UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 4, 2020. 96.43% of assigned overhaul maintenance and structural repair fees for home owners in apartment buildings got collected in Sverdlovsk Region last year, Director-General at Sverdlovsk Region Structural Repair Facilitation Fund Stanislav Sukhanov announced at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. ‘A year earlier, 95.72% of all the assigned fees got collected/paid. This means the percentage is now up 0.71%. I haven’t seen the figures for the country’s average yet, but I would assume Sverdlovsk Region is above average in this respect,’ Sukhanov said.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 4, 2020. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MK) supplied its customers with 1,286,000,000 kg of zinc-coated rolled metal goods in 2019, which proved the largest amount in the plant’s entire history, the company’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘2019 was the second year in a row when records got set for the amount of zinc-coated produce supplied to customers. In 2018, the figure was 1,269,000,000 kg (up 12% on the 1,134,000,000 kg supplied in the previous year), which was also a record at the time,’ MMK says. MMK has been working to raise the output of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 4, 2020. EVRAZ Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (EVRAZ KGOK) purchased 11 new buses as part of the miners’ safety enhancing program, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. The company invested some RUB 30m in ensuring safer employee transfer. Five modern GAZon Next buses, four Ural crew vehicles, and two PAZ units got purchased by KGOK all in all. Ural buses are fit for twenty passengers and are fitted with a four-camera video surveillance system that displays the view of the road, the inside of the bus, and the rear on

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 3, 2020. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) was founded 88 years ago on February 1, the company’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘The plant’s first blast furnace produced its first batch of cast-iron on February 1, 1932. This was the day the enterprise was born. The following year (July 1933) the plant’s first open-hearth furnace got launched as well, and once Section Mill 500 started operating in August 1934, MMK turned into a full-metallurgical-cycle enterprise processing 25% of all of the iron ore made in the USSR, as well as 12% of pig iron

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 3, 2020. Three new crew vehicles meant for employee transfer arrived at EVRAZ Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Alardinskaya Mine last month. The buses were custom-made at Ural Automotive Plant in full compliance with Raspadskaya Coal Company’s new standards. The buses have a reinforced frame, high-visibility lamps instead of regular rotating warning lights, additional front fog lights, and seats with three-point seat belts. ‘Four dashboard cameras facing the road, the driver’s seat, the inside of the bus, and the rear help prevent/detect problems to do with the safety

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 3, 2020. SKB-Bank’s customers can now activate their online banking package without visiting the bank’s offline branches; all one needs is the banking app. ‘You don’t need an actual appointment: all you have to do is download SKB Online App onto your smartphone and press the Sign Up button. To get your log in and password, you’ll have to provide your contact details and your card/contract number. You can also register on the bank’s website the bank says. According to SKB-Bank’s press service, signing up for the bank’s online banking package will make your banking

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 3, 2020. NEYVA Bank introduced new interest rates on savings deposits on January 27, 2020. The annual interest rate for the ruble option now comes to 4.75%. According to the bank’s press service, the interest rate for the dollar and euro deposits has remained the same. Questions may be directed to NEYVA Bank’s 24/7 hotline service +7−800−7000−213 (toll-free for calls inside Russia).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 3, 2020. 29 contestants and 31 experts will be representing ChelPipe Group at the upcoming 8th Worldskills Russia Sverdlovsk Region Championship; the company’s team will be competing in twelve skills categories and two age groups (Juniors and General), the Group’s press service reports. Students on the Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy In-Company Training Program and high schoolers from Pervouralsk undergoing the Group’s early job counseling programs will make part of ChelPipe Group’s team. The contestants have trained for the championship at the Group’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 31, 2020. ChelPipe Group recently announced Oksana Nazarova was appointed the company’s HR Director, the Group’s press service reports. ‘Oksana Nazarova has plenty of experience working in managerial positions in Human Resources in a number of large Russian companies: she worked as HR Director at DIXY Group, Director for HR & Organizational Development at Rosatom Corporation’s engineering/construction division, Deputy Director-General for HR at Russian Machines Group, HR Director at Basic Element Group, and Head of RUSAL United Company’s Corporate University,’

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 31, 2020. EVRAZ Holding coordinated a school festival in Nizhniy Tagil and Kachkanar this month. The festival included schoolchildren presenting seventeen social projects aimed at urban improvements and social infrastructure development, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. ‘A series of large-scale events took place in Nizhniy Tagil and Kachkanar, bringing together over a thousand schoolchildren, teachers, local businesspeople, town council officials, EVRAZ employees, and Social Investment Fund representatives. The young festival

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 31, 2020. Close to 5,700 escrow accounts (total account balance: more than RUB 12.4bn) had been opened in Ural Federal Districts by early 2020, the Bank of Russia’s Ural division’s press service reports. ’So far, 116 loan agreements (total amount: RUB 52.5bn) have been signed by banks and housing developers in Ural Federal District. The scheme allowing the funding of shared-equity construction through escrow accounts became available in the summer of 2019,’ the press service says. As soon as November 2019, a number of housing projects got completed in Ural Federal

