UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 6, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) recently held a job skills contest for the plant’s best sintering shop workers of the year 2019, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘This is the second time MMK has coordinated a contest like this. Until last year, our sintering shop employees had no opportunity of competing professionally within the context of job skills championships, which was not the case for all the other metallurgical workers. The problem was that the obligatory practical challenge section of the contest was difficult to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 6, 2019. Ural Airlines’ latest addition to the company’s fleet of aircraft arrived at Koltsovo Airport on November 1. This is the third plane from the neo range that the airline has bought this year, the air carrier’s press service reports. According to the press service, the new air liner runs on CFM International’s LEAP-1A engines, just like the Airbus A320neo units the airline has been using since August. The engines are highly fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly. ‘The aircraft (side number: VP-BOP) has an improved cabin with better air conditioning

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 6, 2019. Russian President Vladimir Putin held a Q&A session with the WorldSkills movement participants during a call-in show, the Kremlin’s website states. Large companies’ representatives, college students, and government officials were all present for the show. ChelPipe Group was among the companies invited to take part in the session. The Group’s Chair of the Board of Directors Andrei Komarov said ChelPipe Group was among Russia’s first enterprises to support WorldSkills. ‘We see putting funds in personnel training programs as fundamental investments into

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 6, 2019. The winners of the annual Vassily Tatishchev and Georg-Wilhelm de Gennin Award (named after the city’s founding fathers) were announced in Yekaterinburg today, the town council’s website states. The executives behind District Akademicheskiy Comprehensive Area Development Project Alexei Vorobyov (member of the BOD at the special-purpose housing developer RSG-Akademcheskoye), Veniamin Golubitsky (President at Kortros Group and member of the BOD at the special-purpose housing developer RSG-Akademcheskoye), Viktor Maslakov (member of the BOD at the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 6, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s team won eighteen medals in the national round of WorldSkills Hi Tech 2019, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. ‘EVRAZ NTMK representatives won in two categories. Alexander Polishchuk and Artem Kartashov from the plant’s IT Directorate won silver in Mechatronics. Polishchuk has taken part in the company rounds of the WS Championship many times before; he also contributed to the plant’s research and tech conferences and won the fourth prize in Glory to The Man of Labor Contest in 2019. Wiring technician from EVRAZ