UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 10, 2017. Representatives of foreign diplomatic missions spoke very highly of Yekaterinburg Arena, one of the stadiums to host the world football championship next year, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. The Group’s Director-General Mikhail Khodorovsky and Deputy Head of Yekaterinburg Council Sergey Tushin coordinated a guided tour of the stadium (currently under reconstruction) for the officials from local diplomatic missions and consulates of Italy, Germany, the UK & Northern Ireland, the US, France, China, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Bulgaria, and

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 10, 2017. Russian Copper Company presented its Smart Copper Project for HR and SCR at the Russia-Kazakh Business Council, the company press service reports. The council met in Chelyabinsk on November 9; this was part of the 14th Russia-Kazakhstan Interregional Cooperation Forum. The event focused on the role businesses play in human capital development. Russian Copper Company’s Vice President for HR & SCR Policies Anna Shabarova made a presentation on the company’s Smart Copper Project in terms of cadre development, efficient corporate social policy, and talent

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 9, 2017. According to Roskomnxdzor’s recent report, the country’s Big4 telecommunications providers put up 39,682 LTE stations throughout Russia in the nine months of 2017, of which MegaFon put up every one in four 4G base stations, the company press service reports. ‘MegaFon is behind the largest fourth-generation network construction project in the country. The carrier has more LTE base stations than any other company, with the overall number up by 39% in the nine months of this year (60,000 all in all). LTE base stations make up 44% of all newly built

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 9, 2017. SKB-Bank was featured among the top three Russian banks with the best m-banking and e-banking services for private customers; the rating was created by Expert RA’s analysts, the bank’s press service reports. SKB-Bank’s mobile banking app came second in the usability rating, while its Internet banking system came third. Both its m-banking and e-banking services proved to have outstanding payment options, internal transaction options, and service functions; they also featured high in the IT & Finance Security Rating. Expert RA tested the banks’

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 9, 2017. Ural Airlines are now the official air carrier for the crew of the Krusenshtern, the four-masted barque and the last active sailing vessel in the legendary Flying P-Liners, the company press service reports. The ship’s crew will arrive in Moscow from a barque moored in one of Kaliningrad’s ports. The crew’s story was adapted for stage in Sea Moments, a documentary play starring Sergey Garmash. The play was created by Mikhail Kozhukhov’s Travel Club. The club has been coordinating tours aboard the barque for the three years now, and the play is an attempt

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 9, 2017. Rosatom TVEL’s Glazov-based asset, Chepetsk Mechanical Plant (ChMZ) introduced a scholarship program for the talented students of Ural Federal University with some support from Rosatom State Corporation, the company press service reports. The cooperation agreement was signed by the plant and the university during Rosatom Career Day in Yekaterinburg on November 7, 2017. The paper was signed by Chepetsk Mechanical Plant’s Director-General Denis Anischuk and Executive Director of Ural Federal University Development Fund Daniil Sandler. The ceremony was also

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 9, 2017. Yekaterinburg-based home owners owned the state RUR 525m in unpaid property tax as of October 1, 2017, Deputy Head of Yekaterinburg Council for Strategic Planning, Economics, & Finances Andrei Koryukov announced at a press conference today. ‘This is a very tidy bit of money. Added to this are RUR 204m of unpaid land tax, which is RUR 69m less than at the start of the year. This decrease looks like a positive trend, but the problem remains. RUR 200m is enough to put up one new kindergarten or rebuild two existing ones,’ Koryukov said. According to

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 8, 2017. ChTPZ Group shareholders Andrei Komarov and Alexander Fedorov are going to take part in the 14th Russia-Kazakhstan Interregional Cooperation Forum in Chelyabinsk on November 8-9, the Group’s press service reports. This major business event is dedicated to human capital development this year; the Group is presenting its Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program - a project on training highly skilled blue-collar workers for the metallurgical industry. Russia’s Education & Science Ministry’s stand will include The Future of White Metallurgy as

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 8, 2017. EVRAZ Holding competed rebuilding its Zelenaya Power Substation in Sheregesh, Tashtagol District, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s corporate relations department reports. The new power equipment will ensure stable power supply to the nearby ski resort for the next decade. EVRAZ invested over RUR 40m in the project. ‘The power is needed to keep the chairlifts, the hotels, and the emerging tourist resort’s entire entertainment infrastructure running. The substation’s outdoor switchgear got completely reconstructed, and an additional power transformer unit got

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 8, 2017. MMK Group’s Avtotransportnoye Upravlenie is now trying out gas and diesel fuel as the primary fuel for its BelAZ trucks, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. The trial runs of gas-and-diesel-fueled BelAZ trucks began as early as 2016. The experiment proved successful, so the company hopes to replace up to 40% of diesel fuel with the gas alternative in the future. According to company experts, reduced environmental impact is seen as the project’s most significant outcome. Following the trial runs, MMK, Novatek, Gig Engineering, and

