UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 3, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) representative gave a talk on the plant's green projects to reduce the negative impact on Magnitogorsk Reservoir and local rivers during the latest meeting of the Ural River Rehabilitation Coordination Council, MMK's Information & PR Department reports. According to manager at MMK's Environmental Protection Lab Alexander Levashov, the plant's management is making every effort to reduce the business's negative impact on the water bodies. In 2015, MMK adopted an environmental protection

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 3, 2019. ChelPipe Group's Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) got certified within InterGazCert voluntary certification system and proved its goodwill and compliance with Gazprom's standards. ChelPipe Group's press service reports the certification audit involved looking into the plant's quality management system, its share of the market, its financial performance, and other key operation parameters. Additionally, auditors looked into the plant's goodwill index, an indicator of how much trust the market has in the company. The index makes

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 3, 2019. Children's Sports Federal Project coordinator and President of the All-Russian School Sports Federation, three-time Olympic champion, ten-time world champion, a public figure and a government official Irina Rodnina paid a visit to EVRAZ Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (KGOK), EVRAZ Holding Ural's Corporate Communications Center reports. Irina Rodnina went to the new sports facility EVRAZ Arena Olimp and started a mini-football game. She then met with members of the local sports community and gave out autographs. Rodnina

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 2, 2019. Public hearings on the local Duma's budget proposal for 2020 and preliminary budget plan for 2021-2022 took place in Yekaterinburg last month. 488 local residents voted in approval of the proposed budget; 7 people voted against the proposal; 3 people abstained from voting. As was reported earlier, Yekaterinburg Duma Budget & Economic Policy Committee approved of the Budget 2020 Project in the first reading last week. Yekaterinburg's budget revenues are expected to come to RUB 47.4bn next year; budget expenses are estimated at RUB 49.2bn.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 2, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) won the national import substitution Priority 2019 Award, MMK's Information & PR Department reports. 'The company won the Priority Metallurgy Award for launching its new Sintering Plant 5 in the course of a solemn ceremony attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 19, 2019,' the company says. Sintering Plant 5 relies on the best available techniques and can produce up to 5,500,000,000 kg of sintered ore with enhanced iron content a year, which will provide MMK's blast furance

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 2, 2019. NEYVA Bank made it easier for its Visa cardholders to earn interest on their account balance as well as on their card transactions: according to the bank's press service, they now account for every transaction on the very day the purchase was made. 'Our more proactive card users are aware of the fact that sometimes the purchases you pay for by card can only get accounted for in your account balance on a later day and not on the day of purchase. This has to do with the way VISA operates and with the system's own regulations. This means

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 2, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Group Trade Union has allocated more than RUB 14m to co-fund the employees' children's stays at summer camps and health resorts since the start of the year, MMK's Information & PR Department reports. In fact, the overall amount of funds directed to co-paying for the summer camp stays has gone up by RUB 3m over the last two years. 'The program the trade union adopted early in the year involves the workers whose children are going to summer camps during the school break. The trade union

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, December 2, 2019. An experts' board and members of professional community acknowledged ChelPipe Group's efforts to conserve Chelyabinsk Region's environment by selecting Chair of the Board of Directors at ChelPipe Group Alexander Fedorov Man of The Year 2019 in Environmental Initiative. The 9th awarding ceremony took place at World Trade Center in Chelyabinsk. 'The award figurine was given to Alexander Fedorov by Head of Chelyabinsk Region division of the Federal Service for the Supervision of Natural Resources Vitaliy Kuryatnikov and owner of Uvildy

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 29, 2019. Ural Airlines recently introduced a new flight from Yekaterinburg to Xi’an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, China, the air carrier’s press service reports. The flights will get operated on Airbus A320neo planes every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday starting December 16, 2019. For Promo tickets (one piece of luggage under 10kg and all fees and charges included), prices start from RUB 15,900 (one way) and RUB 30,530 (there and back) for Yekaterinburg-Xi’an flights U6 763 and from RUB 16,800 (one way) and RUB 30,530 (there and back) for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 29, 2019. Activists from the ChelPipe Group-supported NGO Gorod Pervykh coordinated Gorod Pervykh Eco-Festival in Pervouralsk; more than 500 people took part in the event, the Group’s press service reports. There event’s program covered recycling pickups, clothing and house plant swaps, and environmental workshops. ‘A recycling pickup station was set up on the festival site; this has already proved a popular event with the locals. Gorod Pervykh activists managed to collect over 800 kg of old newspapers and more than 100kg of plastic, cans, and glass items.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 29, 2019. Three mines at EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company have reached their target output figures for this year ahead of schedule, the company’s PR Department reports. ‘Alardinskaya Mine and two more of Raspadskaya Coal Company’s enterprises have produced the target amount of coal for this year,’ the company says. Alardinskaya Mine was the first one to reach the target output figures; Yerunakovskaya 8 Mine came next. Yerunakovskaya miners faced a number of geological problems at the start of the year but managed to cope with them and have produced the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 29, 2019. MegaFon launched MegaFon-CARGO, a new automated freight forwarding service with a fully functional e-document flow that makes it possible to process any kind of shipment (from a small parcel to a large truck) all over Russia, the telecom company’s press service reports. The platform was designed by Mail.ru Group. ‘MegaFon-CARGO creates an impartial rating of freight forwarding companies, comes up with delivery price comparisons, and helps users coordinate a multiple-freight-forwarder shipment. Thanks to Personnel Control, Vehicle Pool Control, and Cargo

