UrBC, Magnitogorsk, April 9, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) sponsored the annual local IT contest for schoolchildren this year as usual, MMK’s press service reports. The awarding ceremony for finalists and contest participants took place at S. Ordzhonikidze Culture Palace; Director of Personal Human Resource Training Center Andrei Kozlovsky, MMK’s leading HR expert Konstantin Klinov, and head of Metallurg Charity Foundation’s Children’s Department Nadezhda Likhova all thanked the contestants for their input and wished them every success. The IT contest is open to students of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 9, 2019. EVRAZ Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) Central Electrotechnical Lab got set up sixty years ago this month, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. A solemn ceremony took place at Metallurgists’ Palace, with the lab’s leading professionals and old-service employees all attending. Fourteen of the lab’s employees received company’s honorary certificates and thank-you letters from Sverdlovsk Region’s Legislative Assembly. The lab got launched in 1959 by order of EVRAZ NTMK’s first Director A.F. Zakharov. The lab was then in charge

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 9, 2019. ChelPipe Group signed a contract to ship more than 150,000,000 kg of large-diameter pipes to the state-owned company TurkmenGaz for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) Pipeline, the Group’s press service reports. Under the terms of the contract, around 200 km of TAPI Pipeline in Turkmenistan will be made from ChelPipe Group’s pipes. The first shipment of LDPs (diameter: 1,420 mm; steel grade: X70) with corrosion-resistant outer coating will take place in the second quarter of 2019. ‘ChelPipe Group keeps working to expand its export markets;

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 9, 2019. A new MegaFon Ural customer signs up for the company’s cashback options every minute, MegaFon states after looking into the sign-up statistics on its new series of all-inclusive packages (20% of money spent on telecom services gets paid back into the user’s account), the company’s press service reports. ‘According to MegaFon’s data, nearly 50,000 of our customers are already using our cashback options. Every one in five rubles you spend on telecom services either at home or abroad can go back to your user account. The money can get used to (partially or

UrBC, Moscow, April 9, 2019. Most Russians are going to stay home or go to their dachas during the upcoming May break; only 14% of the people who took part in the recent survey intend to travel, the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center reports. Two-thirds (63%) of those surveyed are planning on staying at home; the percentage comes to as much as 72% for those living in the country’s rural areas, whereas in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and other big cities (1,000,000+ people), the percentage comes to 47% and 52%, respectively. Another third (35%) of respondents will go to their dachas (the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, April 8, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) keeps directing funds to Viktor F. Rashnikov’s charity project Magnitogorsk’s Gifted Children. MMK’s Director-General Pavel Shilyayev signed a list of candidates who get on the program this year, the company’s press service reports. Last year, a series of school contests across a range of subjects got coordinated in Magnitogorsk. The winners, as well as the young students who won in city-wide, regional, and national competitions (forty-three people all in all), all got long-listed for Viktor Rashnikov’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 8, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s Marketing Director Alexei Merzlyakov won the Best Marketing Expert award in the National Business Communication Prize contest; the solemn awarding ceremony took place in Moscow on April 4. According to the bank’s press service, Merzlyakov won bronze in the Finance Sector. He is now also on the list of Russia’s best marketing experts that features acknowledged marketing leaders and the industry’s strongest experts with a great personal contribution to their companies’ development and outstanding business

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 8, 2019. The Urals’ first birchbark crafts museum opened in Nizhniy Tagil with EVRAZ Holding’s support. The idea for the museum was first put forth by EVRAZ Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK)’s employee Sergey Korotchene, who has been making different things using birchbark for many years now. According to the company’s press service, the museum was fitted out with the grant money from EVRAZ: City of Friends - City of Ideas Project; the venue was provided by Nizhniy Tagil division of Russia’s Artists’ Union. The museum now features an exhibition of Sergey

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 8, 2019. Yekaterinburg Customs officers and police officers from Yekaterinburg division of Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry’s Economic Security and Anti-Corruption Department confiscated a wholesale-sized batch of pirated car parts in Yekaterinburg, Ural Customs’ press service reports. The officers inspected a store and a warehouse in the city’s District Ordzhonikidzevsky and confiscated over a thousand car parts bearing logos of well-established Japanese brands. The business owner was unable to produce any proof of customs clearance or of the goods’ origin,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 8, 2019. The administrative claim placed by Spetsavtobaza, Sverdlovsk Region’s waste-recycling operator, against Sverdlovsk Region’s Regional Economic Committee got dismissed by the court. Spetsavtobaza had demanded an increase in the price of garbage disposal and trash pick-up for end users, Sverdlovsk Region Court’s press service reports. The plaintiff insisted the committee charged very low prices that did not make up for the office equipment and software expenses. Spetsavtobaza also claimed it was wrong not to include the services of workers dealing with