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 8, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) coordinated a group audit of all its quality management systems (involving both the plant’s production departments and its daughter enterprises) for the first time this year, MMK Group’s Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. The overall QMS certification procedure involved auditing the integrated management systems at daughter companies and took up all of September. For four weeks, TUV NORD CERT auditors worked away at MMK production site. The certification body experts looked into the way quality

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 8, 2017. ChTPZ Group’s managers completed a course of Modern Management Technologies recently offered by Sberbank Corporate University, the company press service reports. The three-day lecture and seminar course took place on university campus and involved a hundred of the Group’s key managers. ChTPZ Group’s shareholder Andrei Komarov opened the program, followed by President of Sberbank German Gref and his lecture on the new tech trends and modern management models. Sberbank experts, business community representatives, and professionals from the academic and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 7, 2017. Workers of EVRAZ Holding’s Urals- and Siberia-based enterprises are going to take part in the blue-collar job championship WorldSkills Hi Tech in Yekaterinburg EXPO on November 3-7, 2017, the holding’s press service reports. There are fifteen contestants and twenty-eight experts on EVRAZ team. The contestants come from EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) and West Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK); they all won in ZSMK Corporate WorldSkills Championship in Novokuznetsk in May. There are seven categories to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 7, 2017. Sverdlovsk Oblast Aeromodeling Federation Cup competition will take place at the School 23 stadium in Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District this weekend. There will be a Soyuz 500 radio controlled model plane fight and F3U drone racing, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The rules are quite simple: a fifteen-meter ribbon gets attached to every model plane, and the pilot’s task is to cut off the rival plane’s ribbon with a wing or the rotor. Miniature copies of WWII Soyuz 500 planes (electric engine, wing spread around 1 meter) will feature in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 7, 2017. ChTPZ Group’s White Metallurgists are going to take part in the 4th blue-collar job championship WorldSkills Hi Tech in Yekaterinburg EXPO on November 3-7, 2017, the company press service reports. Seven highly skilled workers from the Group’s pipe-manufacturing and oilfield services divisions will compete in six different categories. ‘ChTPZ Group was one of Russia’s first companies to join the WorldSkills movement as soon as Russia was officially in it. The company team took part in all the WorldSkills Hi Tech contests and typically won a good number of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 7, 2017. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) presented its new development strategy for 2017-2027 and a report on the company’s current performance in London. According to TMK press service, the presentation was part of the company’s 5th Annual Investor Day. ‘The new strategy is expected to help TMK remain the world’s leading OCTG supplier and the Russian oil and gas sector’s leading pipe produce supplier. We also intend to remain among the top three OCTG manufacturers in the U.S and the world’s second most financially successful OCTG producer,’ TMK press service

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 7, 2017. Rosatom TVEL’s Novouralsk-based asset Ural Electrochemical Combine was among the Urals and Western Siberia’s top hundred companies in terms of sales output last year, the company press service refers to EXPERT Analytical Center’s rating as indicating. The rating is based on the federal Expert 400 Rating PwC-approved technology and features four hundred major companies based in the Urals and Western Siberia (Sverdlovsk Oblast, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Kurgan Oblast, Orenburg Oblast, Tyumen Oblast, Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region, Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 3, 2017. President of Russian Copper Company Vsevolod Levin presented its company’s Aleksandrinskaya Ore Mining Company’s investment projects at a recent meeting chaired by Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast, the company press service reports. ‘The company intends to upgrade its processing plant. The key task is to replace all the filtering equipment (ceramic copper and zinc concentrate filters) with up-to-date filtering presses. This upgrade will make the plant more environmentally safe, reduce the residual moisture content in the concentrates by nearly 1.5 times,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 3, 2017. ChTPZ Group is now the first Russian company to supply split tees to Gazprom, the company press service reports. The tees were made at the Group’s ETERNO. The split tees will be used for capital repairs of the second line of Vuktyl-SGPZ (Gazprom Dobycha Krasnodar) condensate pipeline. ETERNO’s produce will allow for repairs without interrupting any oil/gas transfer. As it happens, Russian oil and gas companies used to have to rely on foreign manufacturers for their split tees before. ‘Making import substitution items for the oil and gas industry is one

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 3, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) introduced a number of new products for its small business customers: they can now benefit from two new overdraft options, the bank’s press service reports. Small enterprises are getting increasingly more interested in the bank’s overdraft offers, as this is a convenient way to make up for cash shortage and pay all salaries and rent in time. The bank provided its customers with 25% more overdrafts in January-September 2017 compared with one year earlier, whereas the overall overdraft amount was