UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 27, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s member enterprises EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) and EVRAZ Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Plant (EVRAZ KGOK) proved Sverdlovsk Region’s best benefactors in the year 2019. According to EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center, EVRAZ NTMK was No.1 benefactor among the country’s ferrous metallurgical enterprises and EVRAZ KGOK was No.1 benefactor among the companies in the ore mining sector. EVRAZ Holding’s data indicate that the company’s Ural division directed more than RUB 2bn to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 27, 2019. ChelPipe Group joined the Russian Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs; the executive order to this effect was signed by the Union’s President Alexander Shokhin, the Group’s press service says. ‘The Russian Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs is the country’s largest platform consolidating the industrialists and entrepreneurs’ efforts to develop the Russian economy. For ChelPipe Group, becoming a member of the Union is an opportunity to share its experience with the professional community and get the support needed for the company’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 27, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) extended the upper limit on the amount of money you can get through a consumer loan: every potential borrower can now apply for as much as RUB 5m, the bank’s press service reports. According to the UBRD bankers, the average number of loan applications per month rose by over 60% in the second half of 2019 compared with the first half of the year. Now before the recent increase, the UBRD’s upper limit on the consumer loan amount came to RUB 3m. ‘The decision to increase our upper loan limit is a

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 27, 2019. Metallurg Charity Foundation, for which Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) acts as the primary benefactor, coordinated the usual end-of-year meeting with heads of children’s specialized facilities located in Magnitogorsk and nearby rural areas on the site, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The meeting was also attended by Metallurg Charity Foundation’s Member of the Board of Trustees and Russian State Duma deputy Vitaly Bakhmetyev, Metallurg Charity Foundation’s Member of the Board and Head of Magnitogorsk Social Welfare Department

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 27, 2019. OOO FORES’s Asbest branch coordinated a job skills contest for the company’s front loader drivers, the company’s press service reports. ‘The first prize went to Viktor Gurnik, a front loader driver with thirty years’ work experience. Andrei Yanchenko came second and Mikhail Beloussov came third. Six drivers, all of them employed at the Transport Department and holding Job Class 6, competed in the contest all in all. Both the winners and the other contestants received honorary certificates and money premiums,’ the company says. The job skills contest for