UrBC, Moscow, October 25, 2018. 10,467 forged ruble bills were found within the Russian Federation’s banking system in the third quarter of 2018; this is 267 banknotes fewer than one year earlier, the Central Bank’s press service reports. 5,000-ruble bills get forged most often (7,616 bills got uncovered in the given period all in all); the number of forged 1,000-ruble bills is nearly three times smaller: 2,425. Added to this are 95 forged 2,000-ruble bills and 3 forged 200-ruble bills, as well as 37 counterfeit coins (4 10-ruble ones, 32 5-ruble ones, and 1 1-ruble one). As for foreign

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 25, 2018. About nine hundred more doctors are still needed in Sverdlovsk Region, the constituency’s Healthcare Minister Andrei Tsvetkov announced at a press conference in Yekaterinburg on October 24, 2018. ‘These are both currently unfilled job openings and the potential replacements for doctors going into retirement,’ the minister said. According to Tsvetkov, locations in Sverdlovsk Region’s north suffer from medical staff shortage particularly badly. The Healthcare Ministry is now trying to make up for the shortage by hiring both local medical school graduates

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 25, 2018. Workers from EVRAZ Holding’s Ural and Siberia divisions are going to take part in the nationwide blue-collar job championship WorldSkills Hi Tech for the fifth time this year, the holding’s press service reports. The championship will be held at Yekaterinburg EXPO on October 24-28. EVRAZ’s team comprises 35 contestants and 33 experts for the judges’ panel. This year, the company representatives will compete in twelve different categories: Mechatronics, Welding, Wiring, Industrial Automation, Lab Chemical Testing, Sheet Metal Treatment, Nondestructive

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 25, 2018. Ural Airlines is launching its new flight from Zhukovsky, Moscow Region to Prague, Czechia and back on December 26, 2018; flight U6 751/752 will be operated every Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘The flights are offered within very convenient time slots: you leave Zhukovsky at 6:30 AM and arrive in Prague at 7:30 AM, so you’ll have a full day ahead of you to enjoy the city. On the way back, you leave Prague at 8:30 AM and arrive in Zhukovsky after three hours on board,’ the press service says. Prices

UrBC, Pervouralsk, October 24, 2018. ChelPipe Group is now one of the first Russian metallurgical enterprises to introduce an automated emission control system at the plant, the Group’s press service reports. The system has been launched at the Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ); it relies on the innovative research findings that allow for giving up on manual gauging completely and for getting 100% of data automatically. The project required around RUR 20m in investments. The equipment comprises a multi-component infrared gas analyzer, a gas flowmeter, and a dust analyzer. The system

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 24, 2018. Seventeen people took part in the recent public hearings relating to where to put up a new building for Sverdlovsk Philharmonic in Yekaterinburg; all the seventeen hearing participants voted against the proposed location; the ballot results were published on the town council’s website. ‘All the hearing and voting procedures have been carried out properly. It is not possible to take the voters’ opinion into account as far as not pulling down an apartment building at 40 Karl Liebknecht St is concerned, in case the town council goes through with the

UrBC, Moscow, October 24, 2018. The German car manufacturer BMW is calling off 1.6m automobiles worldwide as a possible fault has been found in their exhaust gas recirculation system, which might, in the worst-case scenario, lead to flame formation, Prime refers to Bayerischer Rundfunk as announcing. The call-off pertains to cars made between August 2010 and August 2017. It was determined in the course of an internal investigation that certain automobiles’ gas recirculation system may give off the glycol-based cooling agent, which, in combination with the black carbon residue and the high

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 24, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) presented its new mobile apps designed with the goal of optimizing the plant’s business processes at the 7th Annual Moscow Open Innovations Forum, the company press service reports. The Forum took place at Skolkovo Foundation’s campus on October 15-17 and was dedicated to digital economy. Nine MMK representatives took part in the forum altogether, including four heads of production departments who are currently studying on MMK Director-General’s School Industry 4.0 Program. Director of MMK-Informservis Vadim

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 24, 2018. The developer RSG-Akademicheskoye is coordinating a tender for a contractor to do the design and survey work relating to a prospective new embankment along the River Patrushikha in District Akademicheskiy’s Quarter 26, the company’s press service reports. The contractor the company decides upon will have to do all the engineering survey work and produce all the design documentation for the embankment along the River Patrushikha in District Akademicheskiy’s Quarter 26, Yekaterinburg. The opening bid has been set at RUR 3,530,617 (18% VAT included). The

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 23, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) directed RUR 13m to fund the trade union members’ children’s stays at countryside camps/resorts this year so far. According to the company press service, MMK has allocated RUR 2m more for the purpose this year compared with two years earlier. ‘The special program the trade union committee adopted early on in the year involves the trade union members/employees whose children go to summer camps during the school break. These workers get a subsidy of RUR 3,500 to co-fund their children’s summer travel,’ the press

