UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 25, 2018. KamAZ Master’s pilot Anton Shibalov will be available for a Q&A session at Yekaterinburg’s Greenwich Mall on April 27. Additionally, the legendary Dakar Rally KamAZ will be on display at the mall for just one day; anyone can take a picture, Obschestvo Malysheva 73’s press service reports. ‘KamAZ Master is the star of the racing sports, the fifteen-times Dakar Rally winner, and the strongest team in the sports truck category. The team was set up in 1988 and celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Anton Shibalov is an international-level sports

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 25, 2018. MegaFon Ural’s mobile traffic increased by 1.5 times against the usual due to a heavy snowfall, the company press service reports. ‘While a drastic change in the weather is a big thing for the locals, this is ‘business as usual’ for our infrastructure engineers: MegaFon’s connection has proved reliable in numerous heavy snowfalls, spring floods, and summer heat waves before. You can safely expect to stay connected, be able to call a rescue team, or keep sending pictures of the surroundings when it’s anywhere between fifty degrees centigrade above or forty

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 25, 2018. Ural Airlines won the Regional Development/The Best for Russia Prize in Transport & Logistics this year. ‘The forum and the awarding ceremony took place in Sochi last week. Ural Airlines won as the Best Regional Airline. Over fifty different companies attended the forum, as well as government officials and Russian business leaders,’ the air carrier’s press service says. The company has established itself as the primary air carrier for Sverdlovsk Region and now connects the constituency with the rest of Russia and destinations abroad, which helps build

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 25, 2018. Metcombank and Dom.rf signed a cooperation agreement, which means customers in any of the bank’s branches throughout the country will be able to apply for a preferential-terms mortgage, the bank’s press service reports. Dom.rf offers mortgages for existing homes and those under construction; you can also apply for mortgage refinancing (with a new, better interest rate) and apply for a consumer loan with your home as security. ‘The new options make a mortgage more affordable for our customers. Thanks to special terms and moderate interest rates, those who

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 25, 2018. RSG-Akademicheskoye is holding a tender procedure to find a reliable contractor for a capital construction project; the tender in question relates to design and survey jobs, the management company’s press service reports. The task is to develop a design model for a multi-level highway junction in the intersection Serafima Deryabina St and Obyezdnaya St in Yekaterinburg (Construction Stage II). The lot is estimated at RUR 18,351,538. The bids can get submitted from April 24 to May 11, 2018. The results will be announced on May 25. The jobs need to be

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