UrBC, Chelyabinsk, July 27, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) coordinated a fire safety drill and a contest for amateur firefighters at the plant, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The annual contest is part of the company’s overall civil defense, emergency prevention, and fire safety program for 2018. The goal is to make sure there are enough para-firefighters at the plant who are trained and prepared to act in case of fire and who are proactive in ensuring fire safety at the plant. 56 different teams from the plant’s production departments and MMK Group’s member

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 27, 2018. EVRAZ Holding funded a sports playground for preschoolers of Kindergarten 66 in Nizhniy Tagil. The project was the winner of EVRAZ grant contest for the city. According to the company press service, the playground cost RUR 400,000. The up-to-date playground came to replace an abandoned swimming pool that hadn’t been used for forty years and was actually a hazard to the children’s safety. All the old reinforced concrete and metal structures were removed from the site (total area: 200 m2) and replaced with a fresh layer of concrete, rubber coating,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 27, 2018. Summer Trip Festival will be held in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy on August 18, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. ‘You can enjoy the summer warmth and recreational mood in one of Yekaterinburg’s most promising and highly developed districts. The center of Akademicheskiy will turn into a summer sea resort with sun beds, golden sandy beaches, and beach umbrellas. Several popular local bands as well as the show headliners Zveri and Svetlana Loboda will perform for you on the big stage,’ the press service says. This year’s festival is

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 26, 2018. A special theme summer camp stay sponsored by MMK Group’s trade union is now over at Gornoye Ushchelye Children’s Center. the company press service reports. The project was first tried out a year ago when MMK Group’s trade union decided to support and educate a group of high school students at the camp and to introduce them to the basics of trade union leadership. This year, the trade union decided to support and train the entire camp. A certain production department of MMK Group got assigned to every stay-in building in the camp. The children got to elect

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 26, 2018. Ural Airlines introduced an additional Moscow-Barnaul flight this July, the air carrier’s press service reports. The flight is operated from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport at 9:30 PM every Friday; departure time for the return flight is 6:50 AM. The flights are operated on Airbus A320 planes, with both Business and Economy seats available, between July 13 and September 8, 2018. Prices for Economy class tickets start from RUR 9,000 (one way, all fees included). You can book your tickets on the company website www.uralairlines.com, through Ural Airlines mobile

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 26, 2018. A special cycling race took place in Magnitogorsk on Saturday, July 21 in celebration of Metallurgist’s Day. According to Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works’ PR Department, this is the tenth time the race has taken place in town. The event was coordinated by the town council’s PE, Sports & Tourism Department, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works, MSTK Sports Club, Magnitogorsk Cycling Federation, Young Metallurgists’ Union, and the non-profit Dvizheniye. The forty-kilometer-long cycling race took off from the memorial in Stroiteley St and then through

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 26, 2018. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems completed upgrading its 500-kilowatt Sibirskaya Power Substation; the substation is part of the power-generating system pertaining to Surgutskaya Power Station 2, Russia’s largest heat and power station. The news was announced by the FGC UES Western Siberia division recently. FGC UES invested RUR 635m in the project to ensure the more reliable power supply to end users in Yugra and the oil and gas companies operating in the area. For one, the station’s protection relays and automation devices got upgraded,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 26, 2018. ISP/mobile carrier MegaFon offers an alternative TV viewing option for Yekaterinburg locals to offset the 2.5 weeks without the regular TV they will have to deal with while the TV tower in Lunacharsky St is being repainted. Everyone can now watch their favorite shows, films, and series using MegaFon TV free of charge, the company press service reports. The tower will be under remodeling for the next three weeks (working hours only). While the painters are working on it, MegaFon’s mobile app will serve as a substitute. To get access to your free TV channels,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 25, 2018. Ural Airlines will be operating additional flights from Moscow and Saint Petersburg to Kaliningrad on July 23-September 24, 2018, the air carrier’s press service reports. Flight U6 697/698 (Moscow-Kaliningrad-Moscow) will be operated every Monday; departure time (Moscow): 5:05 PM; departure time (Kaliningrad): 6:55 PM. Flight U6 37/38 (Saint Petersburg-Kaliningrad-Saint Petersburg) will be available every Tuesday; departure time (Saint Petersburg): 12:15 AM; departure time (Kaliningrad): 1:40 AM. This means up to four flights to Kaliningrad will be on offer

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, July 25, 2018. A presentation of Sergey Bunkov’s new book (Way to the Height) took place on Monday, July 23, 2018. The book was published with support from ChelPipe Group’s shareholders Andrei Komarov and Alexander Fedorov, the Group’s press service reports. The book is a chronicle of Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant’s development that also dwells on the plant’s unique corporate philosophy known as ‘White-Coated Metallurgy’. It was quite symbolic that the presentation took place on July 23: it was exactly eight years ago on that day that Vladimir Putin attended the opening

