UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 8, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation awarded the winners of the 3d WorldSkills Russia blue-collar job championship. The company press service reports their HR Director Sergei Saranchuk presented gift certificates for up-to-date tablet computers to first-prize winners in all the seventeen competition categories; the tablets are bound to prove quite useful for work and for the winners’ studies. ‘For one, students of Nizhniy Tagil Metal Treatment Institute (a member school of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporate University) prove the best in Industrial Robotics for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 8, 2016. ChTPZ Group’s employee Nikolai Vinogradov won the first prize in Industrial Automation at the 3d WorldSkills Hi Tech Russia Championship in Yekaterinburg, the Group’s press service reports. ‘The Group’s production facilities provide everything necessary for one’s professional skills development. During the competition, I relied on the expertise, skills, and equipment that come in handy at a modern plant every day. This the victory I share with my team and with my entire company that trusted me to represent the Group in Industrial Automation. I’d like to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 8, 2016. MegaFon Ural’s subscribers started using the telecommunications provider’s online app increasingly more often in the last three months, with the number of transactions in MegaFon’s My Account going up by a quarter and reaching some 3m transactions all in all. The number of My Account mobile app subscribers also rose by 20% and currently exceeds 20,000 users. Additionally, 9% more users subscribed to the regular web version of the service. Based on the ISP and mobile carrier’s statistics, male users check their smartphone’s self-service system 1.5 times

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 8, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) issued 25% more loans in the third quarter of the year than in the previous quarter; the overall amount thus came to 5.8bn RUR, the bank’s press service reports. According to the bank’s Deputy Marketing Director Evgenia Ginsburg, an increase in the amount of all loan types during the summer has to do with people regaining trust in borrowing practices and with the overall improvement in their social feelings. ‘The All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center’s findings indicate that Russians started

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 7, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Ural Railcar Building Design Office certified two railcar repair depots — Bryansk Lgovsky and Bataysk — that are now authorized to repair the corporation’s innovative 12-196-01 gondola railcars. According to the company press service, five more repair depots in Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, and Volgograd Regions also got certified earlier this year. ‘We keep working on getting increasingly more depots certified for repairs. This November, the authorization procedure will involve those located in Central Russia and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 7, 2016. ChTPZ Group supported Hi Tech Harvest Program during the first WorldSkills Russia Alumni Forum; the forum was held during the 3d WorldSkills Russia Hi Tech Championship, the Group’s press service reports. Over a hundred forum participants, all of them WorldSkills winners, were to find a solution to a simulated business case proposed by the Group. The task was to develop and present a project on how to make the Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program alumni and their mentors from the Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant more involved.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 7, 2016. SKB-Bank now offers new rates to companies in need of payment and cash management services, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Banking services are crucial to any successful business’s operation. A bank must offer both good quality and financial benefits, as any entrepreneur is looking to cut down on their costs. Bearing this in mind, SKB-Bank came up with a new range of rate options,’ the press service says. The bank now offers service packages that will suit both young companies that are new on the market and businesses that have been around for over a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 7, 2016. Ural Airlines are now offering tickets for flights from Zhukovsky, Moscow Region, to Osh, Kyrgyzstan, the air carrier’s press service reports. Starting from November 14, the nightly flight will be operated on Airbus 320 planes every Monday and Wednesday; departure and arrival times from and back to Zhukovsky are 8:10 PM and 6:45 AM, respectively. The flight is four hours and thirty-five minutes long (one way). ‘Thanks to the terms we offered to the air carrier, Ural Airlines’ passengers can enjoy the appealing ticket prices,’ says Zhukovsky Ramport Aero

UrBC, Moscow, November 7, 2016. MMA fighters Ivan Styrkov and Antônio Silva are going to get weighed and practice together in Passage Department Store in Yekaterinburg, Obschestvo Malysheva 73 reports. The two martial artists will also fight at Sports Palace on November 18. Prior to this event, a press conference will be held on the ground floor of Passage on November 14 and a practice session on November 16. ‘We were the first to learn that UFC is letting ‘Bigfoot’ go and contacted AmericanTopTeam to negotiate on the terms and land a contract within a week. Silva’s going to get considerably

