UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 8, 2017. 40% of this year’s crops and grains have already been harvested, Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department refers to the region’s Agriculture Minister Dmitri Degtyarev as stating. ‘This year’s crop output is larger than that for last year. The harvesting process is a bit slower due to changeable weather, but we still fall within the schedule all in all. All local farming businesses intend to complete their harvesting campaign in time, so they are busy in the fields 24/7. The essential thing is to have suitable weather for harvesting,’ the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 8, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region division of Roszdravnadzor (the state healthcare watchdog) carried out 137 checks of local medical and pharmaceutical businesses in the first half of the year and found 307 violations there, the division head Oksana Fedoseyeva said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. According to Fedoseyeva, the number of problems in the sector doesn't seem to be going down: 359 violations were found in the first half of 2016 in the course of 196 checks. ‘There are up to eight violations per business on average, the most typical ones having to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2017. Ural Airlines proved this year’s Safety Leaders Award winner in Aviation Safety, the air carrier’s press service reports. The awarding ceremony took place on Skolkovo Moscow School of Management campus on September 5. The award was given out at the end of Safety Leaders Forum coordinated by Social Projects Foundation. The trophy figurine was presented to a Ural Airlines representative in acknowledgement of the company’s safety efforts. ‘Making sure our flights are safe is the company’s top priority. We have a multi-layered control system to ensure

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, September 7, 2017. A solemn welcoming ceremony for this year’s students enrolled on the Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program took place at A.V. Yakovlev Chelyabinsk Vocational School this week, ChTPZ Group’s press service reports. Student IDs were given to 150 16-year-old school-leavers. Top managers of ChTPZ Group’s Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant, Chelyabinsk Region Education Ministry officials, and representatives of A.V. Yakovlev Chelyabinsk Vocational School all took part in the ceremony. The Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program is a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2017. Applications for EVRAZ: City of Friends/City of Ideas Grant Project Contest can get submitted starting October 1, 2017; the contest is held in Nizhniy Tagil and Kachkanar and has 6m RUR in terms of funding, EVRAZ Holding’s press service reports. Non-profit public organizations, municipal and private educational, medical, and social organizations, organizations in the culture and sports sector, public initiative groups, and private individuals backed up by a non-state legal entity are all eligible to apply. ‘The idea is to involve locals in urban

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2017. Russia’s Vice Premier Vitaly Mutko paid a visit to Yekaterinburg Arena on September 5, 2017; the stadium is being reconstructed by Sinara Group’s Sinara Development, the Group’s press service reports. Acting Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev, Head of Yekaterinburg Council Alexander Yakob, and Sinara Group Chair of the BOD Dmitri Pumpyanski all accompanied the official on his visit. ‘Sinara Group’s Director-General Mikhail Khodorovsky said in his report to the Vice Premier that all the jobs were completed in time or ahead of schedule. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2017. The number of ready businesses currently for sale in Yekaterinburg is 352 (judging by sales ads), which is 40% more than one year earlier, N1.RU reports. According to the estate website, a quarter of all ready businesses on offer are centrally located, while the districts of Elmash, Uralmash, Avtovokzal, and VIZ host 5% to 7% of businesses each. The share of businesses for sale located in other parts of the city is currently under 5%. Analysts report the supply rose most dramatically for office space (from 22 to 38 offices for sale, up 72.7%), cafes,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 6, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) issued a 990m RUR bank guarantee to back up the contract between Stroytech (the general contractor) and GK Prinzip’s Novy Zastroyschik (the customer); the guarantee holds through December 31, 2018, the bank’s press service reports. The guarantee was issued in order to enable the completion of Pervy Nikolayevsky Housing Complex. ‘The developer was earlier provided with funds to go on with the construction process. The bank, on its part, provided a guarantee. This agreement means we promise all the

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, September 6, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Tominsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise in Chelyabinsk Region is going to launch a hiring campaign in September 2017, the company press service reports. At this stage, the company will look to take on people for both managerial and white-collar positions as well as blue-collar workers such as electricians, gas welders, and miners for surveying and geological work. The company expects to hire over sixty people before the end of the year. As a result, there will be more than a hundred people working for Tominsky altogether.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 6, 2017. Russian banks are now offering new mortgage options to customers looking to buy a home in Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. For example, the price of a studio apartment/a one-bedroom one/a two-bedroom one starts from 2.6m RUR for apartments located at 7, 11, 13, 17 Pavel Shamanov St or at 57 Akademik Sakharov St. With Gazprom’s mortgage scheme, the down payment only comes to 10%, the interest rate to 9.5% a year, the mortgage period to up to 30 years. Customers willing to wait with moving house (the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 6, 2017. SKB-Bank’s MasterCard holders can now enjoy the benefits of Samsung Pay, the bank’s press service reports. The contactless pay service is now available to owners of all Samsung Pay-compatible smartphones (this includes phones in the Samsung Galaxy series and MasterCard-friendly Samsung Gear S3 portable units). ‘SKB-bank keeps investing in digital development and launching advanced technologies in its e-banking and m-banking services; contactless payments is one such technology. Introducing Samsung Pay has meant bank cards are now even more convenient to

