UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 26, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company Untied Energy Systems (FGC UES) coordinated special tactical training exercises in Western Siberia in order to drill one of the most challenging emergency scenarios: a metal support beam falling down and damaging 220-kilowatt electric mains. The news was reported by FGC UES’s PR & Media Group in Western Siberia. It took the company’s power engineers three hours to handle the simulated emergency, which proved they are quite ready to handle any problems during fall and winter. More than thirty people contributed to the

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, September 26, 2017. The final rounds of Metroshka 2017, a children’s amateur football championship, were held in Chelyabinsk; the event was coordinated by Russian Copper Company. Teams from Chelyabinsk Region, Sverdlovsk Region, Kurgan Region, and Bashkortostan competed in the Super Cup, the actual FIFA World Football Championship trophy (that everyone could have a picture taken with at Central Stadium). Loko-Olimp from Kartaly and Torpedo from Shadrinsk made it to the finals in the older children’s group, with the Kartaly team beating Torpedo 4:1. Sergey Kondrashov from

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 25, 2017. Sinara Transport Machines’ SinaraPromTrans will now offer its vehicle maintenance services to Pipe Metallurgical Company’s Taganrog Metallurgical Plant (TAGMET), Sinara Group’s press service says. TAGMET handed its 13 locomotive shunters, a railway depot, and 57 km worth of railways over to SinaraPromTrans. The latter also re-employed all of the railway depot workers. SinaraPromTrans also signed an agreement with TAGMET’s trade union to keep all of the employee social benefit packages and bonuses; this is part of the plant’s Collective Agreement,’ the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 25, 2017. Some two hundred workers from EVRAZ Holding Ural and its daughter companies took part in the holding’s Together! Youth Conference, the company press service reports. Employees of EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) and EVRAZ Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (KGOK) talked about the two companies’ development potential and the carrier opportunities their offer. EVRAZ Vice President and head of EVRAZ Holding Ural Maxim Andriasov discussed the company development, carrier, and a healthy lifestyle with young workers

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 25, 2017. Fifty students of Pervouralsk Polytechnic enrolled on ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program. They will all train to get qualifications as professional welders, the company press service reports. ChTPZ Group and Pervouralsk Polytechnic signed a cooperation agreement on The Future of White Metallurgy at the All=Russian Research-to-Practice Dual Education Conference in April 2017. The program goes along the lines of the German dual education system, with 40% of the time spent on classroom learning and 60% of the time spent

UrBC, Moscow, September 25, 2017. The Russian Government adopted a new cost of living amount for the second quarter of 2017; the figure currently comes to RUR 10,329 a month, the Cabinet’s website states. ‘The decree set the cost of living (countrywide) at RUR 10,329 for the second quarter of 2017 (which exceeds the figures for the first quarter of the year by 4.2%); the cost of living amount comes to RUR 11,163 for working-age citizens (up 4.3% on the first quarter of 2017), to RUR 8,506 for retirees (up 4% on the first quarter of 2017), and to RUR 10,160 for children (up 4.1% on the first

UrBC, Moscow, September 25, 2017. Russians now spend 28% more on average to maintain their cars than one year earlier, Yandex.Dengi refers to its own research findings as indicating. The company analysts looked into car mechanics’ bills, as well as at the amount of money drivers leave at car washes and gas-filling stations and pay in parking fees and traffic fines. Offline shoppers used their Yandex.Dengi cards and online ones used their Yandex.Kassa service. Traffic fines got paid through Yandex.Shtrafi app (e-wallets, bank cards, and Apple Pay). According to the research findings, every car

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, September 22, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) won in the International Competition of Scientific, Scientific/Technical, and Innovative Developments Aimed At The Development & Exploration of The Arctic & Continental Shelf 2017, the company press service reports. 102 projects submitted by sixty-eight companies based in Russia, the CIS member states, and Europe took part in the annual contest. The projects were all aimed to promote scientific research and scientific/technical and innovative activity to develop the Russian Arctic. The judges’ panel,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 22, 2017. Yekaterinburg came seventh in the rating of Russia’s fifty largest cities in terms of new home prices in August 2017, domofond.ru reports. Just like one year earlier, Moscow was predictably No.1, followed by towns in Moscow Region, Saint Petersburg, and cities in the Volga Region and the South of Russia. In Moscow, the average price of a new home rose by 1.6% in the course of one year, from RUR 222,900 per m2 in August 2016 to RUR 226,400 in August 2017. Saint Petersburg was second on the list, with the average per-square-meter price of a new home

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 22, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region-based likely bankrupts are now five months older on average that six months ago: their age now comes to 43.6 years, National Credit History Bureau’s press service reports. According to the Bureau, the nation-wide share of borrowers and likely bankrupts in the under-thirty age group came to 8.6% in early September, which was 1.2% less than six months previously. People in the most economically active age group (30 to 50 years old) made up 63% of all likely bankrupts, which was 0.2% more than six months previously. As for those in the

