UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 10, 2017. Seats for the new version of Ural Locomotives’ Lastochka, the electric train, were presented at Moscow’s Rizhsky Station this week. The new train is meant for Russian Railways’ Federal Passenger Company’s inter-constituency routes, Sinara Group’s press service reports. Both top mangers and middle-level employees of Federal Passenger Company as well as representatives of Russian Railways’ Technical Policy Department, Passenger Transit Administration, and High-Speed Transit Directorate and Ural Locomotives’ design engineers contributed to the discussion on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 10, 2017. 28 alumni of ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program took their military oaths recently, the company press service reports. The solemn ceremony took place in the regiment based in Gorny Shchit, Sverdlovsk Region. ‘ChTPZ Group has been cooperating with this military regiment for five years now. Some two hundred Pervouralsk Metallurgical School’s alumni served their army terms there and came back to work at the plant’s various departments. Once this year’s corporate training program alumni have served their terms, they are

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 9, 2017. TMK CHERMET invested over 50m RUR in production upgrades in the first half of the year, the company press service reports. These investments were part of the company’s development strategy aimed at recycling more scrap ferrous metal from TMK Group’s own member enterprises so that it can be used at Pipe Metallurgical Company’s plants. Most of the investment amount was directed to purchasing new vehicles for the company’s production sites and new automobiles, to introducing equipment upgrades, and to improving working conditions at the scrap-processing

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, August 9, 2017. Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChTPZ), Russia’s leading pipe manufacturer and integrated oilfield solutions supplier, was given ruA+ credit rating by RAEX (Expert RA), with Stable rating outlook, the company press service reports. The rating reflects the great degree of trust the investor community has in the plant. According to the rating agency, the company’s strong market position, its comfortable debt burden, and enhanced liquidity all had a positive impact on the current rating. RAEX analysts also commented on the great corporate governance, strong

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 9, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) held a special firefighting contest to distinguish the company’s best volunteer firefighting team, MMK Information & PR Administration reports. The annual contest was held in accordance with the company’s action plan for civil defense, emergency management, and fire safety for 2017. The goal is to check how well the volunteer teams are prepared for fire threats and to make sure they prove a useful part of the firefighting activities. ‘Fifty-seven teams from MMK Group’s various divisions competed in the contest.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 9, 2017. Ural Federal District’s residents’ everyday expenses increased by 2.5% in July 2017, Romir Holding’s press service reports. In Russia on the whole, people’s spending rose by 0.6% against June 2017 and by 8.1% against last July, which is twice as much as the official inflation rate of 3.9%. This increased spending, combined with the dropping average store receipt amount, indicates that Russians keep on looking for best price offers and have to both spend more and go shopping more often. Expenses were up last month for people based in almost every part of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 9, 2017. An ad hoc committee to coordinate the actions of Sverdlovsk Region’s and local cities’ authorities and those of other related organizations was recently set up by Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev’s decree. The goal is to protect the rights of local housing fraud victims. The entire process is to be supervised by First Deputy Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Vladimir Tungusov. There are currently over ten housing construction projects in Sverdlovsk Region that are facing financial trouble. These are: Scherbakova, Berezki, Koltsovsky Dvorik,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 8, 2017. Ural Federal District’s workout championship was recently held on Russian Copper Company’s workout park site, the company press service reports. The sports event gathered together some fifty athletes from Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, and Tyumen Regions and from Bashkortostan. Both professional sportsmen and women and amateur contestants competed in both grownups’ and children’s categories. The championship included Power Freestyle and Power Triathlon challenges. World workout champion of 2013 Ruslan Minachev from Chelyabinsk won the first prize in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 8, 2017. Workers from EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) Beam Rolling Department keep working as volunteers, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. The workers donated money to buy the necessary school supplies for the coming school year for children from Yuzhakovsky Children’s Social Rehabilitation Center. ‘Donations were made by the entire department team. Our employees handed over to children some clothes, shoes, and school supplies. Department Head Dmitri Kavun, Chair of Department Committee Alexei Stavrov, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 8, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company celebrates Russia’s Year of the Environment by launching some up-to-date water-filtering facilities at its Raspadskaya-Koksovaya Mine, EVRAZ Holding’s press service reports. ‘Environmental safety is our utmost priority,’ says Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Director-General Sergey Stepanov. ‘It is our responsibility to invest in environmental protection and to reduce the impact our coal-mining activity results in. This is why we put up advanced filtering facilities, recycle waste separately, and reclaim the affected land

