UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 18, 2016. 76% of Yekaterinburg-based job-seekers are faced with cash flow problems while on the lookout for a job, HeadHunter’s research findings indicate. Based on the results of the survey, financial trouble is felt very keenly by two-thirds of the respondents, while the rest appear to be coping. Only 5% of those surveyed never face any shortage of funds and live on their savings or their family’s income during their employment-seeking period. They do admit, however, that this safety cushion or family support would only be enough for no longer than three months’

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 18, 2016. Ural Airlines will operate more flights to the Crimea this summer, the air carrier’s press service reports. For one, a new flight will be available from Astrakhan. Astrakhan-Simferopol flights will be operated every Tuesday starting from May 31, 2016. On the same day, the air carrier will also resume its Kirov-Simferopol flights on Tuesdays and Thursdays. ‘The Crimea as a summer holiday destination is a great opportunity to enjoy the magnificent landscapes and climate of the peninsula as well as to rest, mentally and physically, at local health resorts. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 18, 2016. Kamenskoye Farm, a member of Sinara Group and one of the Mid-Urals’ largest agricultural businesses, embarked on this year’s sowing campaign recently, the company press service reports. This year, 14,000 hectares of farm fields will be used to sow over 7,000 hectares of grains (3,000 hectares of wheat, 3,200 hectares of barley, and 800 hectares of oats), 80 hectares of potatoes, and cattle feed-stuffs. This season will be a bit unusual in that 500 hectares of land will be used for growing rapeseed for the first time. The farm got ready for the seedtime in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 18, 2016. Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry Plant/KULZ (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) Director-General Anatoly Barabanov was awarded a thank-you letter from Governor of Sverdlovsk Region, the company press service reports. The letter states that it has been issued in recognition of ‘many years of conscientious work efforts, impressive contribution to the development of Sverdlovsk Region’s industry, and supporting the Russian Federation’s defense potential.’ ’Anatoly Barabanov came to work at the plant with a fresh degree from Ulyanovsk Polytechnic forty

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 17, 2016. Ural Airlines is introducing a weekly Moscow-Venice flight starting from June 11; the flight will be operated every Saturday, the air carrier’s press service reports. Prices start from 10,640 RUR (one-way) and 18,802 RUR (round trip), all fees and charges included. Tickets can be booked on the company website www.uralairlines.com, with UralAirlines app, over the phone (8-800-7700-262), or at any booking office. ‘Venice is a miraculously beautiful city which is deservingly considered one of this planet’s most romantic locations. It is believed to be one of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 17, 2016. Gazprombank Leasing signed an 896-million-ruble lease contract with Karabashmed (a member enterprise of Russian Copper Company), so the latter will now be using 300 new tank railcars made by a Russian manufacturer, the company press service reports. Karabashmed (Karabash, Chelyabinsk Region), produces blister copper from processed copper concentrate and from recycled copper-containing materials. The railcars will be used for transfer of sulfur acid, a byproduct of blister copper production. The lease contract will hold for the next seven years; the funding

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 17, 2015. EVRAZ Consolidated West-Siberian Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ ZSMK, a member of EVRAZ Holding) shipped over 6,000,000 kg of A500S reinforcing bars and rolled wire to Tajikistan; these were needed for the construction of Dushanbe 2 Power Station, EVRAZ PR Department reports. The company is currently the primary reinforcing bar supplier for the project and expects to keep shipping its produce to Dushanbe until everything has been completed. A500S bars enjoy good demand on the Russian and CIS member states’ market due to its improved plasticity and durability

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 17, 2016. UVZSHOP.ru now sells various toy-size replicas of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s armored vehicles to interested customers, the company press service reports. ‘Until recently, these collector’s pieces were only available at our (offline) licensed outlets in Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, and Nizhniy Tagil. Now everyone can get the small-scale copies of our famous tanks without setting foot outside one’s home,’ the press service says. The online store features nineteen different makes that were produced at the corporation’s member enterprises throughout the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 17, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation/UVZ took part in the international InterMuseum Forum in Moscow on May 13-16, the company press service reports. The corporation’s stand was dedicated to their company museum Tankprom. The museum is expected to be fully finished by 2020, in time for the Russian tank industry’s 100th anniversary celebrations. ‘Nizhniy Tagil will become home to Russia’s only tank industry history museum. The exhibits will probably be donated not only by the corporation’s head plant (the only tank manufacturer in this country) but also its other

