UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 22, 2017. Ural Airlines are launching a new international flight from Moscow Region’s Zhukovsky Airport to Rome, the air carrier’s press service reports. You can fly to Italy’s capital from Zhukovsky Airport in Ramenskoye starting from July 7, 2017; the scheduled flight is to be operated every Friday. Special prices apply and start from €180 (one-way), €320 (round trip), and €565 (one-way, Business), all fees included. Ural Airlines keep introducing new flights operated from Zhukovsky Airport to Tel Aviv, Dushanbe, Bishkek, Osh, and Khujand on comfortable Airbus

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 22, 2017. Following Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev’s decree to this effect, more locals will get their expenses relating to switching their housing to natural gas supply subsidized by the constituency, the Governor’s Information Policy Department reports. The decision was taken on May 19, following a video conference with mayors of towns in the area; the conference call participants talked about the existing natural gas supply network and its prospective extension. Sverdlovsk Region Social Policy Ministry now has to complete all the documentation by

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 19, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation is planning to present four new, promising developments at the international Construction Vehicles & Technologies 2017 Exhibition at Moscow’s Crocus Expo on May 30-June 3, 2017, the company press service reports. Ural Vagon Zavod is featuring the produce of two of its member enterprises, Nizhniy Tagil-based head plant Ural Vagon Zavod and Chelyabinsk-based ChTZ-Uraltrac. ‘The head plant has its caterpillar-tracked and wheeled-tracked excavators to show potential customers. Both vehicles were designed by the corporation’s Ural

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 19, 2017. Once the spring weather has set in, Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry Plant (KULZ) resumed construction jobs in the boiling unit, the company press service reports. ‘The foundation for the boiler was laid by the builders last fall. The new ‘heart’ of the plant’s heating system will come to replace the obsolete, energy-consuming appliances,’ the press service says. According to KULZ Senior Energy Engineer Sergey Selischev, the use of the up-to-date technological equipment instead of the old units is expected to result in considerable

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 19, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) supplied over 10,000,000 kg of H-beams to the oil processing enterprise ZapSibNefteKhim in the first quarter of the year, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. Also, the customer Sibur received over 10 various types of H-beams from among 30Sh, 35Sh, 50Sh, 60Sh, 70Sh, and 40K range with strength grade S345. ‘Hot-rolled steel beams are an essential and reliable part of building frames. NTMK makes H-beams in the S255, S345, S355, S390, and S440 strength grade range in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 19, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s West-Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK) are hosting their second corporate round of the blue-collar job championship WorldSkills on May 22-26, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Relations Center reports. ‘The championship will bring together sixty-eight contestants from the holding’s eight member enterprises: West-Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works, Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works, Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise, Dneprovsky Metallurgical Plant, Raspadskaya Coal Company, Evrazruda, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 19, 2017. 4,079 repair jobs amounting to 1.963bn RUR altogether were done in Sverdlovsk Region within the housing capital repair program as of May 15, 2017, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. The renovations involved 460 repaired roofs, 443 upgraded electric power supply systems, 272 heating supply systems, 367 cold-water supply systems, 257 hot-water supply systems, 399 sewerage units, 166 basements, and 221 building facades. According to Sverdlovsk Region Capital Repairs Fund’s Director-General Stanislav Sukhanov, only 84% of all

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 18, 2017. Acting Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev met with Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary of Finland to Russia Mikko Hautala and a group of Finnish delegates to discuss a number of possible joint projects and localization of energy, agricultural, timber-processing, and pharmaceutical enterprises in the area, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. Sverdlovsk Region and Finland’s overall trade turnover amounted to $40m this year so far, with Finland remaining one of the constituency’s most reliable trade and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 18, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region’s Transport & Communications Ministry carried a list of local motor roads that will get repaired this year, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. The ministry intends to give overhauls and smaller repair jobs to 112 km of roads and to bring all the pedestrian crossings next to schools and colleges in compliance with the new national standards. For one, repairs will involve Yekaterinburg Orbital Motorway and the following highway sections: Yekaterinburg-Rezh-Alapayevsk Rezh-Artemovsky-Kilachevskoye

