A number of UC RUSAL’s Sverdlovsk Region-based Ural smelter will probably get transferred to Khakasia, even though the original idea consisted in moving them to the company’s smelter located in Krasnoyarsk.

‘It’s true that we did plan to have our people transferred to Krasnoyarsk, but the smelter there is also experiencing some problems at the moment, and some people are being made redundant. We’ve reached an agreement with our branch in Sayanogorsk, Khakasia, where a new plant is to open in the spring. A portion of Ural smelter’s employees might end up working there in May,’ the enterprise’s HR Manager Viktor Ivanov said to Komsomolskaya Pravda.