UrBC, Chelyabinsk, December 17, 2018. The solemn awarding ceremony for Yakov Osadchiy fellows took place at Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe) this week, ChelPipe Group’s press service reports. ‘The corporate fellowship was established in 2001, the year the plant’s legendary director Yakov Osadchiy would have turned one hundred, in order to encourage and invite gifted young people to come to ChelPipe Group. This year, the fellowship got awarded to students of Russian Technological University, Ural Federal University, and South Ural State University who excel academically, in sports,

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 17, 2018. The local round of the 6th WorldSkills Russia championship took place in Chelyabinsk Region this week. Magnitogorsk schools hosted a number of the championship events, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) press service reports. Vocational schools in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk, and Kopeysk also served as venues for the championship. 372 contestants from twelve different parts of Russia and from Kazakhstan competed in 34 primary, 16 junior, and 5 local categories. Among the contestants were 32 students of Magnitogorsk Polytechnic, Magnitogorsk School

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 17, 2018. Magnitogorsk-based Metallurg Charity Foundation coordinated its annual end-of-year meeting with heads of local children’s establishments, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) press service reports. The meeting got attended by members of the foundation’s board, representatives of the benefactors (Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works being the largest), Deputy Head of Chelyabinsk Region Social Relations Ministry’s Child Welfare Department Tatiana Matveyeva, Chair of the Board at Russian Children’s Foundation’s Chelyabinsk Region division and member of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 17, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Mine was founded forty-five years ago this year. To celebrate the special date, an exhibition entitled The Faces of Raspadskaya by the author of Russ Press Photo Vassily Prudnikov opened in Mezhdurechensk, Raspadskaya Coal Company’s PR Department reports. The exhibition features sixty unique works that have never been previously published. The photographs were taken for Raspadskaya.45, a book that came out in the legendary enterprise’s anniversary year as well. Following the presentation, several copies of the book were

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 14, 2018. ChelPipe Group launched Quantorium Children’s Tech Park at Innovative Culture Center in Pervouralsk this week, the Group’s press service reports. The solemn opening ceremony made part of the All-Russian Children’s Tech Park Opening Marathon coordinated by New Education Format Development Foundation and Russia’s Education Ministry. ChelPipe Quantorium was set up by ChelPipe Group and Sverdlovsk Region Government as a public-private partnership. The 550-square-meter park comprises a number of quantum units (multi-aspect tech creativity locations) fitted

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 14, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) now offers even better terms on its special-offer Growing Interest Deposit, the bank’s press service reports. ‘We now offer a greater annual interest rate on Growing Interest Deposit. The interest comes to 7.5% between the 1st and the 180th day of the deposit period and to 8.5% between the 181st and the 200th day. What is more, the offer is now open to everyone and is available both online at any of the bank’s branches,’ the press service says. ‘Better deposit terms are seen as a way of making

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 14, 2018. Koltsovo Airport Customs (Yekaterinburg) had to process 70 million shipments this year so far, which made Yekaterinburg the country’s No.2 in the national shipment-acceptance sector (No 1. is Moscow), head of V.A. Sorokin Koltsovo Customs Anatoly Timoshenkov said at a press conference. According to Timoshenkov, 90% of all the consignments are goods locals order online: clothing, footwear, gifts, gadget accessories, and various spare parts. As the number of shipments to Yekaterinburg keeps rising, so does the number of freight forwarding-related

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 14, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) was recently featured in the WWF Russia rating as one of the country’s best companies, MMK Information & PR Department reports. The rating gets coordinated by the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) and the Russian representation of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP); this year’s one got completed by the National Rating Agency based on the companies’ publicly available data such as annual reports, presentations, media footprint, and company websites. The final rating was based on three crucial criteria: a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 14, 2018. Ural Airlines are introducing a new Zhukovsky-Prague flight starting December 26, 2018, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Flight U6 751/752 will get operated on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays. The departure and arrival times are very convenient: you leave Zhukovsky at 6:30 AM and arrive in Prague as early as 7:30 AM so that there’s a whole day ahead to be spent walking around. The flight is three hours long. You then leave Prague at 8:30 AM and get to Zhukovsky two hours and forty-five minutes later,’ the press service says. A

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2018. ChelPipe Group’s Quantorium Children’s Tech Park opens at Innovative Culture Center at 18B Lenin St in Pervouralsk at 4 PM on December 13, 2018. The solemn opening ceremony will make part of the children’s tech park opening marathon in which over thirty new sites in twenty-five different parts of Russia are participating. ‘ChelPipe Quantorium was set up by ChelPipe Group in collaboration with the government-run New Education Format Development Foundation and with support from Sverdlovsk Region Government and Pervouralsk Council,’ the Group’s press

