UrBC, Chelyabinsk, January 28, 2020. The amount of gondola car-packed cargo handled by First Freight Company at South Ural Railways rose by 62% in 2019 against one year earlier and reached 1,200,000,000 kg, the company’s press service reports. ‘The increase in our cargo turnover mostly had to do with macadam shipments. These came from First Freight Company’s Chelyabinsk branch’s key partners: Cartel Promsnab, Energo-Alyans, and OM-TEK. We also resumed working with SeverSnabKomplekt’s macadam quarry and worked more closely with ChZMK and the refractory goods manufacturer Magnezit. Quality

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 28, 2020. Sverdlovsk Region’s residents’ financial literacy level comes to 45.9% (compared with the country’s average of 38%), Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. Within Sverdlovsk Region, respondents scored the highest in Yekaterinburg, Pervouralsk, and Nizhniy Tagil. Now Sverdlovsk Region’s residents’ financial literacy level in 2019 got assessed by a local center by order of Sverdlovsk Region’s Finance Ministry. 5,000+ people from eight cities and towns (Berezovsky, Bogdanovitch, Irbit, Kamensk-Uralsky, Nizhniy Tagil, Pervouralsk,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 28, 2020. SKB-Bank’s new branch at Skolkovo Innovation Center in Moscow opened at the end of January. This is one of the first bank branches to start operating on the center’s campus. According to the bank’s press services, SKB-Bank’s branch can be found at TMK and Sinara Group’s Science/Tech Center at 5 Bolshoy Boulevard, Skolkovo Innovation Center, Moscow. This is a new-format branch that is both spacious and airy and has comfortable spaces for both private customers and businesses. ‘SKB-Bank is a truly innovative bank that contributes to the Central Bank’s

UrBC, Nizhniy Tagil, January 28, 2020. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) supplied over 1,800,000 kg of H-beams to Angara Space Center launch site in the Far East; the shipment got processed by the trading company EVRAZ Metall Inprom. The first shipments of the produce began in the second half of 2019; these are expected to continue throughout 2022, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. The low-alloy H-beams (cross-section: 200 mm to 700 mm) are used for making metal frameworks and primary and ancillary structures on the launch

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 28, 2020. Bankers at the Urals-based NEYVA Bank believe Russia’s Federal Tax Service should follow the legal procedure, based on the enforcement proceedings code, when collecting payments such as fines and taxes from private individuals, and shouldn’t cut corners trying to contact the banks directly. It transpired earlier this week that the Federal Tax Service started fining Russian banks for their refusal to process payments involving the private (rather than the business) bank accounts of self-employed customers in case the latter fail to make their payments