UrBC, Chelyabinsk, October 2, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Karabashmed in Karabash, Chelyabinsk Region got over a half of all new equipment intended for converter gas-cleaning. According to Russian Copper Company’s press service, the equipment is to get installed in the converter-cleaning section of the plant’s Copper-Smelting Department; the section is currently under reconstruction. Once the jobs are done, the section will get three up-to-date Kumera converters (capacity: 150,000 kg each). The gas-cleaning equipment comprises technological and suction dust caps for converters and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 2, 2017. Ural Airlines will fly passengers with VIM Avia tickets on their hands starting from September 29, 2017. The offer holds as long as there are available seats on the air carrier’s planes and through October 16, 2017, the company press service reports. VIM Avia’s customers with valid tickets can get on board as long as their points of departure and destination coincide with those of a given Ural Airlines flight. To get their boarding card, passengers with valid VIM Avia tickets need to apply to Ural Airlines representatives at the airport. For more

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, September 29, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) came up with a job safety performance report for the first half of the year, the company press service reports. The report states that all the production departments carried out their job safety procedures in full compliance with the current national legislation, existing normative acts, MMK local acts, and the company’s Collective Agreement. MMK’s industrial and job safety management system got certified for compliance with the international OHSAS 18001:2007 standard. The system audit, carried out in March,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 29, 2017. EVRAZ Holding is celebrating its 25th anniversary with an interactive project on its employees. An online platform (EVRAZ Faces) was set up to give everyone an opportunity to introduce themselves, look at stories posted by co-workers from other cities, and talk to like-minded people from all over the country, the company press service reports. EVRAZ employees as well as all other people living in cities where the company operates its enterprises can upload their stories to do with the company. Text, photo, and video formats are all acceptable. These

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 29, 2017. Ural Airlines resume their Yekaterinburg-Krasnoyarsk-Yekaterinburg flight this fall, the air carrier’s press service reports. These scheduled flights will be operated every Monday and Wednesday (to Krasnoyarsk) and every Wednesday and Friday (to Yekaterinburg) between October 20, 2017 and March 21, 2018. Tickets can already get booked at a special reduced price (RUR 4,000 and up). ‘Krasnoyarsk is mostly an industrial city, but it appeals to tourists with its nature reserves, interesting architecture, and exciting landmarks nevertheless. Stolby National

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 29, 2017. Residents of and visitors to Akademicheskiy District will be able to take part in the unusual celebrations on September 30, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The city’s newest district was founded eight years ago this month; the celebration will take place on the feast of Saints Faith, Hope and Charity and their mother Sophia the Martyr. At 8.30 AM, a liturgy will be held at the local church, followed by the final round of a children’s art contest. At 10 AM, volunteers will take part in a clean-up session and will plant a tree alley to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 29, 2017. The new legislation on having SMEs’ bank deposits insured allows private banks to compete with large, state-run lending institutions, says the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s Corporate Sales Director Olga Drovovozova. The State Duma went through the first reading of a new bill that gets bank deposits of small and micro-enterprises insured (the insured amount comes to RUR 1.4m). The system is expected to get adopted in 2018. ‘Market instability that has to do with banks getting their licenses annulled all the time results in most

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 28, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy System’s Chair of the Board Andrei Murov held a meeting in Surgut to check how well the company’s power facilities in Western Siberia were prepared for the upcoming fall/winter season and to look into preliminary performance results for 2017, the company press service reports. Two enterprises out of four in the area have already been certified for readiness. 92% of all the necessary repairs have been completed so far. Murov pointed to the importance of making sure the power facilities and the special-purpose

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 28, 2017. SKB-Bank and the Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending signed a cooperation agreement in September 2017. The bank’s HQs now host a special Mortgage Center, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Customers based in Yekaterinburg and Sverdlovsk Region can now get personalized advice on how to buy a home and professional support throughout the entire transaction-processing stage. Mortgage Center experts will do the calculations as to the final cost of the mortgage and help the borrower get all the necessary paperwork ready,’ the press service says. The Agency

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, September 28, 2017. A group of delegates from the U.S.-based company Southwire paid a visit to Russian Copper Company’s Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant (KMEZ) in Kyshtym, their visit was aimed to help the plant expand its copper wire production department’s output capacity, Russian Copper Company’s press service reports. Southwire is now in charge of the basic engineering jobs and supplying the equipment necessary to get the old production department retooled. The American experts work together with the Russian designers, inspecting the department, deciding on the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 28, 2017. Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev held a work meeting with Sinara Group’s Director-General Mikhail Khodorovsky in order to discuss the construction of Yekaterinburg Arena; the stadium should be ready in time for the World Football Championship 2018, Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. Kuivashev said this is the sixth time FIFA representatives and Russia 2018 Coordination Committee members are inspecting the stadiums across the country. ‘The stadium is nearly ready, I’d say everything is 90% complete. We are currently