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2018. Four employees of ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) received government awards based on the Russian President’s special decree. The solemn awarding ceremony took place at Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District’s office, the Group’s press service reports. PNTZ Managing Director Alexei Dronov received the Medal of the Order ‘For Merit to the Fatherland’ (Class II). Dronov came to work at PNTZ as a foreman’s assistant two decades ago. He proved highly professional and managerially talented

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2018. Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station’s Power-Generating Unit 4 first got connected to Sverdlovsk Region’s power grid three years ago this month (December 10, 2015). The unit has produced 13.7 billion kilowatt-hours of electric power since then, Beloyarskaya’s press service reports. The power-generating unit with its BN-800 reactor has operated safely and reliably throughout these three years. Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station’s Director Ivan Sidorov commented on the importance of their BN-800 unit for the Russian nuclear industry: ‘This power-generating

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2018. Ural Airlines will be operating direct Yekaterinburg-Kaliningrad-Yekaterinburg flight during the winter school break. According to the company’s press service, flight U6 403 (Yekaterinburg-Kaliningrad) will get operated on December 29, 2018 as well as on January 3 and January 8, 2019. Departure (Yekaterinburg): 8:40 AM. Flight U6 404 (Kaliningrad-Yekaterinburg) will be operated on the same dates. Departure (Kaliningrad): 10:25 AM. Prices start from RUB 8,690 for Yekaterinburg-Kaliningrad flights and from RUB 9,390 for Kaliningrad-Yekaterinburg ones.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2018. Nikita Goryunov’s team (Head of Coal-Mining Section 5: Yaroslav Yerchenko) started working on Long-Face 50-20 at EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Mine, Raspadskaya Coal Company’s press service reports. This is the first long-face in Bank 50 of the company’s Western Wing. The coal reserves are estimated at more than 1.9 million tons of GZh coal. The mining equipment had to get transferred on site from the already finished section in Eastern Wing, that is, across over 4.2 km. Despite the distance and the transportation issues, miners started working on the new

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 12, 2018. S&P Global Ratings Services (S&P) affirmed the long — and short-term IDR of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) at BBB-/A-3, with Stable rating outlook, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The agency says in its press release that they took into account MMK’s low-cost production type, impressive operational efficiency, a considerable share of high value-added goods in the overall product range/sales structure, very low debt burden, and great liquidity. According to S&P, further rating growth is currently restrained by

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 12, 2018. Yakov Pahomi now works as Head of MegaFon Sverdlovsk Region’s Tech Service, the telecommunications provider’s press service reports. The new executive will be in charge of implementing a series of multi-aspect tech projects to do with the local division’s business digitalization strategy. ‘We put up some quality infrastructure in the area, so more than 95% of locals can now enjoy reliable MegaFon connection. This is the basis for Sverdlovsk Region’s further digitalization. The telecom infrastructure on hand means we can offer local businesses the most

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 12, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) now offers its business customers a special savings deposit option; the offer holds on December 11-28, 2018. The bank’s press service says that while the rest of the world is going to be celebrating the season’s holidays, a company’s money placed safety on a bank deposit will keep working to earn its owner up to 7.7% a year in interest payments. The convenient thing is that you can withdraw the money from the deposit even before the end of the deposit period (that is, right after the winter break

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 12, 2018. 8,421,387 people flew with Ural Airlines in January-November 2018 (up 13% on one year earlier). 4,586,832 passengers flew on domestic flights, 2,187,866 on international flights, and 1,646,689 on flights to and from the CIS member states. According to the company’s press service, the airline operated 57,163 flights in the eleven months of the year altogether (+11% on the year 2017), including 31,547 domestic flights, 14,053 international flights, and 11,563 flights to and from the CIS member states. The air carrier’s passenger turnover rose 14% and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 12, 2018. Nineteen employees of ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) graduated from B.N Yeltsin Ural Federal University (UFU) with a degree in Pipe Manufacturing Technologies & Equipment this month. According to the Group’s press service, an agreement between PNTZ and UFU ensures there are no tuition fees for the ‘white-coated metallurgists’, who can keep working throughout their study. More than a half of those who got their BSc. degrees on the program are alumni of ChelPipe Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, December 11, 2018. ChelPipe Group’s Snezhnost Annual Charity Theater Festival opened in Chelyabinsk on December 7, 2018. According to the Group’s press service, young actors from Children’s Acting School (created at ChelPipe Group’s shareholders’ initiative) gave a first-time performance of a piece from the opera The Cat's House. M.I. Glinka Chelyabinsk State Academy Opera & Ballet Theater also presented its own play Doctor Aybolit. ChelPipe Group’s shareholder and Chair of the Board of Directors Alexander Fedorov, Vice Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Vadim