UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 9, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems intends to complete the reconstruction of four power substations and launch a new power facility in Ural Federal District this year. Special efforts will be made to upgrade the electric mains in Orenburg Region, the company press service reports. Renovating the two 220-kilowatt substations, Orskaya and Buzulukskaya, will mean end users in Orenburg Region’s industrial clusters will enjoy a more reliable power supply. Additionally, FGC UES is planning to launch Preobrazhenskaya, a new 500-kilowatt

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 8, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation intends to sell a 100% shareholding in its daughter enterprise UVZ Logistic to Blagosostoyaniye Non-State Retirement Fund; however, the freight forwarder’s fleet of vehicles will still get operated by Russian Railways’ Federal Freight Company (FGK), the corporation’s press service reports. Ural Vagon Zavod had meant to find a customer before the end of last year; almost all the key railway freight forwarders on the market submitted their bids, with six bidders making it to the next round of the auction. The company did not

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 8, 2017. Potential home buyers with children will be able to get a 3% discount on their new two-bedroom apartments in Akademicheskiy District in Yekaterinburg this February, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. ‘The area offers a great environment to raise and educate children. The local security system helps parents feel good about their children’s safety. There are plenty of schools, kindergartens, sports playgrounds, clinics, and supermarkets there that are all very close. All this makes Akademicheskiy a wonderful place for young families (who, in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 8, 2017. EVRAZ Holding directed 1.2bn RUR to over forty environmental projects at its member enterprises Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) and Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (KGOK) last year, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. ‘The company worked hard to reduce the environmental impact its coke and by-product facilities make and had some of the equipment at Coke Department 3 replaced or upgraded. The department’s harmful emissions are expected to drop 20% by the end of this year thanks to an upgraded dry coke quenching

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 8, 2017. A new public traffic plan will be introduced in Yekaterinburg in 2019 rather than next year, the city council’s press service quotes Mayor Alexander Yakob as saying. ‘The new traffic network project is already in its final development stage, but we still need to take a few steps to ensure a successful launch, which is why it was decided to postpone the introduction deadline,’ Yakob said. According to Yakob, the traffic plan will have to be adjusted so as to take into account the feedback provided by both the general public and the transport experts. Ad

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 8, 2017. 82% of Yekaterinburg residents who took part in a recent survey disapprove of a possible increase in retirement age, 5% of those surveyed think this is a good idea, and 8% and 5% of respondents feel neutral or were undecided, respectively, zarplata.ru’s research findings indicate. 48% of an increased old-age pension age supporters agree that both men and women should become eligible for the payments at 64. Nearly a half (44%) of those surveyed would vote for the retirement age of 63 for women and 65 for men. Only under one in ten (8%) of respondents

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 7, 2017. Designers and executives from Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Rubtsovsk subsidiary were awarded the Russian Government Science & Technology Prize 2016 for design and production of PRP4A Argus Artillery Reconnaissance Vehicle, the company press service reports. ‘The prize gets awarded for the best developments that offer the most vital and breakthrough solutions to medical, energy, machine-building, chemical, and defense industries’ problems as well as environmental issues. These are the solutions that have already changed or can change many people’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 7, 2017. MegaFon was chosen as the official telecommunications service provider to ensure good quality connection at all of the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 and World Cup 2018 events; the deal is estimated at 4.251 trillion RUR, the company press service reports. MegaFon is to put up, set up, and ensure operation and maintenance of the entire telecommunications infrastructure at all the sites where sports events are planned: in Yekaterinburg, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Kazan, Nizhniy Novgorod, Samara, Saransk, Rostov-on-Don, and Sochi. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 7, 2017. SKB-Bank was among the top three Russian banks based outside of Moscow or Saint Petersburg in terms of lending output, the bank’s press service refers to Kommersant as stating. SKB-Bank is also No.23 in the overall country ranking of non-capital banks. The bank’s private customer loan book reached 62.984bn RUR last year, with unfailingly good quality. The impressive amount of loans issued to private customers is proof that the bank offers its loan applicants appealing terms and conditions and makes it easy and convenient to apply for and pay out the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 7, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems is busy repairing its 110/220-kilowatt disconnecting switches at its Western Siberia-based power substations, the company press service reports. The goal is to ensure a more reliable power supply to end users in Tyumen Region, Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region, and Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region. So far, twenty-one live wires got repaired at four Siberian substations, with 1,449 more to get fixed throughout this year. The disconnecting switches are meant for shutting down separate circuit sections

