UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 30, 2018. Rimera Group’s Rimera Service in Noyabrsk (part of ChelPipe Group’s oilfield division) made and supplied to the plant its first pilot batch of 177 pumping and compression pipes (diameter: 73 mm) made by order of Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant/ChelPipe. The pipes come with wear-resistant retaining devices. According to ChelPipe Group’s press service, the retaining devices ensure that the threaded parts of the pipe remain airtight even after numerous landings and pulling out of strings; they also prevent any damage to the pipe surface, which expands the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 30, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Rolling Department was founded eighty-five years ago on Saturday, July 28, MMK Information & PR Department reports. The plant’s first Blooming/Billet Mill 2 was launched on July 28, 1933. This was the beginning of the plant’s rolling production facilities. The German company Demag was in charge of designing and manufacturing all the necessary blooming equipment. The USSR People’s Commissar for Heavy Industry G.K. Ordzhonikidze attended the launching ceremony. Mill 2 and two consecutive Continuous Billet Mills 630

UrBC, Moscow, July 30, 2018. A new law might be adopted in Russia in April 2019 that will make it obligatory for smartphone and computer manufacturers to preinstall Russian-developed web browsers, mail services, audio playing programs, and other apps on their products, Kommersant reports. This initiative is part of a ‘roadmap' on promoting competition that the Federal Antimonopoly Service presented to the government. The bill is to be elaborated by the Communications Ministry and co-elaborated by the FAS and the consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor. According to the proposed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 30, 2018. Yekaterinburg’s Kirovsky Court ruled that OOO Lukoil Permnefteprodukt would have to pay a local driver RUR 210,000 in compensation for the damage done to her car after it had been filled with the wrong kind of fuel, Sverdlovsk Region Court’s press service reports. The woman had her Hyundai Creta filled by an employee at a Lukoil station at 49 Vysotsky St in Yekaterinburg in January 2018; the motor died on the same day and wouldn’t restart. The driver took her car to a mechanic, where it was determined that the tank had been filled with the wrong fuel. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 30, 2018. The air in Yekaterinburg still contains dangerous amounts of formaldehyde first recorded on June 22; the concentration is believed to be hazardous to human health. According to Ural Weather Service, the formaldehyde content index stood at 1.8 points on average throughout the last thirty-plus days. On June 18-20, 2018, the index peaked at 2.4. ‘The formaldehyde index stood at the standard 1.8 points on July 23-25, 2018, which is indicates an increased emission status,’ the Service says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 27, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) and VTB Strakhovaniye Zhizni are offering their customers Family Fund life insurance program. According to the bank’s press service, the program is meant to help a family build up on their savings and put aside enough of a safety cushion for a rainy day. Life insurance is a long-term investment mechanism that helps to save up for something big like your child’s education or retirement on the one hand and is an insurance product that grants you access to your reserves in case of an insured event.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 27, 2018. Miners at EVRAZ Holding’s Yerunakovskaya 8 Mine are now working on new Long-Face 48-6, with estimated 2,900,000,000 kg of valuable GZh coal reserves, the company press service reports. Long-Face 48-6 is located more than five hundred meters below the ground. The mine is fully fitted with highly productive stoping appliances supplied by Joy to ensure output of 250,000,000 to 300,000,000 kg of coal a month, depending on the mining and geological conditions. The Australian controlled drilling machine VLD 1000 was used to drain out excess gas within the mine

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, July 27, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) coordinated a fire safety drill and a contest for amateur firefighters at the plant, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The annual contest is part of the company’s overall civil defense, emergency prevention, and fire safety program for 2018. The goal is to make sure there are enough para-firefighters at the plant who are trained and prepared to act in case of fire and who are proactive in ensuring fire safety at the plant. 56 different teams from the plant’s production departments and MMK Group’s member

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 27, 2018. EVRAZ Holding funded a sports playground for preschoolers of Kindergarten 66 in Nizhniy Tagil. The project was the winner of EVRAZ grant contest for the city. According to the company press service, the playground cost RUR 400,000. The up-to-date playground came to replace an abandoned swimming pool that hadn’t been used for forty years and was actually a hazard to the children’s safety. All the old reinforced concrete and metal structures were removed from the site (total area: 200 m2) and replaced with a fresh layer of concrete, rubber coating,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 27, 2018. Summer Trip Festival will be held in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy on August 18, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. ‘You can enjoy the summer warmth and recreational mood in one of Yekaterinburg’s most promising and highly developed districts. The center of Akademicheskiy will turn into a summer sea resort with sun beds, golden sandy beaches, and beach umbrellas. Several popular local bands as well as the show headliners Zveri and Svetlana Loboda will perform for you on the big stage,’ the press service says. This year’s festival is

