UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 15, 2016. Ural Airlines are now offering their customers a new scheduled flight from Nizhniy Novgorod to Myneralnye Vody and back, the air carrier’s press service reports. Starting from October 4, 2016, tickets will be available for as little as 5,640 RUR (including all fees and charges). The flight will be operated every Tuesday, giving its passengers an opportunity to plan their trips easily and inexpensively and lose no time airport waits. ‘Ural Airlines offer both fast and safe as well as comfortable air transfer. All of the airline’s flights are operated on

UrBC, Moscow, September 15, 2016. ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) launched an additional magnetic particle testing unit to ensure better quality control of OCTG pipes, the company press service reports. The new equipment is meant for testing pipe couplings for defects: these are detected with the help of ferromagnetic particle indicators which point to stray magnetic fields over a defect. The additional testing unit increased the plant’s overall production capacity and cut down on the quality control testing time. The unit cost 50m RUR to buy. Magnetic particle testing is an

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 14, 2016. The oxygen compressor department at EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhiy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (EVRAZ NTMK) was built seventy-five years ago this month, the company press service reports. To celebrate the occasion, a special ceremony was held at the plant’s Culture & Arts Center to award the best workers and long-service employees. More than sixty people received thank-you letters and honorary certificates. ‘The department’s function is to ensure uninterrupted supply of air, oxygen, nitrogen, argon, and industrial gases to the plant’s production

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 14, 2016. SKB-Bank is now offering its customers debt refinancing loans that will allow them to merge several loans and credit cards into a single loan, the bank’s press service reports. ‘You can apply for a loan amount that will exceed the debt amount if necessary, and spend the remaining sum at will. The interest rate is fixed for the entire loan period and comes to 22.9% a year, which actually cuts down on the monthly payments,’ the press service says. Example: a customer currently has two consumer loans (500,000 RUR altogether) and has to pay back 10,000 RUR

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 14, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) is now offering its business customers a new short-term loan, the bank’s press service reports. Borrowers who are new to the bank and have no credit history will be offered a special unsecured loan on the first day their settlement account gets opened. According to UBRD Corporates Development Director Elena Sorvina, the bank’s new offer consists in short-term express loan services (loan period ranges between thirty and ninety days) related to a company’s settlement account. The account owner can

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 14, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon is now working together with the ISP Dom.Ru to save its customers up to 500 roubles a month on telecommunications services, MegaFon’s Marketing Director Leonid Syavkov said at a press lunch recently. ‘The two companies are now offering mobile connection and home Internet connection/digital TV broadcasting in a single package, with a customer provided a 20% discount on both MegaFon’s and Dom.Ru’s services,’ Syavkov is referred to as saying. It is reported the offer holds for all the subscribers who are currently

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 14, 2016. Miners from EVRAZ Holding’s Alardinskaya Mine started working on the new long-face 3-39 with an estimated 2,900,000,000 kg of valuable KS coal, the holding’s press service reports. Miners are now working at 325 meters below the ground. To ensure their safety, the site gets ventilated and a gas-suction unit is used to remove the methane-air mixture from the work area. Also, gases get additionally drained from the rock cavity. ‘Some highly productive stoping equipment is used in this mine face, with coal output up to 230,000,000 kg of coal a month. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 13, 2016. ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) is going to supply over 2,000,000 kg of pipes to Podolski Machine-Building Plant in Kaliningrad Region before the end of October, the company press service reports. The pipes are meant for making equipment to be used at two emerging power stations, Primorskaya and Pregolskaya. The plant is to supply to customer a set of 32mm to 219mm electric-welded and boiler pipes (layer thickness 4mm to 36mm, length p to 16.04m). It was the customer’s proviso that all the pipes should undergo Introtest’s unique

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 13, 2016. Ural Airlines introduced a new, scheduled flight from Saint Petersburg to Tomsk and back, the air carrier’s press service reports. The flight will be available every Tuesday starting from October 4 2016, and every Friday as well starting from November 1, 2016 and until the end of winter. ‘Saint Petersburg is one of Russia’s primary economic and cultural hubs, with many names, including perhaps the most romantic one of Northern Venice: there are almost as many bridges there as there are in Venice, Italy. The Russian city is enormously popular with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 13, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Exhibition Hall opened for visitors at night time for the first time in the head plant’s history. This was a family night modeled on the Long Night of Museums event at Ural Vagon Zavod’s armored vehicle and history museums. According to the company press service, over five hundred people came to the event coordinated in celebration of the corporation’s 80th anniversary. ‘The family night took place on the eve of Tankman’s Day. This is the 70th time it has been celebrated, with a historic reenactment of the very first

