UrBC, Magnitogorsk, January 29, 2020. 1,168,400,000 kg of hot-rolled metal goods came from heavy-plate Mill 5000 at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) last year; this has been the best year’s output figure so far, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘The last time an output record was broken was back in 2010, when the mill produced 1,160,500,000 kg of rolled goods. MMK’s heavy-plate Mill 5000 got launched in 2009, with President Vladimir Putin attending the opening ceremony and commenting very appreciatively on one of MMK’s largest post-Soviet era investment projects. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 29, 2020. OOO FORES’s Asbest branch installed a new, 100-meter-long fence next to Yablonka Gardeners’ Cooperative. The fence is made from special noise-insulating panels and thus ensures the necessary sound damping. The fence is 104 meters long and 4 meters high. The company spent RUB 3.4m to get the fence designed, purchase the building materials, and have the structure assembled, FORES’s press service informed UrBC. ‘We had the noise levels tested last year, when the plant was fully idle at one time. It turned out this noise level was only 5 dB lower than usual.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 29, 2020. Head of the Russian Tourist Industry Union’s Ural division and Director at Ural Tourism Association Mikhail Maltsev said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg that no packaged trips to China were sold to Russian tourists at the moment. ‘Rostourism issued a recommendation last Friday, suggesting all the market players put their sales of trips to China on hold. In practical terms, this means travel agents wishing to stay on the market and to play it legal will have to stop selling packaged tours to China. As a matter of fact, all the business followed the

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, January 28, 2020. The amount of gondola car-packed cargo handled by First Freight Company at South Ural Railways rose by 62% in 2019 against one year earlier and reached 1,200,000,000 kg, the company’s press service reports. ‘The increase in our cargo turnover mostly had to do with macadam shipments. These came from First Freight Company’s Chelyabinsk branch’s key partners: Cartel Promsnab, Energo-Alyans, and OM-TEK. We also resumed working with SeverSnabKomplekt’s macadam quarry and worked more closely with ChZMK and the refractory goods manufacturer Magnezit. Quality

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 28, 2020. Sverdlovsk Region’s residents’ financial literacy level comes to 45.9% (compared with the country’s average of 38%), Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. Within Sverdlovsk Region, respondents scored the highest in Yekaterinburg, Pervouralsk, and Nizhniy Tagil. Now Sverdlovsk Region’s residents’ financial literacy level in 2019 got assessed by a local center by order of Sverdlovsk Region’s Finance Ministry. 5,000+ people from eight cities and towns (Berezovsky, Bogdanovitch, Irbit, Kamensk-Uralsky, Nizhniy Tagil, Pervouralsk,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 28, 2020. SKB-Bank’s new branch at Skolkovo Innovation Center in Moscow opened at the end of January. This is one of the first bank branches to start operating on the center’s campus. According to the bank’s press services, SKB-Bank’s branch can be found at TMK and Sinara Group’s Science/Tech Center at 5 Bolshoy Boulevard, Skolkovo Innovation Center, Moscow. This is a new-format branch that is both spacious and airy and has comfortable spaces for both private customers and businesses. ‘SKB-Bank is a truly innovative bank that contributes to the Central Bank’s

UrBC, Nizhniy Tagil, January 28, 2020. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) supplied over 1,800,000 kg of H-beams to Angara Space Center launch site in the Far East; the shipment got processed by the trading company EVRAZ Metall Inprom. The first shipments of the produce began in the second half of 2019; these are expected to continue throughout 2022, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. The low-alloy H-beams (cross-section: 200 mm to 700 mm) are used for making metal frameworks and primary and ancillary structures on the launch

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 28, 2020. Bankers at the Urals-based NEYVA Bank believe Russia’s Federal Tax Service should follow the legal procedure, based on the enforcement proceedings code, when collecting payments such as fines and taxes from private individuals, and shouldn’t cut corners trying to contact the banks directly. It transpired earlier this week that the Federal Tax Service started fining Russian banks for their refusal to process payments involving the private (rather than the business) bank accounts of self-employed customers in case the latter fail to make their payments

UrBC, Moscow, January 27, 2020. Egypt might soon assign a special gate and check-in desks for Russian tourists flying from Sharm El Sheikh; this is already the case in Cairo International Airport, where the exclusive gate has been around for two years now, RIA Novosti refers to its own source as stating. Now Russian air travel security experts completed their scheduled checks of Sharm El Sheikh Airport and Hurghada Airport on Thursday. ‘The experts were shown separate, fenced-in gates that are expected to get assigned exclusively for passengers arriving from Russia, as well as separate

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 27, 2020. Ural Airlines’ website currently features a promo code that gives you a 15% discount on Moscow-Blagoveshchensk and Blagoveshchensk-Moscow flights. The discount applies both to one-way and round trips, the air carrier’s press service reports. To activate the discount, enter the unique promo code 2020BQS when booking on the company website uralairlines.ru. The code is valid on January 24-February 10, 2020; the flights will get operated on January 24-February 29, 2020. Flight U6 349/250 (Moscow-Blagoveshchensk-Moscow) is a non-stop flight operated on new

