UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 23, 2019. New children’s playgrounds and workout sites opened in Kaltan and Malyshev Log, Kemerovo Region, EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s PR Department reports. A children’s playground is now available in Malyshev Log. Another playground and two workout sites opened in Kaltan. The playing appliances and workout equipment, as well as the urban improvement jobs, got funded by Raspadskaya Coal Company. ‘All the sports and children’s playgrounds are open to the general public. Locals of all ages can now practice with bars and street workout fixtures. All

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 23, 2019. The 25th BakuBuild 2019 Exhibition is opening in Azerbaijan’s capital today. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is taking part in the event. According to the company’s Information & PR Department, MMK joins the large-scale exhibition every year, since Azerbaijan’s market has always been an appealing one for MMK. Azerbaijan is one of MMK’s largest CIS markets. In 2016, the company supplied more than 130,000,000 kg of metal goods to the country. This year, MMK’s exhibition stand will feature a wide range of metal goods, mostly the ones for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2019. 80 young trees (30 Lombardy poplars, 30 Norway maple trees, and 20 fir trees) got planted in OOO FORES’s Sukhoi Log sanitary protection zone, the company’s press service reports. ‘The poplars and some of the maple trees are meant to grow in front of the fence that separates the plant from the road leading to Fabrika. The fir trees got planted right next to these, and the remaining maples now grow along the mechanical shop: this is the north-facing part of the plant, where most of our buildings are actually located,’ the company says. According to head of

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, October 22, 2019. Gleb Gorbunov was appointed Director of First Freight Company’s Chelyabinsk branch, the freight forwarder’s press service reports. Prior to this new appointment, Gorbunov worked as the company’s First Deputy Head of Shipping Department. ‘The branch’s former head Vladimir Terekhov decided to retire yet intends to support Gleb Gorbunov during his induction time as Advisor to Director of First Freight Company’s Chelyabinsk Division,’ the press service says. Gleb Gorbunov graduated from Russian State Open Technical Railway University with a degree in Shipping

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2019. Ural Airlines will start operating its new, direct Moscow-London flight on December 20, 2019, the air carrier’s press service reports. Flights U6 745/746 will get operated four times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport to London Stansted Airport. Passengers flying from Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Omsk, Barnaul, and other locations can also get to London on a connecting flight via Moscow. ‘Everyone coming to London as a tourist sees a visit to Madame Tussauds Museum as a must, alongside with enjoying

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2019. Standard & Poor’s (S&P) affirmed the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s long- and short-term ratings at B-/B, with Stable rating outlook, the bank’s press service reports. According to the agency’s report, the rating outlook was given as ‘Stable’ to emphasize that S&P Global Ratings believe the UBRD will manage to retain its confident share of the market and customer base in the Urals in the next twelve months, maintain asset quality, and ensure stable liquidity and funding performance. It is also reported the bank has a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s new solution for the innovative hi tech process simulation of mine water filtering (combined with a virtual tour of the filtering facilities) won the grand prize as Best Exhibit at the 3d Siberian Environmental Forum. According to the company’s PR Department, VR technology is used to enable an ‘inspection’ of the filtering facilities at Uskovskaya Mine, and a mock-up made of environmentally friendly materials that demonstrates the stages of water filtering plus a 3D simulation on a touchscreen are used for the

UrBC, Moscow, October 21, 2019. Russia’s GDP growth in the third quarter of 2019 exceeded that for the third quarter of 2018 by 1.9%, the Economic Development Ministry’s report (available on the ministry’s website) states. Russia’s GDP rose by 1.2% since January 2019 and by about 2% in September 2019 compared with September 2018. At the same time, the increase in the country’s GDP was sporadic and was brought about by incidental occurrences, the ministry says. According to the ministry, the increase in the GDP in the second half of 2019 compared with the first half of the year has to do with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 21, 2019. More than 150 people offered their feedback and proposals for Pervouralsk’s urban improvement program, ChelPipe Group’s press service reports. A two-day public discussion for members of the expert community and general public got coordinated by ChelPipe Group and Urban Analytics Center. Strategic development expert and corporate program moderator at Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO Pavel Surkov supervised the group work in the process. The first day’s foresight session was attended by local and constituency government officials, members of the local

