcoming Knowledge Day celebrations. The meeting was attended by heads of special-needs schools in Magnitogorsk and the nearby villages, the Information & PR Department at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) reports. More than RUB 157m got allocated for the comprehensive children’s support program (of which Knowledge Day events and activities are part of) in the first seven months of 2019. The program centers on supporting the social infrastructure facilities in the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 29, 2019. Ural Airlines will soon introduce yet another international flight from Zhukovsky Airport to Amsterdam, the air carrier’s press service reports. The flight will get operated twice a week, that is, every Wednesday and Saturday, code-shared with KLM. Departure (Zhukovsky): 11:15 AM Arrival (Amsterdam): 12:45 PM Departure (Amsterdam): 1:45 PM Arrival (Zhukovsky): 7:05 PM Prices start from RUB 14,157 (carry-on luggage only) and RUB 18,597 (carry-on luggage and one piece of luggage). ‘Amsterdam is a dream destination, a kaleidoscopic location. The place is

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 29, 2019. OOO FORES placed a claim against Asbest Duma deputy Natalya Krylova with Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court this month. The defendant wants some of Krylova’s statements to be declared inaccurate, and to have these statements removed from Krylova’s social media accounts. The statements in question were made in May through July 2019 and concern the composition of the raw materials FORES is using, and the company’s environmental impact. According to FORES, they are suing Krylova as a natural person. ‘The plaintiff has been making statements about the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 27, 2019. Used car sales declined by 3.5% on Yekaterinburg market in January-July 2019 compared with one year earlier, that is, down to 25,372 units, AutoStat reports. The Russian brand LADA remains the market’s bestseller: 14.8% of all used cars sold on Yekaterinburg market are LADA makes. The Japanese brand Toyota, with its 8.3% share of the market, comes next, followed by Hyundai (7.6%), Nissan (5.6%), and KIA (5.6%). Together, these five brands make up over 40% of the used car market in Yekaterinburg.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 27, 2019. The All-Russian Viktor Pshenichnikov MMK Judo Cup Championship will take place at Ivan Romazan Culture Palace in Magnitogorsk on August 31-September 2, 2019. Eligible to compete are young men in the under-eighteen age group. The event gets coordinated by Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), Magnitogorsk Department of Physical Culture, Sports & Tourism, and Magnitogorsk Judo Federation. ‘The goal of the championship is to promote the development of judo as a sport and make it more popular and to help the participants gain some competition

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 27, 2019. The mean asking price came to RUB 72,648 per m2 on Yekaterinburg existing home market as of August 19, 2019, Ural Real Estate Chamber’s research findings indicate. The asking price rose by 0.1% in the last four weeks. ‘The price of rooms in communal apartments rose by 1.2%; that of studio apartments by 0.4%; that of one-bedroom homes by 0.7%. Two-bedroom homes grew 0.2% less expensive and three-bedroom apartments and all the larger ones grew 1.2% less expensive,’ the research states. It currently takes slightly over four months to sell a place.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 27, 2019. The canteen of Pipe-Rolling Department 5 reopened after a series of renovations at ChelPipe Group’s member enterprise Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ), the company’s press service reports. The Group allocated more than RUB 15m to get the canteen renovated and fitted with modern appliances. The canteen underwent a major façade repair and now has a new entry; the rooms also got remodeled, with new electric power, water, and heating supply infrastructure in place, as well as air conditioning and ventilation systems. New furniture was purchased for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 27, 2019. OOO FORES’s Shadrinsk-based partner company TekhnoKeramika keeps implementing its extensive environmental monitoring system, FORES’s press service reports. ‘On August 10-20, the quality of air next to TekhnoKeramika’s sanitary protection area in Shadrinsk complied with all the existing regulations as usual, the Center for Lab Tests & Industrial Gauging (CLATI) in Ural Federal District’s research findings indicate,’ the company says. CLATI took daytime and nighttime air samples on August 12-14 as part of TekhnoKeramika’s extensive environmental

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 26, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) brought the interest rates on consumer loans down for the second time this summer, the bank’s press service reports. The changes involved the bank’s entire consumer loan product range and now apply to both existing customers and new applicants. The interest rates declined by over 4% overall. ‘There are many factors we take into account when shaping our product range; the market situation and the customers’ needs are two such factors. The Central Bank’s policy to reduce the key rate in the last few

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 26, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s member enterprises Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe) and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) got re-certified once again and proved their compliance with the international quality management, environmental safety, job safety, and industrial safety standards. According to the Group’s press service, SAI Global auditors looked into all the business processes at Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant and confirmed that these processes all meet the quality management standard ISO 9001, the environmental management standard ISO 14001, and the job

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 26, 2019. Workers at LLC MMK-COAL are getting ready to celebrate Miner’s Day, MMK Information & PR Department reports. ‘The company consists of Chertinskaya-Koksovaya Mine, Kostromovskaya Mine, and Central Processing Plant. Now Kostromovskaya Mine is a relatively new one, as it got started on eleven years ago, whereas Chertinskaya-Koksovaya Mine is one the first mines to get set up in Kemerovo Region. Even so, the older mine keeps producing increasingly more coal and is, in fact, going through a renaissance. The mine underwent major tech overhaul and retooling

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 26, 2019. 740 employees of EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company received government, regional, and company awards on Miner’s Day, the company’s PR Department reports. ‘Solemn ceremonies took place in Novokuznetsk and Mezhdurechensk, where the miners got congratulated on their achievements, and reports were made on the company’s performance in the last eight months. Long-service employees and current workers who contributed to Raspadskaya Coal Company’s and Kuzbass coal industry’s development and winners of the company Best in Profession and Idea Factory

UrBC, Moscow, August 26, 2019. MegaFon is going to hold the very first 5G- and Cloud Gaming-supported cyber-sports championship; an actual fifth-generation base station will be used in the course of the competition, the telecom company’s press service reports. Dota 2 5G Championship by MegaFon is Russia’s first pilot project on the use of 5G and Cloud Gaming technologies in the digital entertainment industry. Winstrike Team, one of the strongest teams in the country, will take part in the event. The championship will take place at Moscow City as part of Dota2 The International 2019