UrBC, Magnitogorsk, March 21, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Senior R&D Center Expert Sergey Denisov is now Engineer of The Year, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. ‘Sergey Denisov has a PhD in Engineering Sciences and is a highly skilled professional in the field of rolling goods manufacturing. He’s patented 37 inventions and has published over 190 science papers and two monographs. He personally contributed to the development and introduction of a number of technologies at MMK that won gold medals at high-profile international exhibitions,’ the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 21, 2018. ChelPipe Group’s scrap metal-collecting asset META came up with a performance report for 2017. ‘META sold 1.32m tons of ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal last year, which was 2.5% less than in the year 2016 (1.45m tons). These sales figures included 829,000 tons of scrap metal collected from the Group’s own enterprises (up 69,000 tons on a year earlier) and 491,000 tons of transit scrap metal,’ ChelPipe Group’s press service reports. Among the Group’s daughter companies, Vtorchermet, META Chelyabinbsk, META Yekaterinburg, and META Perm managed to raise

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 21, 2018. Ural Airlines will start operating flights from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport to Yekaterinburg, Simferopol, and Sochi on March 25, 2018. All flights will be operated on Airbus A320 liners, the air carrier’s press service reports. The company’s maiden U6 1 flight (Yekaterinburg Koltsovo - Moscow Sheremetyevo) departs at 7:30 AM (local time) and arrives in Moscow at 7:50 AM (Moscow time); flight U6 2 departs from Moscow at 10:45 PM (Moscow time) and arrives in Yekaterinburg at 03:05 AM on March 26, 2018 (local time). According to Ural Airlines’

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 21, 2018. Sergey Kustikov, who works as excavator operator at EVRAZ Holding’s Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (KGOK), and the plant’s pelletizing mill’s pellet mill operator Alexander Gofler received state awards; the awarding decree was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The awarding ceremony took place at the Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District’s office in Yekaterinburg. According to EVRAZ Holding’s press service, Sergey D. Kustikov was given the medal of For Merit to The Fatherland

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 20, 2018. 246,600 m2 worth of new housing got commissioned in Sverdlovsk Region in January and February 2018, which exceeded the figures for one year previously by 1.5 times, Sverdlovskstat reports. 159,200 m2 of housing got commissioned in February alone (2.4 times more than in February 2017), including 110,800 m2 of private houses (3.1 times more than last February).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 20, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region’s agribusinesses stopped buying milk from local farmers, several farm representatives told UrBC. These are mainly local enterprises that are no longer interested in cooperation. According to farmer Maxim Glazyrin, Rosselkhozkooperatsiya (Kosulino), AgriCo (Sukhoi Log), and Talitskiye Molochnye Fermy haven’t been doing any business with the farms since the start of the year. No company gave he reason the contract got annulled. ‘Rosselkhozkooperatsiya informed us on February 28 that they were backing out of the contract. This means we

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 20, 2018. The number of people living in Sverdlovsk Region declined by 152,300 people (-3.4%) in the last fifteen years, Sverdlovskstat reports. 4,477,552 people lived in the constituency as of January 1, 2003; as of January 1, 2018, the figure was 4,325,256. According to the statistics available, the population numbers kept going down between 2003 and 2011 and up between 2012 and 2015. A new decline began in 2016, with depopulation at 4,000 people in the year 2017 alone.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 20, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region-based civil servants’ monthly salary amounted to RUR 46,545 on average last year, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 0.6%, Sverdlovskstat reports. The local legislative branch officials started earning 6.1% more (up to RUR 69,026 a month), those in the executive branch and local government officials started earning 0.4% more (up to RUR 43,626 a month), whereas public prosecution authorities and judicial branch officials started earning 1.6% more (up to RUR 62,968 a month).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 20, 2018. Five apartment buildings in Yekaterinburg will have to do without electric power supply temporarily due to repair jobs, Standart Management Company reports. No electric power will be available at 22 Lenin Ave from 8 AM to 5 PM on March 20-21 and at 7/2, 9, 11/1, and 11/2 Bardin St from 9 AM to 8 PM. The repair jobs are being coordinated by Yekaterinburg Grid Company.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 20, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region locals are now using their bank cards increasingly more often: they bought over RUR 382bn worth of goods and services through bank transactions last year, which is 14% more than one year previously, the Bank of Russia’s Ural Division’s press service reports. The number of transactions also rose by 15%, up to RUR 464.5m. At the same time, cardholders still tend to use ATMs for cash withdrawal less than in the previous years. In 2017, only 18.6% of card transactions were related to cash withdrawal. All in all, cardholders made 571m

