UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 4, 2020. OOO FORES’s Asbest branch introduced a new job safety induction format in December 2019, the company’s press service reports. The company employees now get to watch a specially designed video manual. ‘We came to appreciate the advantages of this new format in the last thirty days. Video instructions save time and produce better results,’ says Job Safety & Industrial Safety Director at OOO FORES’s Asbest branch Elena Bogubayeva. ‘The induction videos are meant for the newcomers just entering the workplace. The thirty-minute video introduces the new

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 4, 2020. Ural Airlines canceled all of their China flights till the end of March at least, the air carrier’s press service reports. The following flights got cancelled in accordance with the Russian Government’s Executive Order 140 (dated January 30, 2020): U6-703/704 Yekaterinburg-Beijing-Yekaterinburg (February 7-March 28) U6-803/804 Vladivostok-Beijing-Vladivostok (February 8-March 28) U6-7709 and U6-756 Yekaterinburg-Harbin-Yekaterinburg (March 13-March 28) U6-859/860 Yekaterinburg-Kazan-Harbin and Harbin-Kazan-Yekaterinburg (February 9-March 29) U6-781/782

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 4, 2020. 96.43% of assigned overhaul maintenance and structural repair fees for home owners in apartment buildings got collected in Sverdlovsk Region last year, Director-General at Sverdlovsk Region Structural Repair Facilitation Fund Stanislav Sukhanov announced at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. ‘A year earlier, 95.72% of all the assigned fees got collected/paid. This means the percentage is now up 0.71%. I haven’t seen the figures for the country’s average yet, but I would assume Sverdlovsk Region is above average in this respect,’ Sukhanov said.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 4, 2020. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MK) supplied its customers with 1,286,000,000 kg of zinc-coated rolled metal goods in 2019, which proved the largest amount in the plant’s entire history, the company’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘2019 was the second year in a row when records got set for the amount of zinc-coated produce supplied to customers. In 2018, the figure was 1,269,000,000 kg (up 12% on the 1,134,000,000 kg supplied in the previous year), which was also a record at the time,’ MMK says. MMK has been working to raise the output of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 4, 2020. EVRAZ Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (EVRAZ KGOK) purchased 11 new buses as part of the miners’ safety enhancing program, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. The company invested some RUB 30m in ensuring safer employee transfer. Five modern GAZon Next buses, four Ural crew vehicles, and two PAZ units got purchased by KGOK all in all. Ural buses are fit for twenty passengers and are fitted with a four-camera video surveillance system that displays the view of the road, the inside of the bus, and the rear on