UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 24, 2018. Denis Novozhenov was recently appointed EVRAZ Vice President and Head of EVRAZ Holding Ural, the company press service reports. ‘Denis Novozhenov will be in charge of the general management of EVRAZ Holding Ural (EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works and EVRAZ Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise). He will keep working on the development of EVRAZ Holding’s Sverdlovsk Region-based assets in accordance with the company’s strategy. His job will be to boost the integration of the two companies’ business processes and enhance the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 24, 2018. VUZ-Bank (a member of the UBRD Group) co-supported a syndicated loan for the Republic of Belarus’s Development Bank, the UBRD’s press service reports. The entire procedure is coordinated and managed by Otkrytie FC Bank. The news was made official on April 20, 2018. ‘Seven different banks supported the €50m syndicated loan for the Republic of Belarus’s Development Bank; in addition to VUZ-Bank and Otkrytie FC Bank, these are AK Bars Bank, Bank Uralsib, Nefteprombank, Bank Finservice, and Novicombank. VUZ-Bank secured €5m for the loan,’ the press service

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 24, 2018. Ural Airlines are now offering their passengers direct flights from Samara to Tel Aviv, Bologna, Sochi, Anapa, and Simferopol, the air carrier’s press service reports. Ural Airlines introduced their new flight to Bologna on April 21. This new Italian destination presents additional vacation opportunities both for those enjoying a seaside holiday and those who prefer doing sights. The flights to Bologna will be operated every Saturday. Ural Airlines’ Samara-Yerevan flight will take you to Armenia in two hours and thirty-five minutes; the flight is operated

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 24, 2018. 4,039 legal entities officially went into liquidation in Yekaterinburg in the first quarter of the year. This exceeds the figures for the number of newly registered businesses (1,778) by 2.3 times, Sverdlovskstat reports. As for Sverdlovsk Region on the whole, the ratio of liquidated companies to newly registered ones was the same: 5,386 to 2,347 businesses, respectively. In over 90% of cases, the liquidated businesses are private ones that are associations or partnerships. Additionally, one new state-owned federal company, two state-run constituency-level

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 24, 2018. The number of operating beauty parlors for sale in Yekaterinburg went up by 46% between September and March, that is, from 24 up to 35 businesses, N1.RU’s press service reports. ‘The increase in the number of beauty parlors on offer might have to do with seasonal factors, since it is generally believed people tend to pay more attention to their looks in the summertime. So the sellers are taking up on this in order to make a sale,’ says head of N1.RU Oksana Sidletskaya. According to this web portal’s analysts, the number of catering businesses and shops for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 23, 2018. Kstati-Fest Science Festival will take place in Yekaterinburg on April 24-28, 2018; the event is coordinated by the Information Center for Nuclear Energy (Myatom) with support from Rosatom Corporation and Yekaterinburg Council, the Center’s press service reports. The festival program will appeal to the general audience of all ages, with thirty-plus unique free-to-attend popular science events in Yekaterinburg and Zarechniy: lectures, talk shows, quests, film showings, and workshops. This is the second time Kstati-Fest is held in Yekaterinburg; this year’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 23, 2018. Ural Airlines are getting ready for the summer season 2018 and keep expanding their fleet of vehicles. A new Airbus (VP-BIH) is now the company’s 45th liner, the air carrier’s press service reports. There are 220 Economy seats on board. This new Airbus A31 will be used for both international and domestic flights. The airline intends to expand the overall count to forty-seven airplanes in order to make sure a larger number of passengers can fly where needed. The European concern Airbus’s liners proved highly efficient and very comfortable for mid-range

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 23, 2018. Residents of Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District are going to take part in a ten-kilometer Kalinovka Summer Trail Race, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The race will take place on April 22, 2018. The trail goes 200 meters up various wood paths; according to the race organizers, the upper time limit to complete the mission is set at two hours. ‘Even though the race will be coordinated in the opposite part of Yekaterinburg, quite a big team from Akadem Multi-Sports Club gathered in Akademicheskiy. 32 local sportsmen and women have applied so

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 23, 2018. Yekaterinburg’s centrally located apartments grew 1.9% less expensive in the last month, Ural Real Estate Chamber’s Analytical Department states in its existing homes market research. ‘The price decrease has to do with the fact that the priciest homes are no longer on offer. So the average asking price now comes to RUR 96,506 per m2 in the city’s most expensive locations,’ the report states. Prices for homes located close to the heart of the city have remained almost the same as earlier (+0.1%) and come to RUR 73,233 per m2 on average. Apartments in other

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 20, 2018. Ten more metal-detecting appliances are currently being installed at Yekaterinburg Underground stations. This is expected to halve the congestion-related human traffic in ticket desk areas next to the security zones during rush hours, Counselor to Underground Director for Transport Safety Oleg Drozdov said at a press briefing today. According to Drozdov, the new appliances are made in Russia and have been certified for compliance with all the transport safety requirements; these will get installed in Square 1905, Geologicheskaya, Prospekt Kosmonavtov, and

