UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 4, 2017. EVRAZ Holding coordinated pedestrian quests in Nizhniy Tagil and Novokuznetsk (cities where its plants are located) to celebrate the company’s 25th anniversary, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. There are three special routes to walk along in each of the two cities; the routes will help to learn more about local history and landmarks. ‘The quests are free to take part in and are open to everyone. To join the quest, you have to sign up on our website www.evraz-gorod.ru and choose your city and route. All you need is a phone with an

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 4, 2017. 60% of Yekaterinburg’s residents are currently on the lookout for a new job, even though 37% of them have a job at the moment, rabota.ru’s press service reports. One in three respondents have been searching for under a month, every one in four of respondents - for one to three months, every one in ten - for three to six months, and 38% of those surveyed said they had been out of job for over six months. 37% of respondents said they saw job search as either a duty or a chance to solve their problems. 27% of respondents see the process as educational and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 3, 2017. ChTPZ Group is currently upgrading its OCTG production facilities, the company press service reports. The project will require 200m RUR worth of investments; as a result, the Group’s OCTG/premium threaded joint output will double through the use of upgraded equipment. ‘The upgrades include launching new constricted-end pipe units and threaded joint treatment units, a new shot-blasting machine for polishing the inside surfaces of the pipes, a coupling copper-coating unit, and a coupling-making unit. The entire project will have been completed by April

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 3, 2017. Starting from August 1, 2017, MegaFon cardholders will be receiving megabytes into their account for every purchase they pay for with their bank card, the company press service reports. ‘The Internet traffic bonus points will be granted for every 100 RUR spent through card payments. Moreover, subscribers to our Tune In package will also be given a one-time 1 Gb bonus when they first use their card. There is no need to activate the bonus traffic, everything happens automatically and your bonus points are good to go for the next 365 days,’ the press service

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 3, 2017. Metallurg Charity Fund (sponsored by Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works/MMK) spent 101.77m RUR on a multi-faceted children’s charity program called The 21st Century for Southern Urals’ Kids, MMK Information & PR Department reports. The project got approved of by experts on The Best for Children, the national program for promotion of the best children’s goods and services, in 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014. The project was also given a special honorary badge. The project aims to support social welfare establishments such as children’s clubs and art schools,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 3, 2017. Yekaterinburg Architecture & Urban Planning Department agreed on a project to put up a multi-purpose Judo Palace in Akademicheskiy District, the city council’s press service reports. According to this project, the new building will be located opposite the new campus of Ural State Medical University in Chkalov St. The idea is to have the palace integrated into the Preobrazhensky Park complex, with a large square for public events on the left of the palace. The entire complex area will be 8,600 m2 large, that of the three-floor building will be 15,600 m2

UrBC, Moscow, August 3, 2017. Car dealers imported 96,500 cars to Russia in the first half of 2017, which was 12.7% less than one year earlier, Avtostat refers to the Federal Customs Service as stating. The Japanese brand Toyota proved the most popular imported automobile in the first half of the year (18,500 units, down 41.5% on a year earlier): 20% of all cars imported to the country within the given period were various Toyota makes. Mercedes-Benz (17,400 units, +4,4% on a year earlier) came second: its share on the imported automobile market was 18%. The Japanese brand Lexus was among the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 2, 2017. ChTPZ Group supplied a set of hot-deformed pipes for the reconstruction of Dinamo Stadium in Minsk, Belarus. The pipes were delivered to Molodechnensky Plant, which is in charge of making metal structures for the building, the Group’s press service reports. The shipment comprises 1,595,000 kg of hot-deformed pipes (diameter: 102 to 135 mm). The pipes, made at the Group’s Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant, will be used to make primary and secondary truss structures. ‘The Group fulfilled this order impressively fast and was chosen

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 2, 2017. EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) has become the Best Resource-Saving & Conservation-Oriented Company in the SCR contest for mining and metallurgical enterprises once again this year, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. The plant received a special certificate for its environmental performance in 2016; NTMK holds a similar certificate as an acknowledgement of its efforts in 2015 as well. ‘The contest is coordinated by Russia’s Industry & Trade Ministry, Russia’s Mining & Metallurgical Association (AMROS), and

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 2, 2017. MMK Group’s MMK METIZ complied successfully with all of the international ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/TS 16949:2009 quality standard requirements, the Group’s PR Department reports. ‘MMK METIZ underwent re-certification audit and a witness audit to prove the compliance of its quality management system with the new version of ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/TS 16949:2009, respectively. The plant improved in a number of parameters and proved that it can meet its goals and comply with the quality and customer requirements policy,’ the Department says. Auditors from the German

