UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2019. The price of renting a home in Yekaterinburg has gone up by 5% since November 2018 and now amounts to RUB 22,829 a month on average, Novosel Group’s research findings indicate. The rental prices of studio apartments increased by 1.7%, those of one-bedroom homes rose by 8.1%, and those of two-bedroom ones by 3.6%. The rental prices of homes in ‘economy-class’ apartment buildings (older structures built in the fifties, seventies, and eighties, small-size apartments, and so on) increased by 1.4% compared with November 2018. The rental prices of homes in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company is introducing a smart lock system for emergency shutdown of mining combines, the company’s press service reports. EVRAZ Holding has been working on the project to fit all the stoping combines with the lock system since 2018. The electronic appliances get connected to the positioning and alarm systems that have been used at the holding’s coal-mining enterprises for over a decade now. ‘No extra equipment needs to get taken down to the mine: the miners only need to have a compact RFID tag installed in their cap

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 22, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Group’s member enterprises directed nearly RUB 1.8bn to charity this year so far, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works and MMK Group’s member enterprises voluntarily take on a range of corporate social responsibility projects in Magnitogorsk and the Urals; they contribute to the infrastructure development in the town and the territories nearby, invest in culture and sports, support social movements, and coordinate culture and sports events in Magnitogorsk,’ the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2019. The crew of Ural Airlines’s flight U6 178 who rescued their passengers during an emergency landing in a cornfield in Moscow Region received state and ministerial awards, the air carrier’s press service reports. The awarding ceremony took place in Gostiny Dvor on November 20 as part of Moscow Transport Week. The awards were given out by Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov and Russia’s Transport Minister Yevgeny Dietrich. ‘Ural Airlines’ crew members got awarded for their valorous actions during the rough landing of Airbus 321 and evacuation onto

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2019. A group of Russian scientists paid a visit to Rosatom’s Power & Energy Division’s Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Plant to assess the fast fission reactors’ potential for the future of the nuclear industry, the plant’s press service reports. The delegation, chaired by the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Corresponding Fellow Viktor Sagaradze, visited the plant within the framework of the Academy’s Learned Council’s offsite session on radiation and solid state physics at Reactor Materials Institute in Zarechny. ‘Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Plant gets operated