UrBC, Pervouralsk, September 13, 2018. ProyekTY Social Skills School coordinated its first creative session in Pervouralsk, with over a hundred starting-up and experienced local businesspeople taking part. The school gets supported by ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ), the Group’s press service reports. First, the session activists presented their projects that are targeted both at making a profit and at improving the locals’ lives. The projects covered a wide range of ideas, from tourist cycling routes to new mobile apps. Interestingly, old-age pensioners were the target

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2018. Ural Airlines offered its services to 2,998,862 people in June through August 2018, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 12%, the airline’s press service reports. 1,702,277 passengers traveled on the air carrier’s domestic flights, 854,266 on international flights, and 422,319 on flights to and from the NIS member states. The airline operated 19,002 flights in the summer months altogether, including 5,089 international ones, 10,994 domestic ones, and 2,919 flights to and from the NIS member states. The Black Sea resorts (Simferopol,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2018. Gorod Pervykh, an environmental movement inspired and supported by ChelPipe Group, coordinated a special eco-race (aka plogging) in Pervouralsk, the Group’s press service reports. ‘Plogging (a portmanteau word stemming in part from the Swedish word plog (‘plough’)) is an increasingly popular sports activity that combines jogging and picking up litter. This was the first time a plogging event took place in Pervouralsk, with several dozen locals taking part, schoolchildren among them. All the participants got provided with rubber gloves and trash bin

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2018. 6,021,909 people flew with Ural Airlines between January and August 2018, the air carrier’s press service reports. The airline offered its services to 3,349,824 passengers on domestic flights, 1,563,599 people on international flights, and 1,108,385 people on flights to and from the NIS member states. The airline operated 41,036 flights in January-August 2018 all in all (up 14% on a year earlier), including 23,013 domestic ones, 10,173 international ones, and 7,850 flights to and from the NIS member states. The company’s passenger turnover rose by 16%

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2018. Head of Yekaterinburg Council Alexander Yakob signed a provision relating to a long-term contract for the construction of a secondary school for 1,200 students in District Akademicheskiy’s Quarter 26, the city council’s website states. The new school will be part of the council-founded New Student Openings At Yekaterinburg’s Education Establishments in 2016-2025 Program. Under the terms of the provision, all the construction jobs must get completed by December 31, 2021. Now new School 23 got opened in Akademicheskiy in the course of a solemn ceremony

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court set the date for the first hearing relating to the Central Bank’s legal action to have AO Tagilbank liquidated on October 2, 2018, the court’s website states. The first hearing was originally meant to have taken place on September 28, 2018. AO Tagilbank was founded in Nizhniy Tagil on November 25, 1991; on July 20, 2018 the Bank of Russia had the bank’s license called off. Based on the bank’s latest report data, Tagilbank was Russia’s 409th largest bank as of July 1, 2018. The insurance payments to Tagilbank’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 11, 2018. Only 55% of Sverdlovsk Region-based workers never work for cash and get all of their pay shown on their payroll statements; this is 5% less than one year earlier, HeadHunter reports. Analysts say the number of those who get a portion of their pay in cash rose considerably this year; however, the number of people who get all of their pay money under the table only rose a little against two years earlier. The banking and medical sectors as well as the academia proved the three areas where the working-for-cash figures are the lowest. Those employed in the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 11, 2018. Head of Yekaterinburg Council Alexander Yakob signed two provisions relating to long-term contracts for the construction of large transportation facilities in Yekaterinburg, the city website states. The first provision covers a long-term, municipality’s budget-funded contract for the construction of a highway junction at the intersection of Serafima Deryabina St and Obyezdnaya Rd. The preparatory jobs need to be completed this year already, the road itself needs to get commissioned by late 2021. The second provision has to do with a contract for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 11, 2018. KoloBOCCEk, a unique charity project for motion impaired children supported by the telecommunications provider MegaFon, is now available in the Urals. More than seven hundred children from special-needs kindergartens will be learning to play bocce and finding out more about this world with the help of the game, MegaFon’s press service reports. The workshops and sports competitions for motion impaired preschoolers will take place in September 2018-June 2019. Sverdlovsk Region-based part of the project gets coordinated by the Anton Shipulin Foundation,

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, September 11, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is starting its local round of inter-plant experience-sharing workshop for managers and repair technicians in the metallurgical sector, MMK’s press service reports. This Magnitogorsk stage of the workshop is meant to round up the series of workshops for metallurgical enterprises’ employees involved in equipment maintenance and repair. The seminar participants went to Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works and NLMK-Ural in Revda earlier. This particular workshop gathered together more students than ever:

