UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region’s residents will now be able to see new films and TV series episodes prior to their official release, MegaFon’s press service reports. This is now possible due to MegaFon.TV’s partnership with START, a new Russian-language video service that caters to both TV and online viewers’ needs. Those who subscribe to the new package will be able to see the latest episodes of The Ivanovs-The Ivanovs a week before STS premiere and Besstydniki a week before its NTV release. Also, Gogol: The Beginning is available via the service as well, alongside

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 11, 2017. Ural Airlines offer their customers a new, scheduled flight from Moscow to Kazan and back starting from November 1, 2017, the air carrier’s press service reports. Flight U6 383 to Kazan will be operated every Wednesday, Flight U6 384 to Moscow will be operated on Thursdays. Prices start from 2,100 RUR (one way); the flights will be operated on comfortable A 320 liners (both Economy and Business seats are available). ‘Kazan is Tatarstan’s largest industrial and financial hub, a city with a thousand years’ history where different cultures, religions,

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 11, 2017. Russia’s Mining & Metallurgical Trade Union’s Chelyabinsk Region division announced the results of the photo contest (Trade Union: A Look Through The Camera Lens), Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. ‘The contest was coordinated by the trade union’s local division; the idea is to promote the trade union’s values and reinforce its authority, enhance the prestige of blue-collar jobs, and help the mining and metallurgical sector workers reveal their creative potential through professional and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 11, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s ORMET directed over RUR 3m to reforestation work and planting poplars and pine trees in Orenburg Region, the company press service reports. The reforestation is needed after the geological survey works relating to Luchistoye Deposit. 38,8 hectares of land will get replanted with trees. Reforestation work is crucial to Orenburg Region, as most of the area is covered in steppes. The country’s average forest-land percentage comes to 45%, whereas in Orenburg Region, the figure is only 4.6%. ‘ORMET sees to it that trees get planted in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 11, 2017. ChTPZ Group is going to supply its large-diameter pipes to OMV, Central Europe’s largest oil company, the Group’s press service reports. OMV placed an order for 850,000 kg of pipes (diameter: 508 mm; layer thickness: 14.2 mm) with a three-layer polyethylene coating and 1,620,000 kg of pipes (layer thickness: 11 mm). The LDPs will be made at the Group’s Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant’s Vysota 239 Department; the pipes will be used for the repairs and construction of OMV’s pipelines in Rumania. This order is unique in that the pipes need to be manufactured

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 11, 2017. TVEL’s Sverdlovsk Region-based assets (Ural Electrochemical Combine and CentroTech) are currently working to set up an industrial cluster in Novorualsk with a focus on machine-building, the company press service reports. Novouralsk Industrial Cluster will comprise around ten Novouralsk enterprises (including Ural Electrochemical Combine, CentroTech, ANK Service, and Atomashkompleks) at the start. The cluster will be responsible for a number of key tasks necessary to ensure Sverdlovsk Region’s machine-building industry’s development and to enable

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 10, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development is going to coordinate an open-to-all workshop on the basics of stock exchange trading, the bank’s press service reports. The workshop will be held at the UBRD Investment Center at 15 Anton Valek St at 6:30 PM on October 19. The event will be moderated by Pavel Pakhomov, head of Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange Analytics Center and a certified securities trader (Federal Financial Markets Service Series 1.0 certificate). Pakhomov mainly specializes in futures and options, shares, bonds, and the U.S. stock

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 10, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Karabashmed had two of its three Kumera converters assembled at the plant’s metallurgical department, the company press service reports. Every converter weighs more than 100,000 kg. The assembly jobs were part of the scheduled repairs that took off in late September. The third converter is expected to get installed next year as soon as the older equipment has been shut down. The three modern Kumera converters (capacity: 150,000 kg each) with gas-proof dust caps and the new gas-filtering equipment are all getting installed at the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 10, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is currently hosting the 11th Rolled Goods Makers’ Congress, MMK Information & PR Department reports. Around 250 experts from Russia, the CIS member states, and abroad will take part in the event all in all. ‘The congress will hold through October 11; the event gets organized by the Rolled Goods Makers Union Interregional Organization and Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works. The goal is to look at the rolled goods makers’, pipe manufacturers’, and metal goods producers’ development prospects and discuss

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 10, 2017. Yekaterinburg studio apartments now cost 4.5% less than at the start of the year, dropping in price from RUR 2.67m to RUR 2.55m on average, N1.RU’s report indicates. ‘In some parts of the city, the price decrease was as much as 10%. These locations are Botanika, ZhBI, and Parkovy. Zavokzalny was the only district where prices actually went up by as much as 12.4%, and the price of other apartment types has remained more or less the same since the start of the year, small fluctuations in certain locations notwithstanding,’ the report states. On the yearly

