UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 28, 2020. Senior Roll Designer at EVRAZ Holding’s West-Siberian Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ ZSMK) Andrei Dobryanski won the 20th All-Russian Engineer of The Year 2019 Contest in Ferrous Metallurgy, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Communications Center reports. During the solemn ceremony at the Russian Union of Scientific and Engineering Associations in Moscow, Dobryanski received the contest medal and honorary badge. His name has also been placed on Russia’s Professional Engineers Register. ‘Andrei Dobryanski contributed greatly to the large-scale reconstruction

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 28, 2020. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is hosting RPA Connect 4.0 Conference on its premises today, February 27, the company’s Information & PR Department reports. The event gets coordinated by Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works and MMK Group’s MMK-InformService; UiPath, Gartner, Deloitte, GazInformService, and Dbrain act as the partners for the event. ‘During the conference, Russian and international IT and business digitization leaders will share their best robotic process automation practices in production and industry; they will give talks on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 28, 2020. Ural Airlines will start operating a new, nonstop Yakutsk-Yekaterinburg flight on May 19, 2020. Passengers flying from Yakutsk will be able to get directly to Yekaterinburg and from then to Saint Petersburg and back, the air carrier’s press service says. The flights will be available throughout the summer and then through October 21, 2020. Flight U6 256 Yakutsk-Yekaterinburg-Saint Petersburg will get operated every Wednesday; flight U6 255 Saint Petersburg-Yekaterinburg-Yakutsk will get operated every Tuesday. Prices start from RUB 14,865 (one way) for

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 28, 2020. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is taking part in the 11th International Metal & Steel 2020 Exhibition, the company’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘The exhibition is held on February 27-29. Egypt is one of the key countries in the Middle East and a priority export market for MMK. In 2019, the plant supplied over 100,000,000 kg of metal goods to he Arab Republic of Egypt, meaning it was our third largest market abroad. MMK supplied 765,000,000 kg of metal produce to customers in the Middle East last year all in all, which

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 28, 2020. Ural Airlines will now act as Spartak Moscow Football Club’s official air carrier; it was announced in the course of a special press conference at Otkrytiye Arena Stadium on February 27 that the agreement to this affect had been signed. According to the air carrier’s press service, the two parties signed an agreement that will be valid for the next 3.5 years (through the summer of 2023). Ural Airlines’ logo and colors will now get featured in the club’s advertising spaces during the Russian Premier League home games. The airline will also be able to use

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 26, 2020. The number of consumer loans issued to Sverdlovsk Region-based borrowers dropped by 12.3% in January 2020 compared with one year earlier, the National Credit History Bureau’s research findings indicate. According to the Bureau, 42,000 consumer loans got issued last month, compared with 47,928 loans issued in January 2019. In Russia on the whole, 1.27 million consumer loans got issued in January 2020, which was 13.4% less than in January 2019.

UrBC, Moscow, February 26, 2020. MegaFon is now Russia’s first telecom company to introduce the fifth-generation international roaming service. For those who use mobile Internet connection while traveling, this is an opportunity to compare the quality of 3G, 4G, and 5G options in action, the company’s press service reports. MegaFon partners with Orange Group, a telecom business that operates in 23 different countries. Romania was the first country where the fifth-generation international roaming service was made available, but the company is already negotiating with other partners as well.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 26, 2020. Ural Airlines will be giving the members of its Wings Club loyalty program a double bonus for flying on the airline’s domestic flights through March 15, 2020, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Even if you have booked your flight already, it’s not too late to join Wings Club and get your double bonus points. To do so, you need to sign up for our loyalty program on the company’s website. New members also get a welcome bonus (RUB 500) that can be used as a discount immediately, even you haven’t flown with Ural Airlines before,’ the company says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 26, 2020. Coordination Committee for Yekaterinburg’s Strategic Development held a meeting this week, the city council’s website states. The meeting participants looked into their Yekaterinburg Trading Hubs Project. Chair of Yekaterinburg Council’s Commodity Market Committee Elena Chernysheva gave a talk on the subject. Chernysheva said the goal behind working on this strategic project was to meet the locals’ and visitors’ needs in terms of goods, services, and quality customer service, and to turn Yekaterinburg into an interregional retail trade center that

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 26, 2020. SKB-Bank Group’s DeloBank now offers a new service for the self-employed that allows private individuals to process payments from customers. According to the bank’s press service, the new service, known as Billing, is targeted at private individuals who are self-employed and sell their products or services via social networks or online marketplaces. Prior to the launch of the service, only sole traders and legal entities were able to bill their customers. ‘Starting February 2020, every customer with a private account at DeloBank/SKB-Bank who is

