UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 24, 2017. Russian Copper Company came 6th in the rating of thirty-three Russian companies in terms of environmental impact and 14th in terms of environmental responsibility, the company’s press service refers to the World Wild Life Fund for Nature’s data as indicating. Russian Copper Company Group invested around 8bn RUR in environmental protection projects throughout Russia, with money directed to protection of air, flora and fauna, surface and underground water, and soil, and to waste treatment. ‘As a result, our atmospheric emissions declined by nearly 50% and

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, March 23, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) decided to have its CC Machine 6 and heavy-plate Mill 5000 upgraded in order to start making hot-rolled pieces from 350-mm-thick slabs. ‘The upgrades will allow MMK to expand its product range with new, high-margin goods, raise productivity through increased slab mass, and increase the output of hot-rolled pieces meant for mass production,’ MMK says. All the jobs, including modifications and assembly as well as start-up and commissioning, are expected to have been finished by the end of the year.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, March 23, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is celebrating its 10th year at London Exchange by holding an Investor’s Day in London on April 26, 2017, the company reports. On this day, MMK Chair of the BOD Viktor Rashnikov and a team of top executives will make a presentation on the company’s development and their corporate strategy for 2017-2025. The event will be held at London Exchange at 10 Paternoster Row, London, EC4M 7LS. The exact time of the presentation is to be announced. There will be a live video broadcast of the event,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 23, 2017. A new hopper 20-5197 meant for transportation of pellets and sintered ore was recently developed at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant. The hopper got certified for compliance with the Customs Union’s TRTS 001/2011 technical requirements and will now be manufactured at the head plant’s and Volchansky subsidiary’s departments. According to the corporation’s press service, the 20-5197 hopper was designed by experts from the corporation’s Ural Railcar Building Design Office. The engineers embarked on the project in August 2016, when an order was placed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 23, 2017. ChTPZ Group designed a new variety of pipes with ChT-2C Premium, the airtight threaten joints, the company’s PR Department reports. The new pipe types will be produced at the Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant’s Finishing Center and delivered to customers starting from the second half of the year. The joints are strong enough to be fit for harsh climatic conditions. ChT-2C can withstand all sorts of impacts related to stretching, compression, and internal and external pressure. The new threaded joint proved reliable in the course of tests carried by the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 23, 2017. Parking lots in Quarters 1, 2, and 5 in Akademicheskiy District are now for sale in Yekaterinburg. The terms and conditions hold through April 30, 2017. ‘Increasingly more locals are choosing this up-to-date, convenient, and safe way of stationing their cars. RSG-Akademicheskoye made it possible to pay for the slot in installments, which makes it less hard on a family budget,’ the seller’s press service says. The new special offer was launched in February: you can now buy a parking slot 14 to 52 m2 big and pay in installments throughout the period of nine

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 23, 2017. The average asking price came to 67,350 RUR per m2 on Yekaterinburg existing home market on March 20, 2017. Ural Real Estate Chamber reports the figure went down by 0.5% in the last four weeks and by 1.1% since the start of the year (by 3.3% compared with March 2016). Prices decreased most noticeably for bigger and newer apartments (-0.7% to -0.8%), whereas homes in buildings dating back to the Stalin times can now be had for 57,415 RUR per m2. Prices of apartments in buildings put up in the eighties and the nineties currently declined to 63,677 RUR per

UrBC, Moscow, March 23, 2017. Russians’ factual disposal income declined by 4.1% in February 2017 compared with one year previously, Prime refers to Rosstat’s report as stating. ‘People’s actual disposable incomes declined by 4.1% in February compared with one year earlier, and rose by 1% in January-February 2017 compared with the first two months of 2016,’ the report states. The January increase amounted to 8.1%. The factual disposable income consists in income remaining after all the indispensable payments have been made, with inflation adjustments. Russians’ factual pay (with inflation

