UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) recently hosted an experience-sharing workshop for repair technicians. More than fifty representatives of seventeen different Russian companies (including Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works, Novolipetsk Integrated Metallurgical Works, Mechel, Severstal, and Vyksunsky Metallurgical Works) took part in the event, EVRAZ’s press service reports. This was a two-day workshop that covered a guided tour of five production departments (including Blast Furnace 7), a discussion of equipment

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, September 6, 2018. A solemn welcome ceremony for new students on ChelPipe Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program took place in Chelyabinsk at the start of the school year. According to the Group’s press service, this is the second year in a row this public-private partnership project has been implemented in the Southern Urals; the training program gets coordinated by Chelyabinsk Region Government, ChelPipe Group, and A.V. Yakovlev Chelyabinsk State Industrial/Humanities School. 150 school-leavers got enrolled this year. This second class of new

UrBC, Moscow, September 6, 2018. Russia’s Finance Ministry intends to increase the amount of funding allocated to foreign currency purchases within the time frame of September 7-October 4, 2018 to RUR 426.9bn. This means around RUR 21.3bn will get spent on foreign currency daily, the ministry states. As the Bank of Russia is no longer intervening in the current market situation, the Federal Treasury will be buying foreign currency from the Bank of Russia throughout the end of September without the latter buying comparable amounts of foreign currency on the internal forex market in its turn.

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, September 6, 2018. ChelPipe Group now welcomes students on the company’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program to its new AutoClub. The club can accept up to a hundred young people who want to master car maintenance and repairs. The project required RUR 15.5m in investments, the Group’s press service reports. The 756-square-meter training facility comprises a practice area and a study room. The new practice site is fitted with top-notch equipment for learning to do tire fitting, welding, metalwork and body repair, turning, electronic equipment

UrBC, Pervouralsk, September 6, 2018. Activists from Gorod Pervykh, an environmental NGO created at ChelPipe Group’s initative, cleaned up the woods near Bodrost ski piste in Pervouralsk, the Group’s press service reports. First, the activists cleaned up the tourist routes themselves; next, special-purpose vehicles provided by ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant were used to handle the large unauthorized waste dumps. ‘The cleanup got organized after a complaint placed by a local who knows the place well since his childhood. We are happy to see people beginning to care about

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 6, 2018. Ural Airlines will now be operating their Kazan-Moscow flights all the year round, including the wintertime, the air carrier’s press service reports. Prices start from RUR 2,313 (one way) if you fly Promo and from RUR 3,313 if you fly Economy class. The Moscow-Kazan flights will be operated every Tuesday and Sunday on October 9-29, 2018 (departure time: 5:20 PM) and every Sunday on November 4, 2018-March 24, 2019 (departure time: 8:40 PM). Kazan-Moscow flights will be operated every Wednesday and Monday on October 10-29, 2018 (departure time: 7:30 AM)

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 5, 2018. Ural Airlines are offering their customers reduced-price tickets for Black Sea-bound flights. The special offer applies to the following flights: Yekaterinburg-Anaya, Yekaterinburg-Gelendzhik, Yekaterinburg-Sochi, Yekaterinburg-Krasnodar, Yekaterinburg-Mineralnye Vody, Chelyabinsk-Anapa. Prices start from RUR 4,000.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 5, 2018. Four of KORTROS Group’s current construction projects got nominated for the annual RREF AWARDS event; the online voting procedure took off on September 3, 2018. KORTROS Group competes in eight different categories: Comfortable Environment (Moscow), Apartments (Moscow), Best Condominium (Business/Elite) Comfortable Environment (non-Moscow locations), Discovery of The Year, Developer of The Year, and Reputation & Trust,’ the Group’s press service reports. The apartment building Dom Serebryany Bor has been nominated for Comfortable Environment

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 5, 2018. Applicants based in Nizhniy Tagil and Kachkanar, Sverdlovsk Region, are invited to submit their grant applications for EVRAZ Holding’s social projects contest starting September 15, 2018. The company intends to direct RUR 6.5m for the grant funding, which is actually more than in the previous years. According to EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR Department, the contest is open to non-profit NGOs, city-run and private educational, medical, and social establishments; culture and sports organizations; groups of locals and private individuals (as long as their

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 5, 2018. Ural Airlines are now offering their customers state-subsidized tickets for Simferopol flights, the air carrier’s press service reports. Prices start from RUR 4,250 (one way) for Barnaul-Simferopol flights and from 4,250 RUR for Simferopol-Barnaul flights; these will be operated on October 13, 2018. Prices start from RUR 4,250 (one way) for Kemerovo-Simferopol flights (these will be operated on September 22-October 13, 2018) and from RUR 4,250 for Simferopol-Kemerovo flights. (These will be operated on October 13, 2018). Prices start from RUR 5,500 (one

