UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2019. Yekaterinburg Duma voted to have the city's eighth administrative district established as District Akademicheskiy. The draft bill to this effect will now get presented to Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly. The talk on the proposed initiative was given by First Vice Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Kovalchik, who told the deputies that Duma could consider the decree on setting up the district and vote for the draft bill on the 8th district in Yekaterinburg within a single bill package. It was agreed that the draft bill would be submitted to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2019. The asking price on Yekaterinburg existing home market dropped by 0.5% and reached RUB 65,635 per m2 on average between October 23 and November 22, 2019, Novosel Group's research findings indicate. 'The price of studio apartments declined by 0.3%, that of one-bedroom homes by 0.8%, that of two-bedroom ones by 0.6%, that of 'improved layout' ones by 0.7%, and that of 'special architectural project' ones by 0.8%,' the research states. The average asking price of apartments in buildings dating back to the Khrushchev and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region's residents have around RUB 100bn in unpaid debts; some RUB 35bn have been collected by court officers for banks and other lending institutions this year. According to Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia's Federal Service of Court Officers, 300,391 locals have loan debt. Kamyshlov is currently the most debt-burdened location in Sverdlovsk Region, with 8,281 people with loan debts living there; the figure includes 25 mortgages; the rest are micro-loans and consumer loans (total amount: RUB 1.2bn). Kamensk-Uralsky, by contrast,

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 4, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) allocated more than RUB 8m to its Chess Literacy Project, the company's Information & PR Department reports. 'The decision to go through with the Chess Literacy Project in Chelyabinsk Region was taken in 2016 at the initiative of United Russia and with support from Governor of Chelyabinsk Region. Two years ago, chess classes were introduced in Magnitogorsk schools and kindergartens. The project gets funded by MMK, the primary benefactor. Under an agreement the company has with Magnitogorsk Council,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2019. The first industrial-scale batch of 600 and 136RE rails was made from a unique grade at steel EVRAZ West Siberian Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ ZSMK) Rail & Beam Department for customers in Brazil, EVRAZ Holding Siberia's Corporate Communications Center reports. 5,000,000 kg of rails made from G2HH steel (Brinnell hardness number: 400-440) got sent to the Brazilian company Rumo ALL. The steel-smelting patent for this type of steel belongs to EVRAZ Pueblo. 'G2HH steel is different from the traditional steel grades in that it contains less