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 18, 2017. A charity hockey championship coordinated by the Anton Shipulin Charity Foundation and Russian Copper Company will be held in Yekaterinburg this week. The company press service reports four different hockey teams will compete in the championship: KomAR comprises actors Marat Basharov and Denis Matrosov, actors Ivan Dubrovsky and Sergey Komarov known for their parts in Molodezhka, and singers/songwriters Sergey and Vladimir Kristovsky, founders of the band Uma2rman. Olymp, headed by biathlon player Anton Shipulin, has sports players Ivan Alypov and Alexander

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 18, 2017. Location is definitely the prospective luxury apartment building Riviera Club’s key competitive advantage, Riviera Invest Yekaterinburg’s Director-General Evgeny Shilov told UrBC. ‘According to luxury housing segment experts, the top three criteria that make a piece of estate a luxury one are location, location, and location. This is why our partners from Malysheva 73 Society suggested we join a construction project in a place like this, we said yes at once.’ ‘The building will be put up on the only spot in the historic part of the city that is available for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 18, 2017. Officers working for Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog) had 470 consumer items worth 561,000 RUR confiscated, the agency’s press service reports. The primary reason behind the confiscation was lack of documentation to prove that the goods in question meet the existing legislative requirements. Officers inspected 1,450 items all in all, including children’s clothing, clothes for grownups, footwear, and various accessories. Rospotrebnadzor’s officers carried out scheduled and unscheduled inspections at

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 17, 2017. Four students on ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program are now representing Sverdlovsk Region in the 5th national round of WorldSkills Russia, a blue-collar job championship, the company press service reports. Multiple local championship rounds prize-winner and national semi-finals champion Dmitri Shmarlovsky is competing in NC Turning. Students in the third year of the Group’s corporate training program, WorldSkills Sverdlovsk Region winners and WorldSkills Russia semi-finals prize winners Vassily Kozyritsky and Andrei

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 17, 2017. ChTPZ Group is taking part in Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum 2017 on June 1-3, 2017, the company press service reports. The Group’s primary shareholder Andrei Komarov, Director-General of the pipe-manufacturing division Alexander Grubman, Finance Director Valeriy Borisov, and Commercial Director Denis Prikhodko are going to speak at the forum on the Group’s behalf. ‘The company is presenting its own stand on the Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program at Russia’s largest business event. The stand features artworks created by

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 17, 2017. Riviera Invest Yekaterinburg’s Director Evgeny Shilov informed UrBC that the area of Riviera Club, the prospective luxury apartment building, will amount to 30,000 m2 plus another 5,000 m2 of shared space and shopping areas. According to Shilov, the most up-to-date technologies are used in the construction process. ‘Water treatment systems are probably the ones that require the most investments. For one, cold water will come from the city’s centralized supply system, get filtered in four different stages while it becomes fit to drink, and then delivered to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 17, 2017. The number of Sverdlovsk Region residents whose incomes amount to less than the minimum living wage came to 436,600 people (10.1%) last year, Sverdlovskstat reports. A year earlier, the figure stood at 419,200 people (9.7%).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 17, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region-based employers owed their workers 3.243m RUR in delayed wages and salaries as of May 1, 2017, Sverdlovskstat reports. This is 5.3% less than in March 2017 and 73.8% less than in April 2016.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 16, 2017. Uraltrac-Dnipro, the official dealer of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ), presented the plant’s tractor T-100M3 made in 1980 at the Old Car Land 2017 International Festival in Kiev, the company press service reports. Some 900 exhibits were featured at the event, including passenger vehicles, trucks, special-purpose vehicles, and a unique collection of Harley Davidson motorcycles. In addition, there was a range of LAZ and Ikarus buses displayed in chronological order, the first Soviet post-war ‘limo' ZIS 110, and the unique

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 16, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) made a set of R50 rails (OT350) by order of United Company RUSAL. The rails will be used at the latter’s bauxite deposit in Guinea called Compagnie des Bauxites de Kindia, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. The rails will be used to repair the railroad connecting the site to the sea port of Conakry that is used to transfer the bauxites from and deliver supplies to the deposit. ‘Africa is now one of the key export designations for EVRAZ rails. We deliver our produce to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 16, 2017. Russian Copper Company, Metso, and Outotec presented their up-to-date mining equipment and technologies to students of Magnitogorsk State Technical University, the company press service reports. The college held yet another Career Day sponsored by Russian Copper Company on May 12, 2017. Over eighty students in their third, fourth, and fifth year of studies had the opportunity to get first-hand information on the advanced fossil extraction and processing technologies. The West’s leading manufacturers Metso and Outotec displayed their equipment and made a