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 21, 2019. Irkutsk International Airport recently welcomed this year’s 2,000,000th passenger, who arrived at the airport on a Ural Airlines flight. According to the air carrier’s press service, Varvara Lipukhina was flying to Moscow on Flight U6 16 on October 18. ‘There was a solemn meetings/greetings ceremony, with a brass band performance and a shower of air balloons coming down from the ceiling. The airport’s CFO Yuri Kurdyukov and Head of Ural Airlines’s Irkutsk branch Vyacheslav Zemerov congratulated Ms Lipukhina on the happy occasion,’ the press service says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 21, 2019. SKB-Bank’s Supervisory Board voted unanimously on October 16 to keep current Chair of the Board Denis Repnikov in office for another five years; Repnikov was first elected Chair of the Board in 2014. According to the bank’s press service, Vice Chair of the Board Dmitri Ivanov and Vice Chair of the Board Alexei Lutsenko (who is also SKB-Bank’s Retail Business Director) got reelected for five-year terms as well.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 21, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) spent RUB 67.6m on personnel training in the first half of 2019, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 1.8 times, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. Between January and June 2019, more than 6,668 employees (including 3,770 people in blue-collar jobs and some 2,900 people in while-collar and managerial positions) underwent various continuous professional development and retraining programs. Nearly 2,000 workers went on professional development programs, and 922 people got trained or

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 18, 2019. 26 filling stations selling substandard quality diesel fuel got reported on in Sverdlovsk Region in the nine months of 2019, Deputy Head of Rosstandart Alexei Kuleshov said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg today. The fuel market has been improving, quality-wise, in the country overall: every one in five filling stations (20%) sold problematic fuel in 2015 and only under 8.8% of stations had problems in the nine months of 2019. The plan is to keep working to bring the problems down to zero, Kuleshov said. According to Kuleshov, experts took samples

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 18, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region came 16th in the national rating of constituencies with the lowest debt ratios. The constituency’s debt ratio increased by 1.39% in the last six months and came to 23.6% (against 22.21% in April 2019). In the last six months, the mean debt ratio went up most noticeably in Perm Territory (+3.08%), Kirov Region (+2.8%), and the Republic of Komi (+2.72%). According to the National Credit History Bureau, the debt ratio increased least noticeably in Primorsky Territory (+0.42%), the Republic of Khakassia (+0.65%), and Khabarovsk Territory

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 18, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company intends to upgrade Abashevskaya Processing Plant and Kuznetskaya Processing Plant, allocating RUB 300m for the purpose. According to the company’s press service, a new cell facility has been launched at Abashevskaya Processing Plant to enable the full coal processing cycle (including particles up to 0 mm small). The facility has two modern cells, two pressure-tank filters, pumps, compressors, and ancillary equipment. ‘The use of floatation techniques has meant the ash content in the smaller coal particles rose

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 18, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region’s residents have been placing their complaints with the Central Bank of Russia more often this year compared with the previous years, Head of CBR’s Consumer Rights Department Mikhail Mamuta said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. The number of complaints placed with the CBR by Ural Federal District-based Russians came to 14,100 in January-August 2019, which exceeds the figures for one year earlier by 8.3%. The number of complaints coming specifically from Sverdlovsk Region’s residents reached 5,600, which is 8% more than one year

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 18, 2019. Ural Airlines will be operating two new direct flights from Voronezh to Osh, Kyrgyzstan and to Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe this winter. According to the air carrier’s press service, the flights will be operated every Saturday starting November 2, 2019. Prices start from RUB 7,731 for Voronezh-Osh flights and from RUB 12,770 for Voronezh-Dushanbe ones (one way, all fees included). ‘The flights will get operated on the modern Airbus liners; the flights are about four hours long,’ the press service says. You can book your tickets at the company website

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 17, 2019. As of October 1, 2019, there were 263,300 head of cattle at Sverdlovsk Region-based farms, which was 0.3% less than one year previously, Sverdlovskstat reports. The number of sheep and goats also dropped by 1.1%, down to 64,900, while poultry count dropped by 2.2%, down to 13.4 million. The number of pigs rose by 6.3%, up to 365,000.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 17, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region-based businesses’ turnover amounted to RUB 4,290,169,000,000 in January-September 2019, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 4.3%, Sverdlovskstat reports. The turnover of businesses in the agricultural sector, forestry, and hunting and fishing industries rose by 7% and amounted to RUB 36.834bn in January-September; that of businesses in the oil and gas sector rose by 33.2% and amounted to RUB 72.877bn; that of businesses in the processing industry rose by 4.9% and amounted to RUB 1,512,952,000,000; that of businesses

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 17, 2019. Ural Airlines will start operating a new direct flight from Yekaterinburg to Almaty and back on December 22. According to the air carrier’s press service, Yekaterinburg-Almaty flights will get operated every Friday and Sunday; Almaty-Yekaterinburg flights will get operated every Monday and Saturday. The flight is three hours long. Prices start from RUB 8,808 (one way) and from RUB 15,481 (there and back). The tickets are already available at the company website www.uralairlines.com, on Ural Airlines mobile app, over the phone +7-800-7700-262, and at