UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 29, 2020. EVRAZ Holding has allocated more than RUB 300 million to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. ‘To prevent the spread of Covid-19, the company purchased PPE, contactless temperature-taking devices, disinfectants, and sanitizing/anti-bacterial equipment. All of EVRAZ employees involved in production process have been provided with the necessary protective appliances. Production departments, offices, cafes, shower/changing rooms, and company vehicles all get sanitized on a regular

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 29, 2020. The housing developer Brusnika keeps coordinating a series of online lectures for Yekaterinburg residents willing to learn something new while self-isolating. In the next two weeks, there will be lectures on today’s urban improvement trends, on the way street art impacts urban life, and on how you can tell a good master plan from a bad one. The lectures will be aired twice a week. For one, Head of Landscape Design at Brusnika Alexei Khrichenkov will deliver a lecture on Modern Approaches to Residential-Construction Landscape at 3PM (Moscow time) on April

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 29, 2020. The telecom company MegaFon now sells SIM cards that you can register online on your own at corner shops, the company’s press service reports. Once you have the SIM card, you can have it activated on your own on MegaFon App or gosuslugi.ru. In addition to large retail chains where you can buy these SIM cards, MegaFon has introduced 1,483 smaller outlets in 36 Russian cities and towns, including Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, and Chelyabinsk, where these cards are now available as well. The option of buying a SIM card very close to home is crucial in time of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 29, 2020. RosSet’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems (FGC UES) is going to start rebuilding two 220-kV mains on the outskirts of Yekaterinburg on May 1. The plan is to install two new metal supports (45.6m long) at the intersection of the mains with the new tram line connecting Yekaterinburg and Verkhnyaya Pyshma. According to FGC UES Ural’s press service, the project is expected to get completed by mid-May, with no inconvenience or power supply restrictions to end users. ‘The mains involved are the 220-kV Sredneuralskaya Power Station-Kalininskaya and

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, April 29, 2020. Director-General at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Pavel Shilyayev commented on the priority investment projects that the company has to focus on in time of Covid-related restrictions. According to MMK’s Information & PR Department, the current pandemic has meant the company had do look carefully into its plans, assess its possibilities, and decide on the priority minimum of retooling projects that must be completed in the nearest future. ‘The decision was made to focus on two large production facilities that were on the company’s investment