UrBC, Moscow, June 25, 2019. MegaFon was the first Russian telecom company to offer its customers money for paying their mobile phone bills in March; the company’s new customers can now enjoy a 100% cashback option on a range of new payment plans, MegaFon’s press service reports. Starting June 24, everyone who subscribes to certain payment plans offered by MegaFon can get 100% of the amount they have paid for the plan and for their international roaming service back; that is, the new customers will get reimbursed for the month they have signed up for the plan and for the next coming month.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, June 24, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) shipped 181,070,000 kg of rolled section steel items to customers in May 2019; this has been the largest monthly shipment since the plant’s rolled section steel department got launched. According to MMK’s Information, PR & Advertising Department, the previous record (172,000,000 kg of rolled section steel shipped to customers in the course of one month) was set in July 2015. ‘The plant’s rolled section steel department is currently working at its full capacity; MMK made around 1,800,000,000 kg last year, with 98%

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 24, 2019. The World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) representatives recently completed their tech support mission (with a focus on a strong nuclear safety culture) at Rosatom’s Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Plant. According to the nuclear plant’s Information & PR Department, the mission was aimed at experience- and expertise-sharing and at enhancing the plant’s staff’s professional skills with the best global practices as the model. ‘Any assessment we get from the international experts helps us improve and develop our competencies,’ says the plant’s director

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 24, 2019. A Sverdlovsk Region-based worker got RUB 40,168 on average in terms of monthly pay in April 2019; this exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 7.2%, Sverdlovskstat reports. In the healthcare sector, the pay rose by 10.4% and reached RUB 38,994 a month on average; in the construction sector, the pay went up by 10.1% and reached RUB 33,190 a month on average; as for the wages and salaries in the processing industry, retail and wholesale trade, finance and insurance, and handling and storage, these increased by 8.8% (up to RUB 44,927 a month), 5.6% (up to

UrBC, Moscow, June 24, 2019. The Central Bank of Russia pointed to two primary factors behind the drop in private customers’ bank savings (from 10.7% down to 6.5%) last year, the bank’s recent report on the state of affairs in the banking sector in 2018 says. A change in people’s behavioral patterns in combination with the shrinking share of savings in their income management structure (from 8.1% in 2017 down to 5.6% in 2018) is stated as the first factor. People’s growing interest in alternative ways of investing money (real estate and stock market) is stated as the second one.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 24, 2019. There were 228,023 workers in hazardous employment in Sverdlovsk Region last year (174,991 men and 53,032 women), Sverdlovskstat reports. According to the agency’s research findings, 132,432 local workers get exposed to noise, ultrasound, infrasound, and airborne sound. 55,708 people are employed in the chemical industry. 33,243 workers get exposed to localized and generalized vibration.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 21, 2019. The developer RSG-Akademicheskoye is coordinating an auction to find the contractor to complete an urban improvement project next to apartment buildings 9.1.2 and 9.4.2 in Quarter 9 in District Akademicheskiy, Yekaterinburg, the developer’s press service reports. The opening bid for the lot in question has been set at RUB 10,931,000 (20% VAT included). Under the terms of the auction, the work needs to get completed between the day the contract gets signed and September 2019. Potential bidders can sign up for the event on June 20-July 5, 2019. The results

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 21, 2019. An automated earthmoving equipment/vehicle monitoring system has been launched at EVRAZ Holding’s Kachkanarsky Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise mines this month, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center’s PR Department reports. The system controls the dumper trucks', bulldozers’, excavators’, auto-loaders’, and food trucks’ location and performance parameters and feeds the information into the server in real-time mode. The wireless connection available in four mines is used to send the data on the operating speed, mileage, fuel level,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 21, 2019. The developer RSG-Akademicheskoye is coordinating an auction to find the contractor to build a temporary road and pavement in Timofeyev-Resovsky St (Blocks 26.2, 26.4, and 26.8) with exit ramps to the bridges in Wilhelm de Gennin St and Ryabinin St in District Akademicheskiy, Yekaterinburg, the developer’s press service reports. The opening bid for the lot in question has been set at RUB 8,983,000 (20% VAT included). Under the terms of the auction, the work needs to get completed between the day the contract gets signed and September 2019. Potential bidders

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 21, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) looked into the data of new customers who opened a savings account with the bank between January 1 and June 1, 2019, the bank’s press service reports. ‘It appears that married people tend to save up most proactively, as the share of married customers among those who set up a savings account with the UBRD comes to 69%. Our female customers generally open savings accounts more often than our male customers, but the average amount of money men put in a deposit tends to be larger than that deposited by

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 21, 2019. Ural Airlines introduced more Moscow-Anaya-Moscow flights this summer, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Our planes will take you to the Black Sea up to four times a day through mid-October. The extra flights got added because Anapa proved really popular with Moscow’s vacationers,’ the press service says. Anapa-bound flights will get operated on the comfortable Airbus liners through October 13, 2019. The tickets can be booked on the company website www.uralairlines.com, on Ural Airlines mobile app, over the phone +7-800-7700-262, and at any booking