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 23, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) is now Russia’s first enterprise to launch the SAP ERP- and SAP APO PP/DS-based production planning system. The PPS adjusted the plant’s order-placing, production planning, and spare parts manufacturing processes and resulted in a 10% drop in the amount of warehouse stock, the holding’s press service reports. ‘The new system allows for more efficient tracking of new orders and for timely production planning and control. Orders and applications for new spare parts get entered into an

UrBC, Vladikavkaz, October 23, 2018. North Ossetia-Alanya’s public prosecution authorities are now investigating a fire outbreak at Ural Mining & Metallurgical Company’s ElectroZinc in Vladikavkaz. The investigation is meant to evaluate the actions taken by the people in charge at the plant, TASS reports. ‘An investigation is taking place to look into the fire; once it has been completed, an assessment of the plant’s management’s actions will be issued,’ a public prosecution authorities representative is quoted as telling TASS. The fire broke out at the plant’s electrolysis shop on

UrBC, Moscow, October 23, 2018. The number of Russians who booked a flight to Europe for the upcoming New Year break is down 17% this year compared with one year earlier; the share of Europe-bound passenger traffic declined from 16.1% to 13.3%, tutu.ru refers to its own research findings as indicating. The company looked into bookings made for December 15, 2018-January 15, 2019. ‘The prices for European flights have remained essentially the same, with the average amount down by 2% from RUR 25,677 to RUR 25,242 (round trip); the price of flying to other international destinations rose by 1% on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 23, 2018. MegaFon now has more mobile experts available in Sverdlovsk Region, the ISP and mobile carrier reports. MegaFon’s professional telecom consultants are now working at thirteen more mobile supermarkets. The new outlets got opened in Yekaterinburg, Verkhnyaya Salda, Zarechny, Kamyshlov, Nevyansk, Nizhniy Tagil, and Pervouralsk. In Yekaterinburg alone, more experts are now available at stores in Alatyr Shopping Mall, Greenwich Shopping Mall, and Belka Market, as well as in smaller outlets in Uralmash and Staraya Sortirovka. MegaFon’s analysts relied on their

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2018. SKB-Bank and a number of other Russian financial market players signed a Memorandum of Cooperation at the Finopolis Forum in Sochi on October 18; the goal is to work on the development of Marketplace Project together, the bank’s press service reports. SKB-Bank’s customers can now access and purchase the bank’s products online, from anywhere in the world. Marketplace offers a customer full information on their accounts and the money in them and allows for online account management. SKB-Bank keeps working on making its services as hi tech as possible and

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, October 22, 2018. Actual Accomplishments, a project coordinated by Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky, is currently being implemented in District Nagaybaksky: the area’s long-term water supply problems are finally over, Southern Urals Government’s Press Service & Information Department reports. The local authorities also keep working to improve their settlements’ infrastructure and create better living conditions for the locals. ‘Actual Accomplishments are in full progress in Chelyabinsk Region. I decided to allocate even more funding for the project next

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2018. Yekaterinburg’s new home market supply is as large as ever, with over 20,000 apartments currently for sale. New home prices rose by 4.5% in the last nine months, Ural Real Estate Chamber reports. According to the Chamber’s analyst Mikhail Khorkov, there are plenty of interesting housing projects to choose from; the supply structure, however, is now markedly different. At the beginning of the year, for example, there were over 4,000 homes for sale in newly commissioned buildings. In the fall, the number dropped down to 2,400 apartments. The market supply

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2018. 3,048,000 Sverdlovsk Region-based infrastructure facilities will have to undergo a cadastral appraisal next year, Sverdlovsk Region’s Ministry for Public Property Management’s press service reports. The constituency is getting ready to start the procedures at the moment. ‘The Tax Code amendments the Russian Government adopted on January 1, 2015 state that private taxpayers must start paying a property tax based on their assets’ cadastral value by January 1, 2020 at the latest (Article 402 of Russia’s Tax Code). They are currently paying a property tax

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2018. RUR 1bn got written off Sverdlovsk Region’s residents’ overdue tax payment amounts between January 1 and October 19, 2018, head of Russia’s Federal Tax Service’s Sverdlovsk Region division’s Debt Settlement Department Artem Balyura said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. The money written off pertains to unpaid transport tax, land tax, and property tax. The overall amount of unpaid taxes has gone down by RUR 2.5bn since the beginning of the year. According to Balyura, the amount in question got written off based on the Tax Amnesty Act 436-FZ (dated

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 19, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is taking part in the 15th International ISCON 2018 Congress in Tula, MMK’s press service reports. The event got coordinated by Industrial Metallurgical Holding and the Steel-Smelters’ Association. This year, the congress agenda is dedicated to two special dates: firstly, National University of Science and Technology MISiS was founded one hundred years ago this year; and secondly, it was exactly 380 years ago that Russia’s metallurgical industry was born. The congress gets attended by metallurgical enterprises’