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 26, 2018. A special theme summer camp stay sponsored by MMK Group’s trade union is now over at Gornoye Ushchelye Children’s Center. the company press service reports. The project was first tried out a year ago when MMK Group’s trade union decided to support and educate a group of high school students at the camp and to introduce them to the basics of trade union leadership. This year, the trade union decided to support and train the entire camp. A certain production department of MMK Group got assigned to every stay-in building in the camp. The children got to elect

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 26, 2018. Ural Airlines introduced an additional Moscow-Barnaul flight this July, the air carrier’s press service reports. The flight is operated from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport at 9:30 PM every Friday; departure time for the return flight is 6:50 AM. The flights are operated on Airbus A320 planes, with both Business and Economy seats available, between July 13 and September 8, 2018. Prices for Economy class tickets start from RUR 9,000 (one way, all fees included). You can book your tickets on the company website www.uralairlines.com, through Ural Airlines mobile

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 26, 2018. A special cycling race took place in Magnitogorsk on Saturday, July 21 in celebration of Metallurgist’s Day. According to Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works’ PR Department, this is the tenth time the race has taken place in town. The event was coordinated by the town council’s PE, Sports & Tourism Department, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works, MSTK Sports Club, Magnitogorsk Cycling Federation, Young Metallurgists’ Union, and the non-profit Dvizheniye. The forty-kilometer-long cycling race took off from the memorial in Stroiteley St and then through

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 26, 2018. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems completed upgrading its 500-kilowatt Sibirskaya Power Substation; the substation is part of the power-generating system pertaining to Surgutskaya Power Station 2, Russia’s largest heat and power station. The news was announced by the FGC UES Western Siberia division recently. FGC UES invested RUR 635m in the project to ensure the more reliable power supply to end users in Yugra and the oil and gas companies operating in the area. For one, the station’s protection relays and automation devices got upgraded,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 26, 2018. ISP/mobile carrier MegaFon offers an alternative TV viewing option for Yekaterinburg locals to offset the 2.5 weeks without the regular TV they will have to deal with while the TV tower in Lunacharsky St is being repainted. Everyone can now watch their favorite shows, films, and series using MegaFon TV free of charge, the company press service reports. The tower will be under remodeling for the next three weeks (working hours only). While the painters are working on it, MegaFon’s mobile app will serve as a substitute. To get access to your free TV channels,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 25, 2018. Ural Airlines will be operating additional flights from Moscow and Saint Petersburg to Kaliningrad on July 23-September 24, 2018, the air carrier’s press service reports. Flight U6 697/698 (Moscow-Kaliningrad-Moscow) will be operated every Monday; departure time (Moscow): 5:05 PM; departure time (Kaliningrad): 6:55 PM. Flight U6 37/38 (Saint Petersburg-Kaliningrad-Saint Petersburg) will be available every Tuesday; departure time (Saint Petersburg): 12:15 AM; departure time (Kaliningrad): 1:40 AM. This means up to four flights to Kaliningrad will be on offer

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, July 25, 2018. A presentation of Sergey Bunkov’s new book (Way to the Height) took place on Monday, July 23, 2018. The book was published with support from ChelPipe Group’s shareholders Andrei Komarov and Alexander Fedorov, the Group’s press service reports. The book is a chronicle of Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant’s development that also dwells on the plant’s unique corporate philosophy known as ‘White-Coated Metallurgy’. It was quite symbolic that the presentation took place on July 23: it was exactly eight years ago on that day that Vladimir Putin attended the opening

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 25, 2018. MMK Group’s OOO Ogneupor, the refractory goods manufacturer, turns eighty-seven this month. According to MMK press service, one of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works’ first production departments got launched on July 17, 1931. This was the day the first production line took off at the chamotte shop. OOO Ogneupor is now one of Russia’s leading refractory goods producer: the company is No. 3 on the national chamotte refractory applications market and No. 2 on the periclase-carbonaceous refractory goods market. The plant makes over 12,000,000 kg of goods a

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 25, 2018. MMK’s Director-General Pavel Shilyayev handed two new fire tank trucks to Firefighting Department 20 that is in charge of ensuring fire safety at the plant, the company press service reports. A metallurgical enterprise is generally classified as increased fire hazard location. Firefighting Department 20 is the plant’s oldest and has always dealt with any fire safety issues on the site successfully, be it putting out a fire, rescuing people and items of value, or dealing with emergencies and accidents. In 2016, two obsolete ZIL 131 trucks had to be written

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 25, 2018. MegaFon is now Russia’s first ISP/mobile carrier to offer its customers Digital Hiring Service. You can now hire shop assistants, cashiers, waiters, clerks, and call center employees all over Russia using AI and digital technologies, the company press service says. You can rely on MegaFon’s professionals to find the right candidates for you in under three days. According to Antal’s recent survey of recruiting experts, 81% of both Russian and international companies are already switching to digital HR logistics. MegaFon can now make the entire search for new