UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 21, 2018. EVRAZ Holding allocated more than RUB 1 million for the new medical equipment in Kachkanar’s and Nizhniy Tagil’s clinics, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR Department reports. Kachkanar Central Hospital now has two new semiautomatic analyzers, special-purpose sample cups, a set of chemical reagents, and supplies and appliances for lab blood testing. ‘The biochemistry analyzer has 99 different programs and can process 15 blood samples at a time. It only takes three minutes to get the test results ready. The hematology analyzer makes it possible to test a blood

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 21, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) member enterprise MRK won a prestigious Chelyabinsk Region award for its long-standing corporate social responsibility efforts. According to MMK’s Information, PR & Advertising Department, the state-run program on improving working conditions and job safety in Chelyabinsk Region in 2017-2020 got adopted last year, which was when the local labor and employment agency set up the Best Socially Responsible Employer of The Year Contest in Chelyabinsk Region. Under the terms of the contest, any organization or

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 21, 2018. Ural Federal District division of Rosprirodnadzor (the national environmental watchdog) is going to investigate the activity of Ural Mining & Metallurgical Company’s asset Svyatogor at Shemursky and Novo-Shemursky Deposits next year. ‘Rosprirodnadzor intends to carry out a number of additional checks regarding Svyatogor, take water samples at Shemursky and Novo-Shemursky Deposits, and inspect the sources of pollution there,’ the division informed UrBC. Earlier on, Rosprirodnadzor officers did a verification check of the conservation zones and water

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 21, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region’s coal and furnace oils reserves amounted to 1,155,400,000 kg and 171,400,000 kg, respectively, in early December. This was, respectively, 1.7 times and 5% less than one year earlier (in December 2017). According to Sverdlovskstat, the coal reserves available as of December 1, 2018 will be enough to keep local infrastructure facilities operating for twenty-eight days; the furnace oil stock is enough to keep them running for 962 days. The coal and furnace oil reserves of companies operating in the electric power, natural gas, and steam

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 20, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Director for Job Safety, Industrial Safety & the Environment Grigory Shchurov spoke about MMK’s important environmental projects at a recent conference dedicated to environmental rehabilitation of the Ural River, the plant’s press service reports. Shchurov presented a report on Environmental Problems of Enterprises Affecting the Ural River/Environmental Projects & MMK’s Water Utilization System’s Problems and Potential. He said a large-scale water conservation project got completed in November; MMK

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 20, 2018. The telecommunications giant MegaFon installed more than a hundred new base 4G stations in the Urals this year, MegaFon Ural’s press service reports. ‘Every single hour, our network handles the amount of traffic that roughly equals to sending 6 million photographs. Taking care of comfortable data transfer is our priority. The best LTE coverage means our customers can solve any problems online both at home and while traveling around Russia,’ says MegaFon Ural’s Tech Director Anton Scherbakov. MegaFon’s engineers improved 4G connection quality in more

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 20, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) and Mir Payment System are coordinating a special prize-drawing offer, the bank’s press service reports. UBRD Mir cardholders might win thousands of money prizes and even the grand prize of RUB 3 million (intended for an apartment) between December 15, 2018 and March 15, 2019. To join the prize-drawing offer, you need to sign up for the lottery on the bank’s website and then simply use your Mir card to make your regular payments (this applies to any transaction amounts and to online and offline

UrBC, Moscow, December 20, 2018. The bill On Changes in Articles 46, 54 of the Federal Communications Act was adopted by the State Duma in the third reading this week. Under the new changes, mobile carriers will now charge their customers the same amount of money regardless of which part of Russia the user is currently in. According to the lawmakers behind the bill, the national roaming, that is, charging mobile connection users more or less depending on which federal constituency (their ‘home’ one or otherwise) they are in is ‘essentially a very outdated practice that prevents communication

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 20, 2018. Jet Infosystems completed its multi-aspect information security audit of the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s payment systems. Based on the results of this audit, a set of short-term steps and a long-term strategy might get taken and adopted, respectively, in order to reduce fraud risks and improve the bank’s information security processes, the UBRD’s press service reports. The infosecurity audit touched upon ten of the bank’s payment systems, their system and application software configurations, and the firewall access control rules for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 19, 2018. Making Polymeric Composite-Material Radio-transparent Radomes Used in Air Navigation Appliances for Civil Aviation Sector, a project submitted by CentroTech Scientific & Production Association (Rosatom/TVEL’s Novouralsk asset), won silver at the innovative project contest coordinated by N.Ye. Zhukovsky Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI), Rosatom’s Ural Electrochemical Combine’s press service reports. The contest finalists and winners were named during TsAGI’s celebrations dedicated to the college’s 100th birthday on December 6. The

