UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 8, 2016. Yekaterinburg residents typically look for jobs on the Internet, Zarplata.ru’s research findings indicate. According to the website’s survey, 79% of respondents believe using recruitment websites and submitting their applications there is the most efficient way to find a job, 67% think the strategy is to submit one’s CV online in the hope that an employer will get interested, and 40% prefer looking for job ads on a potential employer’s website and sending their CVs at the provided email address. The more conservative job-searching strategies came next: 28%

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 8, 2016. The number of driving schools has been going down in Sverdlovsk Region over the last few years; the decrease reached 16.8% last year compared with late 2014 and 7.3% in the first quarter of 2016 against late 2015. Deputy Head of Examinations, Surveillance & Motorized Vehicles Registration Department at Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry State Road Safety Inspectorate Ivan Malgin said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg that there were 339 driving schools in the constituency at the end of 2014 and only 304 schools a year

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 8, 2016. Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant/ChTPZ landed a contract with Nord Stream 2 AG, the pipeline operator, for the delivery of large-diameter pipes for the construction of two branches of the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline, the company press service reports. The company won the tender in March 2016. Under the terms of the contract, the plant will provide Nord Stream 2 AG with 596,000,000 kg of 1,153-mm LDPs (wall width 30.9mm and 34.6mm) with internal and external corrosion-resistant coating. All the pipes will be manufactured at the plant’s Vysota 239 department. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 8, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s Volchansk subsidiary developed and adopted a product quality enhancement program, with the goal of achieving zero percentage of faulty items by 2018, the corporation’s press service reports. One of the steps taken was setting up the so-called ‘quality clubs’ whose task is to elaborate and introduce proposals on how to reduce the number of faulty items through improvements in technological processes and better organization of work and production. Starting from 2013, the plant has been implementing its In-Built

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 7, 2016. Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport (a member of Regional Airports Holding) offered its services to 149,500 passengers on international flights last year; this was as much as 100,000 people less than one year previously, the airport’s press service reports. ‘The decrease in traffic primarily had to do with cancelled Egypt-bound flights, as 52,000 travelers went there last year alone,’ the press service says. At the same time, the number of passengers on domestic flights actually rose, with more new national destinations offered by air carriers and more flights

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 7, 2016. Yekaterinburg residents’ unpaid housing bills amounted to 4.518bn RUR on March 1, 2016, the city council’s press service reports. ‘To make the debtors pay their bills, housing companies are forced to stop providing them with heat, power, or water supply. So far, power supply has been limited in nearly 32,000 homes, sewage services in 676 homes, and hot water in 19 homes. In January and February, 4,406 dwellings had no electric power supply, 24 no hot water supply, and 138 no sewage services,’ the press service says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 7, 2016. SverdNIIkhimmash (a member enterprise of Rosatom’s Atomenergomash) presented its advanced water conditioning and demineralization technologies at the 3d International Hi Tech Sustainable Development NDExpo 2016 Forum, the company press service reports. The forum is held in Moscow on April 5-7, 2016. The event is coordinated by Rosatom Corporation and co-organized by OOO Atomexpo. This year, over forty Russian and foreign companies are taking part in the conference. The forum’s agenda covered a round table presentation on water conditioning and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 7, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) is launching a special offer for its i.ubrr.ru users, the bank’s press service reports. The bank’s e-customers can now win their own copy of Apple Watch when paying their mobile phone, TV, Internet connection, and housing bills or road fines, transferring money into other banks’ card accounts, or transferring money in between their own different currency accounts between March 28 and April 30, 2016. The prize goes to the person who makes the 50th, 100,000th, or 150,000th transaction within the given

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 7, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation started getting ready for Tankprom 3, an all-Russian research to practice conference to be held in Nizhniy Tagil in early October, the company press service reports. The event is also coordinated by the Moscow-based Association for Promotion of Science & Technology Museums Amnit, Moscow-based S.I. Vavilov Institute of the History of Natural Science and Technology, Moscow’s Polytechnic Museum, and the Saint Petersburg-based Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps. Representatives of the country’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 6, 2016. Things are looking increasingly glum on Sverdlovsk Region’s labor market. According to the constituency’s Cabinet website, the official unemployment rate stood at 1.68% in early April, compared with 1.5% at the start of the year. According to Director of Sverdlovsk Region Labor & Employment Department Dmitri Antonov, the overall number of people registered as unemployed rose by 11.9% since New Year, that is, from 34,127 to 38,191 people. Sverdlovskstat reports the unemployment rate was 6.5% last year, while the number of those out of jobs came to over