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, September 6, 2017. The 3d Interregional Ural Power Engineering Teams’ Contest started at MRSK Urala’s Chelyabenergo’s training range in Krasnoarmeyskiy, Chelyabinsk Region, the South Urals Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s press service reports. The contest is coordinated by the Chamber in cooperation with Chelyabenergo and support from Chelyabinsk Region Government. The goal is to look at the Ural building contractors’ professional skills, enhance the prestige of blue-collar jobs and make them more appealing to young people, and show the general public how important

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 5, 2017. The last selective rounds of the amateur workout championship coordinated by Russian Copper Company took place in Chelyabinsk on September 2-3, the company press service reports. ‘Scores of men, youths, and boys (who competed almost on a par with adults) came to the company’s workout sites next to School 68 and School 3 to take part in freestyle, triathlon, and biathlon challenges. The workouters competed in two age groups (12-17 and 18+) in triathlon and freestyle; extra weights were allowed for the older age group,’ the press service says. Anton

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 5, 2017. MegaFon’s analysts report the telecommunications provider’s customers are increasingly more interested in MegaDisc, their cloud service, the company press service reports. ‘The number of MegaDisc users rose by a quarter in the three summer months alone. A customer stores an average of 1.3Gb of data through the service, most of which is photographs. The overall amount of files in a cloud roughly equals to 25m shots,’ says MegaFon Ural Mass Market Development Director Sergey Alferov. The cloud service synchronizes files from one’s tablet, smartphone, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 5, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) keeps expanding on the national mortgage market, the bank’s press service reports. Starting September 4, mortgage loans will be issued in the bank’s outlets in Novosibirsk, Tyumen, Kazan and Kirov in addition to the existing mortgage centers in Yekaterinburg, Nzihniy Tagil, Ufa, Perm, and Chelyabinsk. ‘We keep looking for new growth points, so our decisions as to a particular product’s development depend on both the mortgage market potential and the current demand for real estate as well as on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 5, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems competed the capital repairs of its 229-kilowatt autotransformer unit at 500-kilowatt Demyanskaya Power Substation in Tyumen Region, the company press service reports. Two more autotransformer units will get repaired at 500-kilowatt Kholmogorskaya Substation and 220-kilowatt Urengoy Substation in Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous District before the end of the year. ‘The company power engineers checked the switching units for performance and replaced the relays, the gas protection and current circuit cables,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 5, 2017. Ural Airlines are offering their customers new, direct flights from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport to Navoi and Ugench, Uzbekistan, the air carrier’s press service reports. Moscow-Navoi-Moscow flights will be operated every Friday starting from September 21; prices start from 12,500 RUR (one way). Moscow-Urgench-Moscow flights will be operated on Wednesdays and Saturdays beginning from September 20; prices start from 14,800 RUR. ‘Uzbekistan is the cradle of an ancient civilization famous for its breathtaking turquoise-colored tile domes. Navoi, built in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 4, 2017. A solemn welcoming ceremony was held for first-year students of ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program at the Group’s Training Center, the company press service reports. 225 16-year-old school-leavers got enrolled on the program today. The Group’s top managers, heads of the Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant’s production departments, and the Future of White Metallurgy Program alumni all congratulated the new students on the start of their school year. ‘The Group’s innovative production departments need highly skilled

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 4, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Charity Fund presented school-starters from Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk Regions with backpacks and school supplies they need for their studies, the company press service reports. ‘770 children from cities and towns in Chelyabinsk Region where the company runs its enterprises received school-starting presents all in all; some presents were also given to children supported by charity organizations in Yekaterinburg. Children from Karabash, Kyshtym, Tominsky, and Varna all went to school with backpacks, folders, and school supplies

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 4, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Metallurg Health Resort in Yessentuki came fifth in the national Nation’s Elite rating, MMK Information & PR Department reports. ‘One of MMK’s largest sanatoriums, headed by Alexei Kovalenko, was given the status of Russia’s CSR Enterprise, Russia’s Business Elite Grand Gold Medal, and a Reliable Partner certificate. Metallurg was also nominated for Economy Leader 2017 certificate. Alexei Kovalenko is to receive the Order of Labor Glory and the Flawless Reputation & Professionalism certificate; the