UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 6, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) updated the list of purchase categories that can result in 10% cashback paid into the UBRD Maximum card account. According to the bank’s press service, on May 1-31, 2019 Maximum card holders will get 10% in cashback for using their card to pay for the following: gardening and summerhouse appliances; rail tickets (including e-tickets) and intercity bus/coach tickets; gasoline at filling stations; goods and services purchased at fitness studios. Every other purchase type also gives you the usual 1%

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 6, 2019. Two mining teams from Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Raspadskaya Mine have produced 1,000,000,000 kg of coal each since the beginning of the year. According to the company’s PR Department, Alexei Ivanov’s team and Rustam Muminov’s team (Sections 17 and 1) were both congratulated on their success by the company management. ‘These stoping teams are among Raspadskaya Coal Company’s best. Thanks to their compliance with the safety rules and great team spirit, the miners hit their target production figures every single month,’ the PR Department says. Alexei Ivanov’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 6, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s 5th charity race (aka Day Pyat!) will take place next to Sovremennik Concert Hall in Nizhniy Tagil on May 26. The race is part of a large-scale sports event, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Department reports. All the race participants have already signed up on the company website www.evraz-sport.ru. This year, the race will gather together 1,200 runners (including 400 children); the children will run a 1-kilometer race, the adults a 5-kilometer one. For the first time this year, fifty children with disabilities from Nizhniy

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 6, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region-based wholesale traders sold RUB 386.1 billion worth of goods in the first quarter of 2019, which was 11.7% less than in the first quarter of 2018, Sverdlovskstat reports. According to Sverdlovskstat, 37.3% of the sector’s overall turnover stemmed from small enterprises. In January-March 2019, wholesale traders (excluding small enterprises and companies with under 15 employees) sold 2.6 times more fish and fish products, 2.4 times more bread and baked goods, 2 times more canned fish, 1.9 times more salt and sugar, 1.8 times more pasta and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 6, 2019. Officers from Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Security Service had an adulterated vodka and cognac shop closed down in Izmodenovo, District Beloyarsky, the division’s press service reports. The shop was rented by a Georgia native and contained more than 4,000 kg of alcohol-based liquids in 8,639 glass bottles labeled as vodka and cognac (Neft, Gold, Arbatskaya, Derbent, Königsberg, and Bacardí); there were also some 10,000+ empty bottles found on the site, ready to get filled, alongside boxfuls of wine corks and measuring appliances. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 30, 2019. Ural Electrochemical Combine and CentroTech (both of which are parts of Rosatom’s TVEL in Novouralsk, Sverdlovsk Region) set up Ural Industrial Cluster, a non-profit association, the combine’s press service reports. Ural Electrochemical Combine’s Deputy Director-General for Non-Nuclear Business Development Oleg Yelistratov was elected the association’s President. Ural Electrochemical Combine’s Director-General Alexander Belousov, Deputy DG Valeriy Denisov, CentroTech’s Director-General Ilya Kavelashvili, and CentroTech’s Deputy DG Alexander Stikhin became

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 30, 2019. Ural Airlines’ flight attendants won gold as Best Team at the 4th International SKYSERVICE 2019 Forum. According to the air carrier’s press service, the national and international airlines’ representatives spent two days on ISPY training workshop, both learning the theory and practicing. The judges’ panel assessed Ural Airlines’ team’s professional skills very highly and awarded gold medals to the team. Ural Airlines’ flight attendant Anastasia Solovieva also became Miss Online in the Sky Lady 2019 beauty pageant after receiving the maximum online vote.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 30, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s corporate loan book (small and medium enterprises) rose by 45% in the course of 2018, the UBRD’s press service refers to Expert RA as stating. The bank came 13th in the all-Russian bank rating on January 1, 2019 (the corporate loan book being the main criterion). The UBRD issued 39.3% more loans in 2018 than in the year 2017 and came 21st in the all-Russian rating in this respect; this was also nine rating positions higher than one year earlier. The bank issues loans to retail traders most often, through

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 30, 2019. Ural Airlines now offer Air Express+Plane Ticket Pack to passengers flying to Moscow; Air Express is the train service from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport and Sheremetyevo Airport to the city center. According to the air carrier’s press service, you can book your Air Express ticket when booking your flight to Moscow (one way/round trip). Passengers can select Standard, Preliminary, There & Back, Double, or Group ticket type. The new service’s main advantage is that you can process both ticket purchases in a single order and pay by credit card at once,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 30, 2019. EVRAZ Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) Rail & Beam Department got launched seventy years ago this month, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. 73,000,000,000 kg of goods have been made at the department since the day of the launch. To celebrate the occasion, the company’s best department workers and former, long-service employees got awarded and congratulated on the special date. ‘The construction of the department began during the Great Patriotic War; this was designed to be a very sophisticated production facility

