UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 18, 2016. Passengers had to evacuate from Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport due to smoke, the airport’s official representative Dmitri Tyukhtin informed UrBC. According to Tyukhtin, passengers (some 100 people altogether) had to transfer from the boarding area back to the airport lounge. ‘Smoke was detected in the switchboard room at the airport domestic flights baggage claim area. All the electric appliances were switched off at once, but some smoke escaped to the domestic flights terminal boarding areas, so passengers had to leave to facilitate airing.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 17, 2016. Ural Airlines are offering reduced-price tickets for their Yekaterinburg-Saint Petersburg flights this winter, the air carrier’s press service reports. Starting November 16, 2016, special prices (from 3,500 RUR for a one-way ticket, all fees included) apply. ‘Saint Petersburg is one Russia’s best-looking cities in winter, and holiday season is also the time for one thousand and one urban adventures at prices much lower than those you face in the summer. You can walk along Nevsky Avenue, where all the major landmarks are right there for you, take a peek

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 17, 2016. Sinara Development came up with a special price offer on apartments in four new buildings in Yekaterinburg in time for the holiday season, the company press service reports. ‘You can get a 350,000-ruble discount on your new home in Svoi Krug, Peremena, Krylov, and Solnechny condos if you buy before New Year. In addition to this discount, you can also go for an interest-free payout plan for as long as the construction is still in progress. What is more, a free parking slot comes with some of the apartments on offer,’ the press service says. Sinara

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 17, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Metallurgical Works (NTMK) recently purchased a new transportable repair depot mounted on GAZ 66 van to ensure timely repair jobs for its oxygen converter shop, the holding’s press service reports. The repair station can be used to transport special-purpose equipment and a team of mechanics (up to six people all in all) and to carry out repairs proper. This is a heated, insulated van with all the lighting fixtures, which makes the repairing process in winter or at night much easier. The van is also fitted with special

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 17, 2016. Inclusive training experts coordinated eight workshops for the visually impaired in the Urals over the last three months. Some 250 people attended the workshops to learn how to deal with everyday issues; they also came up with ideas for seven more inclusive training projects that will be implemented next year. Such were the first outcomes of a special program put forth by the telecommunications provider MegaFon and Belaya Trost (‘White Cane’), a charity foundation for the visually impaired. According to MegaFon’s press service, the workshop comprised

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 17, 2016. The international Russia Arms Expo Forum - an annual event coordinated by Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation - won the first prize as Business Project in the 4th All-Russian Event Tourism Contest. According to the company press service, the contest was part of the 5th All-Russian Russian Open Event Expo and Tourism Week at Yugra Expo in Khanty-Mansiysk. The exhibition and fair were organized by Yugra Government, with Russia’s Culture Ministry’s support. Russian Open Event Expo is held on a yearly basis to present the national travel opportunities for both

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 16, 2016. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) took part in the 22nd International Metal Expo 2016 Exhibition at the All-Russian Exhibition Center in Moscow on November 8-11, the company press service reports. The company stand featured banners with photographs of TMK member enterprises, while conference rooms were industrially themed with the help of works by a Ural artist Ekaterina Poedenschikova. Visitors to the stand could take a look at actual samples of TMK’s pipe produce and learn more about the company’s piping solutions on two touch panels (which featured,

UrBC, Moscow, November 16, 2016. Ural Airlines started operating scheduled international flights from Zhukovsky International Airport and now flies passengers from there to Osh, the air carrier’s press service reports. Flight U6 2447 with 150 passengers on board departed for Kyrgyzstan’s second most important city strictly on schedule. Ural Airlines’ official representatives, Kyrgyzstan’s Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary to Russia, the airport’s management, and director of Manas International Airport Osh division all saw the company Airbus 320 off at Zhukovsky Airport.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 16, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) and HvalaCloud are currently launching free wireless Internet access at Yekaterinburg’s public places and on public transport, the bank’s press service reports. Several trams started the project off in early November: free Wi Fi is now available in ten trams on Routes 5,6,13,14,15,18,19,23,25, and 26. To get connected to the Internet, you only need to sign up for the service once using your phone number. Once this is done, your Internet connection will come on automatically at all the other trams

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 16, 2016. Sinara Transport Machines are now making TGM8KM locomotives at their Lyudinovsky Loco Plant (LTZ) to deliver these to Cuba under the terms of the contract the company signed with Cuban Railways, the company press service reports. The production took off with Cuban Ambassador to Russia Emilio Losada Garcia, Cuba’s Deputy Transport Minister Eduardo Dávila, and Sinara Transport Machines’ Director-General Evgeny Gritzenko’s help. Under the terms of the contract, the plant is to supply 60 TGM8KM locos to Cuba in 2017-2021. These are new-generation locos

