UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2019. Activists from the ChelPipe Group-supported environmental NGO Gorod Pervykh are going to coordinate the town’s first Things: Second Life Eco-Festival at ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant’s Culture Palace on November 23. ‘The program of the event covers recyclable materials pickup, clothes and plant swap, and environmental upcycling workshops that are open to everyone,’ ChelPipe Group’s press service says. Several venues will be open for the visitors. You can bring your old newspapers, plastic, glass, metal items, and used fluorescent

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2019. A police station opened in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, the town council’s website states. ‘We’re opening a small but very important unit today. District Akademicheskiy is both the fastest-growing and the safest part of Yekaterinburg. I wish our coworkers in the law- and order-enforcement sector every success in their hard work,’ said Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Vysokinsky. The new station at 21/2 Akademik Vonsovsky St houses local district police chiefs and officers, youth liaison officers, traffic

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2019. EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) supplied more than 2,000 H-beams for the construction of Veer Mall in Yekaterinburg, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. ‘The building rests on a steel metal frame to ensure more durability and a longer lifespan. The solid-rolled H-beams are used in the bearing components called chord trusses. Thanks to the use of the H-beams, the building will remain very sturdy, since a solid-rolled beam can withstand greater load than a welded one; additionally, considerably

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 20, 2019. NEYVA Bank adopted a new version of terms and conditions for private customers. According to the bank’s press service, the changes mostly have to do with the launch of the Faster Payments System, where you can send money using only the receiver’s phone number. The new terms and conditions came into effect on November 18, 2019; the upper limit on free-of-charge money transfers (using a card number or a phone number) has been increased to RUB 20,000 a month (RUB 35 plus 1.5% of the remaining amount get charged on the amount exceeding the limit). For the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 20, 2019. District Akademicheskiy Project developers won the Tatishchev and de Gennin Award; the awarding ceremony took place at Yekaterinburg Chamber Theater on November 18, 2019. President at KORTROS Group and Member of the BOD at RSG-Akademicheskoye Veniamin Golubitsky won the Tatishchev and de Gennin Award with the District Akademicheskiy Project in Contribution to Economy and Urban Development. Members of the BOD at RSG-Akademicheskoye Alexei Vorobyov and Viktor Maslakov, Estate Financing Director at Sberbank of Russia’s Ural branch Nina Sogrina, and Chair

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 20, 2019. OOO FORES’s Sukhoi Log branch started upgrading two of its production lines in early November; replacing the air venting and suction facilities with the new ones is going to make a large part of the overall renovation process, the company’s press service reports. ‘We keep upgrading our production equipment on a regular basis, which is why at least one of the production lines is always under repairs or reconstruction. Still, we had to take special steps to prepare for such a long downtime, that is, design a special schedule that would allow more than one

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 20, 2019. PRO Format Mining & Metallurgical Industry’s Managers and Professionals Forum will take place at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Personal Corporate HR Training Center on November 20-21, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The event gets coordinated by Russia’s Mining & Metallurgical Industry Professional Qualifications Council, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works, and Personal Corporate HR Training Center. The goal is to help shape the industry’s position on the vital issues in the sector and on the prospects of the National

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 20, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program alumni who have served their army terms at the Group-supported regiment in Shagol have been discharged in the course of a special ceremony this week, the Group’s press service reports. Eight young men who have served their terms at one of the regiments of Russia’s Ministry of Defense Air Force/Air Defense Division 14 have all been invited to work at ChelPipe Group’s member enterprise Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe). ‘The alumni of ChelPipe Group’s Future of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 19, 2019. The USD/RUB and EUR/RUB exchange rates are going to stay at their current levels in the coming week as businesses are making their monthly tax payments. According to Stock Market Operations Director at NEYVA Bank Dmitri Glebov, the exchange rates are only going to fluctuate within a very narrow range, as the markets are waiting for the details on the United States and China’s trade agreement. The fiscal period factor (November 15-25, 2019) will keep supporting the Russian ruble. Glebov believes the USD/RUB and the EUR/RUB exchange rates will stay within

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 19, 2019. Private customers applied for more loans than usual with the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) in October. According to the bank’s press service, the amount of newly issued loans also rose by 28.5% in October 2019 against September 2019; the average loan amount increased by 14%. ‘The bank adopted a rather cautious risk policy and managed to get a quality loan book as a result. Our appealing lending terms bring bona fide borrowers, so the new debt ratio regulations the Russian Central Bank adopted recently did not affect our business.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 19, 2019. NEYVA Bank joined the Russian Central Bank’s faster payments system (FPS) and is now the country’s 26th and one of the Urals’ first banks to do so. According to the bank’s official press statement, NEYVA Bank’s private customers will be able to make instant payments to their own or other holders’ bank accounts in any other FPS member bank using only a mobile phone number, any time, anywhere in Russia, starting November 18, 2019. Chair of the Board at NEYVA Bank Pavel Yefremov says the bank keeps track of all the new services on the market and only

