UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 22, 2018. ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) carried a performance report on its environmental activity; the report was presented to state-run environmental surveillance authorities. ‘PNTZ presented reports for the year 2017 on waste treatment, water-protection projects, and land reclamation programs, as well as data on soil, air, and water monitoring and on the plant’s green projects spending. All these have been transferred to Ural Federal District division of Rosprirodnadzor, Rosstat, Nizhne-Obsky Water Resources Department, and Sverdlovsk Oblast

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 22, 2018. RSG-Akademicheskoye is coordinating a tender to find designers and survey work experts for a school in Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District, the developer’s press service reports. The contract on offer is for design and survey work (a building information model) for a secondary school fit for 825 students in Quarter 10 of Akademicheskiy District in Yekaterinburg. The opening price bid is set at RUR 10,848,509 (18% VAT included); the entire work should be completed before February 2019 (the starting point being the date the contract gets signed).

UrBC, Moscow, February 22, 2018. Russia’s Economic Development Ministry drew up a report on the pricing policies for lifesaving and essential drugs, the list of which drugs has been recently proposed by the Health Ministry. The paper is available on the normative acts website. Under the Health Ministry’s bill, all lifesaving drugs need to get re-registered within Russia so that a fair price could be set for all of those. The fair price should be based on the price monitoring statistics available for the emergency drugs sold abroad. According to the Economic Development Ministry’s estimates,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 22, 2018. Kaluga Children’s Hospital received new equipment within the framework of SKB-Bank-supported Everyday Charity Project, the bank’s press service reports. The equipment (a computer-aided four-way thromboelastometer and a year’s supply of chemical reagents) got handed over to the clinic on February 20, 2018. Kaluga’s doctors can now test patients’ blood for platelet count very fast and with very high precision. Based on the test results, a doctor can make an informed decision about further treatment. The thromboelastometer and the reagents were purchased

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 22, 2018. Verkh-Isetsky Court of Yekaterinburg ruled that Svyaznoy Logistika must pay their customer RUR 144,000 for a bloated iPhone, Sverdlovsk Oblast Court’s press service reports. ‘A Yekaterinburg-based customer bought his Apple iPhone 7 128 Gb for RUR 55,490 at one of Svyaznoy Logistika outlets last June. In August, the smartphone got inflated and stopped charging when connected to a charger. As it was no longer fit to use, the customer took the phone back to the store to have it replaced or get a refund,’ the press service says. The store only agreed to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 21, 2018. Nine employees of ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) received state awards following the Russian Federation President’s decree to this effect. The solemn awarding ceremony took place in Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast’s official residence on February 19, the Group’s press service reports. Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast Evgeny Kuivashev gave For Merit to the Fatherland Medals to Head of Pipe-Drawing Department Vyacheslav Maltsev, Head of Design Department Sergey Kashevarov, Deputy Head of Pipe-Drawing Department Lyudmila Filchenkova, Production

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 21, 2018. EVRAZ Holding and Russian Railways recently signed a new long-term agreement on rail produce supplies; the agreement came into effect on February 19, 2018 and will be valid for the next five years, the holding’s press service reports. Under the terms of this new contract, EVRAZ is to supply 3.2 million tons of goods (worth RUR 111.7bn altogether) to Russian Railways in the next five years. The plan is to go by formula pricing. EVRAZ will be responsible for supplying all the rail varieties the Russian Railways need, including special-purpose goods such

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 21, 2018. Ural Airlines are launching a new scheduled flight from Vladivostok to Sochi, with a stopover in Krasnoyarsk, on March 26. The flights will be operated on a weekly basis, the air carrier’s press service reports. Now travelers based in Siberia or the Far East will be able to get to Sochi as fast as possible: the in-flight time is now down by three hours. U6 135 (Vladivostok-Krasnoyarsk-Sochi) will be available on Mondays, U6 136 (Sochi-Krasnoyarsk-Vladivostok) on Sundays. Prices start from RUR 14,000 (Vladivostok-Krasnoyarsk), RUR 14,550

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 21, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) saved RUR 599.3m through implementing improvement proposals last year, the company’s Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. This was actually 2.5% better than in 2016, when savings reached RUR 584.5m. It was the Rolling Department that contributed to savings the most (net effect: RUR 356.3m). The company paid RUR 23.5m in premiums for successful improvement proposal implementation last year. In 2017, MMK’s expert committees considered 5,665 proposals all in all. Compared with 2016, the number of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 21, 2018. Ural Airlines are selling reduced-price tickets for Paris and Rome flights starting from March 15, 2018, the air carrier’s press service reports. Passengers can book their flights from Yekaterinburg to Paris or Rome at only RUR 11,500 (one way) or RUR 23,000 (round trip), all fees included (prices subject to change depending on the rate of exchange). The flights will be operated every Thursday and Sunday. ‘Choosing between two European capitals is no easy task, for each city is packed with world-famous landmarks, museums, fashion houses, and elite