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 11, 2018. Ural Airlines are now offering their customers direct Yekaterinburg-Munich-Yekaterinburg flights in winter; the flight is already on the airline’s winter schedule. The flights will be operated every Saturday from December 29, 2018 till March 30, 2019; the flight is five hours and ten minutes long. Prices start from RUR 12,266 (one way). ‘The snow-covered mountain tops, the sparkling bits of ice, the blue skies, the aromatic mulled wine, the gingerbreads, and the Christmas markets’ wonders… The snowy Bavaria has something to offer to the entire family,

UrBC, Moscow, September 10, 2018. Only around 130 to 150 banks currently operating in Russia will be able to meet all the basic license criteria, Prime refers to the Bank of Russia’s Deputy Chair Vassily Pozdyshev as predicting. According to Pozdyshev, thirty banks have been issued their licenses already. A number of others intend to increase their capital in order to be eligible to apply for a universal license. According to the Bank of Russia, there are 476 banks registered in Russia as of August 1, 2018.

UrBC, Moscow, September 10, 2018. Russian banks do have some liquid assets at their disposal, but they won’t be able to use these funds to issue loans to businesses. Only very few companies can be seen as dependable borrowers, it is believed. Besides, the Central Bank is taking steps to prevent banks from issuing too many loans to private borrowers, BBC refers to the Russian Banks XXI International Banking Forum’s attendees as stating. ‘There are RUR 3.3 trillion in surplus liquidity money in the banking sector at the moment,’ President of the Russian Banks Association Georgiy Luntovsky is

UrBC, Moscow, September 10, 2018. The Russian Government suggested limiting the maximum share of foreign nationals employed in the Russian building industry to 80% of the overall number of workers, Kommersant refers to Russia’s Vice Premier Tatiana Golikova as stating; Golikova is reported as saying that the limitations wouldn’t apply to Moscow, Khabarovsk Territory, and Amur Region. ‘I’d like to point to this proposal to reduce the number of foreign workers employed in the building industry, where migrants coming to Russia mostly work. The idea is to limit the share of foreign nationals in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 10, 2018. Yekaterinburg’s District Oktyabrsky Court dismissed a criminal case against a Moscow Region native who was charged with disorderly conduct on board a plane, Ural Public Prosecution Authorities for Transportation’s press service reports. The incident occurred on board a plane going from Yekaterinburg to Beijing in March 2018. ‘The young woman kept consuming strong drinks she’d smuggled on board, had an argument with the flight attendants, tried lighting a cigarette, and attempted to open the emergency exit fixtures during the flight, which endangered

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, September 10, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) keeps reconstructing its hot-roll Mill 2500 at Sheet Rolling Department 4, the company press service reports. The reconstruction will make it possible for the plant to expand its product range as well as to improve its produce quality. The mill’s overall capacity will also rise from 4,000,000,000 kg to 5,000,000,000 kg of rolled goods a year. Currently under modernization are the roughing trains and the wind-up station. The foundation and the off-site launching pad for the roughing trains’ housing sections have

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2018. Miners started working on new Long-Face 4-10-31 (estimated coal reserves: 3,500,000,000 kg of coal) at EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Mine, the holding’s press service reports. A number of assembly/dismantling jobs as well as plenty of mining and stoping work had to be done prior to starting on the long-face proper. The company’s stoping teams went through more than 12 km of mining Sections 28 and 30. The new long-face block is over 3.5 km long. The block is now fitted with highly productive BUCYRUS unit and JOY combined vehicle. The unit makes it possible

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2018. ChelPipe Group’s member enterprises Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant cut their energy spending by RUR 70m in the first half of the year within the framework of the Group’s energy efficiency program. According to the Group’s press service, launching a new power substation (Novotrubnaya) proved the major driving force behind a dramatic drop in energy spending. The station needed RUR 220m in investments to get put up. Novotrubnaya now ensures uninterrupted power supply to the electric steel-smelting shop Iron Ozone 32 and cuts

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region-based farms and agribusinesses have to pay RUR 11,000 more per every 1,000 liters of diesel fuel this September compared with September 2017, Sverdlovsk Region’s Minister for Agriculture Dmitri Degtyarev said at a recent Sverdlovsk Region Government’s meeting. According to Degtyarev, diesel fuel got sold to Sverdlovsk Region’s farmers for RUR 39,000 per 1,000 liters last year. Now the price rose to around RUR 50,000 per 1,000 liters. Gasoline prices went up as well. Farmers and agribusiness bought gas for RUR 41,700 per 1,000 liters

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2018. Ural Airlines will resume operating its Samara-Moscow-Samara flights (U6 95/U6 96) starting October 29, 2018, the air carrier’s press service reports. Samara-Moscow flights will be operated every Monday (departure time: 7 AM), Moscow-Samara ones every Tuesday (departure time: 10:30 PM). The duration of the flight is estimated at 1 hour and 40 minutes. Tickets are already on offer, with prices starting from RUR 2,375. ‘Moscow has a lot to offer, from the golden-domed churches to Anglican cathedrals to skyscrapers to Stalin era’s towers. Festival and