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 26, 2020. Sverdlovsk Region’s residents got paid RUB 40,900 a month on average in January-December 2019 (up 6.7% on one year earlier), Sverdlovskstat reports. In December 2019, their average monthly earnings amounted to RUB 50,909. Now with all the inflation adjustments in place, the factual pay rose by 2.7% in January-December 2019 against January-December 2018.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 26, 2020. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is going to present its produce at the construction exhibition UzBuild 2020 that opens in Tashkent today, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘MMK takes part in this international event on a regular basis; UzBuild Exhibition has been around since 1998. Uzbekistan is a very special market for the company, responsible for nearly 30% of all our sales to customers in the CIS member states and 82% of our sales to customers in Central Asia. In 2019, MMK supplied some 430,000,000 kg of metal goods to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 26, 2020. NEYVA Bank has put its HQ at 3A Chapayev St (total area: 5,000 m2) up for sale; the asking price has been set at RUB 413 million. The bank’s press service informs UrBC the final decision to sell the building has been made by the bank’s management after the asset turned out to be loss-bearing in 2019, mostly because of ‘the Central Bank’s dismissing the annual estimate of the building’s value (carried out by an external contractor) and demanding that the building get re-evaluated based on the CBR’s own criteria.’ ‘Under the current accounting standards,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 26, 2020. OOO FORES’s Asbest branch coordinated an air-rifle shooting competition in Asbest on February 18-21; over a hundred FORES employees took part in the tournament, the company’s press service reports. ‘The company’s Transportation Department provided a venue for the shooting range. The competition took place during lunch breaks; contestants had to shoot from a ten-meter distance, with every participant getting to make three trial shots and five competition ones (the best results got classified as competition ones automatically),’ the company says. Among

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 26, 2020. SKB-Bank Group’s DeloBank now offers a new service for the self-employed that allows private individuals to process payments from customers. According to the bank’s press service, the new service, known as Billing, is targeted at private individuals who are self-employed and sell their products or services via social networks or online marketplaces. Prior to the launch of the service, only sole traders and legal entities were able to bill their customers. ‘Starting February 2020, every customer with a private account at DeloBank/SKB-Bank who is

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 25, 2020. The Russian Red Cross and Yekaterinburg Council extended their Guangzhou humanitarian aid event (collecting money and supplies for the people of Guangzhou) to February 28, 2020. Now Guangzhou authorities appealed to Yekaterinburg residents for help earlier, so the event took off as early as February 11. For bank details and address of the Russian Red Cross’s Sverdlovsk Region division, where money and care packages may get directed, please visit Yekaterinburg Council’s website.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 25, 2020. domofond.ru did a research comparing average monthly earnings and rental prices of studio apartments in various parts of Russia and in the country on the whole. It turns out the country’s average rental price for a studio apartment comes to RUB 14,970 a month (32% of an average monthly income), which means that, after the rent gets paid, the households have RUB 31,315 per month on average to live on. ‘People living in Magadan Region will have the largest post-rent income: RUB 83,395, with the rental prices at RUB 23,000 (22% of an average monthly

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 25, 2020. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and MMK’s Lysva-based plant MMK-LMZ sold 8,300,000,000 kg of metal goods on the Russian market in 2019, up 8% on one year earlier, Head of Marketing at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works Denis Chernenko said at Russia’s Local Metal Trade Conference recently. ‘Hot-rolled metal products made up 48% of MMK and MMK-LMZ sales on the home market last year. The share of rolled section steel sales was 17%; cold-rolled products, zinc-coated rolled metal goods, and goods with polymeric coating made up 11%, 14%, and 5% of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 25, 2020. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Raspadskaya Mine completed its investment project meant to make the reinstallation of stoping equipment faster. As a result, miners at Coalface 6-6a carried out their task in a much safer manner and twice as fast, EVRAZ Holding’s PR Department reports. ‘The preparatory jobs and the reinstallation itself were done by Raspadskaya Mine’s Assembly, Disassembly, and Repair Department workers. The investment project took two years to complete. Raspadskaya Coal Company purchased an advanced set of appliances for RUB

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 25, 2020. Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe Group) made RUB 9.955bn in net profit last year, which exceeded the figures for the year 2018 by 28.9%, the Group’s press service reports. The company’s sales revenues went up by 7.5% and thus amounted to RUB 192.278bn. Gross profit rose by 22.4% (up to RUB 54.191bn). Adjusted EBITDA increased by 12.8% and came to RUB 31.828bn. ‘ChelPipe Group’s financial performance improved steadily throughout the year 2019, the primary reasons for this being our adopted strategy for entering export markets and our operational