UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 10, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon came up with a range of useful new services for its football-loving subscribers in preparation for the Euro 2016 championship, MegaFon Ural’s press service reports. ‘Most of the supporters are probably going to watch the games from home, so our MegaFonTV app will provide you with live streaming of championship news and football matches anywhere, any time. Subscribers on our all-inclusive payment plans will be able to watch the games in HD quality on their SmartTVs, tablets, or smartphones. All the other customer can

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 10, 2016. Sinara Pipe Plant/SinTZ (a member enterprise of Pipe Metallurgical Company) now makes a new variety of boiler pipes by order of Taganrog Krasny Kotelshchik Boiler Plant, the company press service reports. The cold-worked pipes (diameter 31.75mm, layer thickness 6.1mm) meet the international ASME SA-210/SA-210м standard and will be used for making the equipment necessary for putting up a heat and power station in Vietnam. The Taganrog plant is one of the partners in this construction project as part of Saint Petersburg-based Power Machines. The prospective

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 10, 2016. Albert Yamaliyev’s mining team from Alardinskaya Mine and Vasiliy Pasichinsky’s team from Raspadskaya Mine have each produced 1,000,000,000 kg of coal since the start of the year, EVRAZ Holding reports. This is, in fact, not the first time such a production record has been set this year, as miners from Yerunakovskaya 8 Mine (the asset of EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company) produced 1,000,000,000 kg of coal in May. As is the custom, the company management coordinated a round of congratulations for the miners when they came out of the mine. Two stones

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 10, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s daughter enterprise Electromachine won in Chelyabinsk Region Corporate Social Responsibility Projects Contest as the Best Social Project. According to the corporation’s press service, this the 13th time the contest was coordinated by Chelyabinsk Region Government, Legislative Assembly, and Public Chamber. The goal is to promote and propagate success stories of CSR activity. This year, sixty companies and sole traders involved in various charity programs took part in the competition. Thirty-three nominees were given trophies

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, June 10, 2016. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) recently had its metal products audited by Daimler KamAZ Rus. ‘The German auditors had the opportunity to look at all of our production divisions and learn about the properties of our entire range of products, including those made in the cold-rolling, hot-dip galvanizing, and metal-pickling departments,’ the company press service says. Daimler KamAZ Rus is a joint venture run by Daimler Group and KamAZ; the company aims to find an automobile body sheet supplier for its new-generation KamAZ trucks;

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 9, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) was recently awarded as Taxpayer of The Year 2015, the bank’s press service reports. The special certificate was a recognition of the bank’s payments to Yekaterinburg budget and contribution to social projects and was given out by head of the city council Alexander Yakob. The UBRD paid over 2bn RUR in taxes to all sorts of budget and non-budget funds last year, which was 8% more than in 2014. Some 675m RUR were directed to the city treasury and Sverdlovsk Region’s budget (up 37% on a year earlier).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 9, 2016. Russian Copper Company got a new overhead crane for its member enterprise Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant, the company press service reports. ‘The plant keeps working on equipment renovation in all respects, from technological processes to retooling to buying up-to-date machinery and special-purpose vehicles. For one, all the primary overhead cranes have been renovated or replaced two decades after the copper-smelting department was introduced at the plant. The first crane got replaced in 2012, the second one arrived here in the spring,’ the press service

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 9, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon now offers its business customers the option of custom-made payment plans, MegaFon Ural’s press service reports. The Business Unlimited scheme means that the company’s business customers can choose their own set of available options and services online: all one has to do is go the company website and select the preferred amount of prepaid call duration (350 to 5,000 minutes a month) and mobile Internet traffic (5 to 40 Gb a month). Companies can also choose the coverage area for every service themselves; calls can be

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 9, 2016. The power station at Yurga Machine-Building Plant (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) completed its heating season of 2015/2016, the company press service reports. ‘There were no accidents or breakdowns during this period that could affect the heat supply. Throughout this heating season, the power station provided accurate and full information in response to all the queries Kemerov Region authorities made in writing or over the phone on a daily basis. This was possible due to the careful preparations we made prior to the launch of the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 9, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s management decided to have its painting and coating facility at Volchansk Mechanical Plant renovated, the company press service reports. Director-General Oleg Sienko agreed on an action plan for the introduction of a new, automated powder coating unit in order to make the plant’s produce, gas cylinders, more competitive. Volchansk Mechanical Plant has been one of Russia’s major gas cylinder manufacturers for many years now; its share of the market currently comes to 61%. On a competitive market, the way a product looks is just