UrBC, Moscow, February 7, 2017. The Russian Government adopted some changes to the World Football Championship 2018 preparation program, raising the overall expense amount by 19bn RUR, Interfax reports. The Cabinet’s recent decree carried by the official web portal for legal information on Monday states that the entire spending budget went from 619.6bn RUR up to 638.8bn RUR. The funds will be allocated from the federal budget resources, with this budget expenses increasing from 331.3bn RUR to 350.4bn RUR. 92.2bn RUR will be obtained from the involved federal constituencies’ budget funds, and

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, February 6, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) sold over 12,700,000 kg of zinc-coated pipes to customers last year; this was a record-setting figure, the utmost peak since the hot-dip galvanizing unit got launched at the plant’s Sheet-Rolling Department 8, the company press service reports. The previous record was set in 2013, when MMK produced 11,300,000 kg of galvanized pipes. Also, the monthly record was set in 2016, when 1,540,000 kg of pipes were made in the month of April alone. MMK started working to improve its deep-level metal

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 6, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation-sponsored Sputnik Hockey Club entered this season’s Supreme Hockey League playoff ahead of schedule after beating Bars 3:1 in Kazan. According to the corporation’s press service, the February 2 game with the Kazan-based team was the third one Sputnik played away and the sixth one the team had won. All in all, the Nizhniy Tagil team won twenty-nine out of forty-six championship games this season, with nine victories in a row at one time. Sputnik is now No.4 on the league table. Sputnik’s Evgeniy Gasnikov was the first to score

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 6, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s finance bloc took part in the 14th Russian Bonds Congress in Saint Petersburg in December 2016, the company press service reports. The goal was to look into the results of the financial year 2016 and gather together all of Russia’s key bond/share issuers and investors. The conference agenda covered the most important events on the Russian bond market in the course of the year, legislative amendments and other market changes, and the market’s future prospects. ‘The congress drew together quite a few participants, including

UrBC, Moscow, February 6, 2017. The average monthly rent for a Sverdlovsk Region-based country cottage declined by 4%, down to 68,710 RUR, in the course of 2016; this is now the country’s fifth largest figure, Mir Kvartir reports. The country’s average amounted to 32,580 RUR last year, which was below the figures for the year 2015 by 6.3%. According to Mir Kvartir, only in eight Russian constituencies out of sixty-one die the rental prices actually go up; in fifty-three constituencies, these dropped. Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Moscow and Leningrad Regions are predictably at the top of the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 6, 2017. Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport Customs officers found 408 units of face cream a passenger arriving from Istanbul had in his luggage, the customs’ press service reports. ‘An Egyptian national was carrying 33.5 kg of ‘miracle-working’ creams by a famous brand, with inscriptions in both English and Arabic. Despite choosing the ‘nothing to declare’ channel, the passenger seemed suspicious to the economic security officers and had his luggage inspected with the help of special devices. The man admitted the creams were meant for sale and not for personal

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 6, 2017. 50m RUR will get allocated from Sverdlovsk Region’s budget funds for the construction of Ural High-Speed Rail before March 10, 2017, Chelyabinsk Region Government’s website states. The news was announced at Sverdlovsk Region Government’s recent meeting on a prospective high-speed rail link connecting Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg. The meeting attendees agreed on a roadmap on how their constituency would enter the joint venture Ural High-Speed Rail, which is to be controlled by both Sverdlovsk Region and Chelyabinsk Region Governments. Also, several

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 3, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Omsktransmash took forty-three students of Omsk Armored Vehicle Engineering Institute in for an internship, the company press service reports. ‘The students now have three weeks to put their theoretical expertise in Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair to practice. They had an induction workshop on their first day on the site, as well as a brief lecture on the plant’s history at the company museum; they also took a look at all the major production departments. The interns were then streamlined into groups and sent off to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 3, 2017. A firefighting and prevention plan for the year 2017 was recently adopted at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant, the company press service reports. ‘This is something we do on a regular basis in order to increase the firefighting capacity of our head plant’s facilities and to meet the state firefighting surveillance authorities’ requirements,’ the press service says. This year, the plant will invest in new firefighting automatic equipment and fire alarm systems at thirty different divisions. The company will also get new fire extinguishers, rubber

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 3, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) delivered its new type of sheet piles to customer in Volgograd Region; the piles will be used to repair Sluice 5 of Severnaya Dvina Sluice System, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. The plant made and shipped to customer around 2,000,000 kg of 5UM Larssen sheet piles and 40Sh1 I-beams. ‘These are new on the Russian market and, stronger than their earlier counterparts, and can compete with the European heavy-duty sheet piles and pipe piles. This new addition to our product range