UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 11, 2016. Ural Airlines are selling tickets for flights to be operated during the winter at a 30% discount on October 10-23, 2016. According to the company press service, the special offer (dubbed Choose Your Winter) holds for over a hundred destinations and for flights scheduled to be operated between November 7, 2016 and March 31, 2017. For full information on the list of flights and price quotes, please visit the company website. Tickets can also be booked online, with the help of the airline’s mobile app, or over the phone.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 10, 2016. The Paralympic cycling team Armada, sponsored by Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation, won six gold medals at the Russian Cycling/Trekking Championship for motion impaired sports players, the corporation’s press service reports. Alexei Obydennov won four gold medals, winning the C-3 1-km heat race (1:10:454 minutes), the 3-km pursuit race, and the mass start race. The sportsman trains with Ekaterina Mukhortova. Using his social network pages, Obydennov thanked everyone who helped him win, including Ural Vagon Zavod. Arslan Gilmutdinov and Sergei Pudov won gold

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 10, 2016. Pediatric surgeon Marina Zaripova and the local clinic’s Chief of Surgery Ilnur Gainullin, two young doctors who came to work at Karabash, were recently presented the keys to the apartments provided by the city’s CSR partners Russian Copper Company and Karabashmed. According to Russian Copper Company’s press service, the solemn ceremony was attended by Mayor of Karabash Oleg Budanov, Chelyabinsk Region Deputy Healthcare Minister Sergei Prikolotin, Russian Copper Company Vice President for Social Policy, HR & PR Olga Solodova, Karabashmed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 10, 2016. The Ural subsidiary of Rosset’s Federal Grid Company (FGC UES) got certified for the winter of 2016/2017 and is fully ready for the new heating season, the company press service reports. A two-stage check of all the power facilities on site proved that all the jobs relating to ensuring stable power supply in Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Orenburg, and Kirov Regions, Udmurtia, and Perm Territory were done property and in time. ‘All the preparation jobs are complete by now. We carried out a number of repairs before the winter as usual, which cost 605m

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 10, 2016. Ural Airlines are now offering tickets for Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky flights at a reduced price (1,000 RUR); the flight gets co-funded by the government, the air carrier’s press service reports. The offer is valid for Russian citizens under twenty-three, men and women of retirement age, people with Group I disabilities and those accompanying them on the flight, and people with lifelong Group II and Group III disabilities. Tickets can be booked for flights to be operated between October 7 and October 31, 2016. For more information on the flights to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 10, 2016. Starting from October 11, Spanish Visa Center in Yekaterinburg stops issuing visas for the local applicants. ‘Visa applications can get submitted through October 10 and can no longer be submitted starting from October 11. Yekaterinburg residents can still apply for their Spanish visa in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where Spain’s Consulates-General keep operating,’ visa operator VFS Global informed UrBC. As it happens, VFS Global did not succeed in winning the Spanish Foreign Affairs Ministry’s tender for controlling its visa centers abroad, including

UrBC, Saint Petersburg, October 7, 2016. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is currently taking part in the 6th Saint Petersburg International Gas Forum. For one, Head of MMK Technical Department Grigory Shchurov presented his report at a round table discussion on the Russian pipe-manufacturing industry’s innovative development. According to Shchurov, MMK is working to develop new rolling technologies to enable import substitution of large-diameter pipes. The company produced and certified pilot batches of K60 heavy plates for the Power of Siberia Pipeline, for example. The plates are

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 7, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s museum opened a new exhibition called UVZ: The Country’s Stronghold, the company press service reports. The exhibition is part of the All-Russian Research-to-Practice Tankprom 3 Conference and is dedicated to the special date: Ural Vagon Zavod was founded eighty years ago this month. The exhibition features the plant’s modern developments, technologies, and produce by the corporation’s twenty-four member enterprises. The exhibits will be on display through the end of November and will then be stored at Ural

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 7, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation has been fulfilling all of the defense procurement requirements in time and in full for the last six years, with some items delivered ahead of schedule, the company press service reports. ‘This year, some 1,300 military vehicles and weaponry units will be supplied to Russia’s Defense Ministry, and over a half of these are our latest makes. The company is working on a wide range of tasks relating to design, upgrade, and production of promising weapons and vehicles,’ the press service says. The defense procurement requirements

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 7, 2016. Nevyansk Court upheld a motion by defense lawyers of Sergei Dubinkin, former head of Russian Pension Fund’s Sverdlovsk Region branch, granting him parole. The court ruling was possible as Dubinkin, who got sentenced to ten years in Penal Colony 46 for bribery, has served two-thirds of his prison term by now. The official was detained in Yekaterinburg in November 2009 with charges of bribery (36.5m RUR and $50,000) for transfer of pension fund’s money onto Bank VEFK accounts, and sentenced in December 2011. He spent the two years of trial in Remand Prison