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 8, 2016. The time it takes to sell an apartment on Yekaterinburg existing home market rose from four to six months compared with the start of the year, Ural Real Estate Chamber reports. The average asking price currently comes to 68,685 RUR per m2, 2.9% less than on January 1. Prices went down slightly for all kinds of locations, with the decrease most pronounced (0.9% to 1%) downtown and in the city’s remotest, fourth and fifth most expensive districts. A downtown home can be had for 92,864 RUR per m2 on average, while on the outskirts, the asking price now stands

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 8, 2016. Russian Copper Company representatives met with leaders of Stop GOK protest movement on June 6 to discuss the prospective construction of Tominsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (Tominsky GOK), the company press service reports. Head of the environmental NGO For Nature Chelyabinsk Region division A. Talevin and lawyer V. Kazantsev came to talk on behalf of Stop GOK; Russian Copper Company was represented by Vice President O. Medvedev and Counselor to President and Chelyabinsk Region Legislative Assembly deputy A. Yeremin. Despite certain

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 8, 2016. Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant/PNTZ (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) launched a new ultrasonic unit meant for testing layer thickness of OCTG pipes, the company press service reports. According to the company representatives, the new equipment will improve the quality control of pump and compression pipes with the diameter of 60 mm to 114 mm. The machinery cost 80m RUR to get, install, and launch. The unit was supplied by the German company Foerster, from which the Group has already bought equipment successfully in the past. The ultrasonic testing equipment

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 8, 2016. Lepse (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) proved Kirov Region’s best insurance company in 2015, the company press service reports. The Insurer of The Year certificate was given to the company Director-General Gennady Mamayev by head of Russia’s Pension Fund Kirov division Nikolai Pasynkov. The pension fund’s contest winner was selected on the basis of two primary criteria: the fact that the pension insurance fees got paid in time and in full and the fact that all the necessary papers were provided in full and in perfect order. ‘The idea is

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 8, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil is gradually switching to lean production, the company press service reports. First, the company staff is to undergo special training on the introduction of lean technologies at industrial enterprises; this is part of the President’s Federal Management Training Program. The goal is to expand the employees’ existing knowledge base as much as possible. The seminars will be attended by workers from the head plant’s Lean Production Department and heads of the company’s production divisions (including

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 7, 2016. The city’s population might reach 1.5m people by the fall of 2016, provided the increase remains at 1,400 to 1,500 people a month, Yekaterinburg Council’s press service refers to the automated municipal population register as indicating. The number of people living in the city rose by 7,337 between January 1 and June 1, 2016, and currently comes to 1.492m residents. ‘Yekaterinburg only needs 7,526 more people to reach the 1.5m mark. If we keep getting 1,400 to 1,500 arrivals a month, the city will set this record as soon as this fall,’ the press service

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 7, 2016. Ural Airlines are now offering tickets for Irkutsk-Harbin flight at a reduced summer price: from 9,923 RUR (one way, no luggage) or from 10,293 RUR (one way, luggage included), the air carrier’s press service reports. A round trip will cost 20,971 RUR (carry-on luggage only) or 21,526 RUR (luggage included). All other fees and charges are included in the price quoted. Tickets are available on the company website www.uralairlines.com, UralAirlines app, over the phone +7-800-7700-262, or at any booking office. ‘Harbin is known in China and the rest of the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 7, 2016. Uekhk (a member enterprises of Rosatom’s TVEL in Novouralsk) replaced its obsolete automation system AKSU-M with the latest available AKSU-3 uranium enrichment control system, the company press service reports. The new system now controls fifty-three most important technological stages of uranium enrichment process and ensures control over and emergency protection of the equipment (including synchronization of gas centrifuges and management of interstage and ancillary machinery). The gas centrifuge experimental section, the evaporator systems, and equipment

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 7, 2016. Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu signed a decree to award For Strengthening Military Cooperation Medal to two employees of Electromachine (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation): the company Director-General Igor Afanasiev and Deputy DG for Marketing & Sales Eduard Bazhenov, the corporation’s press service reports. The decree states the awards have been assigned for the men’s ‘personal contribution to the strengthening of military cooperation and helping to work on the Russian Armed Forces’ projects.’ For Labor Valor Medals were also

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 7, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s company resort/summer camp welcomed the first portion of employees’ children who’ll stay there this summer, the company press service says. The summer camp was introduced at the resort in 2011 and had 370 children stay there then; last year, as many as 486 kids came to the camp. This year, 570 children will stay at the camp in four installments, the first 142 already there now. The kids will be looked after by a team of professional teachers, entertainers, nurses, doctors, and cooking staff. One advantage of this summer camp is