UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 7, 2018. MegaFon and Actum are coordinating their MegaDataHack hackathon in Yekaterinburg on November 16-18, 2018. This is the second time MegaFon is organizing a hackathon in search of gifted young people with fresh ideas, knowledge, and ambition. The first hackathon in the MegaDataHack series took place in Novosibirsk on October 6-7. The Yekaterinburg contestants will face three challenges in three different fields. First, they will have to design an original chat bot meant for project management. Next, they will have to create an automatic bill payment

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 7, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Group’s member enterprises’s quality management systems, environmental management systems, and industrial and job safety management systems were recently witness-audited successfully for compliance with the international standards ISO 9001, IATF 16949, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001. According to MMK’s Information & PR Department, the international certifying authority TUV NORD CERT’s auditing procedures covered both MMK’s structural and functional divisions as well as the Group’s key organizations involved in the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 7, 2018. Rosatom Energomash’s asset SverdNIIKhimmash supplied an evaporator unit to Kursk Nuclear Power Station in October, the company press service reports. The unit is part of the liquid radioactive waste filtering and reprocessing system and is meant for salting-up through vacuum evaporation. The unit cost more than RUR 4.5m to buy. The evaporator was made by Krasnodar-based AK ESKM Corporation on schedule and in full compliance with the technical specifications provided by SverdNIIKhimmash; the evaporator meets all the necessary quality requirements and has

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 7, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Tyva-based Mezhegeyugol Coal Company’s miners (Section 1 team, run by manager Andrey Balek and foreman Alexei Perchuk) did 1,731m worth of headwork in October, thus setting a new national record, EVRAZ Holding’s press service reports. Once their record-setting shift was over, the miners received a perpetual trophy and special thank-you letters in the course of a solemn ceremony. The symbolic piece of coal was handed over to Mezhegeyugol Coal Company’s Director Alexander Lukinykh. ‘Mezhegeyugol’s production record was made possible due to

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 6, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Group made 31.7% more in net profit (calculated in accordance with the IAS) in January-September 2018 compared with one year earlier, with the overall figure reaching $1.072bn, the company reports. The Group’s consolidated revenue rose by 11.7% and thus amounted to $6.252bn. Its EBITDA came to $1.881bn (up 30.6%), its EBITDA profit margin stood at 30.1% against 25.7% a year earlier. MMK’s profit rose by 2.3% in the third quarter of the year compared with the second quarter and thus amounted to $401m. Its EBITDA

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 6, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) and MasterCard present their customers with an opportunity to win tickets to a hockey game during the Continental Hockey League Championship in Yekaterinburg, Ufa, and Chelyabinsk on November 27-December 31, 2018. According to the bank’s press service, you need to use your URBD Mastercard to pay for at least RUR 4,000 worth of purchases on November 5-18, November 19-December 2, and December 3-9 in order to be eligible for the prize-drawing. There will be three prize-drawing events all in all, with

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 6, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) with its RUR 440bn in last year’s revenues was rated No.5 in Expert Ural 400 Rating this month. According to MMK’s Information & PR Department, the company did just as well as last year on this rating. This happens to be the highest ranking among all the companies outside of the oil and gas sector. As for the two national Expert 400 and RBC 500 ratings, MMK was given the 26th and the 27th positions on the country level, respectively. The rating gets compiled by Expert Analytical Center on the basis of the

UrBC, Moscow, November 6, 2018. Aeroflot Group is planning on putting up a number of additional air bases throughout the country under the company’s new strategy. There will appear an international hub in Krasnoyarsk and three bases in Sochi, Yekaterinburg, and Novosibirsk, the air carrier’s press service reports. The goal is to enable the airline to raise its international transit traffic from 5m passengers in 2017 to 10m-15m by 2023, and to triple the number of Aeroflot’s short-range domestic flights from 7m passengers in 2017 to 19m by 2023.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 6, 2018. Ural Airlines are introducing more flights from Yekaterinburg to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport and back; special prices apply for all the flights, starting from as little as RUR 2,990 (one way) and RUR 5,615 (round trip). The tickets are already on offer. Flight U6 21 Yekaterinburg-Moscow (Sheremetyevo) will be operated every Wednesday and Thursday. Departure: 5 PM; arrival: 5:40 PM. Flight U6 1 Yekaterinburg-Moscow (Sheremetyevo) is operated daily. Departure: 7:30 AM; arrival: 7:50 AM. Flight U6 22 Moscow (Sheremetyevo)-Yekaterinburg will be operated

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2018. Ural Airlines introduce new Osh-Sochi-Osh flights starting November 4, 2018. Flight U6 2519/2520 will be available every Sunday. According to the company’s press service, prices start from RUR 9,800 (one way, all fees included, one piece of luggage under 23 kg, one piece of cabin luggage under 5 kg, and a meal on board included). The flights will be operated on Airbus liners. In fact, Ural Airlines have introduced several new flights to Kyrgyzstan this fall. You can now get to Osh from Krasnodar, Anapa, and Kazan. Tickets are available on the company

