UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 27, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region came fifth in the rating of forty Russian constituencies in terms of the number of newly issued credit cards, the National Credit History Bureau reports. Sverdlovsk Region’s number of newly issued credit cards came to 61,784 in the first quarter of the year, which is 81.8% more than one year previously (33,900 cards). In Russia on the whole, the increase was most pronounced in Orenburg Region (+126.2%), Tula Region (+115.6%), Bashkortostan (+112.7%), Saratov Region (+110.3%), Volgograd Region (+99.6%), and Yaroslavl Region (+97.4%). As

UrBC, Moscow, April 27, 2018. Russian Audit Chamber detected 2,178 problems related to Federal Act 44 FZ government purchase procedures last year, the chamber’s press service reports. These inaccuracies amounted to RUR 104.6bn all in all, compared with 823 cases amounting to RUR 48.8bn one year earlier. ‘The increase in the number of problems and violations has to do with our completion of a methodology base for auditing government purchases, with more inspections and checks carried out in 2017, with more organizations checked in 2017 than in 2016, and with a greater degree of information

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 26, 2018. EVRAZ Holding is coordinating its fifth annual Safety Week at the company’s Ural and Siberian enterprises on April 16-22, 2018, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Relations Center reports. EVRAZ Holding Ural’s and EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s job and industrial safety champions received thank-you letters from the company president Alexander Frolov in recognition of their contribution to the company’s safety culture growth. EVRAZ West-Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works and Raspadskaya Coal Company coordinated a special I Choose Safety event, where employees

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, April 26, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is going to host a constituency-level Best Job Safety Social Partnership Project Contest, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. Among the contestants are teams from Chelyabinsk Region’s ore mining and metallurgical enterprises and organizations that have a trade union that is a member of Russia’s Mining & Metallurgical Trade Union Association. There must be a job safety expert and a trade union representative for job safety on the team. There will be four rounds to this contest:

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 26, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development and its partner developers came up with a special offer for new and existing homes: a mortgage at 8.9% a year; the offer holds through the end of the year, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Declining interest rates are expected to boost home-buying with borrowed funds. According to Dom.rf, the average annual interest rate on a mortgage for new and existing homes came to 9.58% and 9.83%, respectively, in the first quarter of the year (compared with 11.61% and 12.11% a year earlier). Thanks to its expansive

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 26, 2018. The design documentation has been prepared for a set of medical facilities and Ural State Medical University campus in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy; the documents have been worked on by the local developer RSG-Akademicheskoye (KORTROS) in cooperation with the university experts. ‘The concept is to ensure the ongoing unity of education, medical treatment, and scientific research. The campus will comprise teaching/training blocks, USMU E-University facility, a simulation/accreditation center, a research block, a diagnostics center, a university

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 26, 2018. MegaFon’s engineers took steps to improve the mobile and Internet connection quality in Yekaterinburg’s key traffic hubs based on the locals’ travel preferences, the telecommunications provider’s press service says. ‘Krasnodar Territory, Turkey, and one’s own dacha are going to be the three top May break destinations for Russians in the coming month, Rambler researchers’ findings and the Association of Tour Operators’ data indicate. Given the locals’ expected travel choices, MegaFon improved connection quality through telecom upgrades at key Yekaterinburg

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 25, 2018. KamAZ Master’s pilot Anton Shibalov will be available for a Q&A session at Yekaterinburg’s Greenwich Mall on April 27. Additionally, the legendary Dakar Rally KamAZ will be on display at the mall for just one day; anyone can take a picture, Obschestvo Malysheva 73’s press service reports. ‘KamAZ Master is the star of the racing sports, the fifteen-times Dakar Rally winner, and the strongest team in the sports truck category. The team was set up in 1988 and celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Anton Shibalov is an international-level sports

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 25, 2018. MegaFon Ural’s mobile traffic increased by 1.5 times against the usual due to a heavy snowfall, the company press service reports. ‘While a drastic change in the weather is a big thing for the locals, this is ‘business as usual’ for our infrastructure engineers: MegaFon’s connection has proved reliable in numerous heavy snowfalls, spring floods, and summer heat waves before. You can safely expect to stay connected, be able to call a rescue team, or keep sending pictures of the surroundings when it’s anywhere between fifty degrees centigrade above or forty

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 25, 2018. Ural Airlines won the Regional Development/The Best for Russia Prize in Transport & Logistics this year. ‘The forum and the awarding ceremony took place in Sochi last week. Ural Airlines won as the Best Regional Airline. Over fifty different companies attended the forum, as well as government officials and Russian business leaders,’ the air carrier’s press service says. The company has established itself as the primary air carrier for Sverdlovsk Region and now connects the constituency with the rest of Russia and destinations abroad, which helps build