UrBC, Moscow, September 5, 2018. Russia’s Central Bank reports a number of factors have been pushing the authority to consider an increase in the key rate. The decision will be made by the bank’s Board of Directors, TASS refers to Head of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina as stating. The last time the bank increased the key rate was in December 2014. ‘There are few factors in favor of reducing the key rate at the moment. There is quite a number of factors in favor of keeping the status quo, and there are also some factors in favor of ‘beginning to consider’ an increase,’ Nabiullina is

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 4, 2018. 400 school-leavers got enrolled on ChelPipe Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program this year; this is the highest number of new students in the education project’s entire history, the Group’s press service reports. The eighth enrollment campaign covered nine different blue-collar job qualifications to be mastered at Pervouralsk Metallurgical School and Pervouralsk Polytechnic in Sverdlovsk Region. 758 applicants competed for the 400 student openings available. Automobile Maintenance & Repairs proved the most popular

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 4, 2018. Ural Airlines are getting ready for winter with a special offer on their flights from Moscow and Saint Petersburg to Germany, the air carrier’s press service reports. The special price applies to flights to be operated between September 10, 2018 and March 28, 2019 if you book on the company website www.uralairlines.com, through Ural Airlines app, or at any booking office. This is a limited offer. The offer holds for the following flights: Moscow-Munich-Moscow (prices start from €138); Saint Petersburg-Frankfurt-Saint Petersburg (€172). All fees and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 4, 2018. Ural Airlines are now offering their customers an opportunity to fly to and from the Far East using their state-subsidized plane tickets, the air carrier’s press service reports. Reduced-price tickets are available for the following flights: Blagoveshchensk-Moscow-Blagoveshchensk/Moscow-Blagoveshchensk-Moscow (prices start from RUR 6,400); Blagoveshchensk-Saint Petersburg/Saint Petersburg-Blagoveshchensk (RUR 6,500); Blagoveshchensk-Sochi/Sochi-Blagoveshchensk (RUR 9,500); Blagoveshchensk-Simferopol/Simferopol-Blagoveshchensk (RUR 9,800);

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, September 4, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Group directed over RUR 1.1bn to social projects and charity initiatives in the first half of the year, which was 8% more than one year previously, MMK Information & PR Department reports. Charity projects aimed at old-age retirees and people with disabilities have always been the ones with the biggest funding: MMK Group allocated some RUR 530 for these program types in the first half of 2018 (around RUR 400m out of which amount got supplied by the parent company). Around RUR 200m got allocated for

UrBC, Moscow, September 4, 2018. Russians surveyed in August say they expect the inflation rate to reach 9.9% in the next twelve months, a comment on Central Bank’s website claims. ‘People’s inflation expectations remained nearly the same in August 2018 as in last September and October: the estimate is 9.9% for the next twelve months (compared with 9.7% in July 2018),’ the comment states. Respondents now refer to inflation as the reason behind growing gasoline prices less frequently than before; however, the weakening of the Russian ruble and the recent VAT increase are quoted more often.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, September 3, 2018. 527,955,000 kg of rolled metal goods got made at hot-roll Mill 2000 at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK); this set a new monthly output record for the facility, the company’s press service reports. The last time a production record was set at MMK’s most efficient facility was in May, when 527,505,000 kg of hot-rolled goods were manufactured. MMK’s Mill 2000 got launched in 1994 and is now one of Russia’s most powerful hot-roll units. The mill is located at MMK’s Sheet-Rolling Department 10; the facility had to undergo large-scale upgrades and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 3, 2018. Ural Airlines are now offering their customers reduced-price tickets for Yekaterinburg-Bangkok flights, with prices starting from RUR 18,499 (one way), the air carrier’s press service reports. The flights will be operated based on the travelers’ preferences, that is, between October 28, 2018 and March 30, 2019. The price quoted includes all fees and charges but is, however, subject to change depending on the exchange rate. Flight U6 755 Yekaterinburg-Bangkok gets operated on Sundays and Tuesdays (departure: 9 PM; arrival: 12:45 PM the following day);

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 3, 2018. A special offer for groups flying to Tel Aviv is available from Ural Airlines now, the air carrier’s press service reports. The offer applies to flights to be operated between October 10, 2018 and March 28, 2019; the number of groups per flight is to get regulated at the airline’s discretion. Prices start from RUR 15,880 for Saint Petersburg-Tel Aviv-Saint Petersburg flights; from RUR 19,089 for Yekaterinburg-Tel Aviv-Yekaterinburg flights; from RUR 17, 200 for Zhukovsky-Tel Aviv-Zhukovsky flights; from RUR 19,089 for Samara-Tel Aviv-Samara flights;

UrBC, Astana, September 3, 2018. ChelPipe Group and KurganStalMost supplied the materials necessary to put up Peace Wall Monument in Kazakstan; the unveiling ceremony took place in Astana recently and got attended by President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Group’s press service reports. ChelPipe Group’s pipes were used by KurganStalMost to build a metal frame that now forms the foundation of the petal, Peace Wall’s key feature. The monument is meant as a present to Astana from Aktyubinsk Region on the former’s 20th ‘birthday’. ChelPipe Group made weld-less, heavy-duty pipes suited