UrBC, Moscow, October 10, 2017. As VIM Avia Airlines are likely to stop operating, next summer’s trips might grow 10% to 20% more expensive, Vedomosti states. According to current market players, the price increase will affect stays in Turkey, Sochi and the Crimea in the South of Russia, Greece, and Cyprus the most. VIM Avia was responsible for quite a few flights to these locations. VIM Avia’s charrtered flight contracts with the national tour operators expire on October 15; still, the airline operated its very last flight as early as October 7, 2017. Director of the Russia’s Tour Operators

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 9, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant (KMEZ) produced over 97,000,000 kg of copper cathodes in January-September 2017, which was 8.6% more than one year previously, Russian Copper Company’s press service reports. The plant also made 6.1% more copper wire than last year (72,784,000 kg) and 2.3% and 30% more silver and gold, respectively. ‘We expect to produce 128,000,000 kg of copper cathodes by the end of the year, which will exceed the figures for our record-setting year 2016 by 5%. The output keeps growing because of increased

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 9, 2017. ChTPZ Group’s Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant recently got issued one of INTERGAZCERT certificates, which means the plant’s large-diameter pipes made at Vysota 239 Department meet all the STO Gazprom 2-4.1-713-2013 standards, the company press service reports. The certificate of compliance was given to the company by Gazprom Deputy Chair of the Board Vitaliy Markelov during the 7th Saint Petersburg International Gas Forum. INTERGAZCERT is a voluntary certification system that ensures good quality of pipes supplied to Gazprom throughout the entire pipe

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 9, 2017. Apple product sales are at their highest in Yekaterinburg, Perm, Surgut, and Nizhnevartovsk, MegaFon’s press service reports. ‘Urals-based customers don’t feel like saving up for their much-coveted smartphones, so they come to MegaFon shops and online stores where the new iPhones are available to buy on credit. Only one in three customers is actually prepared to pay the entire amount up front,’ the press service says. According to MegaFon Ural Retail Director Alexei Bykov, the new iPhones came along with a new range of high-speed mobile Internet

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 9, 2017. Albert Yamaliyev’s team from Section 1 of EVRAZ Holding’s Alardinskaya Mine have produced 2,000,000,000 kg of coal since the start of the year, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Relations Center reports. ‘Albert Yamaliyev’s team is one of the most famous ones in Kuzbass with a long-standing reputation of a ‘millionaire’ team (as its coal output comes to many millions a year). The management of EVRAZ Raspadskaya Coal Company congratulated the miners on their production record,’ the Center says. The coal was extracted from long-face 3-39. The first

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 9, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region’s annual inflation rate stood at 2.7% in September 2017 against September 2016, Sverdlovskstat reports. Food items grew 2.2% more expensive, non-food ones grew 3% more expensive, alcohol is now 6.2% more expensive, and services cost 2.2% more than one year earlier. At the same time, deflation rate stood at 0.3% in September 2017 compared with August 2017.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 9, 2017. Yekaterinburg Customs directed over RUR 17bn to the Russian budget in the nine months of 2017, including RUR 7.5bn transferred in the third quarter of the year. According to the authority’s press service, more than 4,800,000,000 kg of goods worth over $6.6bn got declared at their customs points in January-September 2017. The number of importers/exporters reached 1,800 legal entities, which exceeded the figures for a year earlier by 13%. 60,000+ cargo manifests got issued at customs points, up 12% on a year earlier for export manifests and up 38% for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 6, 2017. KORTROS Group took part in the largest national high-rise building forum 100+ Russia, RSG Abademicheskoye’s press service reports. KORTROS Corporation’s Director for PPP Dovran Garagozov presented his report at the forum’s plenary session (Building Outside the Box). Garagozov said the idea for their project, Akademicheskiy District in Yekaterinburg, was to combine apartment buildings of varying heights (seven to twenty-five storeys high), which would take care of several factors at once. Firstly, this offers customers more choices: some home owners prefer

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 6, 2017. ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) carried out a large-scale tree-planting campaign in Pervouralsk, the company press service reports. Some 500 cotoneaster trees, willow trees, apple trees, and lilac bushes got planted in the city streets and parks. The job was done by the town council urban development services and local farms by PNTZ’s order. The trees and shrubs were planted in locations with the heaviest automobile traffic: in Komsomolskaya St, Kosmonavtov Ave, Ilyicha St, and Danilov Park. ‘Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant always takes part in

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, October 6, 2017. The South Urals Chamber of Commerce & Industry underwent scheduled checks by Voyenniy Registr and GOST R. The goal was to look into how well the Chamber carries out certification procedures of local companies and organizations’ quality management systems. According to the CCI’s press service, both Voyenniy Registr and Rosakkreditatsiya committee members pointed to the Chamber’s experts’ great competence in the field of quality management system audits. The committees looked into how the Chamber carries out is certification audits, how much experience