UrBC, Moscow, September 22, 2017. The number of new loans taken out by borrowers over 60 years old has gone down by 7% this year, even though the overall loan amount rose by 26%, United Credit History Bureau’s press service reports. 1.71m loans were issued to loan applicants in the 60+ age group in 2017, with overall loan amount at RUR 142.31bn; a year earlier, the figures were 1.85m and RUR 112.79bn, respectively. The increase in both the number and the amount of new loans was most noticeable in the secured loan segment: the number of new car loans rose by 48%, with overall amount up by 59%.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 22, 2017. Ural Airlines recently introduced a new, scheduled flight from Saint Petersburg to Tenerife, the air carrier’s press service reports. Starting from October 22, 2017, passengers can head for the Canary Islands’ most popular location. The flight will be operated every Friday, with a stopover in Barcelona, which means you can book a ticket either to Barcelona or Tenerife. The one-and-a-half hour break in Spain’s capital is a great opportunity to go shopping and have a cup of coffee in between the two legs of the journey. ‘Tenerife is a unique destination

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 21, 2017. Rosatom TVEL’s Ural Electrochemical Combine (UEIP) in Novouralsk delivered some standard samples of isotope structure of uranium to its customers, the company press service reports. The samples are necessary to ensure control and to keep count of nuclear materials, to control the technological process of isotope separation, to get the end goods and measurement techniques certified. To get the samples, UEIP produced uranium isotopes of high isotope cleanliness: it takes an entire specialized department equipped with precision equipment and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 21, 2017. ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) recently supplied a set of pipes to one of Belarus’s largest cylinder actuator manufacturers SALEO-Kobrin for the first time, the company press service reports. The shipment comprised 40,000 kg of hot- and cold-deformed pipes (diameter: 50 mm to 194 mm). PNTZ produce will be used to make cylinder actuators for automobiles and hoisting equipment. ‘ChTPZ Group keeps expanding its sales to the CIS member states: the increase was 3% in the first half of 2017. Large-diameter pipes, OCTGs, and weld-less hot-

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, September 21, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) had its quality management system subjected to a re-certification audit once again; the system was checked for compliance with the ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/TS 16949:2009 international standards, the company press service reports. The five-day audit involved auditors from the international certificating body TUV NORD CERT looking into the plant’s quality management system’s performance. The audit touched upon nearly all of MMK’s structural and functional divisions. TUV NORD CERT Senior Auditor for ISO 9001 Anton

UrBC, Moscow, September 21, 2017. Russians’ actual disposable income (income minus the indispensable payments, adjusted against inflation) dropped by 1.2% in January-August 2017 compared with one year earlier, Rosstat’s recent report on the country’s socioeconomic situation states. However, the income-shrinking process slowed down from 1% in July 2017 to 0.3% in August 2017. Per capita income amounted to RUR 31,422 in August, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 3.2%. The average monthly pay of an employee amounted to RUR 38,040 RUR (up 7.1% on a year earlier), while the factual

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 21, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems (FGC UES) is now installing a new, 500 MVA autotransformer unit at its 220-kilowatt Kamenskaya Power Substation, the company press service reports. The original autotransformer unit was put in place in 1957 and is now getting replaced with a new 500 MVA-strong one. This is expected to make power supply to Kamensk Uralsky Metallurgical Plant (KUMZ) and Ural Aluminum Plant (UAZ) more reliable and to improve the power substation’s workload capacity. Additionally, the four sections of a 220-kilowatt

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 20, 2017. More than two hundred EVRAZ Holding employees took part in the All-Russian Green Russia Cleanup Day last Saturday, the company press service reports. ‘EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) keeps investing in urban development and improvements on the premises of Kuibyshev Plant/Museum, a great industrial heritage spot, for years now.’ ‘This is the fifteenth time we are having a cleanup day in town. Our workers tidied up most of the plant’s premises, cut the old shrubbery and cleared up leaves and grass. An old, stone-paved

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, September 20, 2017. Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky attended the startup-and-commissioning ceremony for the new copper-filling line at Russian Copper Company’s Karabashmed. This was part of his business visit to Karabash on September 18, 2017, Russian Copper Company’s press service reports. The new automated equipment is expected to increase the plant’s metallurgical department’s production output as well as to reduce the amount of excess gas thanks to a powerful gas-suction and filtering system. This also means an improvement in working conditions. ‘The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 20, 2017. Two new workout sites are now operating in Yekaterinburg’s Chkalovsky and Oktyabrsky Districts. The locations are 35 Latviyskaya St and 35 Pronina St. The sites were funded by Obschestvo Malysheva 73’s Dobrye Dela Charity Fund and the Anton Shipulin Foundation. According to Obschestvo Malysheva 73’s press service, both workout sites are situated next to sports schools (a ski school in Pronina St and Fakel Sports & Health Club in Latviyskaya St). ‘We didn’t really care about the location as long as it was in a popular spot. In these two cases,