UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 5, 2016. Sputnik, a hockey team sponsored by Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation, spoke about its winter 2015/2016 performance at a recent press conference, the corporation’s press service reports. According to the hockey club representatives, despite the relatively bad luck at the start of the season, the team managed to make it to the play-off and nearly made it to the next round of the Bratina Cup, losing to Neftekamsk’s three-time championship winner Toros. ‘There was a great surge of positive emotion at the end of the championship, and some time was needed to recover.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 4, 2016. The price of land went up by 5% in the last three months and by 18% in the last year, the real estate website N1.RU’s press service reports. ‘Land prices tend to go up in March when the gardening season begins, but last year they actually went down against January, from 65,400 RUR at the start of the year down to 60,900 RUR per 100m2 three months later,’ the press service says. This year, prices rose by 5% in the first three months and currently come to 71,900 RUR per 100m2 on average. This is 18% more than one year earlier, when the figure was 60,900 RUR.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 4, 2016. Ural Airlines decided to celebrate April Fool’s Day by offering special prices on domestic and international flights, the air carrier’s press service says. For example, reduced-price tickets are now available for Tomsk-Moscow, Barnaul-Moscow, Irkutsk-Moscow, Chita-Moscow, and Omsk-Moscow flights. Prices have also been reduced for Saint Petersburg-Tbilisi, Yekaterinburg-Tbilisi, Moscow-Tivat, Yekaterinburg-Paris, Moscow-Belgrad, and Moscow-Larnaca flights. The special offer holds for flights operated between April 1 and May 31, 2016. Bookings can only be

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 4, 2016. Starting from April 1, 2016, the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) and UnionCard will no longer be partners, the bank’s press service reports. ‘This means all the UnionCards the bank has issued so far will be deactivated,’ the press service says. The bank’s customers are thus advised to get their UnionCards exchanged for their Unembossed Visa counterparts. The exchange can be performed at any of the bank’s branches any day as long as you have your passport and your UnionCard with you.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 4, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s innovative 12-196-01 and 12-196-02 gondola-type railcars can now be repaired and overhauled less frequently: the decision was to extend the time between repairs was taken by the railcar committee in Saratov, the company press service reports. The first overhaul used to be given to a railcar sixteen years after the commissioning date, now it comes to eighteen years. Also, the time/mileage between the manufacturing date and the first-time depot repairs as well as between the first-time depot repairs and the first overhaul used

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 4, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Volchansky subsidiary offered a guided tour of the plant to 5th and 6th graders from local School 23. According to the corporation’s press service, this was part of the plant’s job counseling program aimed at getting the schoolchildren interested in blue-collar and engineering jobs. The children were introduced to safety rules and the plant’s history and traditions and were shown some of the production departments. ‘The gas cylinder department and X-ray lab were the places to learn about the modern production control

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 1, 2016. Prices went down by 1.8% on Yekaterinburg existing home market compared with the start of the year and by 8.8% compared with one year earlier, Ural Real Estate Chamber reports. As of March 28, 2016, the average asking price of a square meter of housing stood at 69,459 RUR. There are currently slightly over 10,300 apartments and 1,850 rooms in communal apartments for sale in the chamber’s database. It normally tales between four and half and five and a half months to make a sale. Prices declined most noticeably in the city’s second and third most expensive

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 1, 2016. A new-generation, highly productive excavator meant for making bund walls was recently introduced to the ore mining and processing enterprise EVRAZ KGOK’s tailing dump. The bund walls are intended to make sure the facility’s safe. According to the company press service, the new machine is twice as productive as its earlier counterpart. ‘The new excavator is fitted with two arms (10.5 and16.5 meters long) to perform various kinds of operations. The machine is suitable even for harshest climatic conditions and is extremely operator-safe due to its panoramic

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 1, 2016. Ural Airlines will be operating their new Kemerovo-Saint Petersburg flight every Thursday and Sunday starting from April 28, the air carrier’s press service reports. The return flights will be available on Saturdays and Wednesdays. The plane arrives in Saint Petersburg at 9:10 AM, which means passengers can plan their business agenda efficiently and use the convenient connecting flights to other Russian cities as well as destinations abroad. ‘Saint Petersburg is a city where you can combine business and pleasure and do some sightseeing, go to the theater,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 1, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s customers have invested over 1bn RUR in savings certificates so far, the bank’s press service reports. The increase was 22% in February alone (17% above the market’s average as quoted by the Central Bank). The UBRD Debit Operations Director Olga Aksenova says most customers go for certificates with a 180-day period, with the average invested amount at 476,000 RUR (40% more than the average amount placed in savings deposits). Over 60% of savings certificates fall into the 100,000 RUR-1,000,000 RUR range.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 1, 2016. President of Russia’s Chamber of Commerce & Industry Sergei Katyrin congratulated Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko on getting elected onto the chamber’s Board, the corporation’s press service reports. Katyrin directed a special letter to the plant, stressing that getting elected onto the Board is a recognition of Oleg Sienko’s contribution to the development of Russia’s businesses and a sign of the business community’s great trust. ‘I am confident our work together will result in new successes such as a better entrepreneurial

