UrBC, Moscow, November 5, 2019. The average monthly rent you have to pay for a home in Russia’s large cities rose by 27% in the course of the year, Izvestia refers to Avito Nedvizhimost as stating. In Russia on the whole, rental prices went up by about 13% between October 2018 and October 2019 and now come to RUB 23,000 a month on average. The price increase was much more pronounced in cities with population over 1m people. Rents increased by 27% on average (up to RUB 37,000 a month) in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, and Omsk. The rental prices of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 5, 2019. All local agribusinesses officially closed this year’s harvesting campaign, Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. ‘The companies managed to harvest everything in time and in full. The target crop output figures have been met, with this year’s yield actually exceeding last year’s amounts for every crop category,’ Sverdlovsk Region’s Agriculture Minister Dmitri Degtyarev says. According to Degtyarev, Sverdlovsk Region now has 100% of the needed forage (nearly 3,000 kg per head of cattle). 777,000,000 kg of grains have been collected

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 5, 2019. The solemn closing ceremony for the UN-Habitat World Cities Day took place at Yekaterinburg EXPO Congress Hall on October 31, 2019, the town council’s website states. The Executive Director at UN-Habitat Maimunah Mohd Sharif commented on the event’s geographical diversity: more than 650 people from 42 different countries attended the forum. On behalf of the Untied Nations’ Secretary-General, Maimunah Mohd Sharif thanked Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Vysokinsky for the memorable ambience of the World Cities Day and said Yekaterinburg was the perfect

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 5, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region came 7th in the rating of Russia’s thirty leading constituencies with the largest new and used car loan markets. The overall number of car loans issued in Sverdlovsk Region rose by 2.2% in the third quarter of 2019 and reached 8,722 (compared with 8,534 loans one year earlier). According to the National Credit History Bureau, Moscow, with its 19,300 car loans issued in the third quarter, Moscow Region (15,800 loans), and Saint Petersburg (15,400 loans) topped the rating for QIII’19. Yet the increase in the number of newly issued loans

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 5, 2019. MMK Group’s Magnitogorsky Zavod Prokatnyh Valkov launched a highly productive NC roll-turning machine for treatment of rolls meant for sheet-rolling mills, section rolling mills, and rail and structural steel mills, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘The new roll-turning machine meets all the modern machine-building standards, ensures high precision, and is structurally stable, reliable, and long-lasting. Now that the machine has been launched, the plant is prepared to start making rolls with the diameter of more than 1,000 mm,’ MMK says. The