UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 2, 2016. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) won several prizes in the national annual Corporate Philanthropy Leaders Contest that was coordinated by Donors’ Forum, PwC, and Vedomosti for the ninth time this year, Sinara Charity Foundation’s press service reports. For one, TMK was given silver as the Best Education-Promoting Program (co-sponsored by Saint Petersburg State University’s Higher School of Management) for A Place to Stand, a job-counseling project Sinara is implementing together with Sverdlovsk Region-based TMK member enterprises. The program was set up

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 2, 2016. Ural Airlines designated a number of ‘lucky cities’ for this winter: the air carrier’s Wings Club members based in Barnaul, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, and Chita can get up to 35% of their ticket amount into their bonus miles account, the airline’s press service reports. You are eligible for the increased number of bonus points if you fly with Ural Airlines from one of the cities above before March 31. The company offers 15% off your fare if you fly Promo, 25% off Economy, Premium Economy, and Business Light tickets, and 35% off Business tickets.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 2, 2016. A new skating rink that might prove Yekaterinburg’s largest ice rink on a frozen pond opens in Akademicheskiy District today, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. ‘The rink is located on the frozen pond next to the future Preobrazhensky Park and a church. There is a designated area for adults (450m long) and children (50m long),’ the press service says. The skating rink will be used for professional skiers and ice skaters’ practice during the day and for amateur entertainment in the evening. There is a ski rental service in a heated facility

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 2, 2016. Existing home prices have gone down by 6.67% on Yekaterinburg market since the start of the year and currently come to 66,829 RUR per m2 on average. In November, the price decrease amounted to 0.65% against October, SRG’s research findings indicate. Yekaterinburg is currently Russia’s third most expensive location among cities with population over 1m people in terms of existing home prices, outstripped by Moscow (172,034 RUR per m2 on average) and Saint Petersburg (101,549 RUR per m2).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 1, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon presented the visually impaired children in Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk with a collection of CDs with sign language interpretation and audio description options, the company press service reports. Free showing of children’s movies with subtitles and audio description components also took place in twenty-nine Russian movie theaters on November 29, 2016. In Yekaterinburg, the event was supported by Verba Fund, co-chaired by a member of Uralskiye Pelmeni team Andrei Rozhkov. In Chelyabinsk, the showing was organized

UrBC, Moscow, December 1, 2016. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK), one of the world’s leading OCTG manufacturers, coordinated Investor’s Day at Moscow Exchange on November 25 with support from Aton Group, the company press service reports. The event was attended by TMK Deputy Director-General for Strategy & Development Vladimir Shmatovich, Deputy DG for Economy & Finance Tigran Petrosyan, Deputy DG for International Markets Andrei Parkhomchuk, Strategy, Risk Management, & Investor Relations Director Igor Baryshnikov, Strategic Investment Analysis & Investor Relations Director

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 1, 2016. Interest rates on foreign currency deposits offered by the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development went down by 0.25% in November, the bank’s press service reports. The bank currently offers its customers four such deposit types: Convenient, Savings, Mobile, and Multi-Currency. According to the bank’s Debit Transaction Director Olga Aksenova, this downward trend is typical of the entire banking sector. ‘Banks are offering minimum interest rates on foreign currency deposits at the moment, which has to do with the fact that there is no need to have

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 1, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s souvenir shop UVZSHOP.ru opened at the domestic flights terminal in Roschino Airport in Tyumen; this is the third Russian airport (in addition to Balandino Airport in Chelyabinsk and Koltsovo Airport in Yekaterinburg) to host the corporation’s branded clothing store, the company press service reports. Tyumen residents and visitors to the city will find a wide range of products on offer in Roschino: clothes, footwear, souvenirs, and travel accessories such as sleeping masks and glasses, comforters, memory sticks, key rings,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 1, 2016. The rating agency RAEX (Expert RA) affirmed Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s credit rating at A, promoting the company from the second to the first sub-level, with Stable rating outlook, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘The positive factors to take into account were relatively high activity diversification, enhanced geographical diversification of sales network and production sites, plenty of investments in facilities maintenances and upgrades, and relatively high diversification of debts,’ the press service says. According to the agency’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 30, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation signed two strategically important agreements on hi tech produce development for both civilian and special purposes, the company press service reports. The first of these agreements, on technology transfer, was signed by Director-General Oleg Sienko on the corporation’s behalf and by Chair of the Board Igor Drozdov on behalf of the Skolkovo Foundation. ‘The goal is to efficiently introduce hi tech developments by Russian innovative companies into production process and to make them popular on the market as well as to work

