UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 8, 2017. Starting December 4, 2017, Ural Airlines offer their passengers a new flight from Ordos to Novosibirsk and back, the air carrier’s press service reports. U6 899 departs from Novosibirsk at 9:45 AM every Monday; U6 900 departs from Ordos at 3:25 AM on Tuesdays; the times quoted are local times for both respective airports. This timetable will remain unchanged through March 19, 2018. All flights are operated on Airbus A320 liners with both Economy and Business options available. ‘Ordos is a city in Inner Mongolia in the north of the People’s Republic of

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, December 7, 2017. A solemn stone-laying ceremony for the would-be shopping mall/entertainment venue took place in Karabash, Russian Copper Company’s press service reports. The event was attended by Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast Boris Dubrovsky and Russian Copper Company Chair of the BOD Igor Altushkin. The mall will be built as part Karabash’s strategic development program for 2017-2021. The agreement on the program was signed by President of Russian Copper Company Vsevolod Levin, Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast Boris Dubrovsky, and Mayor of Karabash Oleg Budanov at Sochi

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 7, 2017. The Association of American Railroads (AAR) allowed EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) to supply any amount of H36 wheels to North America, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s corporate relations center reports. The wheels will have to undergo additional testing after the first 100,000 miles. ‘These H36 wheels were first used experimentally at the United States’ largest railroad BNSF Railway and served for 300,000 miles (some 500,000 km) trouble-free. The wheels were then tested at North American labs and depots, with the latter

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 7, 2017. Markswebb Rank & Report recently carried a rating of mobile banking apps targeted at small enterprises; SKB-Bank’s mobile services were among the top five in this rating, the bank’s press service reports. Experts looked at both iOS and Android-based banking apps for smartphones; SKB-Bank came fourth in both platforms as the Best Mobile Bank for Top Managers; the bank also came fourth among Android-friendly apps and fifth among iOS-friendly ones as the Best Sole Trader App. The rating research touched upon all the things relating to management of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 7, 2017. Ural Airlines are now offering tickets for their Moscow-Ufa-Moscow flight at a special price, the air carrier’s press service reports. Prices start from RUR 3,050 (one way) for Promo tickets and from RUR 4,000 for Economy tones. A round trip can cost as little as RUR 4,400 for Promo tickets and RUR 5,500 for Economy ones. The price covers all fees, cabin luggage, regular luggage, and a meal; in-flight time comes to two hours. ‘Ufa is an interesting offer for both those going there on business and tourists. The city is famous throughout all of Russia for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 7, 2017. The telecommunications provider MegaFon looked into its traffic downloaded/uploaded through base stations near Sverdlovsk Oblast’s ski resorts, MegaFon Ural’s press service reports. ‘Skiers and snowboarders now use their smartphone Internet connection five times more extensively than before. Users located in Uktus and Pilnaya proved the most active online searchers in the last month. The amount of data downloaded in each of the two locations compares with around 40,000 online streaming sessions on social networks. Skiers in Listvennaya and Volchikha are

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2017. Passengers flying to Europe between December 31, 2017 and May 31, 2018 with Ural Airlines can enjoy a 10% discount at McArthurGlen outlets, the air carrier’s press service reports. What is more, Salzburg Designer Outlet will offer the airline’s customers a 10% discount and a €2.50 coffee voucher on January 1-March 31, 2018. To get your discount certificate (aka Fashion Passport), you need to produce your Ural Airlines boarding card, your plastic/virtual Wings Club membership card, or a photo of McArthurGlen’s ad in Ural Airlines UAM in-flight magazine’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2017. The telecommunications provider MegaFon’s subscribers set a traffic download record on December 2, 2017 when they watched the World Cup 2018 draw's live broadcast and talked about its outcome afterwards, MegaFon Ural’s press service reports. The users generated enough traffic every hour to equal watching 15,000 games of football. Among the big-city dwellers, the biggest fans watching the draw online happened to be located in Yekaterinburg, Perm, and Tyumen, where the traffic rose by 33%. VKontakte proved to be the most preferred social network for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2017. Holders of Visa cards issued by the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) can now use Apple Pay, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Apple Pay centers on security and confidentiality. When you add your credit/debit card to the system, the card number doesn’t get stored on either your Apple device or Apple servers. Instead, you get a unique device account number that gets encrypted and safely stored within a chip inside your device. Every transaction is authorized through a unique, one-time, automatically generated security code,’ the press

