UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 13, 2016. Prices on Yekaterinburg existing home market dropped by 0.5% (down to 68,243 RUR per m2 on average) in the last four weeks, Ural Real Estate Chamber reports. It is reported that the price decrease stopped for a while in July and August, but the downward trend was there again in mid-September. Average asking price dropped by 0.4% for centrally located apartments in September and thus came to 96,618 RUR per m2. The next priciest apartments near the centrally located ones grew 0.2% less expensive (down to 73,081 RUR per m2). Prices in the city’s third and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 13, 2016. Pipe Metallurgical Company’s Sinara Pipe Plant made and delivered to Surgutneftegaz 788,700 kg of GOST R 53366-2009 Type Q cold-proof casing pipes (diameter: 146.1mm, strength grade: N80) with TMK UP FMC threaded joints, Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) reports. The casing pipes with TMK UP FMC threaded joints are meant to be used at oil and natural gas deposits and gas condensate fields in the Polar North (operation temperature down to sixty degrees centigrade below zero). The pipes get installed at vertical and inclined wells (drift angle build-up 3.3

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 13, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s 4th Youth Conference closed in Nizhniy Tagil, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. Scientifically-minded representatives of the holding’s eight member enterprises based in the Urals, Siberia, and Ukraine took part in the event. The four days of the conference were spent handling the contest challenges and drafting improvement proposals for the holding’s technological and repair divisions. ‘It makes me happy to see that our younger workers come up with bold ideas and have the confidence to defend their point. EVRAZ keeps introducing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 13, 2016. Over sixty employees of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s machine-building member enterprise Vityaz in Bashkortostan received honorary certificates for their outstanding performance, the company press service reports. NC machine operator Nikolai Skornyakov, who has worked at Vityaz for thirty-four years now, and electric welder Radik Nabiullin, who has been with the plant for three decades, received Russia’s Industry & Trade Ministry’s certificates. Turner from the company’s Assembly Department Iskandar Sitdikov was given the Republic of Bashkortostan’s

UrBC, Moscow, October 12, 2016. The cost of an average shopping basket went up by 12% in Ural Federal District in September 2016 and came to 429 RUR, Romir Research Holding reports. According to Romir’s research findings, a Russian shopper spent 528 RUR per supermarket visit on average last month, which was 30 RUR, or 6% more than in August. Prices rose most noticeably in Central Federal District, where the average spend went up by as much as 10.5% in the course of one month and reached 600 RUR. Prices also increased in the country’s north-west, where the figure came to 614 RUR (up 7% on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2016. Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo International Airport offered its services to 3,258,557 people in the nine months of 2016, which was 2.8% less than one year earlier, the airport press service reports. 2,397,712 people were passengers on domestic flights (up 14% on a year earlier), 860,845 people were passengers on international flights (up 31% on a year earlier). Only Russian cities, namely, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Sochi, Simferopol, and Novosibirsk, were among the the five most popular travel destinations. Over ten new flights were made available at Koltsovo

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2016. Sverdlovsk Railways forwarded less cargo in the last three months than the company did in the previous quarter; this holds for all the eight main cargo categories, the company press service reports. The freight forwarder handled 9.8m tons of chemical and mineral fertilizers in the third quarter of 2016 (-8.3% on the previous quarter), 105.4 tons of grains (-7.4%), 7.3m tons of ferrous metals (-6.8%), 1.6m tons of timber (-5.1%), 1.9m tons of cement (-2.7%), 1.8m tons of scrap ferrous metals (-1.4%), 2.8m tons of chemicals and sodium carbonate (-0.4%),

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2016. The asking price on Yekaterinburg new home market came to 69,891 RUR per m2 on average in the third quarter of the year, which was 0.2% more than in the previous quarter, Novosel reports. Centrally located new apartments grew 10.1% less expensive (down to 118,226 RUR per m2), those next to the centrally located ones (in the city’s second costliest districts) grew 1% less expensive (down to 72,577 RUR per m2). Housing prices in Yekaterinburg’s third, fourth, and fifth (the remotest and the least expensive) districts went down by 0.3% (down to 61,566 RUR

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant was founded eighty years ago today. The plant’s very first railcars came off the assembly lines on October 11, 1936, the company press service reports. Russia’s Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy Vladimir Putin signed a decree a few days earlier to award Ural Vagon Zavod with an honorary certificate ‘for helping to strengthen the country’s defense capacity and the development of up-to-date military vehicles and weaponry’. ‘Ural Vagon Zavod is the leading rolling stock manufacturer in the 1,520-mm zone and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 11, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Volchansky subsidiary is working to fulfill an order for twelve scale test railcars VPV-135K. The plant is currently getting the eighth car assembled, the company press service reports. The corporation started making scale test cars in 2013 and has manufactured twenty-seven units since then, including the twenty-four cars that were produced at Volchansky. Twenty-one scale test cars are already in use at railways; Volchansky is planning to make at least ten more such makes next year as well. ‘The scale test car VPV-135K is

