UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 25, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) was featured in WWF Russia’s and National Rating Agency’s rating of the country’s top ten environmentally responsible companies for 2019, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘WWF Russia has been carrying its environmental ratings on a yearly basis since 2017 in order to help reduce environmental impact and promote responsible business practices in Russia. The rating is based on the assessment of the following three criteria: environmental management, environmental impact, and a company’s openness to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 25, 2019. You can now book tickets for Ural Airlines’ Moscow-Larnaca-Moscow flights at a discount, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘You can use our special offer now: prices for Moscow-Larnaca-Moscow and Larnaca-Moscow-Larnaca flights start from RUB 8,000/€115 (there and back, all fees included, prices subject to change depending on the exchange rate),’ the press service says. The price offer only applies to round trip bookings. The sale opens on December 24, 2019 on a first come, first served basis. The flights will get operated on January 8-March 28,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 25, 2019. ChelPipe Group supplied more than 9,000,000 kg of large-diameter pipes (LDPs), 121 pipe bends, and 20 pipeline stamp-welded pipeline parts for the construction of Baltic Connector Pipeline in Estonia, the Group’s press service reports. ‘By order of the customer - a consortium comprising the Estonian companies EG Ehitus and Scanweld, the Group’s member enterprises Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant, ETERNO, and Pipeline Connecting Bends (SOT) produced a series of LDPs (diameter: 711 mm; steel grade: L415ME, with a three-layer outer coating), hot-bent bends

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 24, 2019. NEYVA Bank came up with the next year’s cashback calendar based on the customers’ most popular spending categories. According to the bank’s press service, there’s an increased cashback bonus on a certain product/service category for every month of 2020. ‘We kept analyzing the most popular product/service categories our customers spent on using the bank’s cards throughout 2019, and produced the most advantageous cashback calendar for 2020 there is: January is the entertainment month, so there’s an increased cashback bonus on money spent at water parks,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 24, 2019. The per capita loan debt to annual pay ratio came to 61.3% in Sverdlovsk Region in 2019; one Sverdlovsk Region resident owes banks RUB 255,200 on average at the moment, RIA Novosti says. Given these figures, Sverdlovsk Region came No. 66 in the rating of Russian federal constituencies in terms of household debt, following Chelyabinsk Region (51.7%, No. 29) and Omsk Region (54.6%, No. 41). The per capita debt figures changed by 36.8% in the course of one year. Now the country’s average household debt rose from 44.9% to 47.1% in 2019. Russians living in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 24, 2019. OOO FORES acted as one of the sponsors for the World Dance Council (WDC) World Championship in ten dance categories for professional dancers. The competition took place at Yekaterinburg EXPO’s new concert hall in Yekaterinburg for the first time on December 21, 2019, the company’s press service says. Additionally, the first tournament of the Euro Asian Dance Council (EADC) was held at the same time. Around a hundred pairs of contestants from nearly twenty different countries situated on three continents competed in the event. The preliminary rounds took

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 24, 2019. G.I. Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University (MSTU), which is the primary source of engineering workers for Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), and the National University of Science and Technology MISiS are going to design a metallurgical training program together, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘In 2019, Russia’s Higher Education & Science Ministry suggested coordinating a contest involving Russian colleges outside of Moscow and Saint Petersburg to design advanced higher education programs together with the Russian

UrBC, Moscow, December 24, 2019. MegaFon and the world’s largest travel platform Booking.com signed an agreement to introduce free roaming services in 130 different countries for their customers. Users with a green SIM card can make calls, send texts, and use the Internet connection free of charge when traveling, the telecom company’s press service reports. MegaFon’s customers can access the service through a special landing page at booking.com. To use the service, all you have to do is book and pay for your hotel stay providing the phone number that you will be using during your trip. ‘Every

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 23, 2019. Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Vysokinsky commented on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent statement regarding the need for Yekaterinburg Metro to keep expanding. ‘The town council confirmed its total commitment to the project. We keep working on project design and a presentation to secure co-funding from the higher-level authorities, since Sverdlovsk Region’s budget and Yekaterinburg’s budget alone won’t be able to foot the bill on their own. Most of the locals feel positive about the prospect and believe Yekaterinburg Metro is vital for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 23, 2019. Starting December 23, 2019, NEYVA Bank will be offering its business customers and sole traders new terms on savings deposits. According to the bank’s press service, the changes apply to the interest paid on the bank’s ruble deposit Treasurer. Additionally, the bank is looking to attract more funds by issuing its own promissory notes. ‘Our 24/7 customer support service (+7-800–7000–213, toll-free for calls made inside Russia) are always ready to answer any questions you may have. NEYVA Bank stands for people reaching out to people,’ the bank says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 23, 2019. SKB-Bank’s business-oriented DeloBank came third in the rating of Best Online Banks for Businesses in Tertiary Sector within Business Internet Banking Rank carried by Markswebb on an annual basis, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Markswebb experts looked into the activity, services, fees, and marketing offers of fifteen Russian online banks and evaluated these against more than 500 criteria. They assessed the range of options available to customers, efficiency, and convenience and ease for three customer categories: a self-employed, stand-alone

