UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 5, 2017. Several groups of industrial workers from different countries underwent training courses at MMK Group’s Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works Personnel Training Center, the company press service reports. Two groups of Chinese metallurgists from SHANDONG IRON & Steel GROUP RIZHAO Co.,Ltd. went through their respective workshops. Their additional professional development program on MMK Automobile Body Sheet Manufacturing aims to educate the students about the plant’s hot-dip galvanizing facility and its continuous annealing aggregate. ‘When covering

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 5, 2017. Yekaterinburg proved to be among five least expensive locations to stay in for visitors coming for the World Football Championship of 2018, the Russian accommodation renting service tvil.ru refers to its research findings as indicating. The rating was based on an analysis of rental prices for tourists in 2017. Saransk will be the cheapest place to stay (RUR 1,540 a night on average), followed by Volgograd (RUR 1,718), and Rostov-on-Don (RUR 1,954). Yekaterinburg comes fourth, with the average price of a hotel/hostel stay at RUR 2,396 a night. Nizhniy

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 5, 2017. The international Topstewardess 2017 Contest was held in Moscow on December 1, 2017; Ural Airlines’ flight attendant Ekaterina Stolyarova got crowned as one of the top three finalists, the air carrier’s press service reports. Stolyarova made it through several rounds and two months’ preparation and got selected along eighteen other finalists from among nearly a thousand contestants. She coped with all the competition challenges and made a presentation about her life story, closely connected to that of Ural Airlines. ‘I am proud to be representing my

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) Group made more than RUR 1bn in profits (calculated in accordance with the International Accounting Standards) in the nine months of 2017, the Group’s press service reports. ‘The Group’s consolidated profit amounted to RUR 1.051bn in the three quarters of the year, including a one-time RUR 553 transaction (excluding which, the bank’s profits rose by 18.9% compared with one year previously). All factors considered, the bank’s profit increased nearly five times by the end of the third quarter

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 4, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Metallurg Charity Fund coordinated Talantika, a special event for children with disabilities, the company Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. Over thirty families with special-needs children were invited to come to Talantika Jobs Town. ‘Talantika is a leisure club and a play area that looks like a stylized urban space with its own bank, an employment agency, a fire brigade, and an art school. The town has spaces dedicated to jobs in the creative, technical, sports, and service sectors. The

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 4, 2017. Children are learning to play chess at Magnitogorsk schools and kindergartens thanks to support from Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), the company PR, Information & Advertising Department reports. ‘An agreement between MMK and the town council resulted in a three-year plan to include local schools and kindergartens in this education project. Forty-five kindergartens and twenty schools are already participating in the program,’ says Head of Magnitogorsk Education Department Natalya Safonova. MMK helped the schools buy chess boards and pieces

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2017. Yekaterinburg’s largest skating rink located on an open-air pond opens in Akademicheskiy District on December 1, 2017, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The skating rink can be found on Preobrazhensky Pond next to a church. This year, there will be an adults’ area with a 500-meter rink and a children’s skating area with a 100-meter rink. Skaters’ clubs will practice on the rink in daytime, whereas evenings are reserved for all the local public and visitors from other parts of the city. For one, world skating champion Andrei Bobrov will offer

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2017. Korkino Employment Service, Korkino Council, and Russian Copper Company Group are holding a large-scale job fair on December 2, 2017, the company’s press service reports. The job fair will be held at Korkino’s Gornyak Culture Palace from 11 AM to 4 PM. Several stands will feature over 1,700 job openings presented by the Group and its contractors. The Group’s Tominsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise and Promrekultivatsia will also offer their vacancys there. The fair will interest blue-collar workers, engineers, cost control experts, managers, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 1, 2017. Russian Copper Company is interested in using the joint developments by Russian and German mining engineers, the company’s Vice President for Environmental & Industrial Safety Natalia Gonchar announced at the 10th Russian-German Raw Stuffs Forum in Saint Petersburg. Russian Copper Company’s top manager took part in a discussion on Russian-German scientific and technological cooperation in the raw stuffs sector; it was decided to set up five work teams comprising researchers from Saint Petersburg State Mining University and Freiberg Mining Academy.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 1, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems is going to buy nineteen more special-purpose vehicles and automobiles for its rescue and engineering teams in Western Siberia, the company press service reports. The vehicles will be used to ensure better performance for the three West Siberian regions’ power facilities and to improve the working conditions there. The Western Siberia’s engineering teams got seventeen new vehicles this year already, including an all-wheel drive tractor with a semitrailer meant for transportation of off-roaders, a number

