UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 23, 2019. Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Vysokinsky commented on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent statement regarding the need for Yekaterinburg Metro to keep expanding. ‘The town council confirmed its total commitment to the project. We keep working on project design and a presentation to secure co-funding from the higher-level authorities, since Sverdlovsk Region’s budget and Yekaterinburg’s budget alone won’t be able to foot the bill on their own. Most of the locals feel positive about the prospect and believe Yekaterinburg Metro is vital for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 23, 2019. Starting December 23, 2019, NEYVA Bank will be offering its business customers and sole traders new terms on savings deposits. According to the bank’s press service, the changes apply to the interest paid on the bank’s ruble deposit Treasurer. Additionally, the bank is looking to attract more funds by issuing its own promissory notes. ‘Our 24/7 customer support service (+7-800–7000–213, toll-free for calls made inside Russia) are always ready to answer any questions you may have. NEYVA Bank stands for people reaching out to people,’ the bank says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 23, 2019. SKB-Bank’s business-oriented DeloBank came third in the rating of Best Online Banks for Businesses in Tertiary Sector within Business Internet Banking Rank carried by Markswebb on an annual basis, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Markswebb experts looked into the activity, services, fees, and marketing offers of fifteen Russian online banks and evaluated these against more than 500 criteria. They assessed the range of options available to customers, efficiency, and convenience and ease for three customer categories: a self-employed, stand-alone

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 23, 2019. OOO FORES’s Asbest branch is reconstructing a section of the local railways, Head of Propping Agents Thermal Treatment Department at OOO FORES Vyacheslav Vorotov told Asbestovsky Rabochiy. ‘Our propping agents get sent to customers in Russia as well as in the CIS member states. At the moment, one such market is Kazakhstan, whereas in 2010 we delivered to a much wider range of countries, including, for example, Canada. As our outputs went up, changes were needed in the working hours. Head of the Railway Section used to work a five-day week, with days

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 23, 2019. Ural Airlines came up with a special offer for those planning to fly in groups of four people or more, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘If you purchase Economy tickets for four to nine people, you get 20% off with the promo code GROUP. The code is entered on the first page of the booking process or at the time of the purchase,’ the air carrier says. The offer applies to both domestic and international flights. For all the flights available, please visit the company website www.uralairlines.com. The offer holds through January 15, 2020 for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 20, 2019. EVRAZ Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (EVRAZ KGOK) managed to increase the productivity of its dumper trucks thanks to the mining and conveyor equipment going digital. According to EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center, this is a joint project with Zyfra Group’s member company VIST Group. The digital system integrates the geological parameters and a box model of the ore deposit with the mining and conveyor equipment’s performance mode, which results in new ways of controlling the quality of ore. All the people involved

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 20, 2019. OOO FORES presented Asbest Young Naturalists’ Station with spectrophotometer Unico KFK-3KM; the equipment can be used for both scientific research and studying the modern lab analysis methods, the company’s press service reports. ‘We focus very closely on our produce quality and fit our labs with the most up-to-date and highest-precision equipment. The spectrophotometer served at one of our member enterprises for several years, now is the time to get a replacement. However, the thing is still quite suitable for doing research that requires a slightly

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 20, 2019. The housing developer RSG-Akademicheskoye is coordinating a tender procedure to find a contractor to design the administration office for District Akademicheskiy and offices for KORTROS Group and Akademicheskiy Property Management Company. The winning applicant will be able to land a contract to produce the reference design, project documentation, and specification papers for the administration office for District Akademicheskiy, an office for KORTROS Group, and an office for Akademicheskiy Property Management Company. The opening bid has been set at

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 20, 2019. You can now get tickets for Ural Airlines’ new Yekaterinburg-Almaty-Yekaterinburg flight at a reduced price: these start from RUB 6, 816 (one way) and RUB 10, 224 (there and back), the air carrier’s press service reports. Discounted tickets are on offer through January 15, 2020; the offer applies to flights that will be operated between December 27, 2019 and March 28, 2020. ‘This mid-winter, Kazakhstan welcomes all sports lovers to the country’s mountain ski resorts and has delicious national cuisine, breathtaking landscapes, the purest air there is,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 20, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) launched a new automatic steel cylinder stamping unit, the Group’s press service reports. ‘The unit can stamp up to 600 small-size steel cylinders a day. The unit stamps the serial number, manufacture date, the date of the next necessary tech exam, the working and testing pressure parameters, thermal treatment info, and capacity and mass parameters onto the cylinders automatically. What is more, the data for each cylinder get stored in an e-archive as well,’ the press service says. ChelPipe Group has