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2018. Russia’s most northernmost oil deposit/platform Messoyakhaneftegaz can now enjoy a high-speed LTE connection thanks to MegaFon, the latter’s press service reports. Messoyakhaneftegaz teams that are currently working on Vostochno-Messoyakhskoye Deposit can use the 4G Internet connection now; it only took MegaFon 120 days to get all the work done. Messoyakhaneftegaz works on the less easily accessible oil and gas reserves in the Arctic (the north of Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region), with limited access to transport and industrial infrastructure. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2018. Europe’s and Asia’s leading architects are going to discuss renovation projects at 100+ Forum Russia in Yekaterinburg, the forum coordinators report. ‘The 5th International High-Rise Construction 100+ Forum Russia invited globally acknowledged experts to present their renovation projects for today’s metropolises. The architects will try to answer the critical question of how to keep the place’s original historic look while complementing its urban environment with the new infrastructure the growing cities need to develop,’ the announcement goes. The

UrBC, Moscow, November 2, 2018. Toyota Motor Corp. and Subaru Corp. announced they were calling off 400,000+ automobiles to have an engine defect fixed, Prime refers to Dow Jones as stating. Called off are several popular Subaru makes, including Forester, Impreza, and BRZ. Toyota is calling off its sports car makes 86 and Scion FR-S that are made by Subaru. The car manufacturers explain the engine springs are found to be prone to breaking, which might cause a sudden full halt and an accident. The springs are meant to keep the engine flap closed while the fuel is burning, so broken springs

UrBC, Moscow, November 2, 2018. 8,847 applications for insurance compensation (total amount: RUR 1,094,239,588) have been submitted to Ingosstrakh Insurance by Nathalie Tours’ customers as of October 29, 2018. According to the insurance company’s press service, they have received 8,679 applications stemming from their contract with OOO Panorama Tour (total amount: RUR 1,079,957,784) and 168 applications stemming from their contract with Nathalie Travel Agent’s (total amount: RUR 14,281,803). ‘Ingosstrakh made all the insurance payments due to Panorama Tour’s customers. The compositions were

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 1, 2018. Ural Airlines are offering their customers discounts on Yekaterinburg-Prague-Yekaterinburg flights around New Year, the air carrier’s press service reports. Prices start from RUR 9,775 (one way, all fees included); the flights will be operated between December 25, 2018 and January 11, 2019. ‘Prague is a city that strikes its visitors with its inimitable European charm any time of the year; the place is particularly enchanting, however, around the winter’s holiday season. Christmas markets open in Prague Castle, Wenceslas Square, and Old Town Square as

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 1, 2018. Vysota 239 Department of ChelPipe Group’s Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant produced exactly 4,000,000,000 kg of large-diameter pipes between the day it was launched back in 2010 and October 31, 2018, ChelPipe Group’s press service reports. Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky attended the solemn ceremony of welding that day’s special batch of LDPs, as did the department’s best workers and students on the Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program. ‘Chelyabinsk Region Government decided a few years ago that ChelPipe Group

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 1, 2018. Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station in Zarechny, Sverdlovsk Region keeps working to introduce more fish in Beloyarsky Reservoir: 30,000 young bigheads got released into the pond on October 29, 2018, the station’s press service reports. The plan is to place 269,000 young specimens of Aristichthys nobilis into the pond before the end of the year altogether. Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station has been releasing fish into the reservoir since 2010. 269,000 specimens got released last year alone. The fish get placed into the pond based on the estimates and

UrBC, Moscow, November 1, 2018. The damage done by the pyramid scheme Cashbery might amount to as much as RUR 3bn, TASS refers to head of the Bank of Russia’s Fraud Prevention Department Valeriy Lyakh as stating. ‘RUR 1bn worth of damage is a conservative estimate. According to experts, however, the actual damage might amount to RUR 1-3bn,’ Lyakh said in answer to a question. Now the Bank of Russia placed its files on a number of Russian and foreign businesses acting under the umbrella brand Cashbery with the Prosecutor-General’s Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs in late September;

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 1, 2018. 338,59 loans (total amount: RUR 71.22bn) got issued in Sverdlovsk Region in the third quarter of 2018 (up 46% on a year earlier). This makes Sverdlovsk Region Russia’s No.3 constituency in terms of loan-issuing activity, United Credit History Bureau reports. The overall money amount of consumer loans that are over RUR 100,000 large and over 2 years long rose by 61% in Sverdlovsk Region last year and reached RUR 34.97bn. The average loan amount in this category comes to RUR 329,000. The overall money amount of consumer loans that are under RUR 100,000

UrBC, Moscow, October 31, 2018. Russia’s Finance Ministry won’t have the ‘luxury tax’ adjusted after all, Minister Anton Siluanov said on Channel 1 Pozner Show this week. ‘They often say we should tax the wealthier people more. As things are, we have done that already: owners now pay higher property tax on luxury apartments and condos, automobiles, yachts, and so on,’ Siluanov said. According to Siluanov, a progressive tax system ‘has its plus and minus sides.’ ‘We understand the well-off to be clever enough to find a way around the progressive tax; for one thing, these people may choose to