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 6, 2016. Ural Airlines won the national Russian Wings 2015 Award, the air carrier’s press service reports. The company was awarded as the air carrier with the Best Engineering/Tech Support Service and was among the nominees for the Best E-Commerce and Group I Domestic Air Travel (for airlines which fly over 3m passengers a year). ‘The prize jury pointed to the airline’s success with the launch of its own tech center; this meant Ural Airlines could cut their maintenance costs considerably and implement new technological solutions in their repair practices. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 6, 2016. ChTPZ Group is going to introduce the exponents at and visitors to the Tube & Wire Exhibition in Dusseldorf, Germany, to its ‘White Metallurgy’ facilities, the company press service reports. This year, the company is making a presentation on its Vysota 239 LDP-manufacturing plant and ETERNO stamp-welded pipe connectors manufacturing plant, whose production sites have been recreated at the Group’s exhibition stand. ‘The design and the contents of the stand can make a visitor feel they’ve been transferred to our actual production sites. You can take a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 6, 2016. This year, Electromachine (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) is planning to get additional certificates authorizing the company to do calibration testing of its geometrical, radio, thermo-technical, and vacuum measuring instruments, the company press service reports. This will mean the plant can fully meet its own instrument-testing needs without any outside help and thus save around 1.8m RUR annually. ‘The products our plant makes are all involved in the government-controlled regulation of measurements and their precision, so all the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 6, 2016. Director-General of Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) Igor Lobov received a special thank-you letter from Russian Geographical Society’s Omsk division for his support of the Heroes Live While They Are Remembered Project, the company press service reports. ‘The project, coordinated by the Society’s Omsk division and the web portal Zhiviye and funded by Gazprom Neft, was completed at the end of March. Igor Lobov was one of the city’s very first business managers to respond to the coordinator’s call for help in keeping the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, April 5, 2016. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) has organized a Welcome Day for its suppliers for the fourteenth time this month. Within one year these monthly meetings were introduced, seventy-nine different companies have taken part already. Fourteen companies’ representatives attended the last meeting. ‘The unfailingly high number of participants is one proof that these meetings provide more transparency for our purchasing processes on the one hand and allow MMK to obtain more information about its new suppliers and the new products on their

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, April 5, 2016. The representatives of the Swedish company GlobeCert AB carried out a certification audit of MMK METIZ pre-stressing strands, which means the company can now supply this product to Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Lithuanian, Estonia, and Latvian markets. MMK METIZ got certified for compliance of its 9.3mm, 12.5mm, 15.2mm, and 15.7mm pre-stressing strands with Parts 1 and 3 of Sweden’s prEN 10138: 2006 standard. ‘The Swedish company representatives confirmed that MMK METIZ ensures efficient control over the technological processes of

UrBC, Moscow, April 5, 2016. 4,374 new cars were sold in Sverdlovsk Region in the first two months of the year, down 7.5% on a year earlier, Avtostat reports. All in all, Sverdlovsk Region was the country’s ninth largest car market among all the federal constituencies, with 2.5% of all the sales on the Russian market made there. One year ago, the sales figure stood at 4,731 new automobiles, which was 58.1% less than in the year 2014 (17,900 units). The country’s overall car market sagged by 48.5% at the time (compared with 339,700 units sold in the year 2014).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 5, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) is offering an all-expenses-covered trip to the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games this summer as a prize to one of its customers, the bank’s press service reports. ‘If you use your UBRD Visa card to pay for your purchases between April 1 and June 9, 2016, you have a chance to witness the 2016 Olympics opening ceremony first-hand,’ the press service says. To take part in the prize-drawing, you need to register at rio.visa.ru, use your bank card for at least five payment transactions (amounting to at least

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 5, 2016. Rus-Rating affirmed SKB-Bank’s credit ratings at BBB- and its country rating at AA, the bank’s press service reports. This is actually the best score a Ural Federal District-based bank has got so far. ‘The score is based on the following factors: good net interest margin, a recognizable local market brand, and moderate sensitivity to risks,’ the bank says. According to Rus-Rating, SKB-Bank is a large-sized bank and one of the Urals’ leading financial institutions. The bank specializes in loans and services to private customers and small and medium-sized

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 5, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon identified its top Internet traffic user among Yekaterinburg business centers, the company press service reports. This was Stroganov in Karl Liebknecht St. ’The data transfer speed and quality allow for increasingly extensive use of Internet connection at work. We looked into all the data from our terminals covering over fifty business centers in Yekaterinburg and found a record-setter. It turns out high-speed Internet connection is used by people working at Stroganov the most, together they have downloaded an