UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 13, 2019. 3,298,435 people flew with Ural Airlines in January-May 2019, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 9%. 1,612,969 passengers went on the airline’s domestic flights and 1,685,466 passengers flew internationally, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘The airline operated 23,188 flights in the five months of 2019 (+5% on the year 2018), including 11,567 domestic flights and 11,621 international ones. The company’s passenger turnover rose by 11% and amounted to 8,117,044 passenger-kilometers,’ the press service says. 820,838 people flew with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 11, 2019. EVRAZ Holding Ural’s enterprises are coordinating their usual summer healthcare campaign. More than 3,700 employees of EVRAZ Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) and EVRAZ Kachkanarsky Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise (EVRAZ KGOK) and their children are going to stay at summer camps and health resorts, with the funding partially covered by the company, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. The holding allocated some RUB 86m to co-finance the summer recreation of the two companies’ employees and their children. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 11, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company recently set a monthly shipment record, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Communications Center reports. Raspadskaya Coal Company shipped 1,720,000,000 kg of coal to customers in May; this exceeded the figures for one year earlier by nearly 300,000,000 kg. ‘The company’s previous record was set in October 2017, when 1,590,000,000 kg of coal got shipped to customers. All of the company’s departments worked smoothly together, including Kuznetskpogruztrans, Tomusinskaya Station’s Yuzhkuzbassugol, and EvrazHolding

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, June 11, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Mill 4500 and Mill 2350 have produced 50,000,000,000 kg of rolled metal goods since the day of the launch, MMK’s Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. ‘Before the war, Mill 4500 used to operated at Ilyich Mariupol Metallurgical Plant. When the frontline drew close to Mariupol in early August 1941, the State Defense Committee ruled for the mill to get dismantled and transferred to MMK alongside the workers who ran the equipment. As soon as November 1, 1941, the first armored sheet came off the mill at

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 11, 2019. MegaFon and Fort Ross Ventures Management Company signed a strategic partnership and cooperation agreement to work jointly on innovations, technology-sharing, and finding promising investment targets, MegaFon Ural’s press service reports. Under the terms of the agreement, Fort Ross Ventures will offer MegaFon its exclusive expert advice and information on promising potential investments as well as its own portfolio-bulging campaigns. MegaFon, on its part, intends to consider the possibility of investing into the venture funds that Fort Ross Ventures acts as

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 11, 2019. SKB-Bank’s mobile app SKB Online now uses push notifications, the bank’s press service reports. The new feature is now available on all versions of Android and iOS systems. ‘The transaction authentication number now appears in a pop-up window rather than gets sent to your phone as a text message. This means no longer having to pay roaming fees for text messaging, as Internet connection is all you need. Moreover, push notifications don’t get stored in your phone’s memory, so you have more storage space left. To sign up for the option, you need to choose

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, June 10, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and Samara Region Government signed an agreement to build a production/logistics hub in Togliatti. The project is expected to require RUB 1.2bn in investments, MMK’s Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. The agreement was signed by Governor of Samara Region Dmitri Azarov, MMK Chair of the BOD Viktor Rashnikov, and MMK’s Director-General Pavel Shilyayev in the course of a solemn ceremony at Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum. ‘Samara Region is MMK’s long-time, reliable partner. MMK’s

UrBC, Moscow, June 10, 2019. MegaFon and PJSC ROSSETI’s subsidiary Interregional Distribution Grid Company of Siberia (IDGC of Siberia) signed a long-term partnership agreement, the telecom company’s press service reports. The agreement was signed by Director-General at IDGC of Siberia Pavel Akilin and MegaFon’s Director-General Gevork Vermishyan at Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum. ‘The two companies are looking into the issues of electric power transfer; for one, special slope-measuring sensors could get installed at electric mains in Yemelyanovsky Digital District in

UrBC, Moscow, June 10, 2019. MegaFon, ICS Holding’s YADRO, and Dell Technologies announced the start of their tech partnership that will result in a series of infrastructure projects for MegaFon’s digital platform, the telecom company’s press service reports. The memorandum of intentions that set out the agreements the parties had reached was signed by MegaFon’s Director-General Gevork Vermishyan, Vice President and Director-General at Dell Technologies’ Dell EMC for Russia, Kazakhstan, and Central Asia Boris Scherbakov, and head of ICS Holding and Chair of the BOD at YADRO Anton

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, June 10, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe), Russia’s Natural Resources & the Environment Ministry, the Federal Supervisory Natural Resources Management Service, and Chelyabinsk Region Government signed an agreement on an action plan to reduce air emissions during Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, the company’s press service reports. The document was signed by Director-General at ChelPipe Group’s pipeline division Boris Kovalenkov, Russia’s First Deputy Minister for Natural Resources & the Environment Denis Khramov, Head of

