UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 31, 2018. Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) Chair of the BOD Andrei Komarov and Gazprom Chair of the Board Alexei Miller met for talks in Saint Petersburg, ChTPZ Group’s press service reports. The two parties spoke about the prospects of ChTPZ supplying its pipe produce onto Gazprom pipeline construction sites. ‘We looked into the pricing policy for 2018, given the new market situation and the fact that international suppliers for our Nord Stream 2 are to go through with all the necessary shipments in the first quarter of the year. This means ChTPZ Group can

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, January 31, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) decided to buy five studio apartments for the young doctors working for Magnitogorsk Central Medical Unit 1 Polyclinic, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. All the five doctors are young women who’ve been working for the clinic for one to three years so far. The keys were handed over to Marina Lozhkina (radiologist), Gulnora Dzhabborova and Svetlana Bayeva (ophthalmologists), Elena Lapina (endocrinologist), and Azalia Salakhutdinova (physician). According to head of Medical Unit 1 Marina

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 31, 2018. It appears the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s customers stopped saving on New Year shopping: the bank’s debit card holders spent 43% more in the last week of December 2017 and the first ten days of January 2018 than one year earlier, with the total spending amount at more than RUR 2.6bn, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Spending figures rose for nearly every category from New Year party preparations to winter break entertainment. People spent considerably more on restaurants and cafes than one year earlier. RUR 584m were spent at

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 31, 2018. RSG-Akademicheskoye is now offering their customers a trade-in program on their homes, the developer’s press service reports. Under the terms of the trade-in program, you can sell your current home within 1.5 months’ time and buy a new place at a discount (up to RUR 400,000). ‘This new option makes buying an apartment in Akademicheskiy quite comfortable and very fast; it is also a bargain, price-wise,’ the press service says. For more information on the trade-in program, please contact the company’s Sales Department. ‘You can sell your current apartment

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 31, 2018. AI 98 gasoline now costs 12.5% more than one month earlier at Gazpromneft’s filling stations in Yekaterinburg, member of the local Civic Chamber Alexei Bezzub said in his recent Facebook post. AI 98 cost around RUR 40 per liter at Gazpromneft stations in Yekaterinburg. Today, the price is RUR 45.1 per liter. According to Rosstat, gasoline prices went up by 5.7% in the entire country last year against one year previously.

UrBC, Moscow, January 30, 2018. Supposing Yekaterinburg wins the right to host EXPO 2025 Exhibition in the selection rounds this November, only minimal funding will be provided from the federal budget resources for the project, TASS refers to Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich as stating. ‘In our view, federal funding will be as limited as possible. This is, however, not a matter of whether Yekaterinburg gets selected at all: the money is needed to build the infrastructure the city and its outskirts need in any case,’ Dvorkovich said. According to Dvorkovich, local budget funds

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 30, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) got certified for compliance with the ISO 50001 Standard, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. The certificate was presented to EVRAZ NTMK Managing Director Alexei Kushnarev by Yuri Zagorulko, Deputy Director-General of Russian Register (the certification body). The plant has been investing heavily in energy efficiency for many years now. Over 100 different projects have been implemented in the last five years alone, which resulted in over RUR 1bn in savings. ‘We

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, January 30, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) cold-roll Mill 2000 reached production output of 10,000,000,000 kg of rolled goods, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. The mill was launched in 2011 and is now one of the plant’s most advanced and hi tech facilities. ‘Mill 2000, with its output of 2,100,000,000 kg a year, is the key component of MMK Sheet-Rolling Department 11 cold-roll facility. The mill is mainly meant for making great quality cold-rolled and zinc-coated rolled goods needed for external and internal car parts as well as

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 30, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) and Nizhnyaya Tura Council signed an agreement to work together on economic, investment, and social improvements in the area, the bank’s press service reports. Under the terms of the agreement, the UBRD is to introduce up-to-date banking technologies in town to make sure local customers can manage their finances (including through online channels). The bank will also offer its financial consulting services to customers. UBRD arrived on Nizhnyaya Tura’s market in 2008 and now operates 2 branches

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 30, 2018. Alexey Yeschyov, who has a ten years’ experience of working in the telecom industry, was appointed Technical Director of MegaFon Sverdlovsk, the telecommunications provider’s press service reports. ‘Yeschyov’s primary tasks are to expand the company’s high-speed LTE network coverage and improve signal quality in Sverdlovsk Oblast’s towns and smaller settlements (through telecom equipment upgrades, among other things). The company’s Technical Department focuses on reliable service for our customers and 100% network performance even during large-scale