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 20, 2019. MegaFon and Ural Forest Conservation Air Base introduced online monitoring systems at fifteen more Sverdlovsk Region-based foresters, the telecom company’s press service reports. MegaFon and the air base first launched the remote video surveillance service to keep track of forest fires as early as 2014, when twenty-four different locations got monitored. This year, cameras arrived in fifteen more spots in Sysert, Nizhniy Tagil, Nevyansk, Tugulym, Sukhoi Log, Tavda, Irbit, Alapayevsk, Kushva, Sotrinsky, Verkhoturye, Berezovsky, Rezh, and Sinyachikha

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 20, 2019. Ural Airline are offering their customers extra discounts on state-subsidized plane tickets, the air carrier’s press service reports. The offer holds through June 23 and applies to the following flights to get operated between September 15 and December 15: Moscow-Kaliningrad and Kaliningrad-Moscow (prices start from RUB 500, one way); Yekaterinburg-Chita and Chita-Yekaterinburg (prices start from RUB 2,500, one way); Moscow-Chita and Chita-Moscow (prices start from RUB 3,000, one way); Moscow-Blagoveshchensk and Blagoveshchensk-Moscow (prices start from RUB

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 20, 2019. The developer RSG-Akademicheskoye is coordinating an auction to find the contractor to do the survey and design work for the reconstruction of Wilhelm de Gennin St, Serafima Deryabina St, and Tokarey St in Yekaterinburg, the developer’s press service reports. The opening bid for the lot in question has been set at RUB 42,502,507. Under the terms of the auction, the survey work needs to get completed within two months of the date the contract gets signed. The first stage of the design work needs to get completed by February 2020, the second and the third

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 20, 2019. The courts declared 129 Sverdlovsk Region-based enterprises bankrupt in the first quarter of 2019, which exceeded the figures for the previous quarter by 5.7%, the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting’s research findings indicate. Sverdlovsk Region thus came fourth in the rating of federal constituencies with the largest number of insolvent businesses, preceded only by Moscow (678 companies), Saint Petersburg (217), and Moscow Region (156). The companies going bankrupt in the first quarter of the year amounted to 0.08% of all

UrBC, Moscow, June 20, 2019. Manufacturer’s price of gasoline rose by 17.5% on the Russian market in May 2019 compared with April 2019, Rosstat reports. ‘As for the processing industries, certain mineral products grew more expensive as well, including stabilized gas condensate (+18%), gasoline (+17.5%), certain types of oil-associated gases (+11.8%), liquefied propane and butane (+8.4%), bitumen (+5.7%), petroleum coke (+5%), road bitumen (+4.5%), and roofing bitumen (+3.7%),’ the agency says. According to Rosstat, the price of crude oil increased by 4.5% last month. In the coke and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 19, 2019. EVRAZ Holding contributed to a new skatepark and to the upgrades of Spartak Yacht Club in Nizhniy Tagil, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center’s press service reports. The company helped buy the materials needed to renovate the yachts as well as new sails; the pier got repaired, and the study room got equipped and insulated for classes taking place in the winter. The investments were made after a project on reviving yachting sports in Nizhniy Tagil won EVRAZ Holding’s grant competition. ‘Nizhniy Tagil locals took up sailing sixty-one years

UrBC, Moscow, June 19, 2019. MegaFon’s digital platform meant for making it easier to find children and adults going missing has helped locate more than sixty people so far. The platform reduces the time it takes the rescue services to take action and to find and question witnesses from several weeks down to several minutes and thus saves lives, the telecom company’s press service reports. ‘MegaFon carried out its pilot project in cooperation with Liza Alert rescue team. The idea is to find potential witnesses who might have information regarding the missing person. The company selects the

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, June 19, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s Rimera Oilfield Services’ Rimera Service NTsTB is now working on a new five-year contract with Gazprom Neft’s Gazpromneft-Noyabrskneftegaz. According to the Group’s press service, under the terms of the contract Rimera Service’s experts in Noyabrsk and Muravlenko will do repairs and maintenance of 33,000 pumping and compression pipes for Gazprom Neft on a monthly basis. This means the overall amount of pumping and compression pipes the Group sells to Gazprom Neft every year will reach as much as 1,500,000 units, whilst the Group’s share of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 19, 2019. New homes are now for sale in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy, with the option of getting a mortgage starting from 1.9% a year, the developer RSG-Akademicheskoye’s website states. ‘With our new exclusive program, you can buy an apartment in Preobrazhensky Quarter in Akademicheskiy on very good terms; the offer holds for customers in the 21-65 age group,’ the website says. There are eight low-rise apartment buildings with underground parking lots in Preobrazhensky Quarter. The apartments come with the standard developer's finish and overlook a