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 25, 2018. MMK Group’s OOO Ogneupor, the refractory goods manufacturer, turns eighty-seven this month. According to MMK press service, one of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works’ first production departments got launched on July 17, 1931. This was the day the first production line took off at the chamotte shop. OOO Ogneupor is now one of Russia’s leading refractory goods producer: the company is No. 3 on the national chamotte refractory applications market and No. 2 on the periclase-carbonaceous refractory goods market. The plant makes over 12,000,000 kg of goods a

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 25, 2018. MMK’s Director-General Pavel Shilyayev handed two new fire tank trucks to Firefighting Department 20 that is in charge of ensuring fire safety at the plant, the company press service reports. A metallurgical enterprise is generally classified as increased fire hazard location. Firefighting Department 20 is the plant’s oldest and has always dealt with any fire safety issues on the site successfully, be it putting out a fire, rescuing people and items of value, or dealing with emergencies and accidents. In 2016, two obsolete ZIL 131 trucks had to be written

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 25, 2018. MegaFon is now Russia’s first ISP/mobile carrier to offer its customers Digital Hiring Service. You can now hire shop assistants, cashiers, waiters, clerks, and call center employees all over Russia using AI and digital technologies, the company press service says. You can rely on MegaFon’s professionals to find the right candidates for you in under three days. According to Antal’s recent survey of recruiting experts, 81% of both Russian and international companies are already switching to digital HR logistics. MegaFon can now make the entire search for new

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 24, 2018. A new football pitch opened at MMK Children’s Health & Education Center today, MMK’s press service reports. ‘It only took a month to put up this amazing sports playground here. Special-purpose coating, certified running tracks, and so on: we did everything to make sure children’s sports practices could be efficient as well as safe. The stadium is fit for tournaments and relay races and will serve as a site for all kinds of championships in all kinds of sports,’ the press service says. The coating got tested immediately: a football championship was

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 24, 2018. Ural Airlines are offering additional flights from Chita to Moscow and back. Flight U6 467/468 will be operated every Friday and Sunday on July 29-September 9, 2018. Departure time (Moscow): 9:25 PM; departure time (Chita): 11:00 AM, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘No changes will be made in the current timetable, just a number of extra flights will be added to ensure more flexibility and the convenience of connecting flights for our customers,’ the press service says. There are government-subsidized discounts available on the flights: people

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 24, 2018. 35% of Russians who now make purchases at online shops abroad will stop doing so if the customs duty will get imposed on purchases exceeding €200 in value. Shopping abroad will simply no longer be worth it, the survey respondents explain to Romir Holding. 22% of those surveyed said they would look for ways to avoid customs duty and 27% said they were keeping track of the proposed changes in the legislation. Only 9% of respondents said they were willing to go on shopping online despite the new duty. As it happens, the share of online shoppers who buy over

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 24, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is contributing to the company’s job counseling project, MMK press service reports. The project was originally proposed by the Children’s Arts & Crafts Center in Magnitogorsk’s District Ordzhonikidzevsky. The Center’s employee and the project manager Evgenia Moskaleva believes a company as large as MMK has a lot of corporate social responsibility to stay aware of. The local youth aren’t necessarily aware of what the company has to offer and often leave after they finish school. What is more, the young men and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 24, 2018. Ural Airlines are introducing a new flight from Moscow Region’s Zhukovsky Airport to Kaliningrad; the flight will be available every Saturday, the air carrier’s press service reports. U6 637 will be available between July 28 and September 29, 2018. Departure time (Zhukovsky Airport): 6:30 PM; flight duration: two hours; prices start from: RUR 5,000 (all fees included). ‘Kaliningrad, formerly the German town of Königsberg, is a bit of Europe on the map of Russia, or a bit of Russia on the map of Europe. Even though the old city had beed destroyed and the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 23, 2018. Russians living in the Urals now spend more time online when traveling abroad: according to MegaFon’s press service, Sverdlovsk Region-based international travelers used twice as much Internet traffic in June 2018 as they did one year earlier. This amount of data would be enough to view a thirty-day long video non-stop. Sverdlovsk Region-based tourists downloaded/uploaded the equivalent of 500 movies when they were abroad in June. Those based in Tyumen Region came second in this ‘race’ and downloaded/uploaded the amount of data roughly comparable to 55,000

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 23, 2018. International football fans purchased RUR 943.8m worth of goods within the tax free system in Russia during the World Football Championship days this year; they had 11,300 receipts issued to them, RIA Novosti refers to the Federal Customs Service as stating. The Chinese visitors spent the most and made up 70.8% of all customers. Mexican nationals come second, as they made up 2.8% of all customers, followed by the football fans from Germany, the United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Qatar, and Vietnam (2.1%, 1.94%, 1.25%, 1.1%, and 1%, respectively). Most of the