UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 31, 2017. Sinara Transport Machines’ Lyudinovsky Locomotive Plant (LTZ) supplied three modern, electric-driven locomotive shunters TEM 9 to Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), Sinara Group’s press service reports. The contract for the production and delivery of locos was signed by STM and MMK in March 2017. This means MMK now has 13 TEM 9 and 50 TGM 6 pieces (all made at LTZ) in its fleet of locos. TEM 9 was designed at Sinara Transport Machines’ Innovative Development Center in 2008; this engineering division has been home to the most advanced technical

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 31, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region’s district judges and Justices of the Peace ruled that 1,170 foreign subjects and individuals without a citizenship should get deported from Russia, Sverdlovsk Region Court’s press service reports. Over 16,000 people faced administrative arrest. Judges report the number of administrative arrest warrants acted upon has been going up, whereas that of actual deportations following a deportation order has been on the decrease. ‘So far, deporting 776 foreign subjects has tuned out to be problematic. There are currently 95 foreigners in a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 28, 2017. Delegates from the Mid-Urals are taking part in the international EXPO 2017 this August; the exhibition opened in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana on June 10, Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. Talks will be held with the representatives of the Kazakhstan Government’s executive branch on investment, energy sector, and healthcare projects; some negotiations with governors of Karaganda Region, Kostanai Region, North Kazakhstan Region, Pavlodar Region, and Astana - Sverdlovsk Region’s primary business partners - will also take place. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 28, 2017. EVRAZ Holding is planning to put up new filtering facilities at its Gorno-Shorsky Subsidiary’s Sheregeshskaya Mine, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Relations Center reports. The project will require over 460m RUR worth of investments to complete. ‘These up-to-date filtering facilities will be part of the bigger mine reconstruction project, resulting in greater crude ore production output and a considerably reduced environmental impact. Thanks to the new facilities, the quality of water in the River Bolshoy Unzas, the local village’s primary artery, will

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 28, 2017. ChTPZ Group and South Ural State University’s Polytechnic signed a cooperation roadmap for 2017-2022 on the premiss of the Group’s Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant, the Group’s press service reports. It is reported the company and the college will work together on science-intensive projects, improvement of existing technologies, student interaction, internships at the Group’s assets, job counseling for high school students, and professional development for the company’s highly skilled metallurgists. ‘ChTPZ Group has been cooperating with South Ural State

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 28, 2017. The mining team at EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Mine has produced 4,000,000,000 kg of coal since the start of the year and was thus one of the first to set this production record in Kuzbass in the first seven months of the year, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Relations Center reports. Raspadskaya Coal Company’s management congratulated the miners on their success. ‘Raspadskaya Mine keeps increasing its coal production output every year, which means this company remains the coke-coal production leader in Kemerovo Region. We owe these record output figures

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 28, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is to host the local round of a production experience-sharing workshop for metallurgical industry workers on July 27, MMK Information & PR Administration reports. This is the second and final round of the workshop; the first one was held at EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works on July 24-25. Over twenty managers and employees from the Energy Departments of Severstal, Novolipetsk Integrated Metallurgical Works, Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works, Tulachermet, and NLMK Kaluga will

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 27, 2017. The second launching unit of Yekaterinburg Orbital Motorway’s southern half will get launched on August 25, 2017, Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department refers to Deputy Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Sergey Shvindt as saying. Shvindt says all the building jobs planned for this year have been completed. This cost 256m RUR to do, including 204.8m RUR allocated from the national budget; the rest was supplied from the constituency’s budget. He also made a report to Governor Evgeny Kuivashev on how the building and repairs of other roads in Sverdlovsk

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 27, 2017. Sinara Group’s Sinara Development, the general contractor for the reconstruction of Yekaterinburg Stadium in time for the World Cup 2018, fully completed the construction of the stadium roof, the company press service reports. The new roof rests on eight pylons 45.5 meters high. The structure’s total area comes to nearly 28,000 m2. The metal frame is covered with steel sheets and an elastic membrane coating made of enhanced-durability, light-absorbing polymeric tent material. This combination of roofing materials will protect visitors to the stadium both

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 27, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) came first in the national rating of zinc-coated and paint-coated rolled goods manufacturers. The rating of Russia’s best ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgical businesses for the first half of the year was carried in the latest issue of Metallosnabzheniye I Sbyt magazine. According to MMK’s Information & PR Administration, the plant was No.1 on this rating last year as well. ‘This company remains the leading coated rolled goods producer thanks to MMK’s ongoing efforts to increase the share of high value-added

