UrBC, Moscow, January 27, 2020. Egypt might soon assign a special gate and check-in desks for Russian tourists flying from Sharm El Sheikh; this is already the case in Cairo International Airport, where the exclusive gate has been around for two years now, RIA Novosti refers to its own source as stating. Now Russian air travel security experts completed their scheduled checks of Sharm El Sheikh Airport and Hurghada Airport on Thursday. ‘The experts were shown separate, fenced-in gates that are expected to get assigned exclusively for passengers arriving from Russia, as well as separate

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 27, 2020. Ural Airlines’ website currently features a promo code that gives you a 15% discount on Moscow-Blagoveshchensk and Blagoveshchensk-Moscow flights. The discount applies both to one-way and round trips, the air carrier’s press service reports. To activate the discount, enter the unique promo code 2020BQS when booking on the company website uralairlines.ru. The code is valid on January 24-February 10, 2020; the flights will get operated on January 24-February 29, 2020. Flight U6 349/250 (Moscow-Blagoveshchensk-Moscow) is a non-stop flight operated on new

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 27, 2020. EVRAZ directed RUB 500,000 to repairs and upgrades at Chemistry Lab in Nizhniy Tagil’s Mining & Metallurgical School, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. The funds donated by EVRAZ were used to purchase a media projector, an interactive whiteboard, a laptop, a digital microscope, a set of digital chemistry labs, sets of models of chemical equipment, reagents and consumable materials, crystallizing pans, learning aids, individual protective gear, and furniture for the teacher and students. ‘The students can now carry out

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 27, 2020. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Raspadskaya Processing Plant processed 12,000,000,000 kg of rough coal, thus setting the national record for the year 2019. ‘This is the first time in the enterprise’s entire history these output figures have been reached. The plant got launched in 2005 and has been investing in equipment upgrades and maximum production automation in the last few years,’ the company’s press service says. In 2019, three new pressure-tank filters got installed at the plant, which improved the quality of coal produce and reduced

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 27, 2020. ChelPipe Group has been working on a large-scale communication campaign on job and industrial safety at its pipe-manufacturing divisions for the last two years, the Group’s press service reports. ‘First, posters and calendars that were stylized as 8-bit computer game graphics, with a slogan that read, ‘There’s only one life you have in life’ were placed in the Group’s production departments and offices; additionally, a video safety manual was created for employees and visitors to the site, with dozens of thousands of views on the web,’ the press service

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 24, 2020. The number of paid parking slots in Yekaterinburg is expected to double by the end of 2020, Senior Expert at Yekaterinburg Council’s Transport & Urban Transit Committee’s Legal Department Alexander Vegner told reporters today. According to Vegner, there are 2,600+ paid parking slots in Yekaterinburg at the moment. 12,000 slots are expected to appear by 2025 and as many as 30,000 slots by 2030. ‘The introduction of paid parking space is mostly meant to improve the traffic situation. We expect some changes to come through in federal laws soon which

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 24, 2020. Sverdlovsk Region’s agribusinesses produced less of every type of animal produce last year compared with one year previously, Sverdlovskstat reports. Milk output dropped by 5.4% (from 119,300,000 kg down to 113,200,000 kg), egg output dropped by 3.5% (from 44.1m units down to 42.6m units), and meat and poultry output dropped by 7% (from 42,900,000 kg down to 40,100,000 kg). As for the output of all the agribusinesses in the Middle Urals combined (including agricultural organizations, private households, and farms), that of milk rose from 739,600,000 kg

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, January 24, 2020. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) cold-roll Mill 2000 made 1,703,800,000 kg of cold-rolled steel sheets last year, which was the absolute annual output record since the launch date, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘The last time a new output record was set was in 2014, when 1,669,600,000 kg of cold-rolled goods got manufactured at the mill. Mill 2000, launched in 2011, is the key component of the hi tech cold-roll facility at MMK’s Sheet-Rolling Department 11. The unit’s primary function is to produce good quality cold-rolled and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 24, 2020. OOO FORES’s Sukhoi Log branch coordinated a guided tour of its production site for schoolchildren from the town’s Gymnasium 1. The twelve- and thirteen-year-olds could take a look at how propping agents are made, the company’s press service reports. ‘The tour started off with a job safety video. Following this video induction, the children put on special protective gear (helmets, earplugs, and breathing masks) and went to look at the dry- and wet-grinding sites and the Quality Control Department. A set of tubs with propping agents of various sizes was

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 24, 2020. The housing developer RSG-Akademicheskoye is coordinating a tender to find a contractor for a set of high-rise apartment buildings in Quarter 9, the company’s press service reports. The winning bidder will be able to sign a contract for the construction of both the above-the-ground and the underground sections of high-rise Buildings 9.6.1 and 9.6.2 and underground Parking Lot 9.6.01 in Block 9.6, Quarter 9 of District Akademicheskiy in Yekaterinburg; the contractor will be in charge of supplying the materials and the equipment for the project and will