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 19, 2019. The housing developer Brusnika commissioned the third building in Sukhodolsky Quarter in Yekaterinburg ahead of schedule. The commissioning was originally shifted from the last quarter of 2020 to the first quarter of 2020, but the developer managed to complete everything in December 2019 and is ready to welcome the new home owners as soon as this week. ‘Our customers can move in one year earlier; under the terms of the contract, the keys must be handed over to the owners within ninety days of the commissioning certificate,’ Brusnika’s press service

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 19, 2019. Ural Airlines recently introduced a new Yekaterinburg-Xi’an-Phuket flight, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘The solemn opening ceremony took place on Monday. Transit passengers on this first Xi’an-Phuket flight received special souvenirs from Xianyang International Airport,’ the press service says. Yekaterinburg-Xi’an-Phuket flights get operated on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays on Airbus A320neo liners. You can book your flight on the company website www.uralairlines.com, on Ural Airlines App, over the phone +7-800-7700-262, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 19, 2019. First Freight Company’s Chelyabinsk Branch forwarded 1.5 times more cargo in open-top railcars (aka gondola cars) in the eleven months of 2019 compared with the eleven months of 2018, First Freight Company’s press service reports. The branch’s gondola car cargo turnover rose by 39% and reached 1.2bn tons. According to the branch’s Director Gleb Gorbunov, the increase in Chelyabinsk branch’s output has to do with larger shipments of macadam coming from the key partners Cartel Promsnab, Energo-Alyans, and OM-TEK. The company also resumed cooperating with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 19, 2019. ChelPipe Group is introducing lean production technologies into the educational infrastructure of the Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy In-Company Training Program, the Group’s press service reports. According to the press service, the steps, such as organizational and designer solutions meant to make the learning process more efficient, have been taken as part of the cooperation agreement signed by ChelPipe Group, Russia’s Education & Science Ministry, Sverdlovsk Region Government, and Agency for Strategic Initiatives in 2018. The lean

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 19, 2019. A new coal concentrate dewatering unit has been launched at EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Kuznetskaya Central Processing Plant, the company’s press service reports. ‘The dewatering unit helped us stabilize humidity levels of fine coal concentrate and ensure stable product quality parameters that our customers expect. Once the unit has been launched, we are no longer struggling with the lack of space for dewatering operations,’ says Director at Kuznetskaya Central Processing Plant Alexei Vinogradov. The launch of the unit is part of the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 18, 2019. RUB 67m worth of black-market alcohol produce got confiscated in Sverdlovsk Region in 2019; twelve backstreet shops making adulterated strong drinks got closed down as well. Sergey Ustyuzhanin from the Russian Internal Affairs Ministry’s Sverdlovsk Region’s Directorate for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption Enforcement said at a recent press conference in Yekaterinburg that 650 liters of alcohol produce got confiscated, 112 criminal lawsuits were instituted, 1,500+ offenses got detected, and RUB 20m+ worth of administrative fines got imposed on the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 18, 2019. Managing Director at EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) Alexei Kushnarev and Danieli Group signed a contract for the reconstruction of the former’s Rail & Beam Department. The Group is expected to supply €80m worth of tech equipment to NTMK, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. ‘Retooling the department will mean we’ll be able to expand our mill produce range and start making new types of rolled metal goods. The department will start manufacturing U-shaped sheet piles (up to 600 mm wide), H-beams

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 18, 2019. The telecom company MegaFon is now selling ‘interesting’ phone numbers that have a combination ‘2020’ in them, MegaFon Ural’s press service reports. ‘Our Sverdlovsk Region-based customers are buying ‘nice-looking’ phone numbers (‘platinum’, ‘gold’, ‘silver’, and ‘bronze’ ones) at the speed of two a day. In December, MegaFon added the special ‘2020’ phone numbers to the pool specially for the digit-combination lovers,’ the company says. ‘Sverdlovsk Region is the Ural’s No.2 in terms of how many ‘interesting’ phone numbers get purchased. Yugra is the No.1

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, December 18, 2019. An organized crime group helping undocumented immigrants get fake authorization papers was uncovered and brought down in the Southern Urals, press service at the Russian Federal Security Service’s Border Control Administration’s Chelyabinsk Region division reports. ‘The primary suspects and alleged accomplices within this organized crime group got detained in Chelyabinsk Region by Counter Terrorism & Counter Extremism Center and Chelyabinsk Region division of Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry’s Central Investigation Department, with support from the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 18, 2019. Ural Airlines recently introduced a new on-board meal option for those on a special kind of diet: Kosher Menu, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘This meal option comprises some appetizers (home-style chicken sausages and hummus) and a main course (chicken). All the dishes are kosher-certified, which means both the ingredients and the cooking methods fully comply with what the canons of Judaism require,’ the press service says. You can pre-order your kosher meal if your flight departs from Zhukovsky Airport as well as on all Tel Aviv-Zhukovsky