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 29, 2018. ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) received a thank-you certificate from the All-Russian Society for Nature Conservation (ARSoNP), the plant’s press service reports. PNTZ was awarded for a number of environmental and conservation projects it implemented during the Year of The Environment in Russia last year. Experts assessed the Russian plants’ performance along a number of different criteria, including the amount of emissions they make, amount of waste produced, and capital investments in conservation projects. ‘PNTZ sees ongoing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 29, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) won the Global Banking and Finance Review magazine’s award for Mobile App of The Year in 2017. In fact, the bank also proved Eastern Europe’s No.1 online banking service in 2015, the bank’s press service reports. ‘UBRD’s mobile app has been out there since 2015 and has evolved significantly since the time of the launch, with new functions and theme settings. Now our customers can use their smartphones to pay their housing and Internet bills, pay their traffic fines and taxes, make card-to-card

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, January 29, 2018. Russia’s Nature Ministry awarded President of Russian Copper Company Vsevolod Levin, Deputy Director-General of Russian Copper Company Group’s Tominsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise Nikolay Dzhemilev, and the company’s Subsurface Resource Management Department’s Senior Expert Sergey Sarychev with Deposit Discoverer honorary badges, the company press service reports. ‘The awards were given for the discovery and development of Tominsky copper/porphyry ore deposit in Chelyabinsk Oblast. A number of other prominent representatives of the national

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 29, 2018. Yekaterinburg’s application to be the hosting city for the EXPO 2025 Exhibition was presented at Davos Economic Forum. According to Director-General of EXPO 2025 Application Committee Svetlana Sagaydak, the 48th World Economic Forum’s theme (‘Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World’) strikes a chord with that of Russia’s application (‘Changing the World: Innovations and Better Life for Future Generations’). ‘Despite this modern world’s troubles, we need to think of the future we are to hand over to the coming generations. The fourth industrial

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 29, 2018. Ural Customs detected and had destroyed 302,000 kg of foods that cannot get imported to Russia due to food embargoes, head of Ural Customs Maxim Chmora said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. ‘This was much more than in the year 2016, since we learned to identify certain import schemes and locate storage spots, which has meant we uncovered large shipments of sanctioned goods,’ Chmora said. The customs authorities initiated 4,680 administrative lawsuits in 2017, which exceeded the figures for one year previously by 70%, and 92 criminal lawsuits

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 26, 2018. Sverdlovsk Oblast's division of Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service uncovered five price-fixing arrangements on the local markets last year. Thirteen legal entities had to face administrative liability, Head of the division's Antitrust Enforcement Department Ekaterina Vorobieva said at a recent press conference in Yekaterinburg. According to Vorobieva, two price-fixing agreements had to do with supplying surgical suture materials and two more – with highway construction and repair. Yet another arrangement was related to catering

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 26, 2018. Ural Airlines set a flying record of sorts: the airline's pilots have flown 1,000,000 hours with Airbus aircraft since the air carrier started using its first Airbus in 2006, the company press service reports. Over 300,000 flights have been operated so far, with more than 40m passengers on board; hundreds of new destinations have been introduced, connecting dozens of countries and cities to one another. Ural Airlines started using Airbus liners in November 2006; A320 was used for Yekaterinburg-Moscow flight. There are currently forty-three A320 (23

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 26, 2018. EVRAZ Holding's Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) now makes a new kind of metal product, 30P channel beams. The first commercial-scale batch of rolled metal produce was made for the customers in Saint Petersburg and Moscow Oblast in January, the company press service reports. 'These hot-rolled 300-mm-high channel beams with parallel faces and increased hardness parameters are used for making heavy-duty frameworks. The beams are quite popular with housing developers and building reconstructors as well as with machine-builders.

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, January 26, 2018. Russian Copper Company Group's Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant (KMEZ) introduced yet another upgrade to its copper cathode production department. The department now operates three new electric current converters (two primary ones and one back-up one), the Group's press service reports. The new equipment runs upon thyristor-controlled rectifiers and has better output, capacity, and current rectifier parameters than its old diode versions. KMEZ expert from the Senior Power Engineer's Department Vladimir Zubov, Senior Electrician Sergey

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 26, 2018. Rosatom TVEL's Novouralsk-based asset Ural Electrochemical Combine completed the startup and commissioning of an impregnation treatment plant for finely dispersed nuclear materials, the plant's press service reports. The new plant makes it possible to condition non-recyclable radioactive waste into the necessary activity levels. Only once the radioactive waste-filled vessel has been cemented does it get placed inside a container for further disposal. All the necessary operations (preparation of the cement solution, delivery of the radioactive