UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 9, 2018. ChelPipe Group coordinated its Health & Safety Week last week, with over 5,000 employees joining in, the Group’s press service reports. This year’s Health & Safety week was dedicated to the company’s industrial safety campaign (aka You Only Live Once). Job safety was chosen as the Best Poem Contest’s theme; evacuation and first-aid drills got organized for the workers, and a special Safety Is My Responsibility Forum was held for the management. Moreover, 10+ events on health as a corporate value were organized by the company as well. Invited guest

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 9, 2018. Albert Yamaliyev’s team from EVRAZ Holding’s Alardinskaya Mine and Oleg Moskalenko’s team from Uskovskaya Mine have made 1,000,000,000 kg of coal each since the beginning of the year, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s press office reports. ‘This was the next best output after Alexander Lyane’s team from Yerunakovskaya 8 Mine made their 1,000,000,000 kg of coal in April,’ the press office says. Oleg Moskalenko’s team from Uskovskaya Mine (foreman: Yaroslav Yerchenko) produced their 1,000,000,000 kg of the valuable GZh coal from Long Face 50-06. The miners started

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 9, 2018. Starting July 4, 2018, Ural Airlines will be operating more flights from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport to Larnaca, Cyprus, the air carrier’s press service reports. There will be two flights operated every Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday altogether. ‘Larnaca is a great place for a family vacation, especially for families with children. The sea is quite warm, with shallow, paddling-friendly stretches, and the sandy beaches with their Blue Flag signs are very clean. Apart from the joys of swimming in the Adriatic, walking along the Finikoudes Embankment with its

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 9, 2018. The average asking price rose by 0.1% on Yekaterinburg existing home market in the last four weeks and currently comes to RUR 68,224 per m2, Ural Real Estate Chamber reports. ‘In terms of quantity, the market is going through a bit of a down time: the current market supply comes to 8,740 apartments all in all, which is 4.4% less than the 9,150 apartments on offer shortly before New Year. The figures aren’t likely to go up any time soon. The same holds true for Yekaterinburg’s suburban locations as well. Additionally, there are nearly 1,700 rooms in communal

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, June 8, 2018. The enrollment for the Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program is now open at A.V. Yakovlev Chelyabinsk State Industrial/Liberal Arts School, ChelPipe Group’s press service reports. Eligible to apply are ninth-graders from all over Russia. There are no entrance exams to sit, as applicants get selected based on their GPA scores. Those coming from outside Chelyabinsk will be offered accommodation at the school’s dorms. Applicants can choose Metal Treatment under Pressure, Operation of Hydraulic Appliances, Welding, Operation &

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 8, 2018. The telecommunications provider MegaFon and Uralets, one of Yekaterinburg’s largest clubs, agreed to work together, the former’s press service reports. ‘Uralets uses up nearly 10,000 minutes of voice calls and 70 Gb of traffic and sends out 1,400 texts every month. In the last six months, the club has hosted concerts by Yolka, Yegor Krid, Max Barskikh, Bi 2, and Leningrad, all of whom bring around 6,000 fans to the place. MegaFon had to rely on 4G Harley, a base station connected to a high-speed line, to ensure instantaneous upload of photos and videos

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 8, 2018. Russia’s leading pipe manufacturer and O&G integrated solutions supplier ChelPipe Group had its credit rating confirmed at ru A+ (with Stable rating outlook) by RAEX, the company press service reports. The rating improved thanks to the company’s competitive market position, diverse sales structure, and high expected liquidity and profitability figures. RAEX also comments on the company’s great quality corporate governance, strong strategic base, enhanced information transparency, and stable. highly concentrated ownership structure. The rating agency also

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 8, 2018. A new automated ultrasonic testing unit (aka UKR 25) has been recently installed at EVRAZ Holding West Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK) rail-making department; the unit is now part of the non-destructive testing line, the company press service reports. The unit is meant for detecting the rails’ internal defects such nonmetallic particles, voids over 2mm large, and so on. The unit can test for defects in any type of rail, including the OR 65 switch point rails. The unique appliance was designed and manufactured by Saint Petersburg-based NII

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 8, 2018. Ural Airlines are offering their customer up to 50% off on their flights if you book early, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Those planning early can benefit from Ural Airlines’ discounts of up to 50%! Reduced-price offers apply if you book at least 180 days before departure date,’ the press service says. The offer holds for flights to be operated through May 15, 2019 from Irkutsk to Moscow and back; from Omsk to Moscow and back; from Chita to Moscow and back; from Novosibirsk to Moscow and back; from Barnaul to Moscow and back; and from Tomsk to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 8, 2018. MMK METIZ recently held the second round of its Iron Lady Beauty Pageant, a charity event, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. ‘The contest featuring MMK METIZ’s most proactive, talented, and charming employees, got coordinated by the management, the company trade union, and the company women’s council. The event began in April, when the contestants had to present a creative portfolio of various roles. The second stage of the contest involves volunteering and presenting one’s proactive social and civil positions. The goal is to go

