UrBC, Orsk, November 23, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Orenburg Oblast-based asset ORMET completed the construction of Dzhusinsky underground mine by 90% so far. According to Russian Copper Company’s press service, the only jobs left to do before the commissioning are assembling the outer electric grids and doing the startup routines for all the facilities. These are the tasks the workers will concentrate on in the next one and a half months. Dzhusinsky is being put up in place of Dzhusinsky sulphide poly-metallic ore deposit in Adamovsky District, Orenburg Oblast. The deposit was an

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 23, 2017. Director of First Freight Company’s Chelyabinsk subsidiary Vladimir Terekhov came up with a performance report for the ten months of 2017, the company press service reports. Terekhov pointed out that they managed to cut down the idle time of their railcars by 73% (down to 243 units) this year thanks to more efficient collaboration with other players in the freight forwarding business. ‘A railcar turnover is the primary indicator of how efficiently a company’s rolling stock gets used, so increasing these turnover figures is key to obtaining some extra

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 23, 2017. ChTPZ Group is going to hold its 15th Snezhnost Theater Festival on December 8-19, the company press service reports. This year, plays will be performed in Chelyabinsk, Pervouralsk, Almetyevsk, and — for the first time — Ozersk, Chelyabinsk Oblast. This charity project takes off at M.I. Glinka Chelyabinsk State Academic Opera & Ballet Theater with a family musical called Look At Me Flying! Young performers from the children’s musical school, directed by Russia’s Honored Performer Boris Kaplun and assisted by professional actors, will act out a musical

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 22, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) won the Priority 2017 Import Substitution Contest in Metallurgy for developing its high quality zinc-coated rolled produce facilities. According to MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department, the awarding ceremony took place in Moscow on November 17 and was attended by the Russian Government officials, State Duma deputies, Chamber of Commerce & Industry representatives, and members of other organizations and departments. MMK launched its Continuous Hot-Dip Galvanizing Unit 3 last summer and thus

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems coordinated an electric safety workshop for Ministry of Emergencies representatives in Western Siberia. ‘Our power technicians talked about the specifics of putting out fire at electrical units that cannot get disconnected during a fire. This special information allowed the firefighting teams to come up with an improved action plan for possible fires at power facilities, says FGC UES Western Siberia’s PR & Media Group. The workshop was held at the company’s Training Center. The electric equipment

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2017. The telecommunications provider MegaFon’s rural subscribers proved active Internet users and online game players, MegaFon Ural’s press service reports. ‘Interestingly, our customers based in smaller settlements downloaded five times more data than large city dwellers in the last two months. Russian-language social networks Odnoklassniki and VKontakte are their two most popular services. Users mostly look for jokes, health information, and current events in the country; the peak surfing time is from 8 to 9 PM every night,’ says MegaFon Ural Technical

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2017. Ural Airlines are opening a new Moscow-Tyumen-Moscow flight, the air carrier’s press service reports. The flight will be operated every day starting from February 18, 2018. The in-flight time is two hours and thirty-five minutes; the plane takes off in Moscow at 11 PM and arrives in Tyumen at 3:35 AM; the return flight departs from Tyumen at 8 AM and arrives in Moscow at 9 AM. You can now use the company’s special offer and book tickets for as little as RUR 3,200 (one way, all fees included). ‘The new flight is a great opportunity to plan a holiday trip

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2017. A contest for the best design of EXPO Park on the shore of Verkh-Isetsky Pond will be held in Sverdlovsk Oblast soon, Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast’s Information Policy Department reports. Governor Evgeniy Kuivashev invited the best local architects, designers, and developers to contribute to the selection procedure. According to Kuivashev, the necessary experts and the evaluation criteria have already been decided upon. The design concept is to be presented at the Bureau International des Expositions’ General Assembly’s next meeting in June 2018.

UrBC, Moscow, November 22, 2017. The amount of rice stored in Russia’s warehouses and processing facilities shrank by 45.8% in the course of one year, down to 32,000,000 kg as of November 1, 2017, Rosstat reports. At the same time, these November figures are 2.7 times better than those for October 2017. On the whole, the share of rice stock comes to 0.2% of all grain supplies in the country. The supply of corn also declined by 23.6%, down to 1,011,000,000 kg, that of millet by 19.1%, down to 27,000,000 kg. The share of corn and millet stock comes to 5.1% and 0.1% of all grain supplies in the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2017. RSG-Akademicheskoye is now among the largest developers operating in the Urals and Siberia, the company press service refers to Expert Center’s rating as indicating. The company came second in the rating of major Ural and Siberian developers. The company’s Deputy Director-General Pavel Petrichenko said the year 2016 proved one of growth for RSG-Akademicheskoye, as the developer both commissioned and sold nearly 20% more housing than in the year 2015. In 2017, the company offers its customers even more: you can now buy ready-to-move-in apartments as well

