UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 17, 2017. #Goodneighbors Festival will take place in Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District on Town Day on August 19, RSG Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. This annual event will be held at a special site at the intersection of Akademik Sakharov St and Wilhelm de Gennin St. A show, a food court, a large play area, and some musical performances will be there for the visitors from 12 PM to 7 PM. ‘Two headliners, the legendary Trubetskoy and Nogu Svelo! are invited to perform on the main stage. The bands will start performing at 4 PM so that all those willing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 17, 2017. Pipe Metallurgical Company’s TMK Neftegazservis offered its professional support during the pay-out of pipes at Vankorskoye, Yuzhno-Tambeyskoye, Urengoyskoye, and Astrakhanskoye Deposits 112 times in the first seven months of 2017. So far, every one in eight pay-out of pipes with TMK UP premium threaded joints has been supervised by the company experts. According to Pipe Metallurgical Company’s press service, their engineering support covers personnel training on how to use the pipes properly, inspection of the pipe string once its components have been

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 17, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region’s industrial production index rose by 4% in January-July 2017 compared with one year earlier, Sverdlovskstat reports. The IPI went up by 4.3% in the processing sector and by 9.6% in the sector for the production and distribution of electric power, natural gas, and steam. The fossils extraction industry’s index declined by 9.6%. Sverdlovsk Region’s IPI for July 2017 was 0.5% lower than in June 2017 and 2.5% higher than in July 2016.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 17, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region-based building businesses’ accumulated turnover amounted to 51.471m RUR in January-July 2017, which was 19.4% less than one year earlier, Sverdlovskstat reports. The turnover of metal goods manufacturers declined by 9.1% in the first seven months of the year, that of beverage producers by 8.2%, that of printed materials by 6.7%, that of leather goods manufacturers by 3.4%, and that of textile makers by 1.8%.

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, August 16, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s workout championship started with the first, selective round in Chelyabinsk Region on August 11, the company press service reports. Fifteen sportsmen and women, both professionals and amateurs, gathered together at a workout site in Karabash. ‘The contestants competed in Freestyle, Triathlon, and Biathlon. Sports players in the 12-17 age group used no extra appliances in triathlon and biathlon challenges, while those over 18 had to use extra weights. Semen Barmin proved Karabash’s No.1 in Junior Freestyle, Timur Titovich won the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2017. ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Project’s coordinators launched ProfMetalClub, a job counseling project, at Gagarinsky Sports Camp in Pervouralsk. ‘The project is aimed for summer campers aged 11 to 16. This is part of the Ural Engineering School, a program supported by Governor of Sverdlovsk Region,’ the Group’s press service reports. The goal is to help attending children and teenagers develop their engineering and design-oriented thinking, technical skills, and logic and master teamwork. Five fifty-people teams will have two

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems is going to install 622 multi-frequency vibration dampers at the electric mains in Yugra’s Nizhnevartovsk District, FGC UES Western Siberia’s PR Department reports. ‘Our power engineers will install 228 vibration suppressors at the 220-kilowatt Belozernaya-Kompressornaya Main in August alone. These new appliances, made in Russia, have a wider vibration-suppressing frequency range and spiral reinforcement-type fittings. This means the mains are less likely to get damaged by a strong wind,’ the department

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2017. Sinara Transport Machines’ Lyudinovsky Locomotive Plant coordinated a technical meeting on the plant’s TEM14 loco upgrade potential. According to Sinara Group’s press service, the meeting was attended by Russian Railways’ locomotive operators from Northern, Moscow, Volga, South-Eastern, and Sverdlovsk Railways, since two-diesel, electric transmission locomotive shunters of the TEM14 type are particularly popular in these parts of the country. ‘An experimental TEM14 sample loco was made at the plant in July 2011; this make has been produced on a serial

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2017. 866,700 m2 worth of new housing got commissioned in Sverdlovsk Region in January-July 2017, which was 14.2% less than one year previously, Sverdlovskstat reports. 153,800 m2 worth of new housing got commissioned in the month of July alone, which, in fact, exceeds the figures for July 2016 by 1.7 times. 13.2% of this new housing (59,200 m2) fall into the private houses segment.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2017. Miners started working on new Long-Face 26-18 bis at EVRAZ Yesaulskaya Mine, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Relations Center reports. The working area in question is estimated to contain 820,000,000 kg of valuable Zh coking coal. 3km worth of excavation work had to be done first, as had a number of assembly jobs and capital mining operations. The miners are now operating at more than 400 meters below the ground; their safety is ensured with the help of gas-trapping facilities that divert the excess gas into the rock cavity. ‘Oleg Basmanov’s team