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 23, 2019. OOO FORES’s Asbest branch is reconstructing a section of the local railways, Head of Propping Agents Thermal Treatment Department at OOO FORES Vyacheslav Vorotov told Asbestovsky Rabochiy. ‘Our propping agents get sent to customers in Russia as well as in the CIS member states. At the moment, one such market is Kazakhstan, whereas in 2010 we delivered to a much wider range of countries, including, for example, Canada. As our outputs went up, changes were needed in the working hours. Head of the Railway Section used to work a five-day week, with days

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 23, 2019. Ural Airlines came up with a special offer for those planning to fly in groups of four people or more, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘If you purchase Economy tickets for four to nine people, you get 20% off with the promo code GROUP. The code is entered on the first page of the booking process or at the time of the purchase,’ the air carrier says. The offer applies to both domestic and international flights. For all the flights available, please visit the company website www.uralairlines.com. The offer holds through January 15, 2020 for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 20, 2019. EVRAZ Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (EVRAZ KGOK) managed to increase the productivity of its dumper trucks thanks to the mining and conveyor equipment going digital. According to EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center, this is a joint project with Zyfra Group’s member company VIST Group. The digital system integrates the geological parameters and a box model of the ore deposit with the mining and conveyor equipment’s performance mode, which results in new ways of controlling the quality of ore. All the people involved

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 20, 2019. OOO FORES presented Asbest Young Naturalists’ Station with spectrophotometer Unico KFK-3KM; the equipment can be used for both scientific research and studying the modern lab analysis methods, the company’s press service reports. ‘We focus very closely on our produce quality and fit our labs with the most up-to-date and highest-precision equipment. The spectrophotometer served at one of our member enterprises for several years, now is the time to get a replacement. However, the thing is still quite suitable for doing research that requires a slightly

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 20, 2019. The housing developer RSG-Akademicheskoye is coordinating a tender procedure to find a contractor to design the administration office for District Akademicheskiy and offices for KORTROS Group and Akademicheskiy Property Management Company. The winning applicant will be able to land a contract to produce the reference design, project documentation, and specification papers for the administration office for District Akademicheskiy, an office for KORTROS Group, and an office for Akademicheskiy Property Management Company. The opening bid has been set at

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 20, 2019. You can now get tickets for Ural Airlines’ new Yekaterinburg-Almaty-Yekaterinburg flight at a reduced price: these start from RUB 6, 816 (one way) and RUB 10, 224 (there and back), the air carrier’s press service reports. Discounted tickets are on offer through January 15, 2020; the offer applies to flights that will be operated between December 27, 2019 and March 28, 2020. ‘This mid-winter, Kazakhstan welcomes all sports lovers to the country’s mountain ski resorts and has delicious national cuisine, breathtaking landscapes, the purest air there is,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 20, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) launched a new automatic steel cylinder stamping unit, the Group’s press service reports. ‘The unit can stamp up to 600 small-size steel cylinders a day. The unit stamps the serial number, manufacture date, the date of the next necessary tech exam, the working and testing pressure parameters, thermal treatment info, and capacity and mass parameters onto the cylinders automatically. What is more, the data for each cylinder get stored in an e-archive as well,’ the press service says. ChelPipe Group has

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 19, 2019. The housing developer Brusnika commissioned the third building in Sukhodolsky Quarter in Yekaterinburg ahead of schedule. The commissioning was originally shifted from the last quarter of 2020 to the first quarter of 2020, but the developer managed to complete everything in December 2019 and is ready to welcome the new home owners as soon as this week. ‘Our customers can move in one year earlier; under the terms of the contract, the keys must be handed over to the owners within ninety days of the commissioning certificate,’ Brusnika’s press service

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 19, 2019. Ural Airlines recently introduced a new Yekaterinburg-Xi’an-Phuket flight, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘The solemn opening ceremony took place on Monday. Transit passengers on this first Xi’an-Phuket flight received special souvenirs from Xianyang International Airport,’ the press service says. Yekaterinburg-Xi’an-Phuket flights get operated on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays on Airbus A320neo liners. You can book your flight on the company website www.uralairlines.com, on Ural Airlines App, over the phone +7-800-7700-262, and