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, September 28, 2017. Over RUR 158m got directed to workers’ healthcare and medical projects at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) in the first half of the year, the company press service reports. ‘MMK makes every effort to keep its employees healthy. We’ve been running our Magnitka Healthcare Project for decades now; the project gets adjusted to the changing legislation and economic factors, and the goal is to prevent health problems among all our workers. Within the framework of this project, MMK employees are entitled to medical and health-restoring services that

UrBC, Moscow, September 27, 2017. 14,500 Russian companies ended up with net losses in the first half of 2017, which amounted to 30.9% of all national businesses (excluding small enterprises, banks, insurance companies, and state-run organizations), Rosstat’s data indicate. This figure is 0.5% larger than that for one year earlier. The loss-making companies consolidated net loss reached RUR 1.1437 trillion. 32,300 Russian companies finished the first half of the year off with profits (RUR 6.7335 trillion all in all). The national businesses’ balanced financial result came to RUR 5.5898

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 27, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region’s Finance Ministry started coordinating budget committee meetings in order to look into local governments’ proposals as to the constituency’s budget for 2018, Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. According to Sverdlovsk Region’s First Deputy Finance Minister Svetlana Klimuk, all the forecasts as to tax-related and non-tax-related budget inflow in 2018-2020 are based on the business-as-usual economic scenario, which means a moderate growth of both industrial production output and workers’ pay. As for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 27, 2017. EVRAZ Holdings presented its pedestrian quests program to locals of Nizhniy Tagil and Novokuznetsk in early August; this City Walks Project was designed as a way to celebrate the holding’s 25th anniversary and brought over 440 teams together, the company press service reports. ‘Pedestrian quests present a new kind of active pastime: learning about the history and architecture of a city you live in in a game format. The company developed three unique quests for Nizhniy Tagil and Novokuznetsk; these vary in difficulty (you can choose among green, blue,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 27, 2017. Consolidated fixed assets of Sverdlovsk Region-based for-profit companies (excluding small enterprises) was estimated at RUR 3.5243 trillion (with all depreciation adjustments), while their net book value was estimated at RUR 1.511 trillion, Sverdlovskstat reports. This figure is 16.1% larger than that for the end of 2015. The local businesses’ renewal coefficient came to 10.8% in 2016, while liquidation coefficient stood at 0.6%. The share of fully obsolete and worn-out fixed assets amounted to 15.6% of all fixed assets last year.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, September 27, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) came up with a Collective Agreement draft that dwells on the workers’ benefits and compensations, the company press service reports. ‘A range of lawyers, economists, and job safety experts were involved in the drafting of the agreement,’ says MMK Group’s Chair of Trade Union Boris Semenov. Semenov says a lot of preparatory work had to be done first: drafters had to look into the latest changes in the labor codes and do a comparative analysis of existing collective agreements used at Russia’s other mining and

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, September 26, 2017. Sibir, the nuclear powered icebreaker in the Project 22220 series, was put on water at Saint Petersburg Baltic Shipyard on September 22, 2017. The body of the vessel was made from metal supplied by Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), the company press service reports. There are currently three icebreakers in the 22220 series, including Arktika and Ural. MMK supplies metal for these vessels as well. Arktika and Ural are the world’s biggest and most powerful icebreakers. Sibir’s parameters are: tonnage: 33,500,000 kg; length: 173 meters; width: 34

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 26, 2017. Ural Airlines are now launching Choose Your Winter, their annual winter sale campaign, the air carrier’s press service reports. Tickets for domestic and international flights and flights around the CIS that get booked between September 25 and October 8, 2017 can be had at a 30%; this is a limited offer that holds for flights to be operated between September 25, 2017 and April 15, 2018. Discounts are offered on flights operated from Yekaterinburg, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Irkutsk, Omsk, Barnaul, Blagoveschensk, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo, Yakutsk,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 26, 2017. Rustam Muminov’s team from EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Mine in Kemerovo Region has produced 2,000,000,000 kg of coal since the start of the year, EVRAZ Holding’s press service reports. This was the first team to reach this output level in Raspadskaya Coal Company this year. ‘Rustam Muminov’s team is one of Raspadskaya Mine’s best performers; they always have great production output figures and work smoothly and accident-free. We need to keep up with this tempo in order to meet our coal production target figures for this year,’ says Director of