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 29, 2019. Chair of the BOD at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Viktor Rashnikov won the All-Russian Director of The Year Award for his contribution to corporate governance system, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The awarding ceremony took place in Moscow at the close of the 9th All-Russian Corporate Governance Forum. Viktor Rashnikov has once again been selected as one of the Top 25 Chairs of the BODs. ‘There are several MMK executives among the winners. For one, the independent members of the Board of Directors Tav Morgan, Kirill Levin,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 28, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) is launching a wild sale marathon on Black Friday. According to the bank’s press service, the bank’s private customers will be able to set up an account with increased interest earnings, apply for a loan on appealing terms, and save money on credit card fees and transfer commissions on November 28-December 2, 2019. ‘Black Friday is the traditional start-of-the-holiday-season sale time. The UBRD decided to join in the campaign with its wild sale marathon. For one, if you set up a savings deposit

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 28, 2019. OOO FORES’s Sukhoi Log branch fully complies with the existing air emission and noise level regulations, the company’s press service reports. ‘The impact OOO FORES’s Sukhoi Log Branch made on the local environment in May-October 2019 stayed within the existing hygienic limits. This was the final finding of the production monitoring program the company went through with recently. All the measurements made and samples taken on the border of the plant’s sanitary protection zone and next to the surrounding apartment buildings were made and taken by

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 28, 2019. The 55-day overhaul of an oxygen converter (capacity: 100,000,000+ kg of steel a month) has been completed at EVRAZ Holding West-Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ ZSMK); the plant has invested RUB 90m into the project. ‘The overhaul involved replacing the primary and ancillary parts of the converters as well as installing a new control and operation system. This will improve the steel-smelters’ working conditions and will ensure the converter unit’s uninterrupted performance,’ says EVRAZ PR Department. The plant currently operates five

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 28, 2019. Yekaterinburg Duma’s Local Government Committee approved of the initiative to make Akademicheskiy the city’s 8th administrative district; the proposal was presented to the Duma by Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Vysokinsky. First Vice Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Kovalchik explained that the initiative to create the 8th administrative district in the city would help make the management of the area more efficient. ‘We have the roadmap for the process, with all the papers sent to the federal authorities. What we are waiting for is the official

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 28, 2019. ChelPipe Group is taking part in International Productivity Forum at Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO on November 26-27, the company’s press service reports. ‘During the forum’s plenary session on Boosting Efficiency & Productivity 2025: Strategies, Mechanisms, Best Global Practices, ChelPipe’s Chair of the BOD Andrei Komarov is going to give a talk on how ChelPipe Group’s company philosophy known as White-Coated Metallurgy affects the company’s KPI. Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, Russia’s Economic

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 27, 2019. National Unarmed Self-Defense Day was celebrated in District Akademicheskiy in Yekaterinburg last week; the interregional championship for male and female contestants was held for the third time. The competition took place on November 23 and gathered together more than 150 sports players in the 8-12 age group [and a number of pre-schoolers - Ed.]. School 19 served as the primary venue for the event. The championship was coordinated by Sverdlovsk Region Unarmed Self-Defense Federation, the housing developer RSG-Akademicheskoye, Akademicheskiy

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 27, 2019. A permanent exhibition on the Russian art in the 17th to the early 20th centuries reopened in Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts after a recent reconstruction. OOO FORES and the newly established non-profit The Shmotyev Family Foundation were among the benefactors behind the project. 20 out of 154 works that are now featured within the Russian Art Collection used to be part of the museum’s reserve stock. These are mostly canvases created at the turn of the 20th century, FORES’s press service reports. Special-purpose exhibition equipment was purchased for