UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 13, 2018. ChTPZ Group’s member enterprises supplied 1.988m tons of pipes to their customers last year, which exceeded the figures for a year earlier by 16%, or 275,000 tons, the company press service reports. The Group’s share of the Russian pipe manufacturers’ sales market reached 17.5% in 2017 (up 1% on a year earlier). The increase was brought about by expanding sales of weld-less pipes to O&G companies and to customers in the building and machine-building sectors. ‘The Group sold 19% more weld-less pipes last year than in the year 2016 (around 1.2m tons

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 13, 2018. Bankovskoye Obozreniye magazine came up with its annual rating of successful women bankers in executive positions on International Women’s Day. ‘SKB-Bank Deputy Chair of the Board Margarita Burbik is now among Top 100 Successful Women Bankers in 2018,’ the bank’s press service reports. This year’s rating was based on the amount of assets held by the country’s one hundred largest banks (as of February 15, 2018), the nominee’s position (member of the BOD or the Supervisory Board or higher), and the nominee’s share in the bank’s stock capital. According to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 12, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s female cardholders spent nearly RUR 14bn paying with their cards for goods and services last year; this is nearly 40% more than what the bank’s male customers spent, the UBRD’s press service reports. Women spenders mostly use their bank cards to pay for food, clothing and footwear, and drugstore items. Compared with one year earlier, they used their cards 27% more often, spending 22% more money than in 2016. This much is clear from the number and amount of transactions registered. ‘In terms of spending

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 12, 2018. Ural Airlines will be operating direct flights from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, and Samara to Bologna beginning in April, the air carrier’s press service reports. The flights will be operated every Saturdays; tickets are already available for purchase. This new destination, Bologna, is yet another holiday-making opportunity for those interested in both enjoying the seaside and doing sights. Arriving in Emilia-Romagna’s historic capital gives travelers improved sightseeing options that cover northern Italy

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 12, 2018. Chair of ChTPZ Group’s Board of Directors Andrei Komarov took part in a meeting dedicated to vocational education system’s development. The meeting was coordinated in Yekaterinburg and chaired by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, the Group’s press service reports. The meeting was also attended by Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Andrei Fursenko, constituency governors, and representatives of business community and the education sector. Andrei Komarov made a report on ChTPZ Group’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 12, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region’s private medical insurance market declined 1.5% in 2017, Renessans Strakhovanie Group’s press service refers to the Bank of Russia’s data as indicating. In the country on average, the market actually expanded in the course of last year, the press service says. All in all, Sverdlovsk Region’s insurance market rose by 4.9% by the end of 2017 and reached RUR 24.2bn. In the country on the whole, the market grew 8.2%.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 12, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region’s inflation rate reached 1.9% in February 2018 compared with last February, Sverdlovskstat reports. Food items grew 1.4% more expensive in the course of one year, non-food items grew 2.2% more expensive, alcohol and services grew 4.3% and 1.6% more expensive, respectively. Compared with January 2017, inflation rate reached 0.4%.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 7, 2018. Ural Airlines are inviting Yekaterinburg travelers to come to Israel to take part in the Easter celebrations in the Holy Land. The air carrier operates Israel-bound flights from Moscow Region’s Zhukovsky Airport, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar, Samara, Sochi, and Myneralnye Vody, the airline’s press service says. Special offer holds for the company’s Samara-Tel Aviv-Samara and Tel Aviv-Samara-Tel Aviv flights: if you book ten tickets, one more person can go free (the 11th passenger only pays the $26.81 fee). The 10+1 offer holds on March

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, March 7, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) keeps working on a new slime processing unit for its Crushing & Processing Plant 5, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. ‘The idea to process the slimes coming from a man-made deposit (mostly our ore mining and processing enterprise’s byproducts from the fifties and the sixties) took root some fifteen years ago. Experts from our Central Lab determined that the slime storage facility contains a fair amount of useful iron ore concentrate. In 2015, it was decided to have this deposit processed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 7, 2018. KORTROS Group’s RSG-Akademicheskoye’s newly appointed Director-General Viktor Krivoshein assumed office Monday, the company press service reports. Viktor G. Krivoshein was born in Perm in 1966. He graduated from Perm Polytechnic and started his first job as a researcher in Kaliningrad (now Korolev), Moscow Region. He then worked as a civil servant in the construction and housing services sector. He was appointed Head of Perm Territory’s Urban Planning & Infrastructure Development Ministry’s Infrastructure Development Department in 2006. In 2007, he

