UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 9, 2019. A tram line connecting Yekaterinburg with Verkhnyaya Pyshma is under way, Yekaterinburg Council’s website states. UMMC Holding’s engineering branch is currently building the tram link from both ends. So far, the woods have been cleared for the railways, earthwork is being prepared, and structures that stand in the way are being pulled down, the town council’s website says. According to Yekaterinburg Council Construction Committee, all jobs have to get done inside the existing urban sprawl and public transit network, so parts of the engineering

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 9, 2019. As of December 2, 2019, the average asking price on Yekaterinburg existing home market came to RUB 72,091 per m2; the prices have gone down by 0.6% in the last month, Ural Real Estate Chamber’s Analytical Department’s report indicates. The market supply rose by 1.2% in November, reaching 9,120 homes, apartments, and rooms in communal apartments. The selling process (from putting the place on sale to going through with the deal proper) takes about four months to complete at the moment.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 9, 2019. EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Intergraded Metallurgical Plant’s Blast Furnace Department’s repair technician Anton Yevlyukhin and chemical lab technician from the plant’s Heat & Power Station Nailya Askharova won the company’s Mister and Miss EVRAZ Holding Ural Contest, respectively, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. Sixty employees of EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Intergraded Metallurgical Plant and EVRAZ Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise competed in the contest all in all. Anton Yevlyukhin has been working at the plant for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2019. Fifteen hostels closed down in Yekaterinburg after the new federal ban on operating hostels in apartment buildings came into effect, business owner Alexei Karavayev announced at the Managers & Developers Guild's recent summit. There are now 67 hostels with 2,000 beds in Yekaterinburg all in all, with the average price at RUB 500 a night. Given these legislative changes, Karavayev said, the share of local home owners who started doing 24-hour rentals illegally has gone up. At the same time, there were 125 hotels in Yekaterinburg as of December 1,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD), the Ural branch of the State Contemporary Art Center, and Masterklass Art Studio for Children & Grownups coordinated a series of events for the Angel of Hope Project. According to the bank's press service, eleven children in the 10-16 age group who come from three Yekaterinburg-based schools for children whose parents are not in the picture took part in the project. The craft workshop was part of the bank's Children Believe in Miracles Charity Program. The State Contemporary Art

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2019. The automobiles driven in Ural Federal District's constituencies are 12.5 years old on average, Avtostat reports. 'Depending on a particular federal district, the number varies greatly throughout the country. In four of Russia's federal districts, cars are, on average, several years 'younger' than in the country overall,' the agency says. As for Ural Federal District, local cars are, on average, 12.5 years old; for Central Federal District, the number is 12.2 years, for Volga Federal District, North-Western Federal District,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2019. Ural Airlines' new direct flight from Moscow Region's Zhukovsky Airport to Hungary's capital will become available starting December 28, the air carrier's press service reports. The flights will get operated on Airbus A320 liners every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Departure (Zhukovsky): 12:30 PM Departure (Budapest): 2:15 PM The flight is 2 hours and 55 minutes long. 'Budapest's rich history has turned the place into one of the world's most beautiful cities. Budapest is called the Pearl of the Danube for a reason:

UrBC, Magnitogorks, December 6, 2019. A conference on industrial tourism development takes place in Chelyabinsk Region on December 5, 2019; Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) representatives are giving a talk on the company's successful experience with industrial guided tours, MMK's Information & PR Department reports. The conference gets coordinated by Chelyabinsk Region Tourism Development Center with support from Chelyabinsk Region's Culture Ministry. Speakers will be presenting success stories of industrial guided tours, company museums, and special on-site

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 5, 2019. SKB-Bank joined the National Credit History Bureau's Personal Credit Rating Project, the bank's press service reports; there are currently 4,000 creditors, some 99m people, and more than 400m loan records in the bureau's database. 'A personal credit rating is created automatically based on the borrowing party's credit history. By applying for a personal credit rating, customers can easily see whether their credit history is a good one and possibly get a personalized offer from the project's partner banks. This option might

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 5, 2019. OOO FORES's Kamensk-Uralsky and Kuryi branches fully comply with the current environmental requirements, the company's press service reports. 'The impact OOO FORES's branches in Kamensk-Uralsky and Kuryi make on the local environment falls within the current hygienic limits; such were the findings of the production process monitoring that was performed on the border between the two plants' sanitary protection zones and the apartment buildings nearby in May through October,' the press service says. According to FORES

