UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 14, 2020. The Russian Football Union’s executive committee decided in the course of the meeting on February 13 that the 2019/2020 Russian Cup-Final would be held in Yekaterinburg, the town council’s press service reports. According to the union’s President Alexander Dyukov, two cities were originally shortlisted as the final games venue - Nizhniy Novgorod and Yekaterinburg. The committee voted for Yekaterinburg in the end (14 votes against 6). Eight clubs are currently competing for the Russian Cup in the quarter-final: Spartak Moskva against CSKA Moscow, Akhmat

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 14, 2020. The average rental prices of Yekaterinburg’s industrial spaces dropped by 24.8% between July 2019 and January 2020 (down to RUB 53,560 per facility a month), domofond.ru’s research findings indicate. The rental prices of commercial spaces dropped by 3.3% (down to RUB 59,000 a month) in the course of the last six months; those of office spaces dropped by 0.3% (down to RUB 24,288).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 14, 2020. The prospective oil-extracting cluster Vostok Oil in the Taymyr Peninsula will open new horizons for the Russian propping agent industry in general and for the Urals’ propping agent manufacturers in particular, Executive Director at OOO FORES Mikhail Lovkov says. ‘Just how plentiful the new opportunities will be will depend on how exactly the oil will get extracted from the new deposits in Taymyr. The fine ceramic granules that are generally known as propping agents are used to make the formation hydraulic fracturing process more efficient. This means

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 14, 2020. ChelPipe Group supplied 2,070,000,000 kg of pipes to customers last year, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 8%, the company’s press service reports. ‘An increase in export sales (total amount: 736,000,000 kg/36% of all sales) proved the key growth driver last year. 1,334,000,000 kg of pipes were also sold to customers on the Russian market. Our sales of large-diameter pipes (LDPs) rose by 33% and reached 916,000,000 kg, which meant the Group reinforced its leading position on the Russian pipe-manufacturing market. OCTG sales also went

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 14, 2020. Rosatom/TVEL’s Novouralsk-based asset CentroTech got its latest invention, Metallic Flat-Type Heat Transfer Tube, patented by the Russian Federation under Hyper-Heat-Conducting Void Structures, the company’s press service reports. ‘The invention falls into the heat engineering category and is meant for cooling print-boards in onboard equipment of space vehicles. The appliance can also get used in any type of industry where rapid heat rejection or thermal field flattening could be necessary,’ the company says. The tube is a flat, thin, airtight structure