UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 24, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) looked into the results of its Children Believe in Miracles Charity Program in the first half of the year. The bank coordinated 53 charity events and directed over RUR 3.7m to support orphaned children and children with disabilities. According to the bank’s press service, some of the money got spent on supplies for live-in schools, social centers, and creches for children without parents. ‘We bought necessary things like game appliances, furniture, school supplies, hygienic items, sports

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 24, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) recently launched a new credit card with a 120-day grace period. The demand for the new product proved twice as high as that for any other bank cards within the first forty-eight hours of the launch date, the bank’s press service reports. ‘The demand was so high because of the advantages the new credit card has to offer. The card was developed with all the latest trends in mind: the grace period applies to all types of transactions, and you get 1% in cash back options on everything,’ the press

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 24, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems introduced 126 megawatts worth of extra electric power supply to Uvatskiy group of deposits in Tyumen Oblast. The jobs were part of the agreement on connecting the power facilities of RN Uvatneftegaz to the United Energy Systems, FGC UES’s PR & Media Group in Western Siberia reports. The company’s 500-kilowatt Demyanskaya Substation (transformer capacity: 1,256.6 MVA) was launched in 1969. The station is one of the key power hubs in Tyumen Oblast that ensures power transit from the 500-kilowatt

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 24, 2017. Sverdlovsk Oblast residents using micro-financing services borrowed RUR 10,067 on average in the third quarter of the year, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 24.5%, National Credit History Bureau reports. The increase was most pronounced in Krasnodar Territory (+55.9%), Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region (+35.5%), Novosibirsk Oblast (+32.2%), and Bryansk Oblast (+25.1%). The average loan amount actually went down in Volgograd Oblast (-3.9%), Moscow Oblast (-0.7%), and Moscow (-0.4%). ‘The average micro-loan amount keeps rising in all

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 24, 2017. Yekaterinburg’s hunting supply stores are already looking at the losses they are likely to incur during the upcoming World Football Championship 2018, as there will be a ban on selling guns at that time. Stary Slon’s representatives told UrBC the ban falls right on the seasonal sale increase period. ‘People hunt ducks in the spring, and then sales usually peak in the summer throughout early fall. There’s nothing of the sort to be expected with this ban in place. Most likely, our only revenues will come from optical appliances and knives,’ the store

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 23, 2017. Managers of Russian Copper Company won Sverdlovsk Oblast Awards for their contribution to the area’s socioeconomic development, the company press service reports. The solemn awarding ceremony for Russian Federation Awards, Russia’s President Awards, and Sverdlovsk Oblast Awards took place in Yekaterinburg on November 21, 2017. Thirty-nine representatives of the Urals’ business community, medical and educational establishments, charity organizations, culture organizations, and financial entities were on the list of awardees. Russian Copper Company

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 23, 2017. The telecommunications provider MegaFon’s engineers launched second- and third-generation HD Voice technology in Sverdlovsk Oblast. HD Voice allows for better transfer of a particular speaker’s voice, their tone and intonation, as the available frequency range now comes to as much as 7,000 Herz. Thanks to this expanded audio transfer channel, the sound comes out more realistic and ‘live’, MegaFon’s press service reports. HD Voice is supported by most smartphones and turns on automatically. You can enjoy better conversation quality with both MegaFon

UrBC, Orsk, November 23, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Orenburg Oblast-based asset ORMET completed the construction of Dzhusinsky underground mine by 90% so far. According to Russian Copper Company’s press service, the only jobs left to do before the commissioning are assembling the outer electric grids and doing the startup routines for all the facilities. These are the tasks the workers will concentrate on in the next one and a half months. Dzhusinsky is being put up in place of Dzhusinsky sulphide poly-metallic ore deposit in Adamovsky District, Orenburg Oblast. The deposit was an

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 23, 2017. Director of First Freight Company’s Chelyabinsk subsidiary Vladimir Terekhov came up with a performance report for the ten months of 2017, the company press service reports. Terekhov pointed out that they managed to cut down the idle time of their railcars by 73% (down to 243 units) this year thanks to more efficient collaboration with other players in the freight forwarding business. ‘A railcar turnover is the primary indicator of how efficiently a company’s rolling stock gets used, so increasing these turnover figures is key to obtaining some extra

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 23, 2017. ChTPZ Group is going to hold its 15th Snezhnost Theater Festival on December 8-19, the company press service reports. This year, plays will be performed in Chelyabinsk, Pervouralsk, Almetyevsk, and — for the first time — Ozersk, Chelyabinsk Oblast. This charity project takes off at M.I. Glinka Chelyabinsk State Academic Opera & Ballet Theater with a family musical called Look At Me Flying! Young performers from the children’s musical school, directed by Russia’s Honored Performer Boris Kaplun and assisted by professional actors, will act out a musical