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 20, 2018. Ural Airlines are launching their traditional summer flights sale: you can now book tickets for flights to be operated between March 1, 2018 and October 28, 2018 up to 30% cheaper, the air carrier’s press service reports. The offer holds through February 25, 2018; this is a limited offer. ‘You can book tickets for flights to be operated this summer and spring. The offer applies to very popular destinations such as the South of Russia, Europe’s seaside resorts, the picturesque locations in France and Czechia, the neat ones in Poland and Germany, the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 20, 2018. The prices of new homes in Preobrazhensky Quarter in Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District will go up on March 1. This price increase applies to studio apartments in the Comfort Class apartment buildings, RSG-Akademicheskoye reports. Preobrazhensky Quarter is quite popular with home-buyers at the moment. ‘The apartments get bought rather quickly: the first two buildings are almost fully taken, while the third one is over 50% sold out. A good selection of apartments to choose from (you can decide on either a ready home or the one currently under

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 20, 2018. Students on ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program joined the 6th WorldSkills Russia Championship, held in Sverdlovsk Oblast on February 17-21, 2018, the Group’s press service reports. Nineteen students are competing in twelve different categories, including Mechatronics, Industrial Robotics, Prototyping, Welding, NC Turning, and Reverse Engineering. ‘ChTPZ Group’s teams compete in this blue-collar job championships every year. Our contestants are competing in Reverse Engineering for the very first time this year. Reverse

UrBC, Moscow, February 20, 2018. Rostelecom is launching its Unified Biometric Voice & Image Recognition System on a commercial scale on July 1, 2018, Prime refers to the company Vice President for Development Alexander Ayvasov as stating. The system was designed by order of Russia’s Communications Ministry and the Central Bank of Russia. The initial version of the system was presented to the agencies on February 19. ‘Rostelecom started working on a united biometric identification system as recently as six months ago. The first working version of the system features the very technologies

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 20, 2018. Sverdlovsk Oblast proved one of Russia’s top ten most popular areas last year, with over 2.5 million tourists visiting the place, TourStat refers to its own research findings as indicating. 56.5m people traveled within Russia last year, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 3%; foreign nationals made 19 million trips around the country in the nine months of 2017, according to the incoming tourism stats. Krasnodar Territory, Moscow Obalst, and the Republic of Crimea were the three most visited in-country tourist attractions, with 15.8m,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 19, 2018. Ural Airlines are launching two new scheduled flights from Khabarovsk via Irkutsk to Sochi and from Vladivostok via Krasnoyarsk to Sochi, the air carrier’s press service reports. The flights will be operated starting from May 24, 2018. Fight U6 135 (Vladivovstok-Sochi, with a stopover in Krasnoyarsk) will be available evert Monday (U6 136, the Sochi-Vladivostok one will be operated on Sundays). Fight U6 160 (Khabarovsk-Sochi, with a stopover in Irkutsk) will be available on Thursdays (U6 159, the Sochi-Khabarovsk one will be operated on Wednesdays). You

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 19, 2018. Construction sites in Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District are welcoming students looking for part-time options for the ninth time this year, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s Director-General Victor Kisselev said at a recent press conference. ‘Akademicheskiy will keep expanding for many years to come. I think students both from Yekaterinburg and other parts of Russia will keep coming to work here. This experience is truly priceless, since many of the high-profile executives and managers actually started out as members of student builder teams. This company also

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 19, 2018. ChTPZ Group, Russia’s Education & Science Ministry, Sverdlovsk Oblast Government, and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) signed an agreement on cooperating in the field of vocational education management at the Russian Investment Forum, the Group’s press service reports. The agreement was signed by Russia’s Education & Science Minister Olga Vassilyeva, Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast Evgeny Kuivashev, Chair of ChTPZ BOD Andrei Komarov, and ASI Director-General Svetlana Chupsheva. This agreement will serve as the basis for the development,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 19, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) and Mango Telecom are trying a pilot sale of Mango Office Virtual (Cloud) PBX in five Russian cities where the bank operates, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Mango Office is a service that helps companies with a large inflow of incoming calls always stay in touch with their customers. A service user is provided with a PBX, call analysis data, call recording, and other options. For the time being, Mango Office is only available at UBRD branches in Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Tyumen, Perm, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 19, 2018. Ural Airlines came up with a performance report for the first month of the year. 566,605 people flew with the airline in January, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 20%, the air carrier’s press service reports. The airline operated 4,234 flights on January 1-31, 2018, including 2,375 domestic flights, 949 flights to and from the CIS member sates, and 910 international flights. The number of flights operated last month was 17% larger than in January 2017. Passenger turnover amounted to 1,367,799,000 passenger-kilometers, which exceeded