UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 1, 2017. ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) is now offering summer jobs to students from local vocational schools; the project is supported by Sverdlovsk Region’s Industry & Science Ministry. According to the company press service, over two hundred students will be able to hold part-time jobs at the plant’s production departments and at its daughter enterprises. Hiring students on the Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program for the summer has become common practice at the company. This year, there were some summer job openings

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, August 1, 2017. Russia’s Chamber of Commerce & Industry and the Internal Affairs Ministry signed a cooperation agreement, the South Urals CCI’s press service reports. The agreement will allow the regional CCIs and law-enforcement authorities to work more closely in the field of migrant policy. According to the South Urals Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s First Vice President Igor Aristov, working with the Internal Affairs Ministry mainly means keeping track of the current migrant problems, helping to improve respective laws, and creating mechanisms to attract highly

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 1, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems (FGC UES) had the 500-kilowatt electric main connecting Votkinskaya Power Station and Yemelino Power Substation repaired recently. According to the company press service, the goal is to make power supply to Sverdlovsk Region’s and Perm Territory’s industrial enterprises more reliable. ‘The main is located in a poorly accessible spot on marshy ground. Our power engineers replaced forty guy-wires and pulled down thirty-six trees that could fall down and obstruct the main. This year, 270 faulty guy-wires

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 1, 2017. Metcombank and MSP Bank signed a cooperation agreement to provide bank guarantees within the framework of the National Guarantee System, the bank’s press service reports. The main goal is to facilitate the small and medium enterprises’ development and make getting loans easier and more affordable for SMEs. Under the terms of the agreement, MSP Bank is acting as the borrowing SMEs’ loan guarantor for Metcombank and shares the respective risks. Thanks to this guarantees, businesses can borrow more even when they cannot provide large enough security for their

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 31, 2017. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) is now making Russia’s first casing pipes made from TMK C, the corrosion-resistant chrome and nickel alloy, the company press service reports. The fist set of TMK C casing pipes (strength grade: 110) with airtight, gas-tight TMK UP PF premium threaded joints was made the company’s TAGMET and supplied to Lukoil. The alloy was designed at TMK to make pipes for oil deposits with extremely high H2S and CO2 content and partial pressure. Up to now, pipes made from chrome and nickel alloys were only available abroad. ‘TMK keeps

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 31, 2017. Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems’ West Siberian Electric Mains issued a warrant to warn against trespassing in the high-voltage areas, the company press service reports. ‘The high-voltage protective areas are the ground and the air next to and around both sides of the electric mains. The limit it set at 20 meters for 110-kilowatt mains, at 25 meters for 220-kilowatt ones, and at 30 meters for 500-kilowatt ones. Anything that happens within the area must get the power engineers’ authorization, be it construction, repairs, demolition, mining,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 31, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) came up with a new deposit offer with an increased interest rate; this is an opportunity for customers of financially troubled banks to secure their savings, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Our Reliable Deposit is a good way to join the bank as a new customer. The interest rate comes to 8% a year, with the first interest payments available in as soon as thirty days; you can choose either to get the interest added to the principal amount and capitalized or to get the interest transferred into a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 31, 2017. Sinara Transport Machines’ Lyudinovsky Locomotive Plant (LTZ) supplied three modern, electric-driven locomotive shunters TEM 9 to Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), Sinara Group’s press service reports. The contract for the production and delivery of locos was signed by STM and MMK in March 2017. This means MMK now has 13 TEM 9 and 50 TGM 6 pieces (all made at LTZ) in its fleet of locos. TEM 9 was designed at Sinara Transport Machines’ Innovative Development Center in 2008; this engineering division has been home to the most advanced technical

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 31, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region’s district judges and Justices of the Peace ruled that 1,170 foreign subjects and individuals without a citizenship should get deported from Russia, Sverdlovsk Region Court’s press service reports. Over 16,000 people faced administrative arrest. Judges report the number of administrative arrest warrants acted upon has been going up, whereas that of actual deportations following a deportation order has been on the decrease. ‘So far, deporting 776 foreign subjects has tuned out to be problematic. There are currently 95 foreigners in a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 28, 2017. Delegates from the Mid-Urals are taking part in the international EXPO 2017 this August; the exhibition opened in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana on June 10, Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. Talks will be held with the representatives of the Kazakhstan Government’s executive branch on investment, energy sector, and healthcare projects; some negotiations with governors of Karaganda Region, Kostanai Region, North Kazakhstan Region, Pavlodar Region, and Astana - Sverdlovsk Region’s primary business partners - will also take place. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 28, 2017. EVRAZ Holding is planning to put up new filtering facilities at its Gorno-Shorsky Subsidiary’s Sheregeshskaya Mine, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Relations Center reports. The project will require over 460m RUR worth of investments to complete. ‘These up-to-date filtering facilities will be part of the bigger mine reconstruction project, resulting in greater crude ore production output and a considerably reduced environmental impact. Thanks to the new facilities, the quality of water in the River Bolshoy Unzas, the local village’s primary artery, will