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2017. Yekaterinburg road authorities imposed a temporary parking ban along 179 streets on December 1, 2017-April 15, 2018, the city council’s website states. The parking limitations are necessary to make sure snow can get shoveled with no delays and no problems. Special road signs will get installed in their respective locations. In case some cars do remain parked in the no-parking areas and thus obstruct the snow-shoveling vehicles, these automobiles will get towed to an impound by road police.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2017. Sverdlovsk Oblast Legislative Assembly adopted the budget bill for the year 2018 and the draft bills for the years 2019 and 2020 in the second and third readings. Following all the changes in the original draft, and taking into account the expected federal budget transfers, the budget revenues went up by another RUR 3.9bn against the original figures and the budget expenses rose by RUR 4.1bn; the budget deficit will thus amount to RUR 11.5bn. It follows from the budget bill that the overall amount of budget revenues is expected to come to RUR 213.7bn

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 5, 2017. Two-thirds of mobile Internet connection users search for info on goods they would like to buy using their smartphones, the telecommunications provider MegaFon’s press service says. MegaFon Ural’s subscribers mostly use their smartphones to look up information on clothes, footwear, and household appliances. Online cosmetics shops are particularly popular in Tyumen and Kurgan, furniture stores have the greatest number of online customers in Yekaterinburg and Syktyvkar, while the most popular items bought online in Chelyabinsk/Izhevsk and Surgut are sports

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 5, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s Saint Petersburg subsidiary signed a 350-million-ruble credit line agreement with Nevsky Mazut. According to the bank’s press service, the CL will be there for two years. The borrowed funds will be used to back up the company’s pre-export financing needs. Head of the UBRD Saint Petersburg subsidiary Alexander Kazanskiy says Nevsky Mazut is one of Saint Petersburg’s largest businesses in the fuel supply sector. ‘Supplying fuel, including furnace oil, is a big part of the national exports. Our exporters

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 5, 2017. Several groups of industrial workers from different countries underwent training courses at MMK Group’s Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works Personnel Training Center, the company press service reports. Two groups of Chinese metallurgists from SHANDONG IRON & Steel GROUP RIZHAO Co.,Ltd. went through their respective workshops. Their additional professional development program on MMK Automobile Body Sheet Manufacturing aims to educate the students about the plant’s hot-dip galvanizing facility and its continuous annealing aggregate. ‘When covering

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 5, 2017. Yekaterinburg proved to be among five least expensive locations to stay in for visitors coming for the World Football Championship of 2018, the Russian accommodation renting service tvil.ru refers to its research findings as indicating. The rating was based on an analysis of rental prices for tourists in 2017. Saransk will be the cheapest place to stay (RUR 1,540 a night on average), followed by Volgograd (RUR 1,718), and Rostov-on-Don (RUR 1,954). Yekaterinburg comes fourth, with the average price of a hotel/hostel stay at RUR 2,396 a night. Nizhniy

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 5, 2017. The international Topstewardess 2017 Contest was held in Moscow on December 1, 2017; Ural Airlines’ flight attendant Ekaterina Stolyarova got crowned as one of the top three finalists, the air carrier’s press service reports. Stolyarova made it through several rounds and two months’ preparation and got selected along eighteen other finalists from among nearly a thousand contestants. She coped with all the competition challenges and made a presentation about her life story, closely connected to that of Ural Airlines. ‘I am proud to be representing my

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) Group made more than RUR 1bn in profits (calculated in accordance with the International Accounting Standards) in the nine months of 2017, the Group’s press service reports. ‘The Group’s consolidated profit amounted to RUR 1.051bn in the three quarters of the year, including a one-time RUR 553 transaction (excluding which, the bank’s profits rose by 18.9% compared with one year previously). All factors considered, the bank’s profit increased nearly five times by the end of the third quarter

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 4, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Metallurg Charity Fund coordinated Talantika, a special event for children with disabilities, the company Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. Over thirty families with special-needs children were invited to come to Talantika Jobs Town. ‘Talantika is a leisure club and a play area that looks like a stylized urban space with its own bank, an employment agency, a fire brigade, and an art school. The town has spaces dedicated to jobs in the creative, technical, sports, and service sectors. The

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 4, 2017. Children are learning to play chess at Magnitogorsk schools and kindergartens thanks to support from Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), the company PR, Information & Advertising Department reports. ‘An agreement between MMK and the town council resulted in a three-year plan to include local schools and kindergartens in this education project. Forty-five kindergartens and twenty schools are already participating in the program,’ says Head of Magnitogorsk Education Department Natalya Safonova. MMK helped the schools buy chess boards and pieces

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2017. Yekaterinburg’s largest skating rink located on an open-air pond opens in Akademicheskiy District on December 1, 2017, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The skating rink can be found on Preobrazhensky Pond next to a church. This year, there will be an adults’ area with a 500-meter rink and a children’s skating area with a 100-meter rink. Skaters’ clubs will practice on the rink in daytime, whereas evenings are reserved for all the local public and visitors from other parts of the city. For one, world skating champion Andrei Bobrov will offer