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2017. ChTPZ Group now makes a new type of longitudinal pipes made from stainless chrome/nickel steel (diameter: 20 mm; layer thickness: 2 mm; length: 18 to 20.3 meters). The pipes are made at the Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ), and the first batch of pipes (total length: 24,000 meters) has already been delivered to customer. According to the Group’s press service, the plant was able to start making new pipe types after its pipe-drawing facilities got upgraded. Last year, PNTZ launched hi tech cold reducing mill 10-45 and a pipe finishing line. This

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 21, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and G.I. Nosov Moscow State Technical University got a silver medal at Metall Expo 2017 Exhibition for their development and introduction of a new technology for delivery of charging material into blast furnaces. The technology is suitable for blast furnaces with tray-type, bell-less tops and for charging material with varying pellet content, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. ‘Our member enterprise MMK METIZ also won several awards this year. The company got diplomas for designing and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2017. Miners from EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Raspadskaya Mine have produced 5,528,000,000 kg of coal since the start of the year and thus already met this year’s target output figures, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s corporate relations center reports. Raspadskaya Coal Company’s management congratulated the miners on their production success and said foremen Stanislav Kovtunets, Alexei Ivanov, and Rustam Muminov worked particularly hard to achieve the goal. ‘The secret of Raspadskaya’s success lies in the power and unity of its team. Both managers and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2017. A round table discussion on renovating passenger railcars used for commuter routes was held at the Federation Council’s meeting recently. Director-General of Siemens and Sinara Group’s joint venture Ural Locomotives Alexander Saltayev spoke at this meeting, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. The round table discussion participants pointed out that Russian Railways came up with an action plan to improve their passenger service in 2017-2019, with over RUR 175m allocated for the purpose. ‘The demand for rail commutes has been rising steadily; according to

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 20, 2017. Russian Copper Company is planning to put up a multi-purpose sports facility in Korkino, Chelyabinsk Oblast, the company press service reports. The project was presented at Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast’s Investment Council’s meeting on November 16, 2017. ‘The sports facility will comprise a building 2,500 m2 large and an open-air arena 6,000 m2 large. The building will house judo, box, and fitness studios, a basketball gym, a powerlifting gym, and a number of offices. The open-air arena will have running tracks with professional athletic coating, a

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 20, 2017. A project proposed by Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) won the Russian Metallurgy’s Event of The Year 2017 Contest, the plant’s Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. The award was given to MMK for the construction of its Continuous Hot-Dip Galvanizing Unit 3; the unit got launched in July 2017. The awarding ceremony took place at the opening reception of Metall Expo 2017 Industrial Exhibition in Moscow. The winner’s diploma and a trophy (a figurine portraying a metallurgical worker) were presented to MMK Sales Director for Russia

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 20, 2017. Oleg Ivanchuk’s team from EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Section 19 set a production record in mining work: they worked through 624 meters of mine openings in just one month, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s corporate relations center reports. Raspadskaya Coal Company’s management awarded Oleg Ivanchuk with a new automobile in the course of a solemn ceremony. ‘I am happy to see the company has been increasing its mining work output, which improves the business’s overall performance. We hope Raspadskaya Coal Company’s member enterprises will meet the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 20, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development reduced its loan refinancing rates by 2% to 6% on November 14, 2017, the bank’s press service reports. You can now reduce your annual interest rate down to 13% (this holds for customers who have their salary accounts with the bank) or even down to 15% (this holds for all other customers) if you make your loan payments five days before the deadline using an ATM or online banking apps and if you transfer your salary into a UBRD account or use the bank’s card to pay for your shopping. The refinancing

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 20, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Karabashmed is almost done with the startup and commissioning of its new mechanized crude copper-pouring facility, the company press service reports. The plant has already come up wit hate first batch of crude copper made at the new pouring line. The trial runs proved that the pouring time is now down to just one hour rather than two. ‘This has meant our ready produce output went up and our idle time went down. Idle times used to result in liquid metal setting solid before its time. Now the problem is gone,’ says Karabashmed’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 17, 2017. Three hundred employees of EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) and Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (KGOK) took part in the young manager contest recently, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s corporate relations center reports. ‘Mikhail Kazakovtsev proved the best young manager at NTMK. He works at the plant’s technical administration and is in charge of rolling production technologies and the construction of a new ball-rolling mill. Yuri Syumkin won the first prize at KGOK. He has worked at the plant for three years,