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 19, 2018. Quantorium Children’s Tech Park opened at G.I. Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University as part of the federally run special-purpose program in the field of education development. The park got set up with support from Governor of Chelyabinsk Region and Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK). According to MMK’s Information, PR & Advertising Department, Quantorium Children’s Parks are free-of-charge, extracurricular training sites fitted with the most advanced equipment available. The goal is to help train new, highly skilled engineers as well

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 19, 2018. Miners from EVRAZ Raspadskaya Mine’s Section 17 extracted 2,000,000,000 kg of coal between January and late December this year; the first 1,000,000,000 kg got produced as early as July. According to Raspadskaya Coal Company’s PR Department, Alexei Ivanov’s team (head of Section 17: Sergey Vassilyev) extracted their 2,000,000,000 kg of valuable GZh coal from Long-Face 5а-7-32 that first got commissioned in December 2017. The miners rely on a highly efficient set of automated appliances and a Joy long wall shearer-loader, with the average daily long-face

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, December 19, 2018. Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe) got issued a lifetime license for treating Class I-IV waste, ChelPipe Group’s press service reports. ‘The license was granted by Chelyabinsk Region division of the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Natural Resource Use (Rosprirodnadzor). Under the terms of the license, ChelPipe employees can now recycle, neutralize, and dispose of 13 different kinds of Hazard Class III-IV waste, including welding slag, emulsion varieties, and used oil,’ the press service says. In order to obtain the lifetime

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 19, 2018. Ural Airlines adjusted the schedule for its Yekaterinburg-Moscow (Sheremetyevo)-Yekaterinburg flights operated on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays: starting January 14, 2019, the departure time shifts to 10:15 AM and the arrival time shifts to 10:55 AM, the air carrier’s press service reports. As for the flights operated on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, the departure and arrival times for flight U6 1 (Yekaterinburg-Moscow) remain the same: 7:30 AM and 8:20 AM, respectively. Flight U6 21 (Yekaterinburg-Moscow (Sheremetyevo)) is also available on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 18, 2018. Nikita Goryunov’s team (head of Section 5: Yaroslav Yerchenko) extracted 2,000,000,000 kg of coal from EVRAZ Holding’s Uskovskaya Mine between January and December 2018. Interestingly, miners from the holding’s Alardinskaya Mine reached the same output figure in September, Raspadskaya Coal Company’s PR Department reports. ‘The mining team at Section 5 is one of Raspadskaya Coal Company’s most advanced and close-knit groups. The miners can set these output records not only because they are using highly productive equipment and comply with all the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 18, 2018. 528 trade-union group organizers underwent trade union training since MMK Group’s learning initiative took off at the beginning of the year. 149 more people will take classes in the nearest future, MMK’s Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. ‘This is a one-day course that the students’ employer fully pays for, thanks to an agreement the trade union reached with MMK through a series of negotiations. The eight-hour program is quite tightly packed, as the trade-union group organizers have to update their expertise in the field of a company’s

UrBC, Moscow, December 18, 2018. Russians spend 31.2% of their monthly disposable incomes on groceries; for the Ukrainians, the figure comes to more than 50%, the findings of RIA Rating’s research (commissioned by RIA Novosti) indicate. The research focused on the spending patterns in forty different countries, including parts of Europe and Russia, Kazakhstan, and Turkey. The data available through the national statistical services, Rosstat, and the International Monetary Fund were also taken into account. Luxembourg was No.1 in terms of how little the locals have to spend on food items:

UrBC, Moscow, December 18, 2018. Importers are struggling with getting their regular amounts of strong drinks to Russia because there aren’t enough new-format excise duty stamps at the moment. Vedomosti refers to head of the Alcohol Importers’ Union Valeriy Filatov as saying that the problem has been brought about by the launch of the updated versions of the federal special-purpose stamps and excise duty stamps starting 2019. Central Excise Customs have so far been unable to start accepting and processing strong drink importers’ applications for the new-format stamps. In fact, the customs

UrBC, Moscow, December 18, 2018. Volkswagen coordinated a program to recall 4,320 Volkswagen Tiguan units, Rosstandart reports. The program will involve the automobiles sold in 2017 and 2018. It appears that moisture tends to gather in their LED modules, which might result in a short circuit and heat release. Volkswagen Tiguan units will have to get fitted with two cable adjusters (one next to the driver’s seat and one next to the front passenger seat) with a built-in fuse between the power connection unit and the LED module in the glass panel that serves as the sliding sunroof. All the

UrBC, Moscow, December 17, 2018. The Russian Government came up with a list of airports and seaports where a duty free outlet may be operating in the Arrivals area. The list is now available on the Cabinet’s official website. There are seventy-five airports, thirty-eight seaports, and three river ports on the list, including Koltsovo Airport in Yekaterinburg. It is stated that the list comprises all the entry/exit points on the Russian border that have to deal with passengers. ‘The following list of the Russian Federation’s border checkpoints where the sale (to private customers) of goods