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 25, 2018. Metcombank and Dom.rf signed a cooperation agreement, which means customers in any of the bank’s branches throughout the country will be able to apply for a preferential-terms mortgage, the bank’s press service reports. Dom.rf offers mortgages for existing homes and those under construction; you can also apply for mortgage refinancing (with a new, better interest rate) and apply for a consumer loan with your home as security. ‘The new options make a mortgage more affordable for our customers. Thanks to special terms and moderate interest rates, those who

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 25, 2018. RSG-Akademicheskoye is holding a tender procedure to find a reliable contractor for a capital construction project; the tender in question relates to design and survey jobs, the management company’s press service reports. The task is to develop a design model for a multi-level highway junction in the intersection Serafima Deryabina St and Obyezdnaya St in Yekaterinburg (Construction Stage II). The lot is estimated at RUR 18,351,538. The bids can get submitted from April 24 to May 11, 2018. The results will be announced on May 25. The jobs need to be

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 24, 2018. Denis Novozhenov was recently appointed EVRAZ Vice President and Head of EVRAZ Holding Ural, the company press service reports. ‘Denis Novozhenov will be in charge of the general management of EVRAZ Holding Ural (EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works and EVRAZ Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise). He will keep working on the development of EVRAZ Holding’s Sverdlovsk Region-based assets in accordance with the company’s strategy. His job will be to boost the integration of the two companies’ business processes and enhance the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 24, 2018. VUZ-Bank (a member of the UBRD Group) co-supported a syndicated loan for the Republic of Belarus’s Development Bank, the UBRD’s press service reports. The entire procedure is coordinated and managed by Otkrytie FC Bank. The news was made official on April 20, 2018. ‘Seven different banks supported the €50m syndicated loan for the Republic of Belarus’s Development Bank; in addition to VUZ-Bank and Otkrytie FC Bank, these are AK Bars Bank, Bank Uralsib, Nefteprombank, Bank Finservice, and Novicombank. VUZ-Bank secured €5m for the loan,’ the press service

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 24, 2018. Ural Airlines are now offering their passengers direct flights from Samara to Tel Aviv, Bologna, Sochi, Anapa, and Simferopol, the air carrier’s press service reports. Ural Airlines introduced their new flight to Bologna on April 21. This new Italian destination presents additional vacation opportunities both for those enjoying a seaside holiday and those who prefer doing sights. The flights to Bologna will be operated every Saturday. Ural Airlines’ Samara-Yerevan flight will take you to Armenia in two hours and thirty-five minutes; the flight is operated

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 24, 2018. 4,039 legal entities officially went into liquidation in Yekaterinburg in the first quarter of the year. This exceeds the figures for the number of newly registered businesses (1,778) by 2.3 times, Sverdlovskstat reports. As for Sverdlovsk Region on the whole, the ratio of liquidated companies to newly registered ones was the same: 5,386 to 2,347 businesses, respectively. In over 90% of cases, the liquidated businesses are private ones that are associations or partnerships. Additionally, one new state-owned federal company, two state-run constituency-level

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 24, 2018. The number of operating beauty parlors for sale in Yekaterinburg went up by 46% between September and March, that is, from 24 up to 35 businesses, N1.RU’s press service reports. ‘The increase in the number of beauty parlors on offer might have to do with seasonal factors, since it is generally believed people tend to pay more attention to their looks in the summertime. So the sellers are taking up on this in order to make a sale,’ says head of N1.RU Oksana Sidletskaya. According to this web portal’s analysts, the number of catering businesses and shops for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 23, 2018. Kstati-Fest Science Festival will take place in Yekaterinburg on April 24-28, 2018; the event is coordinated by the Information Center for Nuclear Energy (Myatom) with support from Rosatom Corporation and Yekaterinburg Council, the Center’s press service reports. The festival program will appeal to the general audience of all ages, with thirty-plus unique free-to-attend popular science events in Yekaterinburg and Zarechniy: lectures, talk shows, quests, film showings, and workshops. This is the second time Kstati-Fest is held in Yekaterinburg; this year’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 23, 2018. Ural Airlines are getting ready for the summer season 2018 and keep expanding their fleet of vehicles. A new Airbus (VP-BIH) is now the company’s 45th liner, the air carrier’s press service reports. There are 220 Economy seats on board. This new Airbus A31 will be used for both international and domestic flights. The airline intends to expand the overall count to forty-seven airplanes in order to make sure a larger number of passengers can fly where needed. The European concern Airbus’s liners proved highly efficient and very comfortable for mid-range

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 23, 2018. Residents of Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District are going to take part in a ten-kilometer Kalinovka Summer Trail Race, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The race will take place on April 22, 2018. The trail goes 200 meters up various wood paths; according to the race organizers, the upper time limit to complete the mission is set at two hours. ‘Even though the race will be coordinated in the opposite part of Yekaterinburg, quite a big team from Akadem Multi-Sports Club gathered in Akademicheskiy. 32 local sportsmen and women have applied so