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 23, 2020. Ural Airlines put the tickets for the airline’s international and domestic flights on sale on January 21-23, 2020; the special-price offers apply to the flights that will be operated between January 21 and May 31, 2020, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘For one, prices for Moscow-Krasnodar and Moscow-Anapa flights start from RUB 4,000 (there and back), those for Zhukovsky-Rome ones start from RUB 6,670, those for Moscow-Salzburg ones start from RUB 7,500, those for Yekaterinburg-Munich start from RUB 13,500, those for Krasnodar-Larnaca ones start

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, January 23, 2020. Continuous Hot Dip Galvanizing Line 3 at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) produced 334,600,000 kg of zinc-coated rolled metal goods last year, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘A year earlier, 278,900,000 kg of zinc-coated rolled metal goods were produced on the line. This means the line has nearly reached its projected capacity of 360,000,000 kg of goods a year. The line is located on the site of Sheet-Rolling Department 11 and is meant for making zinc-coated goods: the cold-rolled, thin-sheeted metal goods made from low-carbon

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 23, 2020. Ural Airlines added yet another Airbus A321neo to the company’s fleet of vehicles; the aircraft arrived from Hamburg a few hours ago, the air carrier’s press service reports. The aircraft’s side number is VP-BOQ; the liner has 236 Economy seats on board. ‘This is Ural Airlines’ fifth aircraft from the Airbus A320 family that I got to pilot. The new-generation planes are fitted with LEAP-1A engines and Sharklets that help reduce noise level, fuel spending, and harmful air emissions. These aircraft varieties will be used to increase the number of nonstop

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 23, 2020. OOO FORES coordinated a company contest for the HR departments of its various branches, the company’s press service reports. The first prize went to the employees of the company’s Asbest branch. They received a souvenir: ’a special bag of propping agents’ made from serpentinite. ‘We looked into the company branches’ performance in 2019, taking into account the proactive hiring policy for the blue-collar workers based in Sverdlovsk Region’s more remote locations, coordination of OOO FORES job fairs, and the number of workers the HR departments took on (as

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 23, 2020. EVRAZ Holding’s Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (EVRAZ KGOK) launched new Loco NP-1 in combination with two motor dump-cars made at Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. Two similar locos will arrive at the plant before the end of the year as well. ‘Locos NP-1 proved very efficient at deep mines with complicated reliefs. The locos were custom-designed for EVRAZ KGOK and have hauling power of up to 2,000,000 kg at the speed of up to 65 km/hour. The locos have four

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 21, 2020. SKB-Bank announced that its Perm branch would reopen at the same address this week. ‘Dear SKB-Bank customers, SKB-Bank’s Izhevsky Subsidiary’s Perm branch reopens at the same address: 30 Gazety Zvezda St Perm Perm Territory Russia,’ the bank’s press service informs its customers. There’s a 24/7 hotline +7-800-1000-600 (toll-free for calls inside Russia) available as well.

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, January 21, 2020. ChelPipe Group manufactured and supplied a new type of ETERNO INGENIUM hi tech produce for Mechel Group’s Chelyabinsk Integrated Metallurgical Plant’s oxygen converter shop. According to the company’s press service, the set of equipment supplied to customer (total weight: 600,000+ kg) comprises gas ducts (diameter: more than 3 meters; length: up to 15 meters) and steel-ladling scoops (capacity: 156,000 kg) that were made at ChelPipe Group’s stamp-welded pipeline component manufacturer ETERNO. ‘This is the first time ETERNO has made the metal frameworks for

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, January 21, 2020. The Open All-Russian Youth Biathletes Competition A. Bogali-SKIMiR Cup took place at Abzakovo Biathlon Ski Resort Center this week; the event was supported by Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK). The championship gathered together young men and women born in 2003-2010 (some five hundred young biathletes from twenty-one parts of Russia ranging from Murmansk to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk). The sports players competed in four age groups and three categories: individual race, sprint, and Supermixt relay race. The biathletes from Metallurg-Magnitogorsk Sports

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 21, 2020. OOO FORES’s Sukhoi Log branch upgraded six workstations for electric/gas welders at the plant’s Repair Department last year, the company’s press service reports. The company invested about RUB 2.5m in the workplace improvements. The plant purchased new chairs and protection screens to create workstation partitions. Up-to-date elevating-and-traversing exhaust units were installed inside. ‘Sverdlovsk Region division of the federal consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor recommended upgrading the plant’s only (as it then was) electric/gas welder’s

UrBC, Moscow, January 21, 2020. MegaFon is launching its first FVNO (Fixed Virtual Network Operator) project involving local ISPs. The broadband Internet access FVNO model is meant to complement the telecom company’s existing infrastructure, MegaFon’s press service reports. The business model includes MegaFon paying its partner operator for every connection on a monthly basis, which means the local ISPs will be able to monetize their existing but underused port capacity 30% to 50% more efficiently. MegaFon will take care of the advertising, payment processing, customer service (both through