UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 27, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company improved its Production & Industrial Safety Management Center’s performance potential, the company’s PR Department reports. ‘The idea behind creating the center was to boost performance efficiency through providing the company’s management and employees with up-to-date, full information on the tech processes in progress at our member enterprises. The center united all the earlier solutions that collect, process, and transfer data from all of our enterprises into a single structure,’ the company says. A few

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 27, 2019. PRO Format, a forum for managers and workers in the mining and metallurgical industry, was coordinated in Magnitogorsk with support from Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), the company’s Information & PR Department reports. The event was dedicated to the pressing issues in and development prospects of the National Qualification System for the mining and metallurgical sector. ‘The forum was coordinated by the Mining & Metallurgical Industry Professional Qualifications Council, MMK, and Personal Corporate Cadre Training Center.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 27, 2019. NEYVA Bank is getting ready for Black Friday with its special offers for businesses. According to the bank’s press service, the offer will hold on November 18-December 31, 2019. ‘If you sign up for the bank’s Basic, Universal, or Maximum six- or twelve-month packages before the end of the year, you get an extra month of banking services free of charge. If you want to start using the package in December, you need to sign up via Bank-Direct by November 31. We believe in fair loyalty schemes, so the special offer holds for both existing and new customers

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2019. Two types of reinforcing bars made at EVRAZ Holding’s West-Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ ZSMK) won awards at Russia’s 100 Best Goods Contest, the company’s PR Department reports. Reinforcing bar V500S won in Russia’s 100 Best Goods and in Kuzbass’s Best Products & Services. The rebars are meant for reinforcing concrete-steel structures. The rebars’ outstanding mechanical properties and chemical composition make them suitable for welding, for making metal mesh, and for applying inside high-rise building structures. Reinforcing bar

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 25, 2019. First Freight Company’s Chelyabinsk branch handled 27% more hopper railcar shipments in the ten months of 2019 than in the ten months of 2018 (526,000,000 kg all in all), First Freight Company’s press service reports. ‘The branch’s employees work closely with our parters, including EuroCement Group, South Ural Mining & Processing Company, Dyckerhoff Korkino Cement, and Vishnevogorsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise. Besides, this year we resumed our partnership with MMK Group’s LLC MCRW and found new customers such as Volgograd Ceramics Plant

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2019. OOO FORES’s Asbest branch keeps working to improve its energy efficiency, the plant’s Senior Energy Engineer Alexei Yakunin said in his interview to Asbestovsky Rabochiy. ‘Energy efficiency and resource saving are the two things the Senior Energy Engineer’s Department is in charge of. On the one hand, we try to build up on our power facilities. We only used to rely on a single power substation, but an additional line was introduced later, alongside with major reconstruction and upgrades, which was necessary to ensure sufficient power supply for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2019. Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe) intends to direct RUB 1.66 billion out of its net profit in the nine months of 2019, as well as a portion of undistributed net profit from the previous years (RUB 1.33 billion), to interim dividend payments. According to ChelPipe Group’s press service, the decision was made by the company’s Board of Directors. It was suggested that the dividends should amount to RUB 5.45 per ordinary share for January-September 2019 and to RUB 4.37 for the previous years’s dividends. ‘ChelPipe’s financial performance in the nine

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2019. Yekaterinburg Council is currently looking for a contractor to build a school in District Akademicheskiy’s Quarter 10, a special website on government purchases says. The contractor will have to design the building information model and the interior solutions, produce the drawings of the building, and put up a secondary school in Quarter 10. The school must be big enough for 1,100 students. The building must comprise a hall with a waiting room, a cloakroom, recreation areas, a cafeteria hall, an auditorium, a gym, and a library/information center.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2019. Ural Airlines’ Director-General Sergey Skuratov won the People of The Epoch 1994-2019 Award in Businesses’ Social Projects. The People of The Epoch Media Award was established by the Delovoy Kvartal magazine. An ad hoc Expert Committee got set up to select the most prominent personalities of the last twenty-five years; the winners in several categories were chosen in the course of a two-round secret ballot procedure. Director-General at Ural Airlines Sergey Nikolaevich Skuratov was chosen as Man of The Epoch in Businesses’ Social Projects. The company’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2019. The average asking price on Yekaterinburg’s existing home market came to RUB 72,355 per m2 on November 18, 2019; the figure dropped by 0.2% in the last month and by 0.7% against early October, Ural Real Estate Chamber’s Analytical Department’s report indicates. The market supply has shrunk by 0.2% in the last month, reaching 9,000 units. It currently takes four months on average for a place to sell.

