UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 26, 2019. ChelPipe Group supplied more than 150,000,000 kg of pipelines for the construction of the Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India Pipeline (TAPI) by order of the state-owned concern TurkmenGaz. According to ChelPipe Group’s press service, the pipes with corrosion-resistant outer coating (diameter: 1,422 mm; steel grade: X70) are meant for the construction of the line section of the pipeline in Turkmenistan. ChelPipe Group was the only Russian company out of ninety-four applicants to have passed every stage of the qualifications-based selection procedure

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 26, 2019. Ural Airlines added the third Airbus A320neo (side number: VP-BRY) to its fleet of aircraft on December 24. This is the fourth plane from the NEO (New Engine Option) family the airline now operates. According to the airline’s press service, the plane arrived directly from an Airbus plant in Hamburg. ‘There are eight Business and 168 Economy seats on board. Neo aircraft are suited for long hauls and use 20% less fuel than their earlier versions. The new liner runs on the engines LEAP-1A made by CFM International, just like the other neo aircraft that the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 26, 2019. NEYVA Bank carried a preliminary performance report for the year 2019. The bank’s press service informed UrBC that the bank’s assets were maintained at around RUB 8bn throughout the year, which helped promote the bank from No. 206 to No. 201 in the national bank rating. ‘The year 2019 proved a special one for the business, since NEYVA Bank celebrated a ten-year anniversary of the founding date this year. This was on the whole a successful year; we kept up with our general development strategy that focuses on sustainable and gradual improvement of all

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 26, 2019. Fifteen employees from OOO FORES’s Asbest, Sukhoi Log, and Kuryi branches and workers from the company’s HQ are going to receive certificates confirming their license to carry out internal audits of the plants’ quality management systems in early 2020. ‘OOO FORES’s quality management system still meets the international ISO 9001: 2015 requirements. Internal audits are the obligatory condition and an indispensable part of the system’s running. They are the only way to determine whether the system needs to get improved and what commendable practices need

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 26, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region division of the State Expert Review Panel (aka Gosekspertiza) approved of the project on the construction of the second road junction extension in Serafima Deryabina St/Yekaterinburg Orbital Ring-Road; the department gave its full approval of the project. The next step is to actually build the second extension to the junction that will streamline the traffic waves intersecting at the ring road. The goal is provide an overhead road for the transit vehicles on Yekaterinburg Orbital Ring-Road. Under the terms of the project adopted by