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 3, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation is taking part in the blue-collar job championship WorldSkills for the third time this year; the championship is held in Yekaterinburg EXPO. The company team (Motto: Tradition, Development, Leadership!) comprises five contestants from three of the corporation’s member enterprises: Ural Vagon Zavod (Nizhniy Tagil), Ural Transport Machine-Building Design Office (Nizhniy Tagil), and Uraltransmash (Yekaterinburg), the company press service reports. The corporation sends winners of the championship’s company rounds to compete with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 3, 2016. SKB-Bank was founded twenty-six years ago on November 2, the bank’s press service reports. ‘The USSR Agroprombank was reorganized into SKB-Bank on November 2, 1990; it was on this day that the bank was issued its banking licenses,’ the press service says. SKB-Bank is now one of Russia’s major banks with HQs outside the two capitals, with over 150 branches in all parts of the country from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka. SKB-Bank currently offers its services to 1.5m private customers and over 30,000 corporates. The bank is the key asset of SKB Group and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 3, 2016. Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station’s newest Power-Generating Unit 4 with fast-fission reactor BN 800 has been approved for industrial use, the stations press service reports. A decree to this effect was signed by Rosenergoatom’s Director-General Andrei Petrov on October 31, 2016, shortly after Rosatom Corporation issued its approval. This was preceded by all the necessary checks on the regulatory authority Rostechnadzor’s part that proved the facility meets all the technical and legal requirements and energy efficiency regulations. Power-Generating Unit

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 3, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya-Koksovaya Mine is now using Fletcher self-propelled roof-bolters for excavation support, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s press office reports. This modern equipment cuts down on the time needed to fit the roof bolts in, prevents idle times, enhances job safety, and increases the overall process speed. The roof-bolters are extremely safe and controlled remotely, with a protective plate to prevent caving. Fitting one roof bolt in now takes 1.5 minutes against the 4 to 5 minutes needed to do this manually. The speed-up means miners can

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 3, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon came up with a list of Ural Federal District-based businesses that spend the longest time periods on the phone and online, the company press service reports. ‘This year, local companies used 70% more Internet traffic than one year previously, while the amount of phone conversations within MegaFon network rose by 28%. Interestingly, these are the small, medium, and micro enterprises that use up the lion’s share of our entire Internet traffic,’ says MegaFon Ural Corporates Development Director Evgeny Ivanov. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko took part in Board meeting coordinated by Russia’s Machine-Builders’ Union and Defense Industry Support League. The goal was to look into the national defense industry’s performance and to come up with strategic goals for the future. The meeting was held in Moscow on October 31, 2016. According to the corporation’s press service, Oleg Sienko, who is Russia’s Machine-Builders’ Union’s Deputy Chair, spoke about the improvements that need to be introduced in the defense procurement legislation,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2016. A new show room presenting a family home opened at 11 Pavel Shamanov St in Yekaterinburg’s Akademichesky District, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s website states. ‘The idea was to model a comfortable, functional two-bedroom home for a family with two children of different ages. The room layout is a bit unusual, with special engineering features such as heated floors instead of radiators and a recuperation system to ensure ventilation and air-filtering. All this creates a cozy place that is 15% more energy-efficient than usual.’ ‘Designers picked the color schemes

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) now offers express Business Growth loans to corporate customers based in Sverdlovsk Region, the bank’s press service reports. The decision is taken within as little as two work days, with loan amount ranging between 300,000 RUR and 1m RUR. ‘Business Growth is the best option for a quick loan when your business can’t afford to wait. This is a collateral-free loan for companies that don’t like missing good business development opportunities. The money can get directed to operating flow, invested in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) directed over 1.8m RUR to charity in the third quarter of the year, the bank’s press service reports. The money was directed to charity events for children living in orphanages and foster homes and for children with disabilities and Down syndrome. Also, some funds were spent to pay orphanages and boarding schools’ bills and to buy groceries, medicines, school supplies, children’s clothes, school uniform, toys, and board games. The bank has transferred more than 4.6m RUR to its Children Believe in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 2, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region’s residents’ nominal incomes amounted to 1.3312bn RUR in January-September 2016, which exceeded the figures for a year earlier by 3.7%, Sverdlovskstat reports. At the same time, people’s factual disposable incomes (what’s left after all the necessary bills have been paid, considering the current consumer price index) actually went down by 5.3%. A person’s monthly income came to 34,161 RUR on average (up 3.6% on a year earlier). Sverdlovsk Region-based employee’s monthly pay came to 31,774 RUR on average in January-August 2016, which was

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 1, 2016. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to award five employees of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant, the company press service reports. The plant’s Transport Director Sergei Oskin received the Order of Friendship for his ‘professional achievements, proactive social policy efforts, and long-standing performance.’ Miller from the plant’s Stamping Department Evgeny Groshev, repair mechanic from Assembly Department 5 Lev Zudov, tinker from Joints Department 2 Vasily Ivanov, and repair mechanic from Assembly Department Anatoly Nikulin were