UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 27, 2018. Zhukovsky International Airport (Moscow Region) and Ural Airlines are now offering their customers a new flight from Kulyab (Tajikistan) to Zhukovsky and back. The flight got introduced on September 24. Kulyab is now the tenth scheduled-flight destination Ural Airless fly to from Zhukovsky Airport. ‘Ural Airlines are among our oldest and most trusted partners; the airline is a market leader in terms of destination network growth and is now decidedly Zhukovsky’s most important and active air carrier: every one in two passengers flying from Zhukovsky

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 27, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) will host the 9th International Cast Iron Metallurgy Conference on its premises on September 25-27. The event is coordinated by the International Blast Furnace Workers’ Union, MetProm, and NTMK. According to the company’s press service, 180 workers and managers employed in the metallurgical, coke-manufacturing, and machine-building businesses, design office workers, and researchers from national and international research institutes will be contributing to the forum. ‘We are delighted

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 27, 2018. Ural Airlines won the 9th Annual Consumer Rights and Customer Service Quality Prize (PravPro): the airline proved the best among all the competing air carriers in Retail Services, the company press service reports. The solemn awarding ceremony took place on September 21, 2018. ‘Every year, the prize is given out to companies that take consumer rights, production, and customer service responsibly and prove worthy of the highest trust,’ the press service says. The prize is an annual, socially acknowledged award that serves to distinguish the most

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 27, 2018. Chair of Federal Grid Company United Energy System’s Board Andrei Murov announced during his recent meeting with the heads of the company’s local HQs that a series of large-scale emergency drills should get carried out in each of FGC UES’s divisions throughout the country, the company’s Western Siberia branch reports. The drills are meant to prevent large-scale power outages caused by bad weather conditions in the upcoming fall/winter season. The Western Siberia branch’s electric mains are expected to grow 9,600 hectares longer/bigger in the next three

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 26, 2018. EVRAZ Holding coordinated an international environmental quest in teamwork plogging and recycling in Kachkanar for the first time this year. 1,500 kg of plastic, glass, metals, and paper stuffs got picked up on the shores of Kachkanar Pond as a result, the company press service reports. Thirty-seven teams took part in the quest all in all, consisting of schoolchildren, teachers, and employees of EVRAZ Holding’s Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise and their families. The quest participants needed to collect and sort different categories of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 26, 2018. In-plant training foreman on ChelPipe Group’s The Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program Bulat Ibrayev won gold in the National WorldSkills 50+ Championship, the Group’s press service reports. ‘Ibrayev represented Sverdlovsk Region in Wiring. More than 130 contestants from all over Russia competed in twenty-six categories at this WorldSkills challenge for people over fifty,’ the press service says. Bulat Ibrayev helps students on The Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program master electric wiring and coaches

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 26, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is working on a number of projects to reduce the plant’s man-made impact on the local water reservoirs, MMK’s press service reports. One upcoming project is to stop dumping any water in Magnitogorsk Pond entirely. To achieve this goal, the plant is now investing in reconstruction of its water circulation system: the chill tank will have to get bigger, among other things; also, a dam will be put up to protect the pond from the impact of MMK’s water circulation system. All this is expected to stop any inflow of

UrBC, Moscow, September 26, 2018. The international rating agency Fitch expects Russia’s banking sector to keep losing market players next year, TASS refers to the reports presented at a conference on the banking sector and the country’s microeconomic situation in Moscow on September 25 as indicating. ‘The Central Bank called off the licenses of thirty different banks in the six months of 2018. We expect this trend to continue in 2019 as well,’ Fitch explains. Now Head of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina said in early September that the market had been cleaned from the better part of

UrBC, Moscow, September 26, 2018. The Russian consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor is planning to fine those who make and sell adulterated foods, Interfax refers to the agency’s head Anna Popova as stating. ‘The first thing we are going to propose to the government is making amendments in the food adulteration regulations. There’s no notion of adulteration as such in either the Administrative or the Criminal Code, so there’s no punishment, either,’ Popova said at the Federation Council’s recent meeting on social policy issues. According to Popova, ‘the chemical industry has advanced

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, September 25, 2018. MMK Group directed RUR 161.7m to employee medical and healthcare programs in the first half of 2018, the company press service reports. The Group makes a special focus on keeping its workers healthy. Employee Health Improvement Program was adopted last year that meets all the modern standards and employees’ expectations in the in-company healthcare sector. The Program currently covers three important areas: job safety; treatment and prevention of diseases and illnesses; and a healthy lifestyle. In addition to regular physicals, the company clinic also

