UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 21, 2020. SKB-Bank announced that its Perm branch would reopen at the same address this week. ‘Dear SKB-Bank customers, SKB-Bank’s Izhevsky Subsidiary’s Perm branch reopens at the same address: 30 Gazety Zvezda St Perm Perm Territory Russia,’ the bank’s press service informs its customers. There’s a 24/7 hotline +7-800-1000-600 (toll-free for calls inside Russia) available as well.

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, January 21, 2020. ChelPipe Group manufactured and supplied a new type of ETERNO INGENIUM hi tech produce for Mechel Group’s Chelyabinsk Integrated Metallurgical Plant’s oxygen converter shop. According to the company’s press service, the set of equipment supplied to customer (total weight: 600,000+ kg) comprises gas ducts (diameter: more than 3 meters; length: up to 15 meters) and steel-ladling scoops (capacity: 156,000 kg) that were made at ChelPipe Group’s stamp-welded pipeline component manufacturer ETERNO. ‘This is the first time ETERNO has made the metal frameworks for

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, January 21, 2020. The Open All-Russian Youth Biathletes Competition A. Bogali-SKIMiR Cup took place at Abzakovo Biathlon Ski Resort Center this week; the event was supported by Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK). The championship gathered together young men and women born in 2003-2010 (some five hundred young biathletes from twenty-one parts of Russia ranging from Murmansk to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk). The sports players competed in four age groups and three categories: individual race, sprint, and Supermixt relay race. The biathletes from Metallurg-Magnitogorsk Sports

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 21, 2020. OOO FORES’s Sukhoi Log branch upgraded six workstations for electric/gas welders at the plant’s Repair Department last year, the company’s press service reports. The company invested about RUB 2.5m in the workplace improvements. The plant purchased new chairs and protection screens to create workstation partitions. Up-to-date elevating-and-traversing exhaust units were installed inside. ‘Sverdlovsk Region division of the federal consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor recommended upgrading the plant’s only (as it then was) electric/gas welder’s

UrBC, Moscow, January 21, 2020. MegaFon is launching its first FVNO (Fixed Virtual Network Operator) project involving local ISPs. The broadband Internet access FVNO model is meant to complement the telecom company’s existing infrastructure, MegaFon’s press service reports. The business model includes MegaFon paying its partner operator for every connection on a monthly basis, which means the local ISPs will be able to monetize their existing but underused port capacity 30% to 50% more efficiently. MegaFon will take care of the advertising, payment processing, customer service (both through