UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 23, 2020. Ural Airlines added yet another Airbus A321neo to the company’s fleet of vehicles; the aircraft arrived from Hamburg a few hours ago, the air carrier’s press service reports. The aircraft’s side number is VP-BOQ; the liner has 236 Economy seats on board. ‘This is Ural Airlines’ fifth aircraft from the Airbus A320 family that I got to pilot. The new-generation planes are fitted with LEAP-1A engines and Sharklets that help reduce noise level, fuel spending, and harmful air emissions. These aircraft varieties will be used to increase the number of nonstop

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 23, 2020. OOO FORES coordinated a company contest for the HR departments of its various branches, the company’s press service reports. The first prize went to the employees of the company’s Asbest branch. They received a souvenir: ’a special bag of propping agents’ made from serpentinite. ‘We looked into the company branches’ performance in 2019, taking into account the proactive hiring policy for the blue-collar workers based in Sverdlovsk Region’s more remote locations, coordination of OOO FORES job fairs, and the number of workers the HR departments took on (as

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 23, 2020. EVRAZ Holding’s Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (EVRAZ KGOK) launched new Loco NP-1 in combination with two motor dump-cars made at Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. Two similar locos will arrive at the plant before the end of the year as well. ‘Locos NP-1 proved very efficient at deep mines with complicated reliefs. The locos were custom-designed for EVRAZ KGOK and have hauling power of up to 2,000,000 kg at the speed of up to 65 km/hour. The locos have four

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 21, 2020. SKB-Bank announced that its Perm branch would reopen at the same address this week. ‘Dear SKB-Bank customers, SKB-Bank’s Izhevsky Subsidiary’s Perm branch reopens at the same address: 30 Gazety Zvezda St Perm Perm Territory Russia,’ the bank’s press service informs its customers. There’s a 24/7 hotline +7-800-1000-600 (toll-free for calls inside Russia) available as well.

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, January 21, 2020. ChelPipe Group manufactured and supplied a new type of ETERNO INGENIUM hi tech produce for Mechel Group’s Chelyabinsk Integrated Metallurgical Plant’s oxygen converter shop. According to the company’s press service, the set of equipment supplied to customer (total weight: 600,000+ kg) comprises gas ducts (diameter: more than 3 meters; length: up to 15 meters) and steel-ladling scoops (capacity: 156,000 kg) that were made at ChelPipe Group’s stamp-welded pipeline component manufacturer ETERNO. ‘This is the first time ETERNO has made the metal frameworks for

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, January 21, 2020. The Open All-Russian Youth Biathletes Competition A. Bogali-SKIMiR Cup took place at Abzakovo Biathlon Ski Resort Center this week; the event was supported by Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK). The championship gathered together young men and women born in 2003-2010 (some five hundred young biathletes from twenty-one parts of Russia ranging from Murmansk to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk). The sports players competed in four age groups and three categories: individual race, sprint, and Supermixt relay race. The biathletes from Metallurg-Magnitogorsk Sports

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 21, 2020. OOO FORES’s Sukhoi Log branch upgraded six workstations for electric/gas welders at the plant’s Repair Department last year, the company’s press service reports. The company invested about RUB 2.5m in the workplace improvements. The plant purchased new chairs and protection screens to create workstation partitions. Up-to-date elevating-and-traversing exhaust units were installed inside. ‘Sverdlovsk Region division of the federal consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor recommended upgrading the plant’s only (as it then was) electric/gas welder’s

UrBC, Moscow, January 21, 2020. MegaFon is launching its first FVNO (Fixed Virtual Network Operator) project involving local ISPs. The broadband Internet access FVNO model is meant to complement the telecom company’s existing infrastructure, MegaFon’s press service reports. The business model includes MegaFon paying its partner operator for every connection on a monthly basis, which means the local ISPs will be able to monetize their existing but underused port capacity 30% to 50% more efficiently. MegaFon will take care of the advertising, payment processing, customer service (both through

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 21, 2020. Sverdlovsk Region’s first reverse engineering workshop opened at ChelPipe Group’s Training Center this month, the company’s press service reports. The workshop meets all the WorldSkills standards and got set up within the framework of the public-private partnership involving ChelPipe Group, Sverdlovsk Region Government, and Pervouralsk Metallurgical School; the project is part of the National Education Project and the nationwide Young Professionals Project. ‘The investments into the workshop amounted to more than RUB 4m. The appliances the place is

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 21, 2020. Ural Airlines introduced a new Yekaterinburg-Munich flight for the spring/summer season, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Every Saturday, passengers departing from Yekaterinburg can now get to Bavaria’s glorious capital on our brand new Airbus A320neo liners. Departure (Yekaterinburg): 10: 35 AM Arrival (Munich): 12:45 PM The flight is five hours and ten minutes long,’ the press service says. Prices start from RUB 10,570 (one way) and RUB 23,740 (there and back). ‘Bavaria strikes visitors with its beauty and entertainment opportunities in every