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, April 5, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) won several medals and certificates at Archimedes, the 22nd Moscow International Salon of Inventions and Innovative Technologies, at the end of March, the company’s press service reports. The salon’s board of experts and the international judges’ panel awarded MMK and Prometey Central Scientific Research Institute Of Structural Materials a gold medal and a certificate for their joint development, highly durable, cold-resistant steel. The two parties’ other projects, on production methods for cold-resistant steel

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 5, 2019. Ural Airlines are introducing extra Yekaterinburg-Prague-Yekaterinburg flights during the upcoming May break. There will be four extra flights in addition to the existing six flights a week. These flexible departure options mean you can plan a very convenient stay or a beautiful weekend in Prague, the air carrier’s press service reports. The extra flights will get operated on April 27, April 30, May 4, and May 11, 2019. Flight U6 713 (Yekaterinburg-Prague), Departure: 2:30 PM, Arrival: 4:05 PM. Flight U6 714 (Prague-Yekaterinburg), Departure: 5:05 PM,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 5, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya-Koksovaya Mine adopted a new coal-extracting technology, the holding’s press service reports. The company’s miners switched from the chamber-and-pillar method to the coal face technology, which is expected to boost the mine’s production output by 2.5 times. The first jobs in preparation for the coal face launch began as early as last February. The miners went through the project documentation, set up a new mining section, and did 6 km worth of excavation work. Long-Face 3-2-1 (bis) has 886,000,000 kg in estimated reserves of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 5, 2019. Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy’s developer RSG-Akademicheskoye intends to invest around RUB 40 billion in the building projects and infrastructure development in the area within the next three to five years, the company’s Director-General Viktor Krivosheyin said during his press tour. ‘The district will be expanding across the River Patrushikha, We are currently putting up some 700,000 m2 worth of new housing and will get Quarters 11, 12, and 16 (another 700,000 m2) commissioned this year as well. We’ll invest around RUB 40bn in the project in the

UrBC, Moscow, April 5, 2019. The Russian banking sector’s aggregate capital dropped by 2.3% in January 2019 against earlier months, the Central Bank of Russia’s Review of the Banking Sector of the Russian Federation states. The overall amount reached RUB 10.3 trillion on January 1, 2019 (up 9.28% on a year earlier). The bank’s accumulated assets amounted to RUB 94.08 trillion. According to the CBR, the banking sector’s profits came to RUB 445 billion in January and February 2019 compared with RUB 178 billion one year previously. 350 banks (73% of all the banks operating on the Russian market)

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 4, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) is going to coordinate its Service Guru Conference on April 5. The idea is to introduce an event that will serve a springboard for creating a service experts’ community in Yekaterinburg, the bank says. The conference will gather together customer service experts from the banking sector as well as many other types of businesses ranging from the telecom market to private clinics. ‘The idea of a customer service experts’ community came up about two years ago, when the bank adopted a Happy Customer

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 4, 2019. Yekaterinburg Council is coordinating a contest for the architectural concept of a new office/culture center in the city’s District Akademicheskiy, the town council’s website states. It is announced that the contest follows from RSG-Akademicheskoye’s recent request for a unique, multifunctional public space within Akademicheskiy. The Center will get put up within Wilhelm de Gennin St.-Timofeyev-Resovsky St.- Akademik Sakharov St. The place will include the district court building, the military commissariat, the district’s public prosecution authorities’

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, April 4, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) recently launched an updated version of its Oracle e-Business Suite v.12 enterprise information system, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The previous version of Oracle e-Business Suite got introduced at MMK in 2004. Oracle then announced the launch of the software at MMK was the best enterprise software project in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. MMK and Oracle signed an agreement in February 2018 to have the plant’s then active version of the software migrate to v.12 and to introduce the new

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 4, 2019. Ural Airlines are introducing more Yekaterinburg-Mineralnye Vody flights, which means you can now get to the Caucasus resorts three times a week: on Mondays, Fridays, and (throughout April) Saturdays. According to the air carrier’s press service, the extra Yekaterinburg-Mineralnye Vody flight will get operated every Saturday between April 6 and 20, 2019. Departure (Yekaterinburg): 3PM, Arrival (Mineralnye Vody): 3:55 PM, The flight is 2 hours and 55 minutes long. Ural Airlines already operate Yekaterinburg-Mineralnye Vody-Yekaterinburg flights on Mondays

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 4, 2019. EVRAZ Holding, the Social Investment Foundation, and the town councils of Nizhniy Tagil, Kachkanar, and Mezhdurechensk are working on the Children’s Foresight Project together, the holding’s press service reports. There are several stages to the project. So far, foresight sessions got coordinated for teachers and students of participating schools in Nizhniy Tagil and Kachkanar in early March. The Foundation’s experts gave talks on how to develop and implement urban improvement projects. Thanks to these projects, Nizhniy Tagil might soon get art-themed