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, April 1, 2016. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) invested around 80m RUR in the development of new technologies and mastering of new, innovative products last year, the company reports. For one, MMK can now make НСТ600Х duplex steel for automobile body sheets and has successfully experimented with the НСТ780Х and НСТ980Х steels, the pilot batches of which have already been supplied to customers. MMK is also working, with good results, on the production of X70 steel plates meant for making special-purpose large-diameter pipes which are used in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 31, 2016. Theater and movie actor Mikhail Boyarsky is going to unveil the sculptures portraying d’Artagnan, Athos, and Aramis at Yekaterinburg’s Passage Shopping Mall, the developer’s press service reports. Fans of the 1978 Soviet film starring Boyarsky as d’Artagnan can meet the actor on the ground floor of the mall; he’ll tell them about the casting and the shooting, give out autographs, and sing a few of his well-known songs. ‘The unveiling of the three sculptures will reunite the four famous friends: actor Valentin Smirnitsky (Porthos of the 1978 film) presented

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 31, 2016. Ural Airlines resumed operating its Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-bound flights in the summertime, the air carrier’s press service reports. Flights are operated from Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, and Vladivostok twice a week (on Tuesdays and Saturdays). Another flight will become available every Thursday starting from the end of May. Tickets can be booked on the company website www.uralairlines.com, through UralAirlines mobile app, over the phone (8-800-7700-262), or at any booking office. Special state-funded discounts are available for Saint

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 31, 2016. Pervorualsk New Pipe Plant/PNTZ (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) underwent a recertification audit for its aviation-purpose goods. According to the company press service, auditors from Material Certification Center and the IAC approved of the entire range of the plant’s products under inspection. The audit involved the plant’s pipe-rolling, cylinder-making, and pipe-drawing departments, its central test lab, all the testing and control departments, and the quality management system department.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 31, 2016. Yurginsky Plant (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) is about to deliver its first batch of ten support units to Uvalnaya Mine, the company press service reports. ‘The first ten out of 137 units ordered by Siberian Coal Company have been assembled at the plant by now. The mining equipment produced at Yurginsky is meant for the development of the mine’s longwall face. The ten support units were manufactured in March 2016 according to customer’s requirements. Another thirty units will be made and delivered in April,’ the press service says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 31, 2016. Burevestnik Central Scientific Research Institute (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) offered a guided tour to fourth-year students of R.E. Alekseev Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University. According to the corporation’s press service, such tours are coordinated for students every year, as the university’s Automation & Mechanics Department and Burevestnik are established and long-time partners. ‘The prospective experts in electronic equipment could take a look at our production departments and machines and learn about the operation

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 30, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) improved the terms of its Business Privilege loan, making it more affordable, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Loans are now available to any company, regardless of whether it is already our customer or not. All you have to do is submit your application on the bank’s website. The loan amount varies between 1 and 30 million rubles and must be repaid within five years’ time. The bank sets no restrictions on how the money will be spent: funds can be used as operating cash, invested in real estate,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 30, 2016. Ural Airlines introduced a new scheduled flight from Novosibirsk to Shanghai recently, the air carrier’s press service reports. Travelers from Novosibirsk can fly to Shanghai for as little as 12,020 RUR (one way) starting from May 16, 2016. This special price holds for flights departing on May 16 and May 23. The flight will be operated every Monday. ‘Europe of the East’, ‘the Pearl of the Orient’, a major metropolis, a business center – this is what Shanghai is. Waitan, its waterfront area, is a city landmark where architectural styles from all over the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 30, 2016. Aleksandrinskaya Mining & Ore Company, a member enterprise of Russian Copper Company, bought a new front loader to improve its ore transportation process, the company press service reports. ‘To make sure a mining and metallurgical enterprise is economically efficient, copper ore needs to be supplied to the ore-dressing plant continually and with no interruptions, as any idle time at any stage of the process can result in financial loss. This is why we choose carefully our ore transportation vehicles: these must contribute to high productivity and not