UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 23, 2019. A new entrance to Geologicheskaya Station (part of Yekaterinburg Underground) opened at Greenwich Shopping Mall in Yekaterinburg today. Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Vysokinsky and a young girl who happened to be waiting for her train on the platform completed the symbolic ribbon-cutting ceremony together. ‘We are grateful to Obshchestvo Malysheva 73 for the considerable investment they have made in the city’s economy. Starting today, the entrance will get maintained by the town council. This is a project we have completed as partners; we agreed to this

UrBC, Moscow, July 22, 2019. Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) says Google would have to pay a 700,000-ruble fine for failing to comply with the Russian legislation: the company did not remove unauthorized information (restricted-access data within the Russian Federation) from its search engine hits, Roskomnadzor’s press service reports. According to the service, their checks determined that Google search results still reveal more than 33% of web links banned by Roskomnadzor. A fine (RUB 700,000) was issued. The

UrBC, Moscow, July 22, 2019. Russia’s median monthly salary came to RUB 34,300 in April; the average monthly pay came to RUB 47,600, Rosstat’s report indicates. Within statistical reports, the median pay parameters get relied upon when there’s pronounced income inequality, with 50% of paid workers making more than the median income and the other 50% making less. The current discrepancy between the median and the average monthly pay varies by territory and fluctuates between 13% and 31%. According to Rosstat, the 10% best-paid workers make thirteen times more than the 10% lowest-paid ones:

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 22, 2019. OOO FORES and Job Safety Research Institute (NII OT) completed the first stage of their long-term joint project to reduce on-site noise in the company’s Sukhoi Log branch, FORES’s press service reports. ‘We started collaborating with the company eighteen months ago. We inspected production sites first, making noise level measurements both directly next to the mills and in the entire production shop,’ says the institute’s Deputy Director for Research Stanislav Belinsky. FORES representatives say a number of perforated plates got installed at Line 5 of their

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 22, 2019. Coffee houses, deli stores, and fast food restaurants are the businesses in the catering segment where the demand for banks’ acquiring services is the highest, the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s analysts say after looking into their customer base for the first half of 2019. According to the UBRD’s data, the share of companies in the said segment came to 7.2% of all customers signing acquiring contracts as of July 1, 2019. In 2017, their share only came to 5.5%. ‘Coffee-to-go and street food venues, as well as fast food cafes, are now very

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 22, 2019. Twenty-eight employees of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and MMK Group with three or more children - and their families - received vouchers for a family car at Metallurg Arena in Magnitogorsk, the company’s press service reports. The company’s management decided last fall that they would help families with five or more children buy a family car. According to the Group’s press service, this support program is currently unique in the Russian industrial sector. Twenty-eight families where one or both parents work for MMK Group entered the program on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 19, 2019. The construction of tram links connecting Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy to the city’s central locations and Solnechny to Vtorchermet will begin next year, the town council’s website says. A temporary ring road with a final stop in Preobrazhensky Park and a tram line along Wilhelm de Gennin St, Serafima Deryabina St, and Volgogradskaya St (total lengh: 4 km) will get built first. The line will then gent extended to Tatishchev St and will reach 6.7 km in length. The plan necessitates a number of major changes in the urban motorway network in the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 19, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s member enterprises are getting ready to celebrate the white-coated metallurgists’ most important day of the year on July 19-20, 2019, the Group’s press service reports. More than 10,000 employees at ChelPipe, their families, and former workers will all take part in the traditional Metallurgist’s Day festivities in Chelyabinsk and Pervouralsk. This year’s theme - Shine all the time, for ever shine - is borrowed from Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poem on the love of labor and social responsibility and is fully in sync with the Group’s corporate

UrBC, Moscow, July 19, 2019. Three employees of EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (NTMK) received government awards; the executive order to this effect was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin; the awards were given out by Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Nikolai Tsukanov in the course of a solemn ceremony, the holding’s press service reports. Managing Director of EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (NTMK) and EVRAZ Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (KGOK) Alexei Kushnarev

UrBC, Moscow, July 19, 2019. MegaFon now offers its customers SmartUtilities, a solution that relies on the Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) standard, the telecom company’s press service reports. The solution can control electric power, heating, natural gas, and water spending within a given home/building. SmartUtilities will be useful for electric power, heating power, and water suppliers, management companies, and housing developers. SmartUtilities is fully compatible with the popular systems 1C and GIS ZhKH, ensures automated collection of data (without the need for actual human