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, June 10, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and ETM signed a contract to have a set of electrotechnical equipment delivered to the former, MMK’s Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. ‘Under the terms of the agreement, MMK will place its order directly through ETM iPro Online Platform, which will save us plenty of time in the purchasing process and will improve the plant’s supply system greatly,’ the company says. The agreement with one of Russia’s leading professional electrotechnical equipment distributors is valid through 2020. A separate

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 7, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Industrial Park came 30th in Expert Media Holding’s investment appeal rating of industrial parks and special economic zones. According to MMK’s Information, Advertising & PR Department, the park went up seventeen positions in the rating in 2018 compared with one year earlier, with its investment appeal rising from BB (industrial parks that are attractive enough to investors but still need service and infrastructure improvements) to A (efficient and investment-appealing industrial parks). This is the third year in

UrBC, Moscow, June 7, 2019. MegaFon and Saint Petersburg State University signed a strategic cooperation agreement this month and are going to set up a digital laboratory together, the telecom company’s press service reports. ‘The lab will test and design 5G digital products, which covers research on the 5G network radio-frequency spectrum and interfaces, data transfer speed, and signal propagation delay; resource management; grid computing; and much else besides,’ the company says. MegaFon will support the university in selecting suitable areas of research and subjects of graduation theses;

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, June 7, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) plans to work with Deloitte to develop the company’s digitization strategy; the agreement to this effect was signed at Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum this week. According to MMK’s Information, Advertising & PR Department, the plant decided to have its digital portfolio upgraded as part of the company development strategy for 2019-2025. Deloitte will have to design a roadmap for MMK’s digitization in the medium term. The roadmap will cover the most efficient project that will help the company reach

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 7, 2019. EVRAZ Holding intends to direct over RUB 6.3bn to environmental projects as part of the National Environment Project in 2019-2024, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. The agreement to this effect was signed by EVRAZ Senior Vice President for Commerce & Business Development Alexei Ivanov, Russia’s Minister for Natural Resources & the Environment Dmitry Kobylkin, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev, and Governor of Kemerovo Region Sergey Tsivilev at Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum. ‘Under the terms of

UrBC, Moscow, June 7, 2019. Head of Russia’s Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina said the increase in the amount of loans Russians had to pay out was brought about by poor living standards. This was the statement made at Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, RT refers to the official as saying. According to Nabiullina, the tremendous amount of bank loans the Russians have applied for and taken out in the last few years is not a bubble; rather, this comes from poverty issues. The Central Bank is now trying to slow the process down, but, as a matter of fact, the booming consumer lending

UrBC, Moscow, June 6, 2019. As the Russian market is now switching to the 5G network, MegaFon, Rostelecom, and Nokia made their first international video call within the system, MegaFon’s press service reports. ‘Russia’s first international 5G-standard video call signifies the takeoff of the practical application of new-generation mobile network throughout the country. Rostelecom’s President Mikhail Oseyevsky and Chief Technology and Innovation Officer (CTIO) at MegaFon Frederic Vanoosthuyze called President of Mobile Networks and Member of Group Leadership Team at Nokia Tommi Uitto in his

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 6, 2019. Ural Airlines launched their Yekaterinburg-Magadan-Yekaterinburg flight in the course of a solemn ceremony at Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo International Airport on June 3. There were 190 passengers on the flight, the air carrier’s press service says. ‘Passengers on the newly introduced Magadan flight could get their photos taken together with the airline’s flight attendants next to the check-in desks. They also received some travel-handy souvenirs and gifts. Once the crew and passengers on Magadan-Yekaterinburg flight arrived at Koltsovo Airport, they were

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 6, 2019. Ural Airlines are introducing more Yekaterinburg-Simferopol flights in the summer, with up to four flights available daily. According to the air carrier’s press service, the flights will get operated on the European Airbus liners. ‘Certain passenger categories are eligible to apply for state-subsidized, reduced-price tickets, wit prices starting from RUB 3,750 (one way). Russian nationals who are a) under 23 years old, b) women over 55, or c) men over 60 can get their subsidized tickets on the company website and at booking offices. Other passengers who are

UrBC, Moscow, June 6, 2019. 51% of Russians who took part in a recent opinion survey believe the country is currently in a state of a financial crisis, Romir Holding’s research findings indicate. ’38% of respondents said they were aware of certain economic problems. Only 5% of those surveyed said the country was not struggling with any economic issues whatsoever. The majority (79%) said they defined a crisis as growing prices and inflation. Besides, the share of respondents whose salaries and wages shrank doubled from 21% to 42% in the last eighteen months. Every one in three people complains