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 21, 2020. Young people from a Greco-Roman wrestling school in Kamensk-Uralsky (supported financially by OOO FORES’s local branch) won gold and bronze at a championship held in Chelyabinsk Region this month, FORES’s press service reports. The championship for young men born in 2005-2006 took place in Krasnogorsky, Chelyabinsk Region, on Saturday, January 18. ‘Over two hundred young wrestlers competed in the event. They came from Sverdlovsk Region, Chelyabinsk Region, Kurgan Region, Orenburg Region, and Kazakhstan. Dmitri Kolokolnikov from Kamensk-Uralsky’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 21, 2020. EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) introduced five new buses to ensure the metallurgical workers’ transit to and from work, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. Managing Director at EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) and EVRAZ Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Plant (EVRAZ KGOK) Alexei Kushnarev presented the bus keys to the drivers. Additionally, the canteen at the plant’s oxygen converter shop reopened after remodeling. ‘The plant keeps working to fully switch to

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, January 21, 2020. MMK Group completed three gas-filtering equipment retooling projects at its member enterprise LLC Ogneupor, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The projects are part of a cooperation agreement Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) signed with Russia’s Ministry for Natural Resources & the Environment, the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Natural Resource Use, and Chelyabinsk Region Government in July 2019. ‘The gas-filtering facilities that are part of the technological line for Class B chamotte stuffs at Chamotte Ware

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 20, 2020. A new terminal might open at Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo International Airport, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. According to Governor Kuivashev, the airport needs reconstructing: the place was only big enough to service a million passengers a year back in 2010 and grew large enough to fit 8 million fliers by 2019; in 2030, the annual passenger traffic might reach as many as 16 million people. The Governor said the reconstruction would be handled by the airport owner, Airpots of Regions Group. ‘The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 20, 2020. Ural Airlines introduced new price options on the connecting flights from Krasnoyarsk via Yekaterinburg, the air carrier’s press service reports. The airline now operates flights from Krasnoyarsk via Yekaterinburg to Moscow, Krasnodar, Saint Petersburg, Sochi, Mineralnye Vody, and Simferopol, with prices starting from RUB 7,000 (all fees included). Special price offers also apply to flights from Krasnoyarsk to Prague, Beijing, Dubai, Osh, Yerevan, Dushanbe, Khujand, Tashkent, Bishkek, Munich, Almaty, and Namangan, with prices starting from RUB 14,000

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, January 20, 2020. G.I. Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University coordinated a press tour for the local media reporters on Russian Press Day. According to Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Information & PR Department, MSTU representatives talked about their research and the university’s collaboration with MMK. ‘The reporters went to ThermoDeform-MSTU Engineering Center. The center mainly works to develop advanced technologies that will get launched at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works in the near future,’ the company says. The reporters could take a look

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 20, 2020. The Urals-based Snag Racing Team (supported by OOO FORES and headed by racer Sergei Kariakin) came second in SSV at 2020 Dakar Rally. According to FORES’s press service, this is the first time a Russian has won silver in the race. ‘The competition was held in Saudi Arabia for twelve days. The final round of the race with a special-purpose, 167-kilometer-long section to drive through, took place on Friday, January 17. Sergei Kariakin’s team finished 39 minutes and 12 seconds later than the gold winner, the U.S. national Casey Currie,’ the company says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 20, 2020. EVRAZ member enterprises Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant and Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise awarded their last year’s best-performing young workers, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. Around a hundred people received company awards, thank-you letters that will become part of their work dossier, and money premiums. ‘Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant has been holding Best Young Workers’ Team Contest for over a decade now. This time, the prizes went to the teams from Metallurgical

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 17, 2020. Sverdlovsk Region division of the National Guard of the Russian Federation (Rosgvardiya) came up with a performance report for supervision of private detective and security companies in 2019. According to the division’s press secretary Olga Belskaya, 734 private security companies operate in Sverdlovsk Region at the moment, with 22,415 licensed security staff members/bodyguards. 60,601 buildings/facilities get monitored by these businesses all in all. Additionally, there are 23 private detectives operating in Sverdlovsk Region. Last year, Rosgvardiya

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 17, 2020. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to start granting new mothers a ‘maternity fund’ for their firstborn could result in the surging supply of small apartments on the housing market, Head of Analytical Department at Ural Real Estate Chamber Mikhail Khorkov states on his Yandex.Zen blog REBURG. ‘The thing is, these payments have only a very limited, if any, effect on the birthrate. The housing market will prove the primary beneficiary of the decision. 86% of families who have already invested their maternity funds did so by directing their money