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 22, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil is currently working to repair one of its main pipelines, the company press service reports. ‘Once the overhaul has been completed successfully, we’ll get reliable natural gas supply onto the plant’s production site as well as unfailing heat and hot water supply from the plant’s power station to apartment buildings, clinics, schools, and kindergartens in Nizhniy Tagil’s Dzerzhinskiy District,’ the press service says. The main pipeline is located on the premises of the corporation’s head plant and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 22, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Burevestnik Central Scientific Research Institute received a thank-you letter from Nizhniy Novgorod Government in recognition of the organization’s impressive contribution to the area’s socioeconomic development, the corporation’s press service reports. The letter, signed by Governor of Nizhniy Novgorod Region Valeriy Shantsev, acknowledges the institute’s contribution to Nizhniy Novgorod Region’s socioeconomic development, its successful import substation programs, and upgrades and retooling invested in last year. Last year,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 22, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Omsktransmash manufactured a pilot batch of one- and two-blade poles (length: 11 m; diameter: 159 and 325 mm) by order of Gazprom, the company press service reports. The poles are meant to be used for the construction of the Power of Siberia Pipeline and are suitable for extremely low outside temperatures. ‘The produce underwent acceptance and qualification tests at the plant, have been handed over to the customer’s Quality Control Department, and will soon be shipped to Siberia. The poles are made from highly durable alloyed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 22, 2017. A Russian-Indian industrial/military conference was held in New Delhi, India, on March 17-18, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Director-General Alexander Potapov took part in the event along a group of Russian delegates chaired by Russia’s Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov. According to the corporation’s press service, the event opened with a plenary session dedicated to the two countries’ military and technological cooperation options. Also, round table discussions were held on aviation equipment and developments for the Army and the Navy.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 22, 2017. Russian Copper Company supported Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Cup, the international sports dancing competition, the company PR Department reports. ‘The spectacular large-scale event will take place in Yekaterinburg on April 15-16, 2017. Over 3,000 professional dancers from Russia and abroad are going to compete there in European-style and Latin American-style dancing programs as well as in the Ural Federal District tournament. In addition to prize-winning adult performers, children in the 5+ age group will take part in the event as well,’ the PR

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 20, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Director-General Alexander Potapov coordinated his first meetings with subordinates during his visits to the corporation’s Nizhniy Tagil-based member enterprises, the company press service reports. For one, Potapov paid a visit to Ural Vagon Zavod’s head plant’s key departments such as the Railcar Assembly, the Metallurgical, and the Mechanical Assembly ones. ‘The head plant currently has plenty of orders for both civilian and military-purpose goods to work on. We keep focusing on the defense procurement requirements as part

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 20, 2017. Kortros Group (formerly known as Renova StroyGroup) is now among Russia’s top twenty housing developers in terms of the amount of housing commissioned last year, the company press service refers to the National Housing Developers’ Union (NOZA) data as indicating. Kortros Group got 237,000 m2 of new housing commissioned throughout Russia last year, which was over 50,000 m2 more than one year previously. Most of the new apartment buildings were put up in Akademicheskiy District in Yekaterinburg and in Prima Park in Scherbinka, Moscow Region, Bogorodsky,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 20, 2017. MegaFon announced the launch of its 4G network services in Nizhniy Tagil, Kamensk-Uralsky, Serov, Asbest, and Zarechny, the telecommunications provider’s press service reports. ‘This super-fast mobile Internet connection through our LTE network is now available to 700,000 more people based in Sverdlovsk Region. They can get webpages opened instantaneously, watch videos, and play online games comfortably. Over 3m locals are now covered by our reliable connection options, which amounts to 70% of Sverdlovsk Region’s population,’ the company press service

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 20, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region-based agricultural units produced 690,200,000 kg of potatoes last year, which was 11% less than one year earlier, according to Sverdlovskstat. The agricultural organizations’ potato yield actually shrank by 16.8%, down to 102,900,000 kg, whereas private individuals and farmers/sole traders produced 480,100,000 kg (-9.4%) and 107,200,000 kg (-11.8%) kg of potatoes, respectively. In point of fact, output figures went down for most other agricultural production categories in the area. For one, grain production dropped by 5.16% last year

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 20, 2017. The company’s former Senior Engineer Vyacheslav Gagarinov was appointed the new Managing Director of TMK’s Sinara Pipe Plant (SinTZ), TMK press service reports. Gagarinov’s predecessor Vyacheslav Popkov will now work as TMK Deputy Director-General for Production. ‘Vyacheslav A. Gagarinov was born in Kamensk-Uralsky in 1974. He graduated from Ural State Technical University’s Department of Machine-Building with a degree in Engineering (Metal-Cutting Machines). He later completed a continuous professional development program in economics and business

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, March 20, 2017. A group of AvtoVAZ delegates, chaired by CEO Nicolas Moore, paid a visit to Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK). The visitors went to MMK oxygen converter shop and Sheet-Rolling Department 11 with its brand new cold-roll unit meant for making high quality automobile body sheets. Delegates from MMK’s largest car manufacturing partner looked at how automobile body sheets are made, including those for AvtoVAZ’s latest makes Lada Vesta and Lada X-Ray. For these makes, MMK has been supplying AvtoVAZ with pilot and production batches of

Getting one’s education abroad is an option still considered by many Russian students, despite the recent years’ political and economic troubles. For one, Education Abroad International Exhibition is held in Yekaterinburg for the 13th time this year. New York Film Academy representatives attended the event for the first time this year; their plan is to keep working with the local organizations in the future and coordinate a number of workshops throughout the year. Irina Tokmantseva of Education Abroad Yekaterinburg says the younger locals are quite interested in pursuing a career in arts. The