UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 29, 2019. Ural Airlines recently introduced a new flight from Yekaterinburg to Xi’an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, China, the air carrier’s press service reports. The flights will get operated on Airbus A320neo planes every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday starting December 16, 2019. For Promo tickets (one piece of luggage under 10kg and all fees and charges included), prices start from RUB 15,900 (one way) and RUB 30,530 (there and back) for Yekaterinburg-Xi’an flights U6 763 and from RUB 16,800 (one way) and RUB 30,530 (there and back) for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 29, 2019. Activists from the ChelPipe Group-supported NGO Gorod Pervykh coordinated Gorod Pervykh Eco-Festival in Pervouralsk; more than 500 people took part in the event, the Group’s press service reports. There event’s program covered recycling pickups, clothing and house plant swaps, and environmental workshops. ‘A recycling pickup station was set up on the festival site; this has already proved a popular event with the locals. Gorod Pervykh activists managed to collect over 800 kg of old newspapers and more than 100kg of plastic, cans, and glass items.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 29, 2019. Three mines at EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company have reached their target output figures for this year ahead of schedule, the company’s PR Department reports. ‘Alardinskaya Mine and two more of Raspadskaya Coal Company’s enterprises have produced the target amount of coal for this year,’ the company says. Alardinskaya Mine was the first one to reach the target output figures; Yerunakovskaya 8 Mine came next. Yerunakovskaya miners faced a number of geological problems at the start of the year but managed to cope with them and have produced the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 29, 2019. MegaFon launched MegaFon-CARGO, a new automated freight forwarding service with a fully functional e-document flow that makes it possible to process any kind of shipment (from a small parcel to a large truck) all over Russia, the telecom company’s press service reports. The platform was designed by Mail.ru Group. ‘MegaFon-CARGO creates an impartial rating of freight forwarding companies, comes up with delivery price comparisons, and helps users coordinate a multiple-freight-forwarder shipment. Thanks to Personnel Control, Vehicle Pool Control, and Cargo

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 29, 2019. Chair of the BOD at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Viktor Rashnikov won the All-Russian Director of The Year Award for his contribution to corporate governance system, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The awarding ceremony took place in Moscow at the close of the 9th All-Russian Corporate Governance Forum. Viktor Rashnikov has once again been selected as one of the Top 25 Chairs of the BODs. ‘There are several MMK executives among the winners. For one, the independent members of the Board of Directors Tav Morgan, Kirill Levin,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 28, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) is launching a wild sale marathon on Black Friday. According to the bank’s press service, the bank’s private customers will be able to set up an account with increased interest earnings, apply for a loan on appealing terms, and save money on credit card fees and transfer commissions on November 28-December 2, 2019. ‘Black Friday is the traditional start-of-the-holiday-season sale time. The UBRD decided to join in the campaign with its wild sale marathon. For one, if you set up a savings deposit

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 28, 2019. OOO FORES’s Sukhoi Log branch fully complies with the existing air emission and noise level regulations, the company’s press service reports. ‘The impact OOO FORES’s Sukhoi Log Branch made on the local environment in May-October 2019 stayed within the existing hygienic limits. This was the final finding of the production monitoring program the company went through with recently. All the measurements made and samples taken on the border of the plant’s sanitary protection zone and next to the surrounding apartment buildings were made and taken by

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 28, 2019. The 55-day overhaul of an oxygen converter (capacity: 100,000,000+ kg of steel a month) has been completed at EVRAZ Holding West-Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ ZSMK); the plant has invested RUB 90m into the project. ‘The overhaul involved replacing the primary and ancillary parts of the converters as well as installing a new control and operation system. This will improve the steel-smelters’ working conditions and will ensure the converter unit’s uninterrupted performance,’ says EVRAZ PR Department. The plant currently operates five

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 28, 2019. Yekaterinburg Duma’s Local Government Committee approved of the initiative to make Akademicheskiy the city’s 8th administrative district; the proposal was presented to the Duma by Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Vysokinsky. First Vice Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Kovalchik explained that the initiative to create the 8th administrative district in the city would help make the management of the area more efficient. ‘We have the roadmap for the process, with all the papers sent to the federal authorities. What we are waiting for is the official

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 28, 2019. ChelPipe Group is taking part in International Productivity Forum at Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO on November 26-27, the company’s press service reports. ‘During the forum’s plenary session on Boosting Efficiency & Productivity 2025: Strategies, Mechanisms, Best Global Practices, ChelPipe’s Chair of the BOD Andrei Komarov is going to give a talk on how ChelPipe Group’s company philosophy known as White-Coated Metallurgy affects the company’s KPI. Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, Russia’s Economic

