UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 5, 2018. EVRAZ Holding purchased a set of self-propelled vehicles and pneumatic tractor trucks for the mines of its member enterprise Raspadskaya Coal Company. The goal is to make the mining equipment reinstallation process safer and shorter (the required reinstallation time is expected to drop by eight to ten days on average), the holding’s press service reports. The self-propelled equipment got tested at Uskovskaya Mine. The appliances got used to reinstall parts of the powered support system from Long-Face 50-06 onto Long-Face 50-20. The miners could thus

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 5, 2018. Manufacturing Turkmenistan 2018 International Industrial Exhibition opened in Ashkhabad on December 3, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is taking part in the event. According to MMK’s Information & PR Department, the plant’s stand features a wide range of metal products made at MMK and MMK Group’s member enterprises. The Turkmen customers will probably be mostly interested in the construction goods such as rolled section steel, hot- and cold-rolled steel sheets, and coated rolled products. ‘MMK now makes many more goods for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 5, 2018. Ural Customs identified more than 160,000 counterfeit items at their border control points in the eleven months of 2018, the customs’ press service reports. Unscrupulous importers typically try to take counterfeit clothing and footwear items, toys, and perfumes as well as adulterated wine, tea, and coffee into the country. There are even bits of equipment on the list: for one, the customs officers recently prevented the import of 1,500 counterfeit condenser units to Russia. ‘All these goods bear the famous brands’ logos and trademarks but in actuality

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 5, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Consolidated West-Siberian Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ ZSMK) launched a second rail production line at its Rail Department. The new line will mean the plant can double its R65 100-meter rail output and focus on making the European standard 60Е1 and 54Е1 rails (length options: 30 m, 36 m, 60 m, 72 m, and 90 m), the holding’s press service reports. The second rail line cost RUB 168m to put up and launch. The 100-meter rail division underwent considerable production upgrades, with new ancillary equipment and rail delivery, straightening, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2018. UralBusinessConsulting Agency for Information & Analytics (UrBC) is going to act as an information support partner for the 100+ Forum Russia at Yekaterinburg EXPO in Yekaterinburg on December 5-7, 2018. This year’s forum will be dedicated to BIM technologies and digital construction. The 5th International High-Rise Construction 100+ Forum Russia will host talks by renowned international design and construction experts. Designers of ground-breaking architectural pieces will be giving their reports, lectures, and workshops. Among the invited speakers

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 4, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and UralTrubProm held a coordination council meeting in Magnitogorsk. The two parties looked into their joint performance in the first ten months of 2018 and agreed to keep strengthening their business ties, MMK’s press service reports. This has been the two plants’ 17th coordination council meeting so far. Twice a year, managers and employees of the companies’ tech and sales departments meet on the buyer’s and the seller’s premises in turns to talk over the current cooperation issues, look for solutions to key

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, December 4, 2018. The international rating agency Fitch Ratings reconsidered its rating outlook on Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe), promoting it from Negative to Stable; the plant’s long-term Issuer Default Rating remains at BB-, ChelPipe’s press service reports. According to Fitch’s report, the rating outlook changed for the better since the company managed to reduce its debt burden and also because the medium-term demand for piping produce is expected to remain stable. The agency also takes into account the plant’s leadership on the pipe produce market, a large

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2018. Ural Airlines are introducing a new flight from Saint Petersburg to Almaty and bank starting December 24, 2018. Flights U6 2523/2524 will get operated every Monday and Friday. According to the airline’s press service, prices start from RUB 15,678/€206 (one way) and RUB 27,608/€363 (round trip); one piece of luggage, an on-board meal, and all fees are included. ‘The airline is going to start flying its passengers to yet another country this December. Direct flights to Almaty will mean more travel opportunities for both Saint Petersburg-based Russians and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2018. Together with the heads of respective ministries and federal constituencies’ governments, Russian Vice Premier Alexei Gordeyev is going to coordinate the process of building up on grain stock to make sure the food prices stay optimal and to contain the bread market fluctuations. According to Kommersant, all orders to this effect will get issued following the recent meeting with the President of Russian Bakers’ Union Valeriy Cheshinsky. The meeting in question dwelled on the ‘ways to provide the Russian grain processing companies with quality bread-grain’