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 8, 2017. Metallurg Charity Fund (supported primarily by Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Work (MMK)) directed over 197m RUR to its Care Program, MMK Information & PR Department reports. The program involves more than 30,000 retirees, people with disabilities, and low-income groups who used to work at industrial enterprises as well as Magnitogorsk’s and the nearby settlements’ civil service sector. ‘This Care Program aims to improve the living standards of the elderly and consists of several steps. First, over 14,000 retirees from among MMK’s and other enterprises’

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 8, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works’ (MMK) net profit amounted to $538m in the first half of the year, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 10.7%, the company website states. The plant’s EBITDA (adjusted against the sale of FMG shares in 2016) rose by 29.2%, up to $907m, while its revenues rose by 37.8%, up to $3.586bn. MMK is currently one of the world’s largest steel manufacturers and Russia’s ferrous metallurgical market leader. The company’s assets comprise a major full-production-cycle metallurgical facility, In 2016, the plant’s steel

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 7, 2017. Over 130m RUR will be directed from the obligatory medical insurance fund to finance Sverdlovsk Region’s clinics. The decision was made at the obligatory medical insurance committee’s recent meeting, Sverdlovsk Region Information Policy Department reports. ‘This increase in funding was made possible due to extra money allocated from Sverdlovsk Region’s budget in June. Nearly 50% of the subsidized amount (954m RUR) will be transferred to our outpatient medical units before the end of the year. We believe this will both make primary medical care more

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 7, 2017. The telecommunications provider MegaFon’s subscribers went to 161 different countries this summer, the company press service reports. According to MegaFon’s analysts, men tend to head for more exotic locations, while women seem to prefer pilgrimage routes. ‘The number of those who went abroad in May, June, and July rose by 40% compared with last summer. Brazil, Azerbaijan, and Iran proved ‘male-dominated’, as 70% of travelers were men. Women go to Israel, Jordan, Egypt, and Iceland, with the proportion of female travelers at 60%,’ they say. ‘Our customers

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 7, 2017. The average asking price comes to 66,300 RUR per m2 on Yekaterinburg existing home market at the moment, which is 0.2% less than one month earlier and 13.6% less than in February 2016, Ural Real Estate Chamber’s report states. Centrally located apartments grew 1.7% less expensive in the last four weeks and can now be had for 94,983 RUR per m2. Those in the city’s remotest districts grew 1.8% less expensive, with the asking price at 47,612 RUR per m2 on average. Homes in the city’s fourth most expensive locations grew 0.4% cheaper, with the asking price at

UrBC, Moscow, August 7, 2017. The number of housing construction fraud victims rose to 46,000 people, RIA Novosti refers to Russia’s Construction & Public Utilities Minister Mikhail Men as stating. According to Men, all these people are now on the special federal and regional help lists. Sixty-nine Russian federal constituencies have been affected, even though most of the fraud victims are based in only ten of them. A special information system will be launched in Russia early next year to provide data on all the housing construction projects not yet commissioned. The system will be

UrBC, Moscow, August 7, 2017. Russia needs 22,200 more physicians, GPs, and pediatrists at the moment to meet the population’s healthcare needs. According to Zdorovie Fund, this is twice as many people as the Health Minister Veronica Skvortsova said were needed at her meeting with President Vladimir Putin on August 1. According to Skvortsova, the medical staff shortage was estimated at about 10,700 doctors. The fund reports things are getting worse by the year. The overall number of physicians, general practitioners, and pediatrists shrank by 888 people between 2015 and 2016. There is also

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 3, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s West Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK) now makes B500B fittings (diameter: 10-40 mm) that meet the British Standard, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Relations Center reports. This new produce means EVRAZ will be able to export more fittings and to build up on its share of international rolled goods market. ‘A pilot batch of fittings got subjected to all the necessary tests in CARES, the British certification authority, and proved to fully comply with the BS 4449-2005 standard. The standard sets very strict resilience

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 4, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems intends to install 8,800 new glass insulators at its Urals-based electric mains before the end of the year, the company press service reports. The goal is to improve the power facilities’ performance in Perm Territory, Orenburg Region, Sverdlovsk Region, and Chelyabinsk Region and to ensure a better power supply at Verkhnetagilskaya Power Station, Yuzhno-Uralskaya Power Station, and Chelyabinsk Power Station. 6,500 porcelain insulators have been replaced with their glass counterparts so far. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 4, 2017. Rosatom’s SverdNIIkhimmash supplied unique equipment for the uranium-plutonium mixed nitride fuel production lines’ carbothermic synthesis unit within the framework of the Breakthrough Project, the company press service reports. The equipment is part of the facility meant for making fuel rod arrays at Siberian Chemical Plant’s experimental site in Seversk, Tomsk Region. ‘The company developed the technical specifications for the equipment and then made it and had it delivered onto the carbothermic synthesis site. The site now comprises six high-temperature