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 7, 2016. Russian Copper Company and Chelyabinsk Uralstrong Federation are coordinating The Strongest Kid, a multiathlon for children, the company press service reports. The first such championship was held for 11- to 12-year-olds in the spring, with over 1,500 children from twenty Chelyabinsk schools taking part in the event. This time, the multiathlon will be held on a wider scale and will involve kids from schools located in seven different city districts: Kalininsky, Kurchatovsky, Leninsky, Metallurgichesky, Sovetsky, Traktorozavodsky, and Tsentralny. Some

UrBC, Moscow, October 7, 2016. Toyota Motor is calling off 219,811 cars (Toyota Auris, Toyota Prius, Toyota Corolla, and Lexus CT 200h) that were sold on the Russian market, Rosstandart was informed recently. These are 7,561 Toyota Auris ones, 210,511 Toyota Corolla ones, 825 Toyota Prius ones, and 914 Lexus CT 200h ones, all sold between February 15, 2009 and September 19, 2015. The said automobile makes are fitted with a carbon vapor recovery filter in the fuel tank. ‘The filter exhaust stack is located in a spot where it is likely to crack. Moreover, this crack could get bigger over time,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 6, 2016. A repair and maintenance depot for foreign-made containers at UEKHK (a member enterprise of Rosatom’s TVEL) got the first batch of 30B containers used for transportation of enriched plutonium to international customers certified, the company press service reports. The certification process involved all the necessary procedures such as hydrostatic testing of containers for strength and airtightness, pneumatic testing, non-destructive tests, inspection of all the joints and connections, and everything else that the depot could do on its own. The containers

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 6, 2016. Siemens and Sinara Group’s joint venture Ural Locomotives introduced new technological solutions at their rolling stock dispatcher unit on October 1, 2016. According to Sinara Group’s press service, the unit has been around for five years now, and dispatchers operate 24/7 to track all the locomotives and Lastochka electric trains currently used by Russian Railways. ‘Now, thanks to UL Service, our custom-made, unique information system, the dispatchers can obtain updated diagnostic data on every bit and system of a loco or train and react promptly to any

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 6, 2016. Russian Copper Company is going to put up a modern, multifunctional sports facility for adults and children in Karabash, Sverdlovsk Region, the company press service reports. The facility will be located between Sinegorye Health Resort and the St. John Chrysostom Church in Karabash. The site is currently being prepared for the construction jobs: workers are busy cutting down trees and removing tree stumps, preparing the engineering infrastructure, putting up fences, and clearing space for layout. The developer is also working on getting the construction

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 6, 2016. Gazprom Chair of the Board Alexei Miller and Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) shareholder and Member of the BOD Andrei Komarov signed a roadmap on a project for making new-generation pipes. According to ChTPZ Group’s press service, the paper was signed at the 6th Saint Petersburg International Gas Forum the other day. Under the terms of the document, the plant is going to develop for Gazprom a number of technological solutions for making longitudinal welded large-diameter pipes from the regular as well as highly durable X80-X120 steels and pipeline

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 6, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s and Alfa-Bank’s representatives reached a settlement on their arbitration proceedings involving the corporation’s daughter enterprises ChTZ-Uraltrac and Uraltransmash; as it happens, the corporation itself borrowed no money from the bank. According to the corporation’s press service, the settlements were reached in Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court and Moscow Arbitration Court on September 28 and September 30, 2016, respectively. Ural Vagon Zavod will be paying off its daughter enterprises’ debt

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, October 5, 2016. The Association of Russia’s Managers and Kommersant Publishing House presented their 17th annual rating of Top 1000 Russian Managers. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Chair of the BOD Viktor Rashnikov was featured in the Business Leaders rating among the country’s leading business people and heads of strategically important enterprises as usual. MMK Director-General Pavel Shilyayev was among the top three managers in the metallurgical and ore mining industry in the Top 250 Top Managers rating. There are also separate ratings for heads of

UrBC, Moscow, October 5, 2016. The price of a new home in Yekaterinburg rose by 1.9% in the course of nine months of the year and came to 3.912m RUR on average, Mir Kvartir reports. The average asking price of Yekaterinburg homes decreased by 0.9%, down to 68,716 RUR per m2, in the third quarter of the year, but this was still 0.6% more than on January 1, 2016. Yekaterinburg is currently Russia’s 7th most expensive city to buy a place in among locations with population over 1m people. Moscow is predictably the city with the most expensive housing; prices in the capital declined by 18.1% since

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 5, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region’s retail trade turnover amounted to 69.2bn RUR between January and August 2016, which was 5.3% less than one year earlier, Rosstat reports. In August 2016, the turnover figures dropped 4.7% below the level of August 2015 and rose by 1.8% against July 2016.