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 5, 2019. EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) won the all-Russian Environmental Leader 2019 Contest as the Best Environmentally Responsible Ferrous Metallurgical Enterprise, EVRAZ Holding Ural's Corporate Communications Center reports. EVRAZ NTMK has been working to reduce its harmful impact on Nizhniy Tagil's environment for many years. The plant allocated more than RUB 1bn to environmental projects every year. 'We are currently reconstructing the dust-suction facilities at the converter shop and retooling our Blast

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2019. Yekaterinburg's first hi tech-styled, gigantic multimedia screen-equipped, small-scale supermarket of Giperbola chain will open soon, Obshchestvo Malysheva 73's press service reports. The small-scale supermarket (total area: 1,000 m2) will be located at Kamennye Palatki Housing Complex in ZhBI. Just like the chain's centrally located hypermarket stores, the supermarket will be selling all kinds of commodities in every market segment from mass-market to premium one. The supermarket will also be selling its own brand items. 'Customers

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, December 5, 2019. ChelPipe Group's 17th Snezhnost Charity Festival opens at M.I. Glinka Chelyabinsk State Academy Opera & Ballet Theater on December 7, the company's press service reports. 'Ten Russian theater teams will be performing for the young spectators from six cities in Chelyabinsk Region, Sverdlovsk Region, and Tatarstan. This is the first time Snezhnost will get held in Yekaterinburg. Over thirty different plays will be performed during the festival for 15,000 children from foster homes, live-in schools, and orphanages, children from families

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2019. Yekaterinburg Duma voted to have the city's eighth administrative district established as District Akademicheskiy. The draft bill to this effect will now get presented to Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly. The talk on the proposed initiative was given by First Vice Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Kovalchik, who told the deputies that Duma could consider the decree on setting up the district and vote for the draft bill on the 8th district in Yekaterinburg within a single bill package. It was agreed that the draft bill would be submitted to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2019. The asking price on Yekaterinburg existing home market dropped by 0.5% and reached RUB 65,635 per m2 on average between October 23 and November 22, 2019, Novosel Group's research findings indicate. 'The price of studio apartments declined by 0.3%, that of one-bedroom homes by 0.8%, that of two-bedroom ones by 0.6%, that of 'improved layout' ones by 0.7%, and that of 'special architectural project' ones by 0.8%,' the research states. The average asking price of apartments in buildings dating back to the Khrushchev and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region's residents have around RUB 100bn in unpaid debts; some RUB 35bn have been collected by court officers for banks and other lending institutions this year. According to Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia's Federal Service of Court Officers, 300,391 locals have loan debt. Kamyshlov is currently the most debt-burdened location in Sverdlovsk Region, with 8,281 people with loan debts living there; the figure includes 25 mortgages; the rest are micro-loans and consumer loans (total amount: RUB 1.2bn). Kamensk-Uralsky, by contrast,

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 4, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) allocated more than RUB 8m to its Chess Literacy Project, the company's Information & PR Department reports. 'The decision to go through with the Chess Literacy Project in Chelyabinsk Region was taken in 2016 at the initiative of United Russia and with support from Governor of Chelyabinsk Region. Two years ago, chess classes were introduced in Magnitogorsk schools and kindergartens. The project gets funded by MMK, the primary benefactor. Under an agreement the company has with Magnitogorsk Council,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2019. The first industrial-scale batch of 600 and 136RE rails was made from a unique grade at steel EVRAZ West Siberian Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ ZSMK) Rail & Beam Department for customers in Brazil, EVRAZ Holding Siberia's Corporate Communications Center reports. 5,000,000 kg of rails made from G2HH steel (Brinnell hardness number: 400-440) got sent to the Brazilian company Rumo ALL. The steel-smelting patent for this type of steel belongs to EVRAZ Pueblo. 'G2HH steel is different from the traditional steel grades in that it contains less

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 3, 2019. The prices on Yekaterinburg new home market are expected to rise by 6% to 8% by the end of 2019, President of Ural Real Estate Chamber Ilona Soboleva said at a press conference today. 'The price of an existing home currently comes to RUB 50,600 per m2 on average in Yekaterinburg's remotest locations and to RUB 102,000 per m2 on average for centrally located apartments. Last year, the price of homes in newly commissioned apartment buildings rose by 10%, that of existing homes rose by 5%. This year, the increase will be less pronounced: new and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 3, 2019. Banking scams tend to focus on the customers these days, with losses at RUB 5,000 to RUB 7,00 per customer on average throughout the country; in some cases, however, a lot of money gets stolen, Information Security Director at SKB-Bank Denis Uleyko said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg today. According to experts, while the Central Bank reports that the number of cyber-attacks the banks get exposed to has been going down, Russian banks still have to deal with them on a weekly basis. In the year 2018, the overall amount of money stolen from