UrBC, Moscow, November 25, 2019. Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Ural Airlines’ pilots Damir Yusupov and Georgy Murzin with Hero of Russia Stars, the Kremlin’s website says. According to the President, the airplane’s entire crew acted professionally, smoothly, and courageously during an emergency. However, captain Damir Yusupov and co-pilot Georgy Murzin played the key part in this. The two men managed to perform an emergency landing literally in the middle of nowhere and saved dozens of lives. The high-class pilots have deserved their Hero of Russia titles, the President stressed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2019. Alardinskaya Mine is currently EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s No. 1 mine in terms of meeting the annual target output figures. ‘The miners have extracted 2,520,000,000 kg of coal so far. Most of it got produced from Coalface 6-1-20, which got launched in March. To make the mining process there more efficient, an armored face conveyor was purchased and a major overhaul was given to the existing cutter-loader. Thanks to the miners’ well-coordinated work, the team soon started producing 300,000,000 to 350,000,000 kg of coal a month,’ says

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2019. Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe) shipped 3.9% more goods to customers in January-September 2019 than in January-September 2018 (1,581,000,000 kg altogether), the company reports. The company’s supply of large-diameter pipes to customers rose by 15.8% and amounted to 699,000,000 kg; OCTG shipments increased by 9.8% and amounted to 358,000,000 kg. ‘The increase in the amount of pipe produce we shipped to customers in the nine months of 2019 against one year earlier has to do with our export market activity. Thanks to joining the Saryarka Pipeline

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2019. The price of renting a home in Yekaterinburg has gone up by 5% since November 2018 and now amounts to RUB 22,829 a month on average, Novosel Group’s research findings indicate. The rental prices of studio apartments increased by 1.7%, those of one-bedroom homes rose by 8.1%, and those of two-bedroom ones by 3.6%. The rental prices of homes in ‘economy-class’ apartment buildings (older structures built in the fifties, seventies, and eighties, small-size apartments, and so on) increased by 1.4% compared with November 2018. The rental prices of homes in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company is introducing a smart lock system for emergency shutdown of mining combines, the company’s press service reports. EVRAZ Holding has been working on the project to fit all the stoping combines with the lock system since 2018. The electronic appliances get connected to the positioning and alarm systems that have been used at the holding’s coal-mining enterprises for over a decade now. ‘No extra equipment needs to get taken down to the mine: the miners only need to have a compact RFID tag installed in their cap

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 22, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Group’s member enterprises directed nearly RUB 1.8bn to charity this year so far, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works and MMK Group’s member enterprises voluntarily take on a range of corporate social responsibility projects in Magnitogorsk and the Urals; they contribute to the infrastructure development in the town and the territories nearby, invest in culture and sports, support social movements, and coordinate culture and sports events in Magnitogorsk,’ the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2019. The crew of Ural Airlines’s flight U6 178 who rescued their passengers during an emergency landing in a cornfield in Moscow Region received state and ministerial awards, the air carrier’s press service reports. The awarding ceremony took place in Gostiny Dvor on November 20 as part of Moscow Transport Week. The awards were given out by Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov and Russia’s Transport Minister Yevgeny Dietrich. ‘Ural Airlines’ crew members got awarded for their valorous actions during the rough landing of Airbus 321 and evacuation onto

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2019. A group of Russian scientists paid a visit to Rosatom’s Power & Energy Division’s Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Plant to assess the fast fission reactors’ potential for the future of the nuclear industry, the plant’s press service reports. The delegation, chaired by the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Corresponding Fellow Viktor Sagaradze, visited the plant within the framework of the Academy’s Learned Council’s offsite session on radiation and solid state physics at Reactor Materials Institute in Zarechny. ‘Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Plant gets operated

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 21, 2019. MMK Group’s member enterprises won awards at the 25th Metal Expo 2019 International Industrial Exhibition for hi tech developments in the metal goods segment, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Information & PR Department reports. For one, a gold medal went to a solution to do with production of coiled stock and large- and medium-diameter arc-welded pipes (strength grade K50-K52) that are particularly resistant to stress corrosion cracking during sulfur- and hydrogen-containing oil and gas transfer. The solution was developed by MMK in

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 21, 2019. Russia’s State Expert Evaluation Department (GlavGosExpertiza) approved of the project to reclaim the country’s largest landfill in Chelyabinsk, Rosatom Corporation’s RosRAO Federal State Unitary Enterprise’s press service reports. The landfill has been part of Chelyabinsk since 1949 and is currently near 90 hectares large. According to the state-run environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor, the landfill was until recently responsible for 30% of the harmful air emissions in the area. The reclamation is part of the Environment National Project’s Clean