UrBC, Moscow, April 20, 2018. Russia stopped its supplies of aluminum to Japan completely following the U.S. sanctions, TASS refers to RUSAL Japan’s Director Kunihico Higashi as stating. ‘Our buyers have said they cannot make payments to Rusal, which is related to the recent U.S. sanctions. Such notices were coming to us one after another,’ TASS quotes Higashi as saying. According to Higashi, the aluminum shipment already at sea is going to be the last one headed from Russia to Japan for the time being. TASS reports that, according to the Japan Association for Trade with Russia and Newly

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 20, 2018. The online travel service OneTwoTrip looked into Yekaterinburg’s rental market supply to see what was on offer for the World Football Championship days in June. ‘It turns out 54% of accommodation options got entered into the booking system within the last six months (between November 2017 and April 2018), which implies over a half of potential rentals for the World Cup days are either not regular-basis rental properties or rental homes that landlords did not ever advertise online,’ the service says. The pricing policies also look interesting. Out of nearly

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 20, 2018. Business owners can now order ‘smart’ online payment terminals at MegaFon’s online shop, the telecommunications provider’s press service reports. The package comprises ATOL online payment terminals, a fiscal data storage unit, prepaid transfer of fiscal data to tax authorities by OFD.ru, a SIM card, and a special payment plan (RUR 100 a month). This package purchase will save a customer up to 20% of the regular price. ‘The demand for data transfer services relating to cash and payment terminals rose four times in the Urals last month. To help local

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 20, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) is launching a special offer for its retirement-age loan applicants on April 19, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Every customer who applies for and gets our Retirement Loan and makes the first repayment on schedule will get a RUR 1,000 bonus into their personal account. The money can be cashed in or used as partial loan repayment. The offer holds for any of the bank’s branches and outlets through July 18, 2018,’ the press service says. Retirement Loan (interest rate starts from 14.99% a year) is

UrBC, Moscow, April 19, 2018. Roskomnadzor (RKN) is prepared to block the social network Facebook in Russia before the end of the year if the company management fails to comply with the Russian legislative requirements, Head of RKN Alexander Zharov said in an interview to Izvestia. ‘We’ll be looking into their doings until the end of the year, and there are some regulations the company has to comply with: Russian nationals’ databases must be stationed within the country, no unlawful information must be present within the resource (Facebook is already falling behind on this one), and a few

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 19, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region’s court officers have issued more than 32,000 warrants since the start of the year that impose a temporary ban on local debtors’ traveling abroad. Their accumulated debt currently comes to more than RUR 27bn, the local division of Russia’s Federal Service of Court Officers reports. The warrants touched upon 3,496 non-payers of child support, whose consolidated debt amounts to over RUR 1.3bn. 3,000 warrants have to do with people with unpaid housing bills, who owe their suppliers some RUR 3m. As for fines, including traffic ones, 4,000

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 19, 2018. MegaFon.Target proved a particularly popular service with the state-run organizations in March, the telecommunications provider MegaFon’s press service reports. ‘Telecom analysts say March has been the ‘smartest’ month this year so far, with a record-setting number of ‘smart’ text messages sent to local users’ smartphones. State-run organizations and companies sent locals thirteen times more bespoke texts in the first spring month than one year earlier,’ the press service says. Sverdlovsk Philharmonic, multi-service community centers, city clinics and

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, April 19, 2018. A new 50-megawatt steam turbine will soon get installed at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Central Power Station, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. The new equipment will increase the station’s output considerably and will make the entire plant’s power system more reliable and more technologically advanced. The steam turbine T 42/50 will get delivered by Ural Turbine Plant in April or early May. The contract was only signed after all the technical solutions had been worked on, and following a tender procedure. The new

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 19, 2018. Ural Airlines recently introduced E-Assistant (a chat bot) to help every passenger get ready for their flight, the air carrier’s press service says. The electronic assistant is an automated service that provides a customer with all the necessary information relating to booking flights and extra options. To use the bot, you have to look for ‘UralAirlines’ or ‘@uralairlines_bot’ on Telegram or join the airline’s VKontakte group and use the ‘Send A Message’ function. ‘Your personal assistant is always there for you: the chat bot is online 24/7 to answer your

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 18, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) used 5.2m m3 less water from Nizhniy Tagil Reservoir in 2017 compared with one year previously, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. The plant’s other conservation measures include replacement of old water conduits, repairs of the plant’s water-cooling towers and pumping equipment, and filtering of intermediary ponds where water gets filtered from pollutants (with the pollutants transferred to special recycling wells). In addition to mechanical filtering of water, EVRAZ