UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 5, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) restored a number of social benefit schemes that had to be cut down on earlier because of the dropping domestic demand for road vehicles, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘The management and the trade union have already decided to provide employees with monthly subsidies to cover their children’s kindergarten fees. Every parent employed at the plant will be given 235 RUR a month, every single parent 470 RUR a month. Besides, parents of children under sixteen will get their children’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 4, 2016. Past-due mortgage payments reached 4.633,5bn RUR in Sverdlovsk Region in June 2016, which was 53% more than one year earlier, United Credit Bureau informs UrBC. According to the Bureau, past-due mortgage payments used to come to 1.8% of all mortgage debts one year ago; now they come to 2.5%. The number of past-due mortgages rose by 600, from 3,039 up to 3,639. The overall number of mortgages rose by 14% in the course of one year, up to 107,425, while the overall amount of repayments thus came to 185,358.8bn RUR (up 16% on June 2015).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 4, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region Public Property Management Ministry and Yekaterinburg Council came up with outdoor advertising regulations for the city. Under these regulations, there will remain 1,665 outdoor ad locations in the city all in all, whereas the current number comes to 7,990 (only 1,500 of which are legitimately there). This means 80% of existing outdoor ads will have to be pulled down by their owners. The Ministry also reports they are currently working on regulations for placing billboards along Serovsky Tract. This highway will host over a hundred of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 4, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) supported Street Workout Championship in Nihzniy Tagil as the event’s partner, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. The championship contestants competed on horizontal bars, climbing frames, and parallel bars. The equipment purchase was funded by EVRAZ Holding, since the company decided to support Workout for Crowds, the project aimed at promoting a healthier lifestyle and sports workouts among the younger people and providing the necessary training and contest conditions. ‘The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 4, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s savings certificates amounted to over 2bn RUR in total on July 1, 2016, which is Russia’s third largest amount on the savings certificates market, the bank’s press service reports. The overall savings certificate amount rose by more than 2.5 times in the first half of the year, even though the market’s average only stood at 4.1% at the time. This means the UBRD is far ahead of other banking market players. ‘The increasingly growing interest in savings certificates has to do with the ongoing downward

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 4, 2016. Miners of Raspadsky Mine made their 2,000,000th ton of coal this year in just six months. The mine’s overall coal output is thus 35% larger than one year earlier, EVRAZ Holding’s PR Department reports. 2,950,000 m3 of stone got uncovered for the first time in the company’s history, at the speed of 2.5m m3 a month. Thus the miners both reached their target coal production figures and made reserves for the future. ‘This increase in the mine’s production output stems primarily from the miners’ efforts to cut down on emergency shutdowns and work more

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 3, 2016. There are currently twenty-three companies on Sverdlovsk Region State Labor Inspectorate’s list that owe their employees 137 RUR worth of unpaid salaries and wages, head of inspectorate Fedor Kravtsov said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. There were thirty-three such companies on the list as recently as January 1, with twenty-seven more businesses detected throughout the first half of the year. Thirty-eight businesses paid the workers everything that was their due in January-June 2016 (208.4m RUR in total). Also, thirteen companies paid out a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 3, 2016. Ural Airlines updated the rules of their Wings Club bonus system on August 1, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘You don’t have to save up bonus points any more in order to exchange them for a premium flight. Any Wings Club member can now use their bonuses immediately after a flight to get a discount on a new plane ticket,’ the press service says. One Wings Club bonus point comes to 1 ruble, and these can be used to cover up to 100% of any ticket’s price (including the special Promo Tickets). The number of tickets available for premium flight

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 3, 2016. Oleg Lebedev was recently appointed head of the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development Marketing Department, the bank’s press service reports. Lebedev will now be in charge of devising customer interaction strategies and developing and promoting the bank’s products and services. He will also be responsible for developing and promoting the company brand, public relations, marketing research, and analytics. Additionally, increasing customer loyalty is also one of his department’s top priorities. ‘Oleg Lebedev comes to succeed Konstantin Dyatlov,, who

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 3, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon’s subscribers can now transfer money from one mobile phone account to another in just a single screen tap. All you need is send a text message #amount to the addressee’s phone number, the company press service says. Prior to the launch of the new service, account-to-account transfers required sending a text message with the addressee’s entire phone number and the amount of money transferred to 8900. Another option consisted in sending a USSD message to *133 or using the company website. These were not always the best