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 7, 2018. RSG-Akademicheskoye is coordinating a tender to find the contractor for urban improvements in District Akademicheskiy’s Preobrazhensky Park, the developer’s press service reports. Under the terms of the contract, the contractor will be in charge of urban improvements in Preobrazhensky Park along Blocks 0.5 to 0.8 in District Akademicheskiy’s Quarter 0. Opening bid: RUR 29,999,811. Application deadline is June 22, 2018; the contract obligations must be met by September 2018. Contact us: Tatiana G. Kerber Tel.: +7 (343) 231-18-30 (ext. 7125) E-mail:

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 7, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region division of the federal consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor inspected websites of 227 local hotels and made unscheduled checks of 283 hotels to determine sixteen cases of overcharging, the agency’s press service reports. Now the Russian Government set up certain upper price limits on the game dates for the hotels operating in the World Football Championship-hosting cities. Following the checks, the Maxim Hotel Ural, the Hotel Sky, and the Evrazia had to face administrative liability based on Article 14.6 (Part 1) of the Administrative

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 7, 2018. 499,470 electronic third party liability car insurance policies got issued in Ural Federal District in the first five months of the year (compared with 565,202 policies in the entire year 2017). As recently as 2016, only 17,231 e-policies got issued all in all, the Bank of Russia’s Ural division’s press service reports. The number of e-policy contracts for third party liability car insurance keeps rising by the month since the beginning of January: 73,461 e-policies got issued in January, 85,776 in February, 110,520 in March, and 139,485 in April. Sverdlovsk

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 7, 2018. The average asking price of an existing home went up by 2% (from RUR 71,400 to RUR 72,900 per m2) on Yekaterinburg market between the beginning of the year and this month, the press service of the online estate service N1.RU reports. According to N1.RU’s analysts, the average asking price rose mainly due to larger apartments growing more expensive: the price of two- and multiple-bedroom homes started gradually rising as early as last year. Centrally located apartments and those in District Parkovy are getting pricier the fastest. ‘Luxury apartments enter the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 7, 2018. Strong winds (up to 25 m/sec) and heavy showers and hail are expected in Sverdlovsk Region, the weather service Gidromettzentr reports. ‘Wind speed is expected to reach as much as 25 m/sec or more in some locations on June 6; we are also in for large-scale hail storms and heavy showers,’ the service warns. The Ministry of Emergencies suggests locals stay out as little as possible. ‘You’ll be safe from the hail and the storms inside a house, an apartment, a car, or any sort of weather shelter. It is advisable to take care of your pets or poultry and place

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 6, 2018. Locals came in from Nizhniy Tagil, Kachkanar, Yekaterinburg, Lesnoy, Kushva, Alapayevsk, Petrokamenskoye, Nikolo-Pavlovskoye, and Gornouralsky to take part in EVRAZ Holding’s fifth annual race. Children ran a one-kilometer race and adults competed in the five-kilometer one, the holding’s press service reports. The High Five 2018 Race gathered together more people than ever this year: 1,000+ runners entered the competition, with the youngest participant Ilya Kylin as young as five and the oldest ones Yuri Araslanov and Alexei Vassilyev as old as eighty-one.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 6, 2018. Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev asked the constituency’s respective ministries to consider setting up a united atomedics center in Yekaterinburg to facilitate diagnostics and treatment of cancer with the help of promising Russian developments, Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. The Governor said at a radiation medicine-focused meeting on June 4 that the Mid-Urals had all the facilities and potential to set up a pilot skills center for diagnostics and treatment of cancer. ‘Sverdlovsk Region has been good partners with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 6, 2018. Around 70% of businesses and state-run organizations based in the Urals have chosen MegaFon as their VPN provider, the company's press service reports. ‘Private companies operating in Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk Regions as well as state-run organizations in the area have been investing in their information security: the demand for virtual private network services doubled against last year; so far, every one in two VPN connections MegaFon’s engineers installed recently has been activated for a Sverdlovsk Region-based company,’ the press service says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 6, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s mortgage loan book rose to RUR 1.6bn this year, which is 60% more than in the last quarter of 2017. The better part of the loans got issued to borrowers based in Yekaterinburg/Sverdlovsk Region, Chelyabinsk, and Ufa, the bank’s press service reports. According to the UBRD’s data, customers based in Yekaterinburg+Sverdlovsk Region, Chelyabinsk, Tyumen, and Novosibirsk mostly apply for a mortgage in order to buy a one-bedroom apartment; those based in Ufa, Kazan, and Kirov look to buy a studio apartment, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 6, 2018. ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) had over 7,000 old sleeve filters replaced at its gas-filtering facilities. The replacements cost RUR 20m altogether, the company press service reports. The new filters will reduce both dust emissions and the company’s environmental impact. The filters are made from innovative materials with special-purpose fabric properties, an additional soak-treatment coating, and reinforcing threads that all ensure more durability throughout the product’s entire lifespan. In addition to gas-filtering facilities upgrades,