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 25, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) is introducing SAP Process Mining by Celonis in order to make its loan-issuing procedures more effective, detect and give up on all the inefficient sales scripts, and cut down on the amount of time and money spent on lending-related activities, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Apart from this, the goal is to reduce the workload of our real sector employees through an analysis of non-standard customer service cases and a set of steps that will help reduce the number of such cases the workers

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 25, 2018. A pawnshop at 9A Vainer St in Yekaterinburg was robbed of RUR 100m worth of jewelry last night. Yekaterinburg division of Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry’s press service says the police are now investigating the case and estimating the scale of the damage done. ‘The police got informed of a pawnshop robbery at Vainer St on September 23. The case is now being investigated. The amount of damage incurred is yet to be determined. The decision as to the further proceedings will have to be made based on the preliminary inquest results,’ the police

UrBC, Moscow, September 25, 2018. Russia is set a few steps back i noted World Governance Indicators rating, Kommersant refers to the World Bank’s annual report as stating. According to the report, Russia’s WGI stayed below zero last year and reached as little as -0.48. In 2016, the index stood at -0.42. A country’s WGI is based on six different criteria: accountability, political stability and low level of violence, government’s efficiency, quality of regulations, rule of law, and controlled corruption. Bloomberg reported earlier that businesses have been forced to take their money back to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 25, 2018. The annual cycling race that nuclear industry workers take part in took place in Yekaterinburg on September 22. The race usually involves some radiation level checks; for the first time this year, the event went through in a quest format, Yekaterinburg Nuclear Energy Information Center’s press service reports. Employees of AO SverdNIIKhimmash, Ural Electromechanical Plant, Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station, AO Reactor Material Institute, and Sverdlovsk Region’s division of RosRAO in Ural Federal District all took part in the race alongside

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, September 24, 2018. ChelPipe Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program’s in-plant training foreman Bulat Ibrayev is going to take part in the blue-collar skills challenge WorldSkills 50+. The final round of the championship takes place at Tekhnograd Center in Moscow on September 22-23. According to ChelPipe Group’s press service, Bulat Ibrayev is going to compete in Electric Wiring. Ibrayev’s job at the company’s Training Center is to teach his Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program students to do wiring jobs. He also runs a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 24, 2018. Russian Post recently opened a new, second office in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy. The new office can be found at 46 Mekhrentsev St, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The office will process the mail of people living in Krasnolesye St, Akademik Vonsovsky St, Akademik Semikhatov St, Tsvetaeva St, Mekhrentsev St, Voloshin St, Koltsevaya St, Kolokolnaya St, Mislavsky St, Barvinka St, Fersman St, Chkalov St, Mikheyev St, and Rutminsky St. ‘Akademicheskiy’s locals rely heavily on the post office service. Most of the international

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 24, 2018. MegaFon’s tech teams report both voice call and Internet traffic double in the so-called ‘Ural Mars’ area every weekend; the location in question is a clay pit near Bogdanovich, Sverdlovsk Region, that is famous for its surreal landscapes, the company press service reports. These are not just the locals who come to see and take pictures of the clay mountains and the maroon-colored water that make the place look like another planet: in the last three months, MegaFon has checked in smartphones of users coming from Chelyabinsk, Tyumen, Yamal, Yugra, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 24, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) placed 5,000 baby grass carps in the city’s ponds and rivers for the first time this year. The fish will now live in Nizhniy Tagil Pond and Lenevskoye Reservoir, the holding’s press service reports. ‘Grass carps are herbivorous fish that eat green algae and phytoplankton. A baby fish weighs about fifty grams. These are useful in that they prevent excessive weediness and eat up dead plants, which boosts the oxygen content within,’ the press service says. Experts are now going to watch

UrBC, Moscow, September 24, 2018. Russian nationals withdrew $1.2bn from their foreign currency deposits at Sberbank in August 2018, Bloomberg refers to the Bank of Russia and Frank RG as stating. ‘The overall outflow in the banking sector on the whole reached $1.5bn. Russia’s largest bank has lost nearly 10% of its retail deposit volume (as far as foreign currency deposits are concerned) since the start of the year. The banking sector on the whole shrank by 5.9%,’ the agency says. It is believed Russians have been withdrawing their dollar deposits because of all the apprehensions related to

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, September 21, 2018. International Business Congress on O&G Modern Technologies and Promising Project’s committee met at Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe) for the first time in Russia on September 18, 2018. According to ChelPipe Group’s press service, the event, coordinated by the Group, got attended by more than 160 representatives of Russian and foreign businesses, including Gazprom, TMK, OMK, Severstal, Baker Hughes, Wintershall, Mitsui&Co, and DNV GL AS. ‘It was here at Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant that the concept of ‘white-coated metallurgy’ was born