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 27, 2020. EVRAZ directed RUB 500,000 to repairs and upgrades at Chemistry Lab in Nizhniy Tagil’s Mining & Metallurgical School, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. The funds donated by EVRAZ were used to purchase a media projector, an interactive whiteboard, a laptop, a digital microscope, a set of digital chemistry labs, sets of models of chemical equipment, reagents and consumable materials, crystallizing pans, learning aids, individual protective gear, and furniture for the teacher and students. ‘The students can now carry out

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 27, 2020. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Raspadskaya Processing Plant processed 12,000,000,000 kg of rough coal, thus setting the national record for the year 2019. ‘This is the first time in the enterprise’s entire history these output figures have been reached. The plant got launched in 2005 and has been investing in equipment upgrades and maximum production automation in the last few years,’ the company’s press service says. In 2019, three new pressure-tank filters got installed at the plant, which improved the quality of coal produce and reduced

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 27, 2020. ChelPipe Group has been working on a large-scale communication campaign on job and industrial safety at its pipe-manufacturing divisions for the last two years, the Group’s press service reports. ‘First, posters and calendars that were stylized as 8-bit computer game graphics, with a slogan that read, ‘There’s only one life you have in life’ were placed in the Group’s production departments and offices; additionally, a video safety manual was created for employees and visitors to the site, with dozens of thousands of views on the web,’ the press service

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 24, 2020. The number of paid parking slots in Yekaterinburg is expected to double by the end of 2020, Senior Expert at Yekaterinburg Council’s Transport & Urban Transit Committee’s Legal Department Alexander Vegner told reporters today. According to Vegner, there are 2,600+ paid parking slots in Yekaterinburg at the moment. 12,000 slots are expected to appear by 2025 and as many as 30,000 slots by 2030. ‘The introduction of paid parking space is mostly meant to improve the traffic situation. We expect some changes to come through in federal laws soon which

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 24, 2020. Sverdlovsk Region’s agribusinesses produced less of every type of animal produce last year compared with one year previously, Sverdlovskstat reports. Milk output dropped by 5.4% (from 119,300,000 kg down to 113,200,000 kg), egg output dropped by 3.5% (from 44.1m units down to 42.6m units), and meat and poultry output dropped by 7% (from 42,900,000 kg down to 40,100,000 kg). As for the output of all the agribusinesses in the Middle Urals combined (including agricultural organizations, private households, and farms), that of milk rose from 739,600,000 kg

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, January 24, 2020. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) cold-roll Mill 2000 made 1,703,800,000 kg of cold-rolled steel sheets last year, which was the absolute annual output record since the launch date, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘The last time a new output record was set was in 2014, when 1,669,600,000 kg of cold-rolled goods got manufactured at the mill. Mill 2000, launched in 2011, is the key component of the hi tech cold-roll facility at MMK’s Sheet-Rolling Department 11. The unit’s primary function is to produce good quality cold-rolled and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 24, 2020. OOO FORES’s Sukhoi Log branch coordinated a guided tour of its production site for schoolchildren from the town’s Gymnasium 1. The twelve- and thirteen-year-olds could take a look at how propping agents are made, the company’s press service reports. ‘The tour started off with a job safety video. Following this video induction, the children put on special protective gear (helmets, earplugs, and breathing masks) and went to look at the dry- and wet-grinding sites and the Quality Control Department. A set of tubs with propping agents of various sizes was

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 24, 2020. The housing developer RSG-Akademicheskoye is coordinating a tender to find a contractor for a set of high-rise apartment buildings in Quarter 9, the company’s press service reports. The winning bidder will be able to sign a contract for the construction of both the above-the-ground and the underground sections of high-rise Buildings 9.6.1 and 9.6.2 and underground Parking Lot 9.6.01 in Block 9.6, Quarter 9 of District Akademicheskiy in Yekaterinburg; the contractor will be in charge of supplying the materials and the equipment for the project and will

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 23, 2020. Ural Airlines put the tickets for the airline’s international and domestic flights on sale on January 21-23, 2020; the special-price offers apply to the flights that will be operated between January 21 and May 31, 2020, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘For one, prices for Moscow-Krasnodar and Moscow-Anapa flights start from RUB 4,000 (there and back), those for Zhukovsky-Rome ones start from RUB 6,670, those for Moscow-Salzburg ones start from RUB 7,500, those for Yekaterinburg-Munich start from RUB 13,500, those for Krasnodar-Larnaca ones start

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, January 23, 2020. Continuous Hot Dip Galvanizing Line 3 at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) produced 334,600,000 kg of zinc-coated rolled metal goods last year, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘A year earlier, 278,900,000 kg of zinc-coated rolled metal goods were produced on the line. This means the line has nearly reached its projected capacity of 360,000,000 kg of goods a year. The line is located on the site of Sheet-Rolling Department 11 and is meant for making zinc-coated goods: the cold-rolled, thin-sheeted metal goods made from low-carbon