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 22, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) won the Priority 2017 Import Substitution Contest in Metallurgy for developing its high quality zinc-coated rolled produce facilities. According to MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department, the awarding ceremony took place in Moscow on November 17 and was attended by the Russian Government officials, State Duma deputies, Chamber of Commerce & Industry representatives, and members of other organizations and departments. MMK launched its Continuous Hot-Dip Galvanizing Unit 3 last summer and thus

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems coordinated an electric safety workshop for Ministry of Emergencies representatives in Western Siberia. ‘Our power technicians talked about the specifics of putting out fire at electrical units that cannot get disconnected during a fire. This special information allowed the firefighting teams to come up with an improved action plan for possible fires at power facilities, says FGC UES Western Siberia’s PR & Media Group. The workshop was held at the company’s Training Center. The electric equipment

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2017. The telecommunications provider MegaFon’s rural subscribers proved active Internet users and online game players, MegaFon Ural’s press service reports. ‘Interestingly, our customers based in smaller settlements downloaded five times more data than large city dwellers in the last two months. Russian-language social networks Odnoklassniki and VKontakte are their two most popular services. Users mostly look for jokes, health information, and current events in the country; the peak surfing time is from 8 to 9 PM every night,’ says MegaFon Ural Technical

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2017. Ural Airlines are opening a new Moscow-Tyumen-Moscow flight, the air carrier’s press service reports. The flight will be operated every day starting from February 18, 2018. The in-flight time is two hours and thirty-five minutes; the plane takes off in Moscow at 11 PM and arrives in Tyumen at 3:35 AM; the return flight departs from Tyumen at 8 AM and arrives in Moscow at 9 AM. You can now use the company’s special offer and book tickets for as little as RUR 3,200 (one way, all fees included). ‘The new flight is a great opportunity to plan a holiday trip

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2017. A contest for the best design of EXPO Park on the shore of Verkh-Isetsky Pond will be held in Sverdlovsk Oblast soon, Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast’s Information Policy Department reports. Governor Evgeniy Kuivashev invited the best local architects, designers, and developers to contribute to the selection procedure. According to Kuivashev, the necessary experts and the evaluation criteria have already been decided upon. The design concept is to be presented at the Bureau International des Expositions’ General Assembly’s next meeting in June 2018.

UrBC, Moscow, November 22, 2017. The amount of rice stored in Russia’s warehouses and processing facilities shrank by 45.8% in the course of one year, down to 32,000,000 kg as of November 1, 2017, Rosstat reports. At the same time, these November figures are 2.7 times better than those for October 2017. On the whole, the share of rice stock comes to 0.2% of all grain supplies in the country. The supply of corn also declined by 23.6%, down to 1,011,000,000 kg, that of millet by 19.1%, down to 27,000,000 kg. The share of corn and millet stock comes to 5.1% and 0.1% of all grain supplies in the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2017. RSG-Akademicheskoye is now among the largest developers operating in the Urals and Siberia, the company press service refers to Expert Center’s rating as indicating. The company came second in the rating of major Ural and Siberian developers. The company’s Deputy Director-General Pavel Petrichenko said the year 2016 proved one of growth for RSG-Akademicheskoye, as the developer both commissioned and sold nearly 20% more housing than in the year 2015. In 2017, the company offers its customers even more: you can now buy ready-to-move-in apartments as well

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2017. ChTPZ Group now makes a new type of longitudinal pipes made from stainless chrome/nickel steel (diameter: 20 mm; layer thickness: 2 mm; length: 18 to 20.3 meters). The pipes are made at the Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ), and the first batch of pipes (total length: 24,000 meters) has already been delivered to customer. According to the Group’s press service, the plant was able to start making new pipe types after its pipe-drawing facilities got upgraded. Last year, PNTZ launched hi tech cold reducing mill 10-45 and a pipe finishing line. This

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 21, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and G.I. Nosov Moscow State Technical University got a silver medal at Metall Expo 2017 Exhibition for their development and introduction of a new technology for delivery of charging material into blast furnaces. The technology is suitable for blast furnaces with tray-type, bell-less tops and for charging material with varying pellet content, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. ‘Our member enterprise MMK METIZ also won several awards this year. The company got diplomas for designing and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2017. Miners from EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Raspadskaya Mine have produced 5,528,000,000 kg of coal since the start of the year and thus already met this year’s target output figures, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s corporate relations center reports. Raspadskaya Coal Company’s management congratulated the miners on their production success and said foremen Stanislav Kovtunets, Alexei Ivanov, and Rustam Muminov worked particularly hard to achieve the goal. ‘The secret of Raspadskaya’s success lies in the power and unity of its team. Both managers and