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 31, 2020. Ural Airlines introduced more flights to Israel, the air carrier’s press service reports. The following direct flights to Tel Aviv will be available between March 29 and October 24, 2020: U6 829/830 (Sochi-Tel Aviv/Tel Aviv-Sochi) - on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays U6 721/722 (Sochi-Tel Aviv/Tel Aviv-Sochi) - on Tuesdays and Wednesdays U6 897/898 (Mineralnye Vody-Tel Aviv/Tel Aviv-Mineralnye Vody) - on Thursdays and Sundays U6 825/826 (Krasnodar-Tel Aviv/Tel Aviv-Krasnodar) - on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays The flights operated to and from

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 31, 2020. Shishimskaya Gorka Art Residence in Yekaterinburg will soon be hosting the local artist and photographer Sergey Poteryaev’s Grand Slam Exhibition, Brusnika Development’s press service reports. The exhibition is the outcome of a long research project dedicated to documentary photography-related issues. The project focuses on documentary photography and how it can be used in search of post-truth. ‘Unambiguous and apparently legit-looking snapshots serve as puzzles that could fit into a number of different stories. Grand Slam presents the art of photography

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 30, 2020. The share of e-policies issued for third-party only vehicle insurance plans in Sverdlovsk Region comes to 58.8%, head of the Russian Automobile Insurers’ Union in Ural Federal District Vyacheslav Tarasov said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg on January 29. ‘We work with several types of third-party only vehicle insurance policies: there are printed policies and digital ones. In Sverdlovsk Region, the share of e-policies comes to 58.8%,’ Tarasov said. According to Tarasov, the country’s average price of the insurance policy in question hasn’t

UrBC, Moscow, January 30, 2020. The telecom company MegaFon launched its new Digital Lawyer Package: thanks to a neuronet and the optical character recognition technology, human employees will be spared the often-performed (and unexciting) issues, and the Russian companies’ personnel’s productive office time will thus increase by up to 70%. MegaFon’s press service says the new service is mostly aimed at lawyers and accountants wishing to spend less time doing routine tasks. ‘The package was designed in cooperation with our tech partner Nlogic. The package comprises three products to enhance

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 30, 2020. The first production batch of MOX fuel got loaded into Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Plant’s BN 800 Reactor (Power Generating Unit 4). The plant is part of Rosatom Corporation’s electric power division, Rosatom/TVEL’s Communications Department reports. The facility resumed operating as usual after its very first overhaul. The batch of MOX fuel loaded into BN 800 Reactor consists of 18 fuel assemblies. These were made from depleted uranium and plutonium at Rosatom’s Mining and Chemical Combine in Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory. Unlike the nuclear

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 30, 2020. Following a virus outbreak in the People’s Republic of China and both China’s and Rostourism’s bans on air travel for Chinese and Russian tourists, Ural Airlines had to cancel a number of flights until the end of the winter navigation period. According to the air carrier’s press service, the cancellations will affect the flights that are popular with Chinese tourists typically traveling in large groups: U6 707/708 (Yekaterinburg-Munich-Yekaterinburg) U6 709/710 (Yekaterinburg-Paris-Yekaterinburg) U6 727/728 (Yekaterinburg-Rome-Yekaterinburg) U6 747/748

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 30, 2020. Young athletes from Olympic Reserve Boxing School supported by OOO FORES’s Asbest branch won seven medals in the local championship in Bogdanovich, Sverdlovsk Region, the company’s press service says. The competition was held in memory of local war and violent conflict veterans and took place in Bogdanovich on January 24-25. 180+ young boxers from Sverdlovsk Region and Tyumen Region competed in the championship. The school in Asbest sent thirteen contestants in the 10-12 age group. ‘Asbest natives Ilya Popov, Andrei Sokolov, and Maxim Naydanov won gold.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 29, 2020. EVRAZ Holding launched a new, portable gas-drainage unit at Alardinskaya Mine, the company’s PR Department reports. The new appliance is meant to reduce the gas emissions coming from the rock mass and to make underground mining safer. The unit can drain up to 400 m3 of gas from under the ground every minute. ‘This is the third gas-drainage facility installed at the mine. The unit is fitted with an up-to-date filtering system. Cyclone is used to filter the methane-air mixture from excess moisture, coal dust, and other contaminating particles. This ensures

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 29, 2020. 32,242 car loans got issued in Sverdlovsk Region last year, which only exceeds the figures for one year earlier (31,884 loans) by 1.1%, the National Credit History Bureau reports. According to the Bureau, 947,300 car loans got issued in Russia last year overall, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier (846,800 loans) by 11.9%. Also, 2019 was the year when the number of automobiles sold on credit reached the six-year high. The borrowing parties’ personal credit score averaged at 712 points. ‘State-funded programs have been supporting the national