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 19, 2019. The housing developer Brusnika is starting two new projects and selling future homes in Yekaterinburg, the company’s press service reports. On offer are the apartments and urban villas in Shishimskaya Gorka in Uktus and Severny Kvartal next to Prospekt Kosmonavtov (Yekaterinburg Metro station). There about 542 apartments with new layout solutions. Shishimskaya Gorka is a large-scale comprehensive area development project in the center of Uktus. The project will get accomplished in three stages: first, a block of apartment buildings 10 to 17 stories high

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 19, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is coordinating its usual seasonal immunization campaign (the flu shots are free of charge for MMK Group’s employees), MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘This year, MMK Group’s management tripled the amount of funds to cover the flu shots. 9,000 workers got vaccinated last year and as many as 26,000+ employees are expected to get vaccinated by the end of this year’s campaign. The free flu shots are available at any of the forty medical units on the company’s production site; thirteen units are open

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 18, 2019. More than three hundred tax crimes have been registered in Ural Federal District since the start of the year, Russia’s Deputy Prosecutor-General Yuri Gulyagin announced at the recent meeting of the interdepartmental work team under Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District. ‘Yuri Gulyagin spoke about the problems related to preventing tax crime in the Urals. He commented on the law enforcement agencies’ considerable efforts in the field and said over three hundred tax crimes had been detected in Ural Federal

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 18, 2019. OOO FORES’s Kamensk-Uralsky branch helped coordinate Raduga Children’s Graeco-Roman Wrestling Championship in town, the company’s press service reports. The championship took place in late October, gathering together over a hundred young sports players from Sverdlovsk Region and Kurgan Region. The event was dedicated to Nikolay Shmakov, the coach at and founder of a Graeco-Roman wrestling club at the local sports school. The awards (trophy cups, medals, and certificates) were given to the young winners by Director at OOO FORES’s Kamensk-Uralsky branch

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 18, 2019. The housing developers Brusnika and YIT signed an agreement in Yekaterinburg to set up a joint management company, Brusnika’s press service reports. The new company YIT Brusnika Service will operate in the Urals and Siberia’s largest cities: Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, Novosibirsk, and Surgut. YIT and Brusnika are working to implement their updated strategy on their housing resources management and are thus strengthening their position on the housing service market, improving their customer service, and expanding their presence geographically. The new

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 18, 2019. Chair of the BOD at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Viktor Rashnikov confirmed the design proposal for the architectural look of and landscape/tree-planting solutions for Prityazheniye Project, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. Prityazheniye Project, which is unique to Russia, aims to take Magnitogorsk’s idea of a comfortable urban environment to a completely new level. A 400-hectare land allotment owned by MMK has been designated for the project. The site will become a home to modern sports facilities, healthcare establishments,

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 18, 2019. The investment strategy adopted by Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) for the years 2015-2025 is going to result in a $686m increase in EBITDA (Earnings before Interest, Taxation, Depreciation & Amortization) every year, the company’s top manager announced during Investor Day events in London, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. Chair of the BOD at MMK Viktor Rashnikov, Director-General Pavel Shilyayev, independent member of the Board of Directors Tav Morgan, and Director for Economic Issues Andrei Yeremin all gave their talks in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 15, 2019. Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Vysokinsky presented Yekaterinburg’s development plan for 2020-2035 at the 4th Russian Cities 2030: Project Territory Forum. The event is taking place in Yekaterinburg for the fourth year in a row and has gathered together members of the Federation Council, State Duma deputies, and heads of Russian federal constituencies. Alexander Vysokinsky said the strategic planning of urban development relies on the compartmentalization-by-branch principle: education, healthcare, culture, and so on. In terms of the living standards,

UrBC, Moscow, November 15, 2019. Russians’ daily spending increased by 3.6% in October 2019 against one month earlier, Romir Holding’s research findings indicate. ‘The increase in spending is a usual trend for October, even though the tendency proved less pronounced this year. The rising expenses have to do with getting ready for the winter, and this year the winter is taking its time in coming,’ says President at Romir Holding Andrei Milyokhin. The spending figures rose in nearly every single constituency except Ural Federal District. ‘In Ural Federal District, locals’ daily spending dropped