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 11, 2016. The All-Russian Research-To-Practice Tankprom 3 Conference closed at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s Culture Palace in Nizhniy Tagil, the company press service reports. ‘The conference served as a springboard for further research and regional studies. We keep working on Tankrpom Museum, and such forums are definitely a good thing,’ says Ural Vagon Zavod Exhibition Center Director Alla Pislegina. ‘A proposal was made for Patriot Park Museum to liaise with Ural Vagon Zavod Exhibition Center. For one, an Ural Vagon Zavod-themed exhibition will

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 11, 2016. The Managing Director of EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) Alexei Kushnarev has also been appointed Managing Director of the holding’s Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (KGOK), EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. ‘Alexei Kusharev will manage both of EVRAZ Holding Ural’s member enterprises, which is expected to enhance cooperation efficiency of KGOK and its major customer NTMK, ensure synergy and unification of the two plants’ business processes, improve their management flow, and result in better

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 11, 2016. Some 5,000 ChTPZ Group’s employees, their children, and long-service employees now in retirement stayed at the company health resorts during the summer months of 2016. The Group directed more than 55m RUR to funding their stays, the company press service reports. Another 20m RUR were spent on health resort and children’s camp infrastructure repairs in time for the season’s takeoff. The Group’s employees went to Lesnaya Skazka and Sosnovy Bor Resorts and benefited from their Anti-Stress and Healthy Spine offers as well as engaged in climbing, rope

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 11, 2016. Ural Airlines are selling tickets for flights to be operated during the winter at a 30% discount on October 10-23, 2016. According to the company press service, the special offer (dubbed Choose Your Winter) holds for over a hundred destinations and for flights scheduled to be operated between November 7, 2016 and March 31, 2017. For full information on the list of flights and price quotes, please visit the company website. Tickets can also be booked online, with the help of the airline’s mobile app, or over the phone.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 10, 2016. The Paralympic cycling team Armada, sponsored by Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation, won six gold medals at the Russian Cycling/Trekking Championship for motion impaired sports players, the corporation’s press service reports. Alexei Obydennov won four gold medals, winning the C-3 1-km heat race (1:10:454 minutes), the 3-km pursuit race, and the mass start race. The sportsman trains with Ekaterina Mukhortova. Using his social network pages, Obydennov thanked everyone who helped him win, including Ural Vagon Zavod. Arslan Gilmutdinov and Sergei Pudov won gold

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 10, 2016. Pediatric surgeon Marina Zaripova and the local clinic’s Chief of Surgery Ilnur Gainullin, two young doctors who came to work at Karabash, were recently presented the keys to the apartments provided by the city’s CSR partners Russian Copper Company and Karabashmed. According to Russian Copper Company’s press service, the solemn ceremony was attended by Mayor of Karabash Oleg Budanov, Chelyabinsk Region Deputy Healthcare Minister Sergei Prikolotin, Russian Copper Company Vice President for Social Policy, HR & PR Olga Solodova, Karabashmed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 10, 2016. The Ural subsidiary of Rosset’s Federal Grid Company (FGC UES) got certified for the winter of 2016/2017 and is fully ready for the new heating season, the company press service reports. A two-stage check of all the power facilities on site proved that all the jobs relating to ensuring stable power supply in Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Orenburg, and Kirov Regions, Udmurtia, and Perm Territory were done property and in time. ‘All the preparation jobs are complete by now. We carried out a number of repairs before the winter as usual, which cost 605m

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 10, 2016. Ural Airlines are now offering tickets for Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky flights at a reduced price (1,000 RUR); the flight gets co-funded by the government, the air carrier’s press service reports. The offer is valid for Russian citizens under twenty-three, men and women of retirement age, people with Group I disabilities and those accompanying them on the flight, and people with lifelong Group II and Group III disabilities. Tickets can be booked for flights to be operated between October 7 and October 31, 2016. For more information on the flights to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 10, 2016. Starting from October 11, Spanish Visa Center in Yekaterinburg stops issuing visas for the local applicants. ‘Visa applications can get submitted through October 10 and can no longer be submitted starting from October 11. Yekaterinburg residents can still apply for their Spanish visa in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where Spain’s Consulates-General keep operating,’ visa operator VFS Global informed UrBC. As it happens, VFS Global did not succeed in winning the Spanish Foreign Affairs Ministry’s tender for controlling its visa centers abroad, including

UrBC, Saint Petersburg, October 7, 2016. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is currently taking part in the 6th Saint Petersburg International Gas Forum. For one, Head of MMK Technical Department Grigory Shchurov presented his report at a round table discussion on the Russian pipe-manufacturing industry’s innovative development. According to Shchurov, MMK is working to develop new rolling technologies to enable import substitution of large-diameter pipes. The company produced and certified pilot batches of K60 heavy plates for the Power of Siberia Pipeline, for example. The plates are