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 3, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Omsk Transport Machine-Building Plant competed the first stage of its machining facilities retooling program by purchasing twenty-one up-to-date mills, the company press service reports. The retooling program means the plant will eventually stop using its older machines altogether and start making most of the necessary parts on numerically controlled mills. NC mills have been introduced at several production sections so far, including the caterpillar chain department.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 2, 2016. A series of unhappy events finally resulted in a 50% drop in the number of Ural supporters going to the Rio Olympics this year, Ural Tourism Association Executive Director Mikhail Maltsev informed UrBC. According to Maltsev, many of the fans decided to stay at home due to both economic factors and the outbreak of the Zika virus disease in South America. News of growing crime rate in Brazil and reports on unfinished Olympic facilities served as an additional scare factor. Finally, there was the doping scandal on top of all this, which meant Russian

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 2, 2016. Rostechnadzor completed its second check of Akademicheskaya Power Station and issued an approval report on July 28, T Plus’s Sverdlovsk subsidiary reports. Sverdlovsk Region authorities also agreed that the station could be commissioned and launched. T Plus submitted all the necessary papers to Market Council Association to make sure the power station is allowed to operate on the energy market. The station will be the primary power supplier for residents of Yekaterinburg’s Akademichesky District in the upcoming heating season.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 2, 2016. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company is going to reconstruct an outdoor switch gear at its 220-kilowatt Megion Substation in Nizhnevartovsk, Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region, the company’s West Siberian branch reports. ‘The repairs will ensure more reliable power supply to Nizhnevartovsk consumer and a trouble-free heating season 2016/2017,’ the company says. The substation will thus get a new system of 110/220-kilowatt outdoor switch gears to make the transformer units more reliable and reduce the time it takes to switch the supply from one unit to another

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 2, 2016. Russian Copper Company’s Mikheyevsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise, Aleksandrinskaya Ore Mining Company, Karabashmed, and Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant made 20.8bn RUR in terms of revenues in the first half of 2016, the company press service reports. For one, Mikheyevsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise made 8.9bn RUR in revenues, 3.26bn RUR in pre-tax profit, and 2.5bn RUR in net profit. Aleksandrinskaya Ore Mining Company made 1.9bn RUR in revenues, 218m RUR in pre-tax profit, and 174m RUR in net profit. Karabashmed made 4.6bn RUR in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 2, 2016. A book on industrial artifacts located on Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s premises is to come out in celebration of the plant’s 80th anniversary, the company press service reports. ‘This full-color catalogue with plenty of pictures and photographs and essays on the plant’s history in Russian and English will come out soon. The new edition will feature pieces on the industrial architecture of the world’s largest machine-building giant, Russian Constructivism, and Socialist Classicism. Readers will learn about the impact the plant’s production

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 1, 2016. Rosatom’s SverdNIIkhimmash had electric heaters for power-generating units delivered to Tianwan Nuclear Power Station in China. This transaction was worth more than 30m RUR, the company press service reports. The heaters are part of the hydrogen burning system necessary to filter the nuclear reactors’ gas emissions from hydrogen and thus avoid explosions. The devices heat the steam-gas mixture to 120-140 degrees centigrade to ensure proper evaporation. Tianwan Nuclear Power Station is built according to the improved Russian design AES 91 and is considered

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 1, 2016. Over 100,000 m2 of new housing will get commissioned in Yekaterinburg’s Akademichesky District before the end of 2016, RSG-Akademicheskoye Director-General Kisselev said at a press conference. According to Kisselev, 40,000 m2 have already been commissioned: these are two ‘smart’ six-story apartment buildings with electric power-backed heating supply and heat recovery systems that can get moved in in mid-August. Some of these homes have already been sold. ‘We are planning to get a few more apartment buildings commissioned before the year ends. Some 2,000

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 1, 2016. The telecommunications provider Megaton is not charging its subscribers anything for the Internet traffic used to play Pokemon Go, the company press service reports. ‘Given the game’s astounding popularity in the countries where Pokemon Go has been launched, it was decided our subscribers wouldn’t have to pay anything for the Internet traffic this app uses. Fast, good quality connection will make it possible to play anywhere, any time. One’s free time available and one’s common senses are the only limits to pokemon-searching. MegaFon, on its part, is

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 1, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) reports its customers have been opening increasingly more online deposits lately, the bank’s press service reports. For one, 27,860 deposits worth over 5.4bn RUR were opened via ubrr.ru or e-banking options in the first half of this year alone; the lion’s share of these (nearly 24,000 deposits) were opened via the bank website, while the share of those set up with the help of e-banking came to 10.37% of all the deposits opened at the bank in the first half of the year. Manageable proved the most