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 28, 2017. ChTPZ Group and South Ural State University’s Polytechnic signed a cooperation roadmap for 2017-2022 on the premiss of the Group’s Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant, the Group’s press service reports. It is reported the company and the college will work together on science-intensive projects, improvement of existing technologies, student interaction, internships at the Group’s assets, job counseling for high school students, and professional development for the company’s highly skilled metallurgists. ‘ChTPZ Group has been cooperating with South Ural State

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 28, 2017. The mining team at EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Mine has produced 4,000,000,000 kg of coal since the start of the year and was thus one of the first to set this production record in Kuzbass in the first seven months of the year, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Relations Center reports. Raspadskaya Coal Company’s management congratulated the miners on their success. ‘Raspadskaya Mine keeps increasing its coal production output every year, which means this company remains the coke-coal production leader in Kemerovo Region. We owe these record output figures

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 28, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is to host the local round of a production experience-sharing workshop for metallurgical industry workers on July 27, MMK Information & PR Administration reports. This is the second and final round of the workshop; the first one was held at EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works on July 24-25. Over twenty managers and employees from the Energy Departments of Severstal, Novolipetsk Integrated Metallurgical Works, Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works, Tulachermet, and NLMK Kaluga will

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 27, 2017. The second launching unit of Yekaterinburg Orbital Motorway’s southern half will get launched on August 25, 2017, Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department refers to Deputy Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Sergey Shvindt as saying. Shvindt says all the building jobs planned for this year have been completed. This cost 256m RUR to do, including 204.8m RUR allocated from the national budget; the rest was supplied from the constituency’s budget. He also made a report to Governor Evgeny Kuivashev on how the building and repairs of other roads in Sverdlovsk

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 27, 2017. Sinara Group’s Sinara Development, the general contractor for the reconstruction of Yekaterinburg Stadium in time for the World Cup 2018, fully completed the construction of the stadium roof, the company press service reports. The new roof rests on eight pylons 45.5 meters high. The structure’s total area comes to nearly 28,000 m2. The metal frame is covered with steel sheets and an elastic membrane coating made of enhanced-durability, light-absorbing polymeric tent material. This combination of roofing materials will protect visitors to the stadium both

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 27, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) came first in the national rating of zinc-coated and paint-coated rolled goods manufacturers. The rating of Russia’s best ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgical businesses for the first half of the year was carried in the latest issue of Metallosnabzheniye I Sbyt magazine. According to MMK’s Information & PR Administration, the plant was No.1 on this rating last year as well. ‘This company remains the leading coated rolled goods producer thanks to MMK’s ongoing efforts to increase the share of high value-added

UrBC, Moscow, July 27, 2017. People living in Ural Federal Districts only make 89.5% of their payments online, whereas in the country on the whole, the share of online payments comes to 91.5% of the entire transaction volume, Yandex.Dengi reports. Russians based in North-Western, Central, and Southern Federal Districts make more online payments than others (92%, 91.8%, and 91.8% of their entire payments, respectively).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 27, 2017. Yekaterinburg-based customers spent 7,400 RUR on average when puirhcainsg a plane ticket online in the first half of the year; according to Yandex.Dengi, this is 23% less than one year previously. All in all, the number of online payments Yekaterinburg residents make rose by 52% against one year earlier, and the overall turnover rose by as much as 77%. Apart from paying for plane tickets, locals tend to make their loan repayments online (2,700 RUR on average) and TV subscriptions (1,800 RUR). Additionally, increasingly more payments are made to the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 26, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s customers prefer to save for long-term goals; the bank came up with the top ten titles their online banking customers use for their deposits, their press service reports. According to the UBRD’s Online Sales Director Denis Tur, you can give a personalized title to your deposit using a mobile banking app, which makes managing personal finances easier. ‘There are many ways to make savings, but the general rule of thumb is that you need a specific goal. This gives you the motivation to save up rather than