UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 11, 2017. Ural Airlines are holding a special price offer this weekend, the air carrier’s press service reports. On September 8-10, 2017, you can book tickets for flights to be operated between September 8, 2017 and March 24, 2018 at a 30% discount. The tickets on offer are for the following flights: Moscow-Irkutsk, Moscow-Chita, Moscow-Tomsk, Moscow-Omsk, Moscow-Novosibirsk, Moscow-Salzburg, Moscow-Munich, Moscow-Lisbon, Moscow-Bishkek, Saint Petersburg-Vladivostok, Saint Petersburg-Kemerovo, Saint Petersburg-Tomsk, Saint Petersburg-Chita, Saint

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 11, 2017. Footballers from Russia’s Football Premier League are going to coordinate a workshop for winners of Metroshka, a children’s amateur football festival held by Russian Copper Company, the company press service reports. Metroshka was the last round of the competition among children’s amateur teams. Thirty-six teams made it to the finals. ‘The festival has been coordinated by the Metro 74 newspaper for the 16th time this year; the event was held in seventeen towns in Sverdlovsk Region, Chelyabinsk Region, Bashkortostan, and - for the first time this year —

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 11, 2017. Nearly a quarter (23%) of Sverdlovsk Region-based employees feel they are at risk of losing their job, HeadHunter’s research findings indicate. According to HeadHunter, the figure stood at 27% last year. These days, workers in the IT sector feel the most secure, as do those in the tourist and hotel businesses. People employed in the banking industry, however, are afraid of getting fired. ‘Our survey respondents said it is hard enough to find a good job in Sverdlovsk Region these days. Only 4% of those surveyed are positive they will have no trouble at

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 11, 2017. 306,100 m2 of new housing got commissioned in Yekaterinburg in the first half of the year, which was 24.8% less than one year earlier, Yekaterinburg Council’s monitoring results indicate. This figure includes 32,000 m2 of private housing (down 37.6% on one year earlier). 42.9% of all of Sverdlovsk Region’s new apartment buildings were put up and commissioned in Yekaterinburg. Still, Yekaterinburg only came fourth in the national rating, outstripped by Rostov-on-Don, Novosibirsk, and Kazan. One year earlier, Yekaterinburg was Russia’s No 3. On average,

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, September 8, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) ore mining and processing facility turns 86 this year, MMK Information & PR Department reports. The facility comprises Rudnik, an ore processing plant, a sintering plant, a crushing and calculating shop, and a sintering mix treatment shop. ‘We keep upgrading our existing equipment and launching new units. For one, we had our Sulphur-Trapping Unit 4 reconstructed: as a result, our exhaust gases are 90% sulphur-dioxide free, which means our atmospheric emissions were reduced considerably. The decrease is

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 8, 2017. Europe-bound travelers can now fly with Ural Airlines from Moscow to Salzburg and back, the air carrier’s press service reports. Flights will be operated from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport every Saturday starting from December 30, with an additional flight every Tuesday during the New Year’s break. Prices start from 10,000 RUR (one way) for Promo tickets and from 11,700 RUR for Economy tickets (one way, one piece of luggage and one set of skiing appliances, all taxes included). ‘It makes sense to start picking your winter break skiing resort now and book

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 8, 2017. Greenwich Cinema will be selling tickets for only 99 RUR on its opening day September 8. According to Obschestvo Malysheva 73’s press service, the offer holds throughout the entire weekend (September 8-11). The idea is to let as many people get acquainted with the new movie theater as possible in the very first days of its opening. ‘We expect this really low price to attract plenty of people and to give locals a chance to see more than just one movie currently on offer. This also gives those who cannot afford to pay for regular-price tickets a chance to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 8, 2017. 40% of this year’s crops and grains have already been harvested, Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department refers to the region’s Agriculture Minister Dmitri Degtyarev as stating. ‘This year’s crop output is larger than that for last year. The harvesting process is a bit slower due to changeable weather, but we still fall within the schedule all in all. All local farming businesses intend to complete their harvesting campaign in time, so they are busy in the fields 24/7. The essential thing is to have suitable weather for harvesting,’ the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 8, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region division of Roszdravnadzor (the state healthcare watchdog) carried out 137 checks of local medical and pharmaceutical businesses in the first half of the year and found 307 violations there, the division head Oksana Fedoseyeva said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. According to Fedoseyeva, the number of problems in the sector doesn't seem to be going down: 359 violations were found in the first half of 2016 in the course of 196 checks. ‘There are up to eight violations per business on average, the most typical ones having to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2017. Ural Airlines proved this year’s Safety Leaders Award winner in Aviation Safety, the air carrier’s press service reports. The awarding ceremony took place on Skolkovo Moscow School of Management campus on September 5. The award was given out at the end of Safety Leaders Forum coordinated by Social Projects Foundation. The trophy figurine was presented to a Ural Airlines representative in acknowledgement of the company’s safety efforts. ‘Making sure our flights are safe is the company’s top priority. We have a multi-layered control system to ensure

