UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2019. Ural Airlines’ Director-General Sergey Skuratov won the People of The Epoch 1994-2019 Award in Businesses’ Social Projects. The People of The Epoch Media Award was established by the Delovoy Kvartal magazine. An ad hoc Expert Committee got set up to select the most prominent personalities of the last twenty-five years; the winners in several categories were chosen in the course of a two-round secret ballot procedure. Director-General at Ural Airlines Sergey Nikolaevich Skuratov was chosen as Man of The Epoch in Businesses’ Social Projects. The company’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2019. The average asking price on Yekaterinburg’s existing home market came to RUB 72,355 per m2 on November 18, 2019; the figure dropped by 0.2% in the last month and by 0.7% against early October, Ural Real Estate Chamber’s Analytical Department’s report indicates. The market supply has shrunk by 0.2% in the last month, reaching 9,000 units. It currently takes four months on average for a place to sell.

UrBC, Moscow, November 25, 2019. Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Ural Airlines’ pilots Damir Yusupov and Georgy Murzin with Hero of Russia Stars, the Kremlin’s website says. According to the President, the airplane’s entire crew acted professionally, smoothly, and courageously during an emergency. However, captain Damir Yusupov and co-pilot Georgy Murzin played the key part in this. The two men managed to perform an emergency landing literally in the middle of nowhere and saved dozens of lives. The high-class pilots have deserved their Hero of Russia titles, the President stressed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2019. Alardinskaya Mine is currently EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s No. 1 mine in terms of meeting the annual target output figures. ‘The miners have extracted 2,520,000,000 kg of coal so far. Most of it got produced from Coalface 6-1-20, which got launched in March. To make the mining process there more efficient, an armored face conveyor was purchased and a major overhaul was given to the existing cutter-loader. Thanks to the miners’ well-coordinated work, the team soon started producing 300,000,000 to 350,000,000 kg of coal a month,’ says

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2019. Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe) shipped 3.9% more goods to customers in January-September 2019 than in January-September 2018 (1,581,000,000 kg altogether), the company reports. The company’s supply of large-diameter pipes to customers rose by 15.8% and amounted to 699,000,000 kg; OCTG shipments increased by 9.8% and amounted to 358,000,000 kg. ‘The increase in the amount of pipe produce we shipped to customers in the nine months of 2019 against one year earlier has to do with our export market activity. Thanks to joining the Saryarka Pipeline

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

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 21, 2019. MMK Group’s member enterprises won awards at the 25th Metal Expo 2019 International Industrial Exhibition for hi tech developments in the metal goods segment, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Information & PR Department reports. For one, a gold medal went to a solution to do with production of coiled stock and large- and medium-diameter arc-welded pipes (strength grade K50-K52) that are particularly resistant to stress corrosion cracking during sulfur- and hydrogen-containing oil and gas transfer. The solution was developed by MMK in

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 21, 2019. Russia’s State Expert Evaluation Department (GlavGosExpertiza) approved of the project to reclaim the country’s largest landfill in Chelyabinsk, Rosatom Corporation’s RosRAO Federal State Unitary Enterprise’s press service reports. The landfill has been part of Chelyabinsk since 1949 and is currently near 90 hectares large. According to the state-run environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor, the landfill was until recently responsible for 30% of the harmful air emissions in the area. The reclamation is part of the Environment National Project’s Clean

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2019. Activists from the ChelPipe Group-supported environmental NGO Gorod Pervykh are going to coordinate the town’s first Things: Second Life Eco-Festival at ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant’s Culture Palace on November 23. ‘The program of the event covers recyclable materials pickup, clothes and plant swap, and environmental upcycling workshops that are open to everyone,’ ChelPipe Group’s press service says. Several venues will be open for the visitors. You can bring your old newspapers, plastic, glass, metal items, and used fluorescent

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2019. A police station opened in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, the town council’s website states. ‘We’re opening a small but very important unit today. District Akademicheskiy is both the fastest-growing and the safest part of Yekaterinburg. I wish our coworkers in the law- and order-enforcement sector every success in their hard work,’ said Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Vysokinsky. The new station at 21/2 Akademik Vonsovsky St houses local district police chiefs and officers, youth liaison officers, traffic

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2019. EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) supplied more than 2,000 H-beams for the construction of Veer Mall in Yekaterinburg, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. ‘The building rests on a steel metal frame to ensure more durability and a longer lifespan. The solid-rolled H-beams are used in the bearing components called chord trusses. Thanks to the use of the H-beams, the building will remain very sturdy, since a solid-rolled beam can withstand greater load than a welded one; additionally, considerably

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 20, 2019. NEYVA Bank adopted a new version of terms and conditions for private customers. According to the bank’s press service, the changes mostly have to do with the launch of the Faster Payments System, where you can send money using only the receiver’s phone number. The new terms and conditions came into effect on November 18, 2019; the upper limit on free-of-charge money transfers (using a card number or a phone number) has been increased to RUB 20,000 a month (RUB 35 plus 1.5% of the remaining amount get charged on the amount exceeding the limit). For the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 20, 2019. District Akademicheskiy Project developers won the Tatishchev and de Gennin Award; the awarding ceremony took place at Yekaterinburg Chamber Theater on November 18, 2019. President at KORTROS Group and Member of the BOD at RSG-Akademicheskoye Veniamin Golubitsky won the Tatishchev and de Gennin Award with the District Akademicheskiy Project in Contribution to Economy and Urban Development. Members of the BOD at RSG-Akademicheskoye Alexei Vorobyov and Viktor Maslakov, Estate Financing Director at Sberbank of Russia’s Ural branch Nina Sogrina, and Chair

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 20, 2019. OOO FORES’s Sukhoi Log branch started upgrading two of its production lines in early November; replacing the air venting and suction facilities with the new ones is going to make a large part of the overall renovation process, the company’s press service reports. ‘We keep upgrading our production equipment on a regular basis, which is why at least one of the production lines is always under repairs or reconstruction. Still, we had to take special steps to prepare for such a long downtime, that is, design a special schedule that would allow more than one

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 20, 2019. PRO Format Mining & Metallurgical Industry’s Managers and Professionals Forum will take place at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Personal Corporate HR Training Center on November 20-21, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The event gets coordinated by Russia’s Mining & Metallurgical Industry Professional Qualifications Council, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works, and Personal Corporate HR Training Center. The goal is to help shape the industry’s position on the vital issues in the sector and on the prospects of the National

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 20, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program alumni who have served their army terms at the Group-supported regiment in Shagol have been discharged in the course of a special ceremony this week, the Group’s press service reports. Eight young men who have served their terms at one of the regiments of Russia’s Ministry of Defense Air Force/Air Defense Division 14 have all been invited to work at ChelPipe Group’s member enterprise Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe). ‘The alumni of ChelPipe Group’s Future of