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 30, 2016. Evraz Holding’s West-Siberian Metallurgical Works (ZSMK) invested some 3bn RUR in production upgrades, retooling, and capital repairs this year, Evraz Holding Siberia’s press office reports. The key goal was to get the plant’s continuous casting machine reconstructed. The upgraded machine resulted in increased output, a new method of steel-teeming, and reduced environmental impact. Also, the plant keeps investing in capital repairs of the equipment used at its sintering, blast furnace, and steel-smelting departments. In 2016, two of the company’s blast

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 30, 2016. The world’s first interactive 3D map available to over 4m people who come to Koltsovo Airport every year was introduced in Yekaterinburg recently. The map was developed and installed as part of Multimobility Project coordinated by Belaya Trost (‘White Cane’), a non-profit organization for the visually impaired, and the telecommunications provider MegaFon, the company press service reports. The map will be useful for everyone, including people with vision disabilities, who can use the map’s sensor surface and an in-build audio support system. The map and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 30, 2016. Historic tours of local landmarks are available for Yekaterinburg residents and visitors to the city in Akademicheskiy District, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The participants will be taken on a guided tour in the company of an experienced guide and themed travel expert Polina Ivanova. ‘Some of the city districts represent a perfect historic model of the way Yekaterinburg looked at a certain time period. VIZ, for example, is an old plant with a square, a church, a hospital, and workers’ log cabins. Uralmash, Elmash, and Khimmash have the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 30, 2016. Representatives of Russia’s largest machine-building cluster based in Tatarstan came to Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) to discuss their possible cooperation, the company press service reports. Executives of Tatarstan’s industrial enterprises expressed an interest in using the plant’s emerging industrial park Technics; Traktorozavodsky Park manager Mikhail Titov made a presentation on the site’s potential. According to Titov, the new technological park will provide its residents with all the necessary infrastructure such

UrBC, Moscow, November 29, 2016. Ural Airlines recently introduced one more Moscow-Kaliningrad-Moscow flight, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Starting from December 4, 2016, we are offering our passengers a daily scheduled flight with departure and arrival times that will suit both the capital’s residents and passengers flying from Kaliningrad. Once in Moscow, the latter will be able to go onto their connecting flights to other cities in Russia, the CIS member states, and abroad,’ the press service says. Tickets can be booked on the company website, through UralAirlines mobile app,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 29, 2016. Ural Airlines’ flight attendant Yulia Yamalova won the third prize in Russia’s Flight Attendants 2016 Contest, the air carrier’s press service reports. The final round of the contest took place in Moscow last weekend. Over 1,500 flight attendants submitted their applications altogether, and twenty-eight female contestants made it to the finals. The candidates had to take a life-saving equipment test, an English test, and a stress interview and then to talk about their home town and their job in the final presentation. Yulia Yamalova did very well on all

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 29, 2016. Evraz Holding’s Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise’s Kachkanar Power Station got certified for compliance with the technical regulations for the heating season of 2016/2017, Evraz Holding Ural’s press office reports. The company directed around 25m RUR to getting the station ready for winter. ‘During the summer repairs, the station got new equipment that meets the strictest standards. Overhauls were given to our steam turbine and turbine power generator, and gas-distributing plant gas ducts got upgraded. Repair and maintenance jobs were

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 29, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s Science Editor Sergei Ustyantsev was recently shortlisted for Voyenno-Promyshlenny Kurier’s and Russia’s Writers’ Union’s prestigious Fatherland’s Shield & Sword Prize, the corporation’s press service reports. Ustyantsev was proposed as a nominee for his fundamental research on the history of Russia’s 20th century industrial culture that came out as a series of essays. The prize will be given out in Pashkov House on December 21. So far, Sergei Ustyantsev has written three volumes on Ural Railcar Building

Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation took part in Strategic Partnership 1520: Caspian Region, the international raid industry business forum, in Baku on November 24-25, the company press service reports. The forum was primarily dedicated to the International North-South Transport Corridor, a multi-modal route that makes freight forwarding from India, Iran, and the Persian Gulf to Azerbaijan, Russia, and then to Northern and Western Europe possible by sea or by rail/road. The route was designed as a speedier and lest costly alternative to the overloaded Suez Canal. The participating countries’

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 28, 2016. Sinara Group’s Sinara Development completed Krylov, a business class condominium at 47A Tatischev St. The commissioning permit was issued on November 14, 2016, the Group’s press service reports. The new building’s total area (including commercial space) comes to 48,800m2; the construction was all completed right on schedule. The developer is currently handing their new homes over to apartment owners. The extension so the the condo’s primary building next to Central Stadium is a five-section apartment building that is 15 to 18 to 30 storeys high, has an