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2017. A new wire-winding mill was recently launched at EVRAZ Holding’s West Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK), EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Relations Center reports. ‘This new Italian equipment is used to wind large rolls of wire that are 1,000 to 2,500 kg heavy into smaller ones (100 to 150 kg each), which is much more consumer-friendly. The smaller coils are easier to transport and unload, and no special equipment is needed to unwind them,’ the Center says. The launch of this new mill signifies yet another important stage in the plant’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s customers had over 5,800 credit cards issued to them in the first half of the year, which is nearly four times more than in the first six months of 2016, the bank’s press service reports. According to the bank’s Credit Cards Management Director Svetlana Davydova, better terms the bank is currently offering is one reason for this dramatic increase in demand. ‘We introduced many more options this year, so that our customers can actually benefit financially from using borrowed funds. For one, the credit

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 15, 2017. Keramik, a ceramics plant operated by MMK Group’s Stroykompleks, is now active once again, MMK Information & PR Department reports. ‘The plant had to be shut down temporarily between November 2016 and August 2017 because of the plummeting demand for non-load-bearing clay tiles and bricks that are used for housing construction. Shortly before the stoppage, the plant started making solid bricks that can be used both in housing construction and industrial construction. The plant also had its Siemens automated control system replaced with a newer version

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2017. Sinara Group’s Sinara Development coordinated a foundation-laying ceremony at Yekaterinburg EXPO’s future Congress Center on the eve of Builder’s Day. The construction of the center is part of the contract Sinara Development signed with Ural Exhibition Center, the company press service reports. Sinara Development’s Director-General Timur Ufimtsev and the site workers tossed some coins into the foundation base, and then builders poured the first portion of concrete over it. The construction site has been prepared for action by now. Over ten special-purpose

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 14, 2017. 943,343 people flew with Ural Airlines in July, which exceeded the figures for one year previously by 18%, the air carrier’s press service reports. The airline operated 5,904 flights last month, including 3,624 domestic flights, 870 flights to and from the CIS member states, and 1,410 international flights. This was 17% more than one year earlier. Ural Airlines have offered their services to 4,266,451 people this year so far, which is 23% more than in January-July 2016. The air carrier operated 30,082 flights between January 1 and July 31, 2017, including

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, August 14, 2017. Vice Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Vadim Evdokimov had a tour of Metallurg Sports Palace during his recent visit to Karabash. The arena, currently under construction, is Russian Copper Company and Russian Copper Company Group’s Karabashmed’s joint project, the company press service reports. Karabashmed’s First Deputy Director-General Alexander Yushkov, StroyMaximum’s Director-General Vladimir Paklin, and Mayor of Karabash Oleg Budanov all made their reports on how the construction was going. ‘The sports facility is growing by the hour. The fitness and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 14, 2017. Kindergarten 32 in Korkino closed for capital repairs, Russian Copper Company’s press service reports. The building was put up in 1955 and has never been given a round of capital repairs since. Only some partial remodeling was done in 2004. Thanks to the funding supplied by Russian Copper Company, the overhaul could begin in August 2017. These were the children’s parents who asked the company management for support. ‘Kindergarten 32 is Korkino’s only creche, with some eighty children as young as 1.5 (and older). They had to switch to other pre-school

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 14, 2017. Workers from MMK Group’s Stroykompleks, a building company, are getting ready to celebrate Builder’s Day, MMK Information & PR Department reports. The company was set up over fifteen years ago at the Group’s management’s initiative and is now one of Magnitogorsk’s leading construction businesses, comprising a concrete goods plant, a glass-making plant, a ceramic materials-manufacturing plant, and a building and assembly depot. Stroykomplex is mainly active as a general contractor for construction project and does building and assembly jobs at

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 14, 2017. The average asking price currently comes to 66,167 RUR per m2 on Yekaterinburg existing home market. This is 0.4% less than four weeks previously and 13.7% less than in February 2015, Ural Real Estate Chamber’s analytical report indicates. Prices declined most noticeably for the centrally located apartments (-1.7% in the last four weeks), with the current asking price at 93,933 RUR per m2. Homes in the city’s remotest and least expensive areas are now 0.4% cheaper and can be had for 55,445 RUR per m2, whereas those in the city’s third and fourth priciest

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 11, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s IAS-calculated net profit amounted to $86m in the first half of the year, which was 12 times more than one year earlier, the company’s report states. The mining and metallurgical holding’s consolidated revenues rose by 44.1% and reached $5.106bn. Its EBITDA increased by nearly two times and reached $1.152bn.