UrBC, Moscow, July 27, 2017. People living in Ural Federal Districts only make 89.5% of their payments online, whereas in the country on the whole, the share of online payments comes to 91.5% of the entire transaction volume, Yandex.Dengi reports. Russians based in North-Western, Central, and Southern Federal Districts make more online payments than others (92%, 91.8%, and 91.8% of their entire payments, respectively).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 27, 2017. Yekaterinburg-based customers spent 7,400 RUR on average when puirhcainsg a plane ticket online in the first half of the year; according to Yandex.Dengi, this is 23% less than one year previously. All in all, the number of online payments Yekaterinburg residents make rose by 52% against one year earlier, and the overall turnover rose by as much as 77%. Apart from paying for plane tickets, locals tend to make their loan repayments online (2,700 RUR on average) and TV subscriptions (1,800 RUR). Additionally, increasingly more payments are made to the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 26, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s customers prefer to save for long-term goals; the bank came up with the top ten titles their online banking customers use for their deposits, their press service reports. According to the UBRD’s Online Sales Director Denis Tur, you can give a personalized title to your deposit using a mobile banking app, which makes managing personal finances easier. ‘There are many ways to make savings, but the general rule of thumb is that you need a specific goal. This gives you the motivation to save up rather than

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 26, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s West Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK) won in the 14th Corporate Social Responsibility in Mining & Metallurgical Industry Contest as the best Personnel Investor, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s press office reports. The company proved to invest in its talent pool, develop its employee training centers, and enhance the prestige of blue-collar jobs through WorldSkills championships. ‘The key to the plant’s personnel policy is to start training from as early as school. We coordinate job counseling sessions and design projects that are

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 26, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems are currently upgradingg their 220-kilowatt Kunashak Power Substation in Chelyabinsk Region, the company press service reports. The company technicians are repairing 35-to 220-kilowatt disconnecting switches and will replace the existing porcelain insulators with the ones made of polymeric materials. The goal is to ensure more reliable power supply to end users in Chelyabinsk and to increase the capacity of Chelyabinsk Power Station and Yuzhno-Uralskaya Power Station. The substation had its protective

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 26, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works’ (MMK) daughter enterprise MMK Industrial Park proved the compliance of its industrial park and of its management company with the federal legislative requirements and can now apply for the state-funded industrial stimulation package. An order to this effect was signed by Russia’s Industry & Trade Minister Denis Manturov on July 21, 2017, the company press service reports. ‘Now that the company has proven to comply with the federal legislative requirements, MMK Industrial Park can offer its residents tax reliefs (zero

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 26, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Aleksandrinskaya Ore Mining Company recently had its tailing dump reconstructed, the company press service reports. The project took two years and 95m RUR to complete. The dump was equipped with new pipes to increase the 6.5-kilometer-long pulp discharge pipe’s and the water duct’s capacity. The protective dam got increased by a further 3 meters. Special piezometers and other sensors got installed to keep an eye on the dam condition. ‘The current tailing dump has been operating since the processing plant was launched in 2001. In

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 25, 2017. According to Sverdlovsk Region’s Finance Ministry’s forecast, the large-scale local enterprises are expected to pay 7.8% (4.5bn RUR) more taxes this year than in 2016, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. The additional tax influx is expected to come from increased corporate tax, property tax, and income tax payments. Now Governor Evgeniy Kuivashev recently called for exploring the constituency’s revenue potential and for dealing with taxpayers on a case-by-case basis. ‘The Finance Ministry coordinated a number of meetings

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 25, 2017. Metallurg Magnitogorsk Charity Foundation will receive 159.9m RUR from its primary benefactor Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) in the third quarter of the year, MMK’s Information & PR Administration reports. The money will mostly get spent on organization of festive events, namely, Metallurgist’s Day and Town Day. 5,660 long-service employees from local industrial enterprises, people working in the city’s civil service sector, and public sector workers from the nearby Agapovsky and Kizilsky Districts are expected to attend. A show will take

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 25, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s private individuals’ deposit book increased by 3% in the first half of 2017 and thus amounted to 157bn RUR on July 1, the bank’s press service reports. The national private deposits market rose by 2.9% on the whole. According to the bank’s Debit Transactions Director Olga Aksenova, the banking market’s deposit volumes are growing more slowly this year than last year, since the interest rates the banks offer have gone down and so have people’s disposable incomes. ‘This is the third year in a row that