UrBC, Moscow, September 13, 2016. The number of Russians traveling abroad in the first half of 2016 dropped by 28% compared with one year earlier, TASS refers to Russian Union of Travel Industry’s press secretary Irina Tyurina as saying. ‘The overall picture looks quite interesting: 3,970,500 trips were made abroad between January and June 2016, which signifies a 28% decline,’ Tyurina said. According to Tyurina, ‘the decrease obviously has to do with the unavailability of last year’s most popular destinations, Egypt and Turkey.’ ‘No other beach holiday locations could make up for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 13, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region division of Rosimushchestvo (the state property control agency) is putting the telecommunications facility developer Uralstroysvyaz up to auction, the agency’s press service reports. Available to bidders are 82,868 ordinary registered paperless shares (100% of the company’s authorized capital). The shares’ total face value is estimated at 82.868m RUR. Uralstroysvyaz owns three pieces of real estate in Kosmonavtov Ave in Yekaterinburg (total area 1,611.7 m2) that are currently rented out to tenants and a non-encumbered land allotment

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2016. The Russian band N.E.V.A. is going to perform in Yekaterinburg’s Akademichesky District on September 11 as part of the national support festival, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. ‘This new band is already well-known on a national scale; they were among the top five performers on the last day of this year’s Novaya Volna Contest in Sochi,’ the press service says. The festival will appeal to adults and children alike and will run in Akademichesky for the entire day. Starting from 1 PM, a number of interactive entertainment locations will open

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation handed over its 10,000th innovative railcar to Russian Railways’ Federal Freight Company (FGK) in the course of a special ceremony in Nizhniy Tagil; the two parties also signed a memorandum of cooperation, with the intention of working together in the design and development of innovative railcars for Russian railways. According to Ural Vagon Zavod’s press service, the ceremony was attended by Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev, Federal Freight Company Director-General Alexei Taicher, and Ural Vagon Zavod

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2016. Sinara Development is about to complete yet another apartment building in Volgograd’s Novy Svet District, with commissioning scheduled for December. There is a 5% discount on all new homes till October 31, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. ‘The new sixteen-storey building has comfortable elevators, improved entrances, a video surveillance room on the first floor, high ceilings, and panorama windows in the lofts. The hallways are all complete in bright colors and unique patterns, which adds to the comfortable living standards of Novy Svet,’ the Center

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil and the local blood bank coordinated a blood donation day for the first time in the company’s history, the corporation’s press service reports. A portable blood donation station was set up in the square next to Ural Vagon Zavod’s I.V. Okunev Palace of Culture. The idea is to involve as many health-eligible employees in the blood donation movement as possible and possibly persuade them to become regular donors. Head of Nizhniy Tagil Blood Transfusion Station Nelya Petrova thanked the plant’s

UrBC, Moscow, September 12, 2016. Russia’s Labor Ministry is currently working on proposals to further increase the minimum wage amount, Prime refers to Labor Minister Maxim Topilin as saying. ‘As regards the minimum wage, I’d like to point out that the benchmark got raised by 26% this year, and some of the constituencies and employers are already reporting that this is causing a painful increase in their spending. Still, we intend to keep presenting our proposals on further floor wage increase as our team are working on these,’ the Labor Minister said at a meeting dedicated to job safety

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 9, 2016. Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev presented state awards to two employees of ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ). According to the company press service, repair technician Sergei Rykov and Head of Production Support Group at the plant’s Pipe-Drawing Department Raushan Fauzetdinov received the For Merit to the Fatherland Medals. Sergei Rykov has worked at the plant for four decades and is a highly skilled worker with qualifications in three different professions. Raushan Fauzetdinov came to the work at the plant thirty years ago

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 9, 2016. Russian Copper Company’s copper cathode and wire rod manufacturer Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant set a cathode production record recently, the company press service reports. The plant’s Copper Electrolysis Department OEM 1 produced 7,504,414 kg of cathodes and Department OEM 2 produced 3,496,062 kg of cathodes in August 2016 (11,000,476 kg all in all). The company press service reports the dramatic production output increase was brought about by two factors. Firstly, the electrolysis process settings got optimized so that the direct manufacture time

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 9, 2016. Passage Cinema in Yekaterinburg is going to host the First Ural Open Festival of Russian Cinema. Russia’s cult directors and actors Vladimir Menshov, Sergei Solovjev, and Mikhail Efremov are bringing their best ‘invisible films’ to the local audience, Obshchestvo Malysheva 73’s press service reports. ‘Strange as it may seem, the Russian film industry keeps coming up with ‘invisible films’ that just don’t get shown anywhere, not because they are bad, but because the movie theaters need box office hits here and now. So these are the short-lived