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 16, 2016. The Strongest Kid Multiathlon Championship is by now compete in Chelyabinsk: this is a project coordinated by Russian Copper Company and Uralstrong Chelyabinsk Federation, the company press service reports. Hundreds of local boys and girls from twenty different schools took part in the competition; the semi-final round of the championship’s Kurchatovsky District round was held in UralStrong Center on November 12, with the best-performing kids from local schools getting to compete with one another. ‘The semi-finals were even more complicated than the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, November 15, 2016. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) came 4th in the All-Russian Labor Productivity & Russia’s Industrial Leaders 2016 Prize Top80 rating for metallurgical enterprises. This is currently the best result among all of the country’s large-size integrated metallurgical plants. MMK also came 41st in the rating of Russia’s Industrial Leaders 2016 Top100 rating, with labor productivity at 15.63m RUR per worker a year in 2015, the company’s press service reports. This productivity figures exceeded those for a year earlier by 18%.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 15, 2016. Rosatom’s SverdNIIkhimmash recently landed a contract for the supply of four reduction gear units to Kazakhstan-based Ulbinsky Metallurgical Plant in Ust-Kamenogorsk. The units will come to replace the obsolete appliances at N 300B centrifugal units that SverdNIIkhimmash delivered to the plant more than three decades earlier. The reduction gear units are to arrive at the plant in December 2016; this was a 3.7m RUR deal. In fact, SverdNIIkhimmash has supplied quite a few centrifuges to plants in the former USSR and today’s Russia since 1983. ‘This is a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 15, 2016. Ural Airlines are offering more bonus points to its Wings Club members, the air carrier’s press service reports. Starting from November 10, 2016, loyalty cardholders in the airline’s Promo Group will get 5% of their flight fare transferred to their Wings Club account, passengers traveling Economy or Premium Economy will get a 10% bonus, and those traveling Business Light and Business will get a 15% bonus. The bonus points can be used to fully or partially cover your next ticket’s cost and get a personal price discount at once. Ural Airlines also made

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 15, 2016. Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems completed the overhaul given to its 500 kilowatt Kropachevo-Privalovskaya main which supplies electric power to end users in Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk Region. The overhaul involved the section of the main that crosses Moscow-Chelyabinsk Railways near Satka, Chelyabinsk Region, the company press service reports. Two new anchor pylons were installed to improve the mains’ workload capacity at the railway section, and a new ground wire and insulators came to replace their older, damaged counterparts. The renovations

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 15, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court declared the former owner of ZAO Uralfransavto Alexander Ivansky bankrupt; the debtor will now have to undergo bankruptcy proceedings, the court report states. The case against Ivansky was instituted by AO UniCrediBank last November; the plaintiff’s claims amounted to 290.7m RUR. A number of other creditors, including Bank Soyuz, Sberbank, Uralsib, Credit Europa Bank, and Reserve joined the case as plaintiffs in the months to follow; the exact amount of their claims hasn’t been stated by the court as of yet.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 15, 2016. The final round of the company Talent Show was held at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s I.V. Okunev Palace of Culture in Nizhniy Tagil. The grand-prix went to Olga Zyankina from the railcar truck department. ‘Both the audience and the judges’ panel were absolutely enchanted by Olga’s strong and vibrant voice,’ the company press service says. The selective rounds of the show began in September, with sixty gifted employees taking part. The contestants presented their musical, theater, and martial arts performances to the judges, and twenty-two

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 14, 2016. Ural Airlines are now offering discounts on tickets for their Cyprus and Kaliningrad flights, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Ural Airlines are offering you a chance to have a great weekend at the best price. Winter is no time to lock oneself at home: you can always go to Cyprus for a new adventure, the 3d Cyprus Jazz Festival in Limassol on November 18, the wine-tasting season that opens at local wineries on November 19, and so on. Alternatively, you can shop for new pieces for your amber collection or listen to an organ concert in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 14, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon is going to connect over five hundred Internet users and celebrities in eight different cities as they engage in online public readings of Master & Margarita, the company press service reports. In Yekaterinburg, MegaFon has provided a special 100 Mb/sec mobile Internet access channel for the readings. The project will unite over five hundred selected Internet users, actors, reporters, politicians, public figures, sports players, performers, and other celebrities on YouTube on November 11-12, luring them into

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 14, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon reports companies based in the Mid-Urals tend to rely on cloud technologies more often than other user categories, the company press service reports. Starting this year, local companies have been using a hosted PBX six times more often than regular landline options. Based on MegaFon’s statistical data, every one in two new hosted PBX contracts landed within the Greater Urals’ ten federal constituencies get signed with the businesses based in Sverdlovsk Region. It is reported that Tyumen Region and Chelyabinsk