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 3, 2018. MegaFon is now offering a TradeIn option at all of its retail outlets, meaning you can trade your old phone in for a new one. Customers can save up to RUB 40,000 on this deal, MegaFon Ural’s press service says. The offer holds for fifty-eight cities and towns in the Urals. MegaFon accepts more than 460 different Apple, Samsung, Sony, and LG makes. The estimated worth of your old device can be converted into a discount on either a new phone or various accessories, phone settings, or insurance. The new products can be bought on credit or through paying in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 3, 2018. Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems completed the primary upgrades of its 500-kilowatt Irtysh Power Substation, the key power source for the Tobolsk area, FGC UES Western Siberia’s press service reports. The company engineers replaced all the cross-connect appliances and installed the modern micro-processing protection and automation relays. This is meant to make the power supply to end users in Tyumen Region’s Tobolsk area — large oil and gas and petrochemical companies — even more reliable. The reconstruction is estimated to have required RUB

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 3, 2018. The project for a medical cluster in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy is now the focus of both national and international potential investors, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The project was presented at a reputable professional platform within a medical investment forum on November 29. The forum was held at I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University Congress Center in Moscow. The event covered topics like new biotech developments, new clinics and unique technologies, and the use of public-private partnerships to finance

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 3, 2018. ProyekTY, a social skills school in Pervouralsk that was created at ChelPipe Group’s initiative, coordinated the final presentations of the school’s first alumni in the children and teen group, the company’s press service reports. The high school and college students presented twenty business ideas that all had an important social input.Four projects made it to the finals. Presenters in the young adult/adult group are going to defend their projects on December 17; the best proposals will be granted special funding. ProyekTY Social Skills School started

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 3, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s Digital Solutions Director Alexander Pateshman gave a talk at the 11th Saint Petersburg International Innovations Forum, the bank’s press service reports. Pateshman presented his report at the forum session on finance technologies and the sector’s leading banks and their managers. The report dwelled on the current state of affairs and the global trends within the online banking industry. Pateshman also spoke about the UBRD’s successful experience with the development and launch of an up-to-date mobile

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 30, 2018. Ural Airlines will start operating its new Volgograd-Tashkent-Volgograd flight on December 11, 2018. Prices start from €137 (RUB 10,240) for a one-way ticket. According to the airline’s press service, the flight will get operated every Tuesday. Flight U6 2670 (Tashkent-Volgograd): departure 11:10 AM, arrival 1:45 PM; the flight is three hours and thirty-five minutes long. Flight U6 2669 (Volgograd-Tashkent): departure 5:35 AM, arrival 9:40 AM; the flight is three hours and five minutes long. ‘The airline keeps working to introduce more flights to and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 30, 2018. ChelPipe Group and ROSNANO’s Infrastructure & Education Programs Fund worked together to develop professional standards for the people involved in design and engineering support of nano-modified steel pipe production, the Group’s press service reports. The standards that set out the professional requirements for this branch of industry have been adopted by Russia’s Labor & Social Welfare Ministry. The new professional standards are applicable to employees of all Russian pipe manufacturers that deal in hi tech produce. The professional standards

UrBC, Moscow, November 30, 2018. Russia’s independent gas filling stations are now allowed to raise their retail fuel prices by 4% on top of what the filling stations owned by large oil and gas companies charge, RIA Novosti refers to participants of Vice Premier Dmitri Kozak’s recent session as stating. After a provision to freeze gasoline prices got signed on November 12, Kozak asked the Federal Antimonopoly Service and Russia’s Federal Tax Service to check things with the owners of stand-alone gas stations, with a special focus on stations that charge their customers prices that exceed the

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 30, 2018. Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Nikolai Tsukanov and Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky paid a visit to the construction sites of buildings and infrastructure facilities for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS Summits in Chelyabinsk, the Southern Urals Government’s Press Service & Information Department reports. Plenipotentiary Representative Tsukanov, accompanied by Governor Dubrovsky, took a look at the construction site of the new terminal and airfield at Chelyabinsk

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 30, 2018. The share of overdue payments (no payments for thirty or more days past the payment date) on car loans came to 8.4% of Sverdlovsk Region’s respective market in the third quarter of 2018, down 0.4% on one year earlier, when the figure stood at 8.8%, the National Credit History Bureau refers to its research findings as indicating. In Russia on the whole, the share of overdue car loan repayments came to 8% in the third quarter of the year, down 1.5% on a year earlier, when the figure stood at 9.5%. According to the Bureau’s Director-General Alexander

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 29, 2018. Ural Airlines will start operating a new Yekaterinburg-Samarkand-Yekaterinburg flight on December 15, 2018. According to the air carrier’s press service, flight U6 2861/2862 will be operated every Saturday. Prices start from €161 and €133 for Yekaterinburg-Samarkand and Samarkand-Yekaterinburg flights, respectively; all fees included. ‘Samarkand, or ’Tamerlane’s Capital’, is famous for its unique masterpieces dating back to Asia’s ancient times, such as the turquoise-and-gold domes of mausoleums and madrasas, for example, or the mosaic-covered high-rise