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 2, 2017. Members of Ural Airlines Wings Club will get more bonus points into their membership card account if they buy their tickets through the airline’s official channels, the air carrier’s press service reports. To get your bonus points, you need to book tickets on the company website www.uralairlines.com, over UralAirlines mobile app, over the phone +7-800-77-00-262, or at Ural Airlines’ booking offices. ‘Bonus points are given for every trip you make with the airline; they can be used to partially cover the cost of your plane ticket. (1 RUR for every bonus

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 2, 2017. Yekaterinburg Arena, currently under reconstruction in time for the World Cup 2018 by Sinara Group’s Sinara Development, will soon have a naturally grown green lawn. The first seeds were sown in the course of a special ceremony by Vice Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Sergey Shvindt, Head of Yekaterinburg Council Alexander Yakob, and Sinara Group’s Director-General Mikhail Khodorovskiy. According to Sinara Group’s press service, it will take two different steps to get the lawn done. First, 400 kg of perennial Kentucky Bluegrass seeds (selected to get adjusted

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 1, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) recently held a business analysis project contest (dubbed New Look) at the plant; the idea was to use the business analysis tools offered within the software package Tableau, MMK Information & PR Administration reports. Tableau is a service that lets users visualize and process their data, get them broken down into segments, come up with forecasts based on powerful statistical technologies, and make sophisticated calculations (a visual formula tool allows for all kinds of calculations and data analysis). The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 1, 2017. ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) is now offering summer jobs to students from local vocational schools; the project is supported by Sverdlovsk Region’s Industry & Science Ministry. According to the company press service, over two hundred students will be able to hold part-time jobs at the plant’s production departments and at its daughter enterprises. Hiring students on the Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program for the summer has become common practice at the company. This year, there were some summer job openings

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, August 1, 2017. Russia’s Chamber of Commerce & Industry and the Internal Affairs Ministry signed a cooperation agreement, the South Urals CCI’s press service reports. The agreement will allow the regional CCIs and law-enforcement authorities to work more closely in the field of migrant policy. According to the South Urals Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s First Vice President Igor Aristov, working with the Internal Affairs Ministry mainly means keeping track of the current migrant problems, helping to improve respective laws, and creating mechanisms to attract highly

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 1, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems (FGC UES) had the 500-kilowatt electric main connecting Votkinskaya Power Station and Yemelino Power Substation repaired recently. According to the company press service, the goal is to make power supply to Sverdlovsk Region’s and Perm Territory’s industrial enterprises more reliable. ‘The main is located in a poorly accessible spot on marshy ground. Our power engineers replaced forty guy-wires and pulled down thirty-six trees that could fall down and obstruct the main. This year, 270 faulty guy-wires

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 1, 2017. Metcombank and MSP Bank signed a cooperation agreement to provide bank guarantees within the framework of the National Guarantee System, the bank’s press service reports. The main goal is to facilitate the small and medium enterprises’ development and make getting loans easier and more affordable for SMEs. Under the terms of the agreement, MSP Bank is acting as the borrowing SMEs’ loan guarantor for Metcombank and shares the respective risks. Thanks to this guarantees, businesses can borrow more even when they cannot provide large enough security for their

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 31, 2017. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) is now making Russia’s first casing pipes made from TMK C, the corrosion-resistant chrome and nickel alloy, the company press service reports. The fist set of TMK C casing pipes (strength grade: 110) with airtight, gas-tight TMK UP PF premium threaded joints was made the company’s TAGMET and supplied to Lukoil. The alloy was designed at TMK to make pipes for oil deposits with extremely high H2S and CO2 content and partial pressure. Up to now, pipes made from chrome and nickel alloys were only available abroad. ‘TMK keeps

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 31, 2017. Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems’ West Siberian Electric Mains issued a warrant to warn against trespassing in the high-voltage areas, the company press service reports. ‘The high-voltage protective areas are the ground and the air next to and around both sides of the electric mains. The limit it set at 20 meters for 110-kilowatt mains, at 25 meters for 220-kilowatt ones, and at 30 meters for 500-kilowatt ones. Anything that happens within the area must get the power engineers’ authorization, be it construction, repairs, demolition, mining,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 31, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) came up with a new deposit offer with an increased interest rate; this is an opportunity for customers of financially troubled banks to secure their savings, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Our Reliable Deposit is a good way to join the bank as a new customer. The interest rate comes to 8% a year, with the first interest payments available in as soon as thirty days; you can choose either to get the interest added to the principal amount and capitalized or to get the interest transferred into a