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 27, 2019. National Unarmed Self-Defense Day was celebrated in District Akademicheskiy in Yekaterinburg last week; the interregional championship for male and female contestants was held for the third time. The competition took place on November 23 and gathered together more than 150 sports players in the 8-12 age group [and a number of pre-schoolers - Ed.]. School 19 served as the primary venue for the event. The championship was coordinated by Sverdlovsk Region Unarmed Self-Defense Federation, the housing developer RSG-Akademicheskoye, Akademicheskiy

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 27, 2019. A permanent exhibition on the Russian art in the 17th to the early 20th centuries reopened in Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts after a recent reconstruction. OOO FORES and the newly established non-profit The Shmotyev Family Foundation were among the benefactors behind the project. 20 out of 154 works that are now featured within the Russian Art Collection used to be part of the museum’s reserve stock. These are mostly canvases created at the turn of the 20th century, FORES’s press service reports. Special-purpose exhibition equipment was purchased for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 27, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company improved its Production & Industrial Safety Management Center’s performance potential, the company’s PR Department reports. ‘The idea behind creating the center was to boost performance efficiency through providing the company’s management and employees with up-to-date, full information on the tech processes in progress at our member enterprises. The center united all the earlier solutions that collect, process, and transfer data from all of our enterprises into a single structure,’ the company says. A few

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 27, 2019. PRO Format, a forum for managers and workers in the mining and metallurgical industry, was coordinated in Magnitogorsk with support from Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), the company’s Information & PR Department reports. The event was dedicated to the pressing issues in and development prospects of the National Qualification System for the mining and metallurgical sector. ‘The forum was coordinated by the Mining & Metallurgical Industry Professional Qualifications Council, MMK, and Personal Corporate Cadre Training Center.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 27, 2019. NEYVA Bank is getting ready for Black Friday with its special offers for businesses. According to the bank’s press service, the offer will hold on November 18-December 31, 2019. ‘If you sign up for the bank’s Basic, Universal, or Maximum six- or twelve-month packages before the end of the year, you get an extra month of banking services free of charge. If you want to start using the package in December, you need to sign up via Bank-Direct by November 31. We believe in fair loyalty schemes, so the special offer holds for both existing and new customers

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2019. Two types of reinforcing bars made at EVRAZ Holding’s West-Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ ZSMK) won awards at Russia’s 100 Best Goods Contest, the company’s PR Department reports. Reinforcing bar V500S won in Russia’s 100 Best Goods and in Kuzbass’s Best Products & Services. The rebars are meant for reinforcing concrete-steel structures. The rebars’ outstanding mechanical properties and chemical composition make them suitable for welding, for making metal mesh, and for applying inside high-rise building structures. Reinforcing bar

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 25, 2019. First Freight Company’s Chelyabinsk branch handled 27% more hopper railcar shipments in the ten months of 2019 than in the ten months of 2018 (526,000,000 kg all in all), First Freight Company’s press service reports. ‘The branch’s employees work closely with our parters, including EuroCement Group, South Ural Mining & Processing Company, Dyckerhoff Korkino Cement, and Vishnevogorsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise. Besides, this year we resumed our partnership with MMK Group’s LLC MCRW and found new customers such as Volgograd Ceramics Plant

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2019. OOO FORES’s Asbest branch keeps working to improve its energy efficiency, the plant’s Senior Energy Engineer Alexei Yakunin said in his interview to Asbestovsky Rabochiy. ‘Energy efficiency and resource saving are the two things the Senior Energy Engineer’s Department is in charge of. On the one hand, we try to build up on our power facilities. We only used to rely on a single power substation, but an additional line was introduced later, alongside with major reconstruction and upgrades, which was necessary to ensure sufficient power supply for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2019. Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe) intends to direct RUB 1.66 billion out of its net profit in the nine months of 2019, as well as a portion of undistributed net profit from the previous years (RUB 1.33 billion), to interim dividend payments. According to ChelPipe Group’s press service, the decision was made by the company’s Board of Directors. It was suggested that the dividends should amount to RUB 5.45 per ordinary share for January-September 2019 and to RUB 4.37 for the previous years’s dividends. ‘ChelPipe’s financial performance in the nine

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2019. Yekaterinburg Council is currently looking for a contractor to build a school in District Akademicheskiy’s Quarter 10, a special website on government purchases says. The contractor will have to design the building information model and the interior solutions, produce the drawings of the building, and put up a secondary school in Quarter 10. The school must be big enough for 1,100 students. The building must comprise a hall with a waiting room, a cloakroom, recreation areas, a cafeteria hall, an auditorium, a gym, and a library/information center.