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, March 19, 2018. South Urals Chamber of Commerce & Industry intends to help establish business ties between Chelyabinsk Region and the Republic of Crimea, the Chamber’s press service reports. According to Director of South Urals CCI Foreign Economic Activity Department Natalya Osipova, the Chamber has coordinated a number of business missions to the southern territory in the last few years. The last visit, which took place in 2017, proved particularly fruitful. ‘Chelyabinsk Region’s enterprises have a lot to offer to the Crimea. We are the leaders on the machine-building

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 19, 2018. Akademicheskiy Management Company won the local Best Management Company Contest; the competition was coordinated by Sverdlovsk Region’s Ministry for Communal Housing Services & Utilities on March 15, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. According to the event coordinators, the contest aims to distinguish companies with the best housing management practices and to help spread these practices across the constituency in order to ensure residents’ comfort and safety. ‘The contest was two-fold: first, an expert committee processed competing

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, March 19, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) keeps working to improve its personalized energy savings system, with the employees’ personal accountability for efficient use of energy resources, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. ‘The goal is to improve the way we keep track of our resource spending and to introduce an efficiency competition. We embarked on this project as early as 2015, when costs analysis was carried out at our blast furnace department; we identified material and human resource control points and made an inventory of the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 19, 2018. Five employees of ChelPipe Group’s Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) were given state awards by President Vladimir Putin’s decree, the company press service reports. The solemn awarding ceremony took place in Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District’s office. Pipe-Rolling Department’s foreman Viktor Amelin, head of Vysota 239 Department’s Pipe-Welding Section Vassily Fadeev, and hot-roll mill operator from the plant’s Pipe-Rolling Department Sergey Kulikov were awarded the honorary titles of Russia’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 19, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Service of Court Officers collected some RUR 4bn in bank loan debts, deputy head of the service Elena Sidorova said at a press conference today. According to Sidorova, court officers had to handle a greater number of enforcement proceedings cases this year because more debt collection-related claims got placed with courts. ‘We can report an increased number of paperwork related to debt collection. The greatest number of the amounts collected last year was to do with consumer loans issued by Tinkoff Bank and

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, March 16, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) proved Russia’s largest manufacturer of coated rolled products once again in 2017, MMK Senior Manager for Coated Metal Sales Alexei Oleynik announced at the 13th International Zinc-Coated and Paint-Coated Rolled Goods Conference in Moscow. According to Oleynik, MMK sold 980,000,000 kg of zinc-coated products and 310,000,000 kg of goods with polymeric coating on the Russian market last year. This means the company’s share of the national galvanized goods market is now 31%, that of polymeric-coated goods market 15%.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, March 16, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK)-sponsored Metallurg Charity Foundation came up with a performance report for the year 2017, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. The meeting dedicated to the representation of the report was attended by MMK Director-General and member of the foundation’s board of trustees Pavel Shilyayev, who spoke about the company’s primary achievements last year. ‘All our performance indicators improved in 2017 compared with the earlier periods. We made 12.9 tons of steel and 11.6m tons of metal goods and

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, March 16, 2018. ChelPipe Group delivered around 6,000,000 kg of large-diameter pipes to the Republic of Uzbekistan; the order was placed by Enter Engineering, one of Central Asia’s leading oil and gas companies, the Group’s press service reports. The LDPs (diameter: 1,020mm; layer thickness: 10mm) have a three-layer corrosion-resistant outer coating and are made from K52 steel. The pipes will be used to reconstruct existing pipelines in Uzbekistan. According to ChelPipe Group, the order had to be fulfilled on a short notice: the entire cycle from the order getting placed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 16, 2018. Ural Airlines are launching their new Irkutsk-Harbin flight on May 23, 2018, the air carrier’s press service reports. Flight U6 789 will be operated every Wednesday and Sunday and is two hours and forty minutes long. Prices start from RUR 13,000 (one way) and RUR 26,000 (round trip). Prices quoted include all the fees and charges but are subject to change depending on the exchange rate fluctuations. ‘Harbin is beautiful any time of the year. In winter, the city is, as they say, a pearl decorating the Chinese crown of ice and snow, with its ice and snow

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 16, 2018. Ural Airlines’ customers can book their Moscow-Yekaterinburg flight for as little as RUR 2,000 (one way) on March 14-31, the air carrier’s press service reports. The offer holds for U6 273 flights (Moscow-Yekaterinburg, departure: 8:25 AM) and U6 271 ones (Moscow-Yekaterinburg, departure: 11:45 PM). The flights will be operated between March 14 and March 31, 2018. Tickets are already on offer. ‘Our passengers can benefit from their Moscow Subscription and arrange a travel plan comprising two, four, or eight flat-rate, open-date trips. The subscription is