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 7, 2018. Viktor Kisselev was recently appointed Chair of the Board of Directors at RSG-Akademicheskoye (part of KORTROS Group), the company press service reports. Kisselev was the company’s Director-General in 2015-2017. ‘Given his experience, Viktor Kisselev will be in charge of the company’s strategic projects and development. This includes working with the social infrastructure facilities in the area and building the innovative medical cluster (the first building that will house a fertility/maternity clinic - is already under construction),’ the press service

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 7, 2018. Ural Airlines are introducing a new flight from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport to Frankfurt-am-Main, the air carrier’s press service reports. The flight will be operating five times a week, Monday to Friday, starting from May 28, 2018. Departure from Moscow: 10:45 AM; arrival in Frankfurt: 12:55 PM; departure from Frankfurt: 6:05 PM; arrival in Moscow: 10:10 PM (in-flight time: 3 hours and 10 minutes). Prices start from €82 (one way) and from €180 (round trip), all fees included. ‘Frankfurt is a major European air and terrestrial travel hub. A direct flight

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 6, 2018. Thousands of MegaFon Ural’s customers bought two smartphones for the price of one while the company’s special offer was running, thus making Xiaomi Redmi Note A5 February’s absolute mobile device market leader. Every one in three customers purchased this particular make at MegaFon’s outlet, the company press service reports. Locals of Yekaterinburg, Novouralsk, Perm, Tyumen, Surgut, Chelyabinsk, Novy Urengoy, and Nizhnevartovsk tended to buy more actively than others, so these cities topped the sales ratings. The majority of the purchases were made on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 6, 2018. Two drones are now operating at Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Raspadskaya Mine, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press service reports. The equipment is meant to enhance both the speediness and the safety of survey measurements and calculation precision. ‘A drone can take up to 500 photographs of any part of the mine in under thirty minutes. The photos will then be fed into a special software program that will create a 3D model of the relief in just one hour. This used to take up to two days before,’ the press service says. A quadcopter can do its aerial mapping at the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 6, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region’s residents signed 987 co-investment agreements in the building cooperative sector in January 2018, Rosreestr’s website states. In December 2017, the figure stood at 1,923 agreements. 13,863 agreements got signed in the Mid-Urals in the course of last year altogether, compared with 12,972 in 2016.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 6, 2018. Two Boeing 747 aircraft loaded with 160,000 kg of flowers from Belgium and the Netherlands arrived in Yekaterinburg in time for International Women’s Day, V.A. Sorokin Koltsovo Customs’ press service reports. According to the service, some of the flowers originally came from Spain, Kenia, Columbia, Thailand, Ecuador, Italy, and Ethiopia. Ecuador actually once again proved Yekaterinburg’s No.1 flower supplier this year. ‘These are the familiar roses, chrysanthemums, gerber daisies, and the exotic tropical samples. Before the flowers get to the stores, they

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 6, 2018. Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev signed a decree to include Yekaterinburg-Chelyabinsk High-Speed Rail in the national road and rail planning scheme; the paper is now available on the official legal information portal. According to the scheme, the railroad link will connect Beloyarsky, Aramid, and Sysert in Sverdlovsk Region to Kasli, Sosnovsky, Kunashaksky, and Krasnoarmeysky in Chelyabinsk Region. The plan means Yekaterinburg-Passazhirskiy Station, Shartash Station, and Chelyabinsk Main Station will all have to get reconstructed. There will also

UrBC, Moscow, March 5, 2018. MegaFon is now the Speedtest Award winner for Fastest Mobile Network according to Ookla, the global Internet speed test leader, the telecommunications provider’s press service reports. Based on speed testing results provided by Ookla’s Russian users of Speedtest app, MegaFon proved the ISP with the highest-speed mobile Internet connection in the second and third quarters of 2017. The data downloading speed came to 25.04 Mb/sec on average. Ookla looked into data from over 7,900 speed tests of all ISPs taken on 1,200 LTE-supporting devices. ‘MegaFon makes a special

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 5, 2018. Ural Airlines are already selling tickets for their new international Vladivostok-Beijing-Vladivostok flight (to be made available starting March 28, 2018), the air carrier’s press service reports. According to the airline, the flight is two hours and forty minutes long; flight U6 803 will be operated three times a week. ‘Travelers arriving in Beijing will find there the mysterious and magnificent masterpieces of the Chinese: the Great Chinese Wall, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Confucius, the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven, and much else besides.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 5, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region’s residents had 5,544 homes privatized last year, including 5,348 apartments and 196 rooms in communal apartments, Sverdlovskstat reports. Earlier on, as many as 28,121 homes got privatized in 2013, 10,941 in 2014, 14,429 in 2015, and 7,093 in 2016. All in all, 1.327m housing units have been privatized in Sverdlovsk Region so far.