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 13, 2016. The average asking price comes to 68,819 RUR per m2 on Yekaterinburg existing home market at the moment, down 0.5% against four weeks earlier and down 2.7% against the start of the year, Ural Real Estate Chamber reports. Prices declined most noticeably for centrally located apartments, where the price of a square meter declined by 2.5% in the last four weeks and currently comes to 93,744 RUR. Homes in the second priciest locations did not grow any cheaper (73,713 RUR per m2), while those in the third most expensive districts grew 0.5% to 0.7% less expensive,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 13, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region-based employers owed their workers 12.383m RUR in unpaid salaries and wages as of May 1, 2016, which was 2.9 times more than one year earlier, Sverdlovskstat reports. The unpaid amounts came to 6.112m RUR in the processing industries sector, to 4.359m RUR in the communal housing services and utilities sector, and to 1.912m RUR in the water collection and purification sector. At the moment, 594 employees are waiting to be paid.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 13, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development and VUZ-Bank are organizing a business party in Yekaterinburg on Tuesday, May 24, the bank’s press service reports. According to UBRD representatives, a hundred entrepreneurs will be able to do talk over and develop functional business models that work in today’s market – all this in a role-playing game format – and do some useful networking. Invited are all the businesspeople looking for new ideas on business promotion and interested in an express evaluation of their existing thoughts. A business party is a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 13, 2016. The team of miners from Yerunakovskaya 8 Mine (the asset of Raspadskaya Coal Company), headed by foremen Alexander Lyane and Mikhail Menshov, was the first among EVRAZ Holding teams to produce 1,000,000,000 kg of coal this year, the company press service reports. The company management congratulated the miners on their success. ‘This is the first time a team from Yerunakovskaya has achieved the 1,000,000,000 kg target figure in just four months. The miners are working smoothly, manage to avoid accidents and emergencies, and thus set an example for the entire

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 13, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant directed 24.6m RUR to support local schools as part of its corporate social responsibility program, the company press service reports. Most of the money will be spent on remodeling and repairs, including 4m RUR for local kindergartens’ remodeling; also, Nizhniy Tagil Metal Treatment School and Nizhniy Tagil subsidiary of Ural Federal University will receive 3m RUR each. Some 10m RUR will be distributed among twenty secondary schools in Nizhniy Tagil: Lyceum, Gymnasium 86, School 9, Lyceum 39, and School 39 will

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, May 13, 2016. MMK Trading House proved one of Russia’s 1,000 best e-trading market suppliers which contributed greatly to the development of national market competition. The rating for the year 2015 was created by B2B Center. The Top 1,000 Rating comprises suppliers with the best sales on electronic trading platforms (the highest sale/bidding ratio), selected from among 267,000 different companies registered with B2B Center. All the companies on the list were given certificates and Successful Supplier badges as well as provided with acknowledgements on the center’s and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 12, 2016. The price of a country summerhouse with a patch of land around it came to 1.101m RUR on average in Sverdlovsk Region in late April, which was 6% less than one year earlier and 20% less than in early 2015, N1.ru’s research findings indicate. Prices went down for nearly all key locations, but the drop was most noticeable in places near Revda (-25%) and Pervouralsk (-22%), while the most expensive dachas can be found around Sysert, where a dacha with a land allotment comes for 1,537,500 RUR. Prices first started going down in February 2015, with no traditional

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 12, 2016. The number of newly issued international travel passports decreased by 59.2% in the four months of 2016 compared with one year earlier, Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Migration Service informed UrBC. The Service provided Russian citizens with 43,735 passports in January-April 2015 and with 17,841 passports in the four months of 2016. ‘The demand dropped by 60% against last year, which has to do with the current state of the Russian economy and the international status quo,’ the Service explains.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 12, 2016. The Invincible Ones: World’s Best Soldiers and Chelyabinsk Region’s Natives premiered in Chelyabinsk on May 9. The film was created by the Ural1 Internet channel and Russian Copper Company and is dedicated to sixteen war heroes who made their priceless contribution to the Great Victory, the company press service reports. The movie is reported to be one of the most unusual and truthful war films created in recent years. Sixteen toy soldiers whose faces resemble the actual combatants were cast in the Urals specially for the purpose. Among these war heroes are

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 12, 2016. Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works/NTMK (a member enterprise of EVRAZ Holding) produced over 850,000 kg of double T-rails for RN-Snabzheniye, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR Center reports. The T-rails will be used in the survey operations and development of oil and gas deposits in Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous District, as well as for capital repairs; these will be supplied there throughout the year 2016. NTMK’s double T-rail is meant to relieve and redistribute the structure load, which is why it is a popular component of complicated industrial structures

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 12, 2016. Electromachine (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) got its new invention, an electromagnetic contactor, patented by the Federal Intellectual Property Service, the company press service reports. Electromachine is currently working on the design, development, and market launch of the new product. This contactor type is more technologically advanced than its predecessor the pneumatic contactor, which the company now makes on a serial scale. ‘Pneumatic contactors contain mechanisms that make the whole thing bulkier and more expensive, whereas