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 29, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s West-Siberian Metallurgical Plant’s (EVRAZ ZSMK) Converter Shop 2 got launched forty-five years ago today; to celebrate the occasion, a special steel-melting session involving Igor Korzhov’s team and a number of old-service employees who took part in the shop’s very first melting operation took place at the plant this month, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Communications Center reports. There are currently two converter units (320,000 kg) operating at the shop. In 2017, one of the units got replaced with a newer version, and the other one

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 29, 2019. The number of existing homes currently on offer in Yekaterinburg has been going up by 120 to 130 apartments a week for the last two months. The overall number rose by 7.3% in the last four weeks and came to 8,330 homes, Ural Real Estate Chamber reports. The number of homes on the outskirts of the city that are now for sale also went up by 6.2%, or 690 apartments. The number of rooms in communal apartments that are now advertised increased by 1.9%, or 1,470 rooms, in the last four weeks as well. It currently takes about slightly under four months to make a

UrBC, Moscow, April 29, 2019. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree regarding the criteria for evaluating the Russian governors’ and the local executive bodies’ performance. The paper is now available online at pravo.gov.ru. There’s a list of fifteen assessment criteria: — the level of trust the locals have in the government, — how many high-performing jobs there are in the non-budget sector, — the number of small and medium enterprises in the area (including sole traders and the self-employed), — labor productivity levels in the non-primary sectors of economy, — the scale of real

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 29, 2019. Bribe-related damage amounted to RUB 12 billion in Ural Federal District last year, Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Nikolay Zukanov said at the Anti-Bribery & Corruption Council’s meeting on Thursday. Zukanov said close to RUB 6.5 billion had been paid back after police investigations and a number of criminal trials. The official also stressed that special attention should be paid to hiring better quality candidates for the civil service jobs and that anti-bribery measures should grow more

UrBC, Moscow, April 29, 2019. The Central Bank of Russia’s Board of Directors confirmed that the key rate would stay at 7.75% p.a. - for the fifth month in a row. ‘Annual inflation passed the local peak in March and started to subside in April. Consumer prices current growth rates track somewhat below the Bank of Russia forecast. In April, inflation expectations of households rose slightly after a tangible drop in March. Business price expectations continued to decline but remain at an elevated level. Short-term proinflationary risks have abated. The Bank of Russia’s decisions to raise the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 26, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) now offers its business customers up to 10% in cashback if the company card gets used to get their vehicles ready for a new season, the bank’s press service reports. The bank is paying up to 10% in cashback on all purchases related to new tires, tire-changing service, and car wash if you pay with the UBRD company card. There’s also 1% cashback payment on the spare parts, the new car paint, and the mechanic’s bill. ‘April and May are the time to have the tires changed on both your personal and your

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 26, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region’s residents owe the state RUB 1.7 million in unpaid motor vehicle tax for 2018, Head of the Federal Tax Service’s Sverdlovsk Region division’s Debt Settlement Department Artem Balyura said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg today. Balyura said the locals also owed RUB 1.1 billion in property tax and nearly RUB 700 million in land tax.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 26, 2019. Ural Airlines introduce a new Yekaterinburg-Magadan-Yekaterinburg flight (via Yakutsk) starting June 3. According to the air carrier’s press service, flight U6 1373 Yekaterinburg-Yakutsk-Magadan will get operated every Monday; flight U6 1374 Magadan-Yakutsk-Yekaterinburg will get operated every Tuesday. Prices start from RUB 17,000 (Yekaterinburg-Magadan), RUB 14,700 (Yekaterinburg-Yakutsk), and RUB 7,000 (Yakutsk-Magadan). Subsidized tickets (RUB 7,500, one way) for Yekaterinburg-Magadan and Magadan-Yekaterinburg flights are also available for Russian

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 26, 2019. EVRAZ Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) coordinated large-scale civil defense and emergency drills at its sites this month. The drills involved the gas rescue service, doctors from NikoMed medical unit, firefighters from Section 4 of the Federal Fire Service, the private security company Interlock NTMK, and members of Nizhniy Tagil Council. According to EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center, the drills focused on rescue operations after a chlorine explosion and an oil spill, informing the management in case of an emergency, practicing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 26, 2019. ChelPipe Group joined in the all-Russian No Turnstile Week this month; the initiative was meant to support job counseling programs for the young. More than 2,000 people went on guided tours of ChelPipe Group’s enterprises in Chelyabinsk, Pervouralsk, and Almetyevsk as a result. According to the Group’s press service, high school and college students, teachers, and parents could all take a look at their up-to-date pipe-rolling and pipe-drawing facilities, welding departments, metal treatment departments, assembly sites, and hi tech industrial robots; they