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, September 7, 2017. A solemn welcoming ceremony for this year’s students enrolled on the Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program took place at A.V. Yakovlev Chelyabinsk Vocational School this week, ChTPZ Group’s press service reports. Student IDs were given to 150 16-year-old school-leavers. Top managers of ChTPZ Group’s Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant, Chelyabinsk Region Education Ministry officials, and representatives of A.V. Yakovlev Chelyabinsk Vocational School all took part in the ceremony. The Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program is a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2017. Applications for EVRAZ: City of Friends/City of Ideas Grant Project Contest can get submitted starting October 1, 2017; the contest is held in Nizhniy Tagil and Kachkanar and has 6m RUR in terms of funding, EVRAZ Holding’s press service reports. Non-profit public organizations, municipal and private educational, medical, and social organizations, organizations in the culture and sports sector, public initiative groups, and private individuals backed up by a non-state legal entity are all eligible to apply. ‘The idea is to involve locals in urban

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2017. Russia’s Vice Premier Vitaly Mutko paid a visit to Yekaterinburg Arena on September 5, 2017; the stadium is being reconstructed by Sinara Group’s Sinara Development, the Group’s press service reports. Acting Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev, Head of Yekaterinburg Council Alexander Yakob, and Sinara Group Chair of the BOD Dmitri Pumpyanski all accompanied the official on his visit. ‘Sinara Group’s Director-General Mikhail Khodorovsky said in his report to the Vice Premier that all the jobs were completed in time or ahead of schedule. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2017. The number of ready businesses currently for sale in Yekaterinburg is 352 (judging by sales ads), which is 40% more than one year earlier, N1.RU reports. According to the estate website, a quarter of all ready businesses on offer are centrally located, while the districts of Elmash, Uralmash, Avtovokzal, and VIZ host 5% to 7% of businesses each. The share of businesses for sale located in other parts of the city is currently under 5%. Analysts report the supply rose most dramatically for office space (from 22 to 38 offices for sale, up 72.7%), cafes,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 6, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) issued a 990m RUR bank guarantee to back up the contract between Stroytech (the general contractor) and GK Prinzip’s Novy Zastroyschik (the customer); the guarantee holds through December 31, 2018, the bank’s press service reports. The guarantee was issued in order to enable the completion of Pervy Nikolayevsky Housing Complex. ‘The developer was earlier provided with funds to go on with the construction process. The bank, on its part, provided a guarantee. This agreement means we promise all the

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, September 6, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Tominsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise in Chelyabinsk Region is going to launch a hiring campaign in September 2017, the company press service reports. At this stage, the company will look to take on people for both managerial and white-collar positions as well as blue-collar workers such as electricians, gas welders, and miners for surveying and geological work. The company expects to hire over sixty people before the end of the year. As a result, there will be more than a hundred people working for Tominsky altogether.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 6, 2017. Russian banks are now offering new mortgage options to customers looking to buy a home in Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. For example, the price of a studio apartment/a one-bedroom one/a two-bedroom one starts from 2.6m RUR for apartments located at 7, 11, 13, 17 Pavel Shamanov St or at 57 Akademik Sakharov St. With Gazprom’s mortgage scheme, the down payment only comes to 10%, the interest rate to 9.5% a year, the mortgage period to up to 30 years. Customers willing to wait with moving house (the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 6, 2017. SKB-Bank’s MasterCard holders can now enjoy the benefits of Samsung Pay, the bank’s press service reports. The contactless pay service is now available to owners of all Samsung Pay-compatible smartphones (this includes phones in the Samsung Galaxy series and MasterCard-friendly Samsung Gear S3 portable units). ‘SKB-bank keeps investing in digital development and launching advanced technologies in its e-banking and m-banking services; contactless payments is one such technology. Introducing Samsung Pay has meant bank cards are now even more convenient to

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, September 6, 2017. The 3d Interregional Ural Power Engineering Teams’ Contest started at MRSK Urala’s Chelyabenergo’s training range in Krasnoarmeyskiy, Chelyabinsk Region, the South Urals Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s press service reports. The contest is coordinated by the Chamber in cooperation with Chelyabenergo and support from Chelyabinsk Region Government. The goal is to look at the Ural building contractors’ professional skills, enhance the prestige of blue-collar jobs and make them more appealing to young people, and show the general public how important

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 5, 2017. The last selective rounds of the amateur workout championship coordinated by Russian Copper Company took place in Chelyabinsk on September 2-3, the company press service reports. ‘Scores of men, youths, and boys (who competed almost on a par with adults) came to the company’s workout sites next to School 68 and School 3 to take part in freestyle, triathlon, and biathlon challenges. The workouters competed in two age groups (12-17 and 18+) in triathlon and freestyle; extra weights were allowed for the older age group,’ the press service says. Anton