UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 8, 2020. The number of foreign nationals entering Sverdlovsk Region in the first quarter of the year dropped by 19% against the first quarter of 2019, Head of Migration Department at the Internal Affairs Ministry’s Sverdlovsk Region division Olga Petrova said at a press conference on April 7, 2020. According to Petrova, some 37,500 foreign nationals have entered the constituency since the start of the year. Most of them arrived from the CIS and Eurasian Economic Union member states; the majority of migrants are nationals of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 8, 2020. The construction of new living quarters in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy goes on, with extra safety precautions, Director-General at KORTROS Group’s housing developer RSG-Akademicheskoye Viktor Krivoshein said during his first online public address. ‘The construction continues. We are taking all the necessary steps to ensure the safety of our builders and contractors. This is a crucial task in times of the coronavirus pandemic. We keep on working on Blizky Quarter, Quarter Eleven, and Quarter 9 and we are doing it on schedule. All the obligations

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 8, 2020. ChelPipe Group’s shareholders Andrei Komarov and Alexander Fedorov and Director-General at the Group’s pipe-manufacturing division Boris Kovalenkov coordinated a series of online meetings with their member enterprises’ teams, ChelPipe’s press service reports. Over 500 employees of the Group’s member enterprises Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) and Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe) and from the Group’s Moscow office took part in the online event. The Group’s shareholders and top managers answered over a hundred questions from the employees; many of

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, April 8, 2020. Director-General at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Pavel Shilyayev signed an executive order to adopt a revised job safety and industrial safety policy for the company, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The revisions were made in order to improve MMK’s job safety and industrial safety management systems in accordance with the ISO 45001:2018 regulations. The revised version of the policy emphasizes MMK’s mission: safe production of quality produce. The company sets the following goals: to achieve zero accident rate; to become the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 8, 2020. EVRAZ Holding’s West-Siberian Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ ZSMK) launched CoreTemp, an appliance for continuous measurement of temperature in an electric arc furnace, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. The technology helps prevent metal from overheating, reduce the smelting time, and cut down on the unit consumption of electric power and electrodes. The launch of the new appliance is estimated to save the company RUB 42 million a year. Prior to the launch of the new unit, the steel-smelting operators used to measure the temperature