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 19, 2019. OOO FORES won the EcoBestAWard 2019, the prize given out for the best products and practices in the environment and resource-saving segment, the company’s press service reports. The company’s Cloud Filter Project was chosen as the Project of The Year. The awarding ceremony took place at Eco Life Fest in Moscow’s Izmaylovsky Park on July 13. The project relies on FORES’s rapidly advancing gas-filtering technologies. ‘There are about 200 up-to-date sock filters operating at the company’s plants at the moment. These filters trap over 99% of all the dust, which

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 18, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) launched its first polymeric coating unit fifteen years ago this month and its second polymeric coating unit ten years ago this month, the company’s press service reports. ‘MMK is one of Russia’s largest manufacturers of rolled metal goods with polymeric coatings. The company sold 559,000,000 kg of this produce last year alone, with 90% of it (500,000,000 kg) going to customers on the home market. We saw a large increase in sales after Lysva Metallurgical Plant joined MMK Group in 2017,’ the press service says. The

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, July 18, 2019. According to the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD), a mortgage loan issued in Chelyabinsk Region comes to RUB 1.5m on average (judging by the data of Chelyabinsk Region-based borrowers with mortgages as of June 1, 2019). ‘It turns out that a Chelyabinsk Region-based successful mortgage applicant is, on average, 39 years old. Interestingly, there are slightly more female applicants than male ones (the ratio is 52: 48). People with families take out mortgage loans more often than other categories of applicants, and their mortgages are on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 18, 2019. Russian hockey player, Kontinental Hockey League HC CSKA goalkeeper, Russia’s Honored Master of Sports Ilya Sorokin and his father Igor Sorokin paid a visit to EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Mine. The sports player took the KHL Gagarin Cup with him on this trip, and went down into the mine with it, Raspadskaya Coal Company’s press service reports. ‘It is a custom with the KHL players that the Gagarin Cup winners take their trophy with them to their native towns. Ilya Sorokin was born in Novokuznetsk and raised in Mezhdurechensk, where he first started playing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 18, 2019. SKB online users can now pay their bills electronically with a QR code: this option is now available for housing bills, taxes, fines, and tuition fees, SKB-Bank’s press service reports. ‘You can now make a payment to the account of any company that can make an invoice with a QR code on it. The payment procedure itself is very simple: within your SKB Online app, you go to Payments and Transfers, select QR Code, and scan the code on the invoice with your smartphone camera. Everything will get uploaded into the system automatically, you’ll only need to confirm

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 18, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s warehouse is going to supply some 5,000,000 kg of pipes for heating infrastructure repairs in time for the next heating season, the company’s press service reports. Pipes made at the Group’s member enterprises Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe) and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) will be used in the summer repair campaigns of Russia’s largest energy companies, including Siberian Generating Company (SibGenCo), TeploEnergo, T-Plus, Bashkir Generation Company, and Moscow United Energy Company (MOEK). ChelPipe Group’s warehouse started

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 17, 2019. A new automated boiler settings adjustment system has been introduced at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) power stations recently; the savings are estimated to come to more than RUB 85m a year. According to the company’s press service, the new system will ensure a more efficient use of energy resources and will also reduce harmful air emissions greatly. The system has been designed and launched by experts from MMK Senior Energy Engineer’s Department in cooperation with MMK United Service Company (USC) and South Ural State University as part of the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 17, 2019. ChelPipe Group presented the first results stemming from a series of new private-public partnership solutions implemented in the Group-supported vocational schools at Innoprom 2019 International Industrial Exhibition in Yekaterinburg, the company’s press service reports. Since 2001, the Group has been involved in the PPP project the Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program in Sverdlovsk Region, Chelyabinsk Region, and Tatarstan. The program relies on a dual education model, with 40% of the study time dedicated to learning the theory and

UrBC, Moscow, July 17, 2019. Rosatom Corporation is launching a new social welfare project called Right to Health. The Basics of Efficient Patient-Doctor Interaction for Nuclear Industry Towns. The project aims to improve the quality of healthcare and enhance both patients’ and doctors’ legal literacy. Between July 2019 and March 2020, the project will get implemented in Sverdlovsk Region and Chelyabinsk Region towns where Rosatom runs its member enterprises: Novouralsk, Lesnoy, Ozersk, Snezhinsk, Trekhgorny, and Zarechny, the company’s press service reports. ‘When people are not fully aware

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 17, 2019. Raspadskaya. GunterCup 2019, a family basketball event, took place at Sports Palace in Novokuznetsk. Some 3,000 people came to see the game, Raspadskaya Coal Company’s press service reports. Siberia’s twelve strongest teams competed in the street ball contest. Russia’s basketball stars, European and world champions gave master classes to hundreds of children from local basketball schools and children from Novokuznetsk. The band Quest Pistols Show also performed at the event. The family event gathered together EVRAZ Holding and Raspadskaya Coal Company