UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 11, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s representatives gave a talk on the company’s comprehensive area development and urban improvement projects at RBC’s round table discussion on investing in Russian constituencies and sustainable development; the discussion was part of the 10th Innoprom International Industrial Exhibition in Yekaterinburg, the Group’s press service reports. Russia’s Industry & Trade Ministry and Economic Development Ministry officials, members of the expert community, and representatives of industrial enterprises all talked about the ways the government

UrBC, Moscow, July 10, 2019. Ural Airlines are taking part in the international industrial exhibition Innoprom for the tenth time this year, the air carrier’s press service reports. Ural Airlines’ stand features the company’s destination network, the new offers available this summer, and the airline’s new booking system that works both on the company website and on the mobile app. ‘In our traditional selfie area, visitors to the stand will be captured with a moving turbine in the background, surrounded by a group of flight attendants. You can also buy branded souvenirs and useful travel

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 10, 2019. MegaFon is now working on a dating service in cooperation with Tinder; the telecom company’s customers will get a series of exclusive options within the app, MegaFon’s press service reports. It is reported that MegaFon’s customers can enjoy a premium account at a lower price, unlimited access to the dating app even when they have no money in their mobile phone account, and the option of paying for things on the app directly from their mobile phone account. ‘There are about 500,000 Tinder users in Russia at the moment, and every one in three is also a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 10, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s shareholder Andrei Komarov contributed to the plenary session on the Industry of the Future: Growth Potential in New Digital Technologies & Organizational Models at the international industrial exhibition Innoprom 2019. According to ChelPipe Group’s press service, Russia’s Deputy Minister for Industry & Trade Oleg Bocharov chaired the session. Government officials and members of the expert and business communities, including KAMAZ Director-General Sergey Kogogin, Chair of the BOD at SOLLERS Vadim Shvetzov, Director-General at SAP

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 10, 2019. The average price of a laptop came to RUB 37,300 on the Ural market in the second quarter of 2019; this exceeds the figures for one year earlier by 7%, Svyaznoy/Euroset’s PR Department reports. ‘Laptops keep growing more expensive at RUB 37,300 per unit on average, which is 7% more than one year earlier. Users go for costlier versions intended for hardware-intensive computer games and compatible with advanced image editing software,’ says Head of Svyaznoy/Euroset Ural Alexander Voronin. 89,000 laptops (total worth: RUB 3.3bn) got sold on the Ural market in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 10, 2019. Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Vysokinsky commented on the expected effect of the city hosting the second Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS), the town council’s Information Policy Department reports. ‘The Urals’ capital has gotten used to hosting such high-profile events as the Global Summit. Occasions like these naturally shape Yekaterinburg’s image and attract ever more people, resources, and investment here,’ Vysokinsky said at the summit’s opening. Vysokinsky stressed that Yekaterinburg was one of Russia’s key industrial centers

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 9, 2019. Ural Airlines are launching their annual off-peak season sale, with tickets to popular summertime destinations available at a discount for the months of September and October, the air carrier’s press service reports. Discounts are available on July 8-21, 2019 if you book flights scheduled for departure on August 20-December 23, 2019. There are 10,000 tickets for domestic flights starting from as little as RUB 1,000 and tickets to over two hundred other destinations up to 50% off. Tickets can be booked on the company website www.uralairlines.com and at any

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 9, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is taking part in the international industrial exhibition Innoprom 2019 in Yekaterinburg this week, the company’s Information & PR Department reports. The plant intends to present its technology for making rolled metal goods from ON9 cryogenic structural steel at the exhibition; the technology was developed at MMK last year, while the steel variety is used extensively for production, storage, and transportation of liquefied/compressed natural gas. In terms of their cryogenic performance, ON9 steels are fully

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 9, 2019. Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Vysokinsky opened Yekaterinburg’s own stand at the international industrial exhibition Innoprom 2019, the town council’s website states. The stand (1D3) can be found at Pavilion 1 and is 176 m2 large. The town council designed a very busy schedule for every day of the exhibition. To begin with, the mayor will sign a series of agreements at the stand on the first day of the forum, July 8. The next day will be dedicated to Yekaterinburg Council Investment Coordination Committee’s meeting and presentations of the projects for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 9, 2019. More than forty countries are planning to come to the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS) 2019 in Yekaterinburg on July 9-11. The event gets coordinated by the Roscongress Foundation. According to the foundation’s press service, the largest delegations are coming from the United Arab Emirates, China, Germany, Austria, the U.S., Great Britain, Venezuela, and India. Over 2,000 people are going to take part in the event all in all, including Russian and foreign officials, heads of large enterprises, and leading industrial production experts