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 1, 2017. Ural Airlines are now offering their customers tickets for Krasnoyarsk flights that start from as little as RUR 1,500; the price covers thee cost of cabin luggage, regular luggage, and breakfast, the air carrier’s press service says. The scheduled Yekaterinburg-Krasnoyarsk flight is operated every Monday and Wednesday (the Krasnoyarsk-Yekaterinburg one is available on Wednesdays and Fridays). Wings Club members can also enjoy an additional welcome bonus (RUR 500). ‘Krasnoyarsk is an old Siberian city with plenty of industrial infrastructure. The place is

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 1, 2017. Every one in three Yekaterinburg-based customers shopping with MegaFon online places their order through their smartphone. These customers are mostly men in the 25-40 age group who prefer to shop using their mobile Internet connection, MegaFon Ural’s press service reports. Phones, smartphones, and tablets are the top three online shopping bestsellers. People tend to buy online in order to save time. According to GFK, these are Yekaterinburg-based customers who say more often than any other Russian shoppers that this is their primary motive to look for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 1, 2017. Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station produced this year’s target amount of electric power ahead of schedule. The target output figures were initially set forth by the Federal Antimonopoly Service, the station’s press service reports. Beloyarskaya Station produced 9,470m kilowatt-hours as of November 27, 2017. This was possible thanks to efficient use of power-generating units and the reorganization of the station’s equipment repair campaigns. ‘The next goal is to reach the target output set for us by Rosenergoatom for the year 2017, that is, 9,553m

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 30, 2017. Ural Airlines and Lufthansa Systems signed a long-term agreement allowing the former to use NetLine and Lido/Flight 4D solutions, the Russian air carrier’s press service reports. NetLine is an integrated IT platform that allows for efficient planning and management of the company’s day-to-day operation. Lido/Flight 4D is an IT solution meant to design the best route for every flight, considering the weather conditions, the current air traffic, and other factors. ‘Given the growing passenger turnover and the growing number of airplanes to manage, Ural

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 30, 2017. The telecommunications provider MegaFon set up additional base LTE stations in Alapayevs, Artemovsky, and Krasnouralsk, MegaFon Ural’s press service reports. ‘This is expected to ensure faster data download and instant website response for our subscribers. Our telecom experts also worked to improve connection quality and expanded the stable signal area in Nizhniy Tagil, Berezovsky, Bulanash, Tugulum, Yushala, and Koksharova. Some jobs were also done in Uralmash, Elmash, and Yugo-Zapadny Districts of Yekaterinburg as well as next to Uralets, Drama

UrBC, Moscow, November 30, 2017. Oleg Deripaska and Vladimir Potanin stopped negotiating on a possible merger of UC Rusal and Nornickel, Nornickel’s President and primary owner Vladimir Potanin told Vedomosti. ‘Oleg and I agreed that UC Rusal and Nornickel are two different businesses and two different companies with no synergy between them whatsoever. This is why they will keep developing independently, in the medium run,’ Potanin said. Oleg Deripaska’s representative told the newspaper a share in Nornickel was always seen as a potential strategic investment, and this view of the project

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 30, 2017. The average price of a square meter of housing on Yekaterinburg existing home market came to RUR 67,150 in November. This was 0.7% more than four weeks previously and 1.4% less than at the beginning of the year, Ural Real Estate Chamber’s research findings indicate. The number of homes for sale in Ural Real Estate Chamber’s database went down by 1.2% in the last four weeks and by 5.1% compared with the start of the year. As of November 27, 2017, there were some 9,600 apartments and 1,250 rooms in communal apartments on offer in Yekaterinburg as well as

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 30, 2017. The number of emergencies relating to gas leaks in Yekaterinburg houses and apartments grew by 20% in the last seven years, owing to an increased number of homes and gas consumers, among other factors, Head of Yekaterinburggaz Emergency Department Ivan Savenko said at a press conference recently. 6,800 emergency calls were made in 2011 and as many as 7,600 this year; 1,800 queries had to do with gas leaks. ‘Calls relating to gas leaks signal the greatest danger of explosions, fires, and destruction. Our rescue teams head for the location immediately and

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 29, 2017. The awarding ceremony for Y.P. Osadchiy Foundation fellows took place at Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) recently, ChTPZ Group’s press service reports. ‘We give out awards to the best metallurgy students for their academic, research, and sports achievements every fall. Two hundred students have become Osadchiy fellows since the fellowship was set up seventeen years ago. It’s wonderful that so many of them now work for the Group,’ says ChTPZ Group shareholder Alexander Fedorov. Fedorov gave the fellows’ diplomas to four talented students of South

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 29, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) received a thank-you letter from Magnitogorsk Council for helping to set up a park next to the city’s Eternal Flame Memorial, the company press service reports. The thank-you letters were given out in the course of a large cabinet meeting at Magnitogorsk Council. ‘Given the local climate, the period for outdoor construction jobs is quite limited, so some people doubted the park would be completed in time. Still, thanks to our coordinated efforts, ongoing supervision of those in charge, and, of course, good