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 9, 2019. RIA Rating recently carried a rating of income levels in different Russian constituencies; Sverdlovsk Region came 11th in the rating. 9.7% of the constituency’s residents live below poverty line; 1.3% live in extreme poverty. According to the statistical data available in the report, Sverdlovsk Region’s residents’ incomes exceeded the cost of a basic food basket and indispensable services by 1.85 times in 2018. The rating states that people’s income levels are directly related to economic growth. Salaries, wages, pensions, and other sources of income have no

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 8, 2019. Yekaterinburg Council adopted a plan for the landmarking and the layout of parts of District Akademicheskiy meant for road-building, the town council’s official website states. The plan has to do with the prospective construction of roads in Akademik Sakharov Ave (from Sukhodolskaya St to Ryabinin St); Sukhodolskaya St (from Tenistaya St to Khrustalnogorskaya St); Evgeny Savkov St (from Khrustalnogorskaya St to Kosoturskaya St); Kosoturskaya St (from Evgeny Savkov St to the existing section of Sukhodolskaya St and the River Patrushikha canal). ‘The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 8, 2019. EVRAZ Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) supplied more than 3,500 Larssen sheet piles to the logistics terminal LUGAPORT in Ust-Luga in the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. ‘Larssen sheet piles will get used to set up artificial patches of land and eventually to build a shore in the area. EVRAZ NTMK provided its own special-purpose railcars to get the bulky cargo transferred safely to its destination. The metal goods got forwarded from Smychka, Sverdlovsk Railways, to Kotla, Oktyabrsk

UrBC, Moscow, July 8, 2019. Ural Airlines will operate a very special Yekaterinburg-Beijing flight today, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Exactly ten years ago today, the airline operated its very first flight from Yekaterinburg to Beijing. The introduction of a scheduled flight in 2009 was strategically very important for the economic and cultural ties between China and the Urals. More than 370,028 passengers have travelled on this flight since then, while destinations in China have grown to become some of the key ones for both the airline and the airport. The new flight has meant

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 8, 2019. ChelPipe Group intends to present its stand dedicated to the program for comprehensive area development and urban improvement in Pervouralsk at the international industrial exhibition Innoprom 2019, the company’s press service reports. The agreement to work on the program was signed by ChelPipe Group, Sverdlovsk Region Government, Pervouralsk, and the City Analytics Center in June. ‘This year’s Innoprom is all about digital production and the global industry’s future. Within this given framework, the Group is presenting its own vision of comprehensive area

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 8, 2019. SKB-Bank is taking part in the international industrial exhibition Innoprom 2019 on July 8-11 in Yekaterinburg, the bank’s press service reports. The goal is to present the synergy between two big brands: SKB-Bank and DeloBank, the online bank for businesses. ‘Visitors to the exhibition will also be able to submit their biometric data at SKB-Bank’s stand, so as to be able to enjoy the benefits of remote banking from anywhere outside of the bank. What is more, there will be an out-of-the-ordinary assistant (a robot) to help you take a photo of the occasion

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 5, 2019. FORES Ltd’s Sukhoi Log branch keeps modernizing its production site, the company’s press service reports. Three temporary landfills got covered with concrete in June as part of the company’s environmental protection program. Additionally, a car tire collection spot got organized, as well as a storm drain for the temporary wood waste disposal site. The jobs cost around RUB 80,000 to complete,’ the press service says. According to the company’s representatives, all the production sites now meet all the existing sanitary standards. The concrete protects the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 5, 2019. OOO MMK Industrial Park and WorldSkills Russia signed a cooperation agreement, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works’ (MMK) press service reports. ‘Under the terms of the agreement, the industrial park’s residents will be able to offer professional development and continuous professional education courses to people in the 50+ age group free of charge; the courses will meet the international WorldSkills standards and will be offered as part of the Older Generation Project/National Demography Project,’ the press service says. Now WorldSkills Russia acts as

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 5, 2019. EVRAZ Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant’s (EVRAZ NTMK) team won gold in Engineering Design and Wiring during EVRAZ Holding’s corporate round of the WorldSkills Championship in Novokuznetsk. Contestants from EvrazTekhnika won the first prize in Mechatronics, whilst the gold medals in the rest of the categories went to EVRAZ United West Siberian Metallurgical Plant’s (EVRAZ ZSMK) team. According to EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center’s PR Department, over three hundred professionals and experts from the holding’s six member enterprises (EVRAZ

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 5, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s employees, students on the Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program, and students on the Group’s Tatarstan College of the Future Corporate Training Program are all taking part in ChelPipe Group’s corporate round of the WorldSkills Championship; the competition takes place at the Group’s Training Center in Pervouralsk. According to the company’s press service, the thirty contestants represent ChelPipe Group’s pipe manufacturing division and Rimera Oilfield Services division (Alnas, Izhneftemash, Chelyabinsk Pipe