UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 17, 2015. Director-General of Tominsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (a member enterprise of Russian Copper Company) Valeriy Ulanovsky met a group of locals from Tomino, the village whose residents need to be relocated in order for Tominsky to be built. ‘The purpose of the meeting is to provide the locals once again with information on how the relocation will proceed. Our best professionals will be invited to work with the complex real estate issues at hand. Our company hired a team of Chelyabinsk-based estate agents who will be finding new homes for those

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 17, 2015. ChTPZ Group delivered 14,200,000 kg of large-diameter pipes to Kazakhstan, where the LDPs will be used to restore the Tuimazy-Omsk-Novosibirsk pipeline, the Group’s press service reports. The pipes were shipped in March through June 2015. Based on the order specifications, the Group supplied its customer with 720mm pipes (wall width 10-14mm) and 1,020mm pipes (wall width 10mm) made of K52 steel. All of the LDPs have corrosion-resistant outer coating and will be used for repairing Kazakhstan’s section of the pipeline. The said pipeline’s capacity currently

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 17, 2015. 6m customers subscribed to MegaFon Ural as their mobile communication provider within the thirteen years of the company’s market presence. According to the provider’s press service, they have so far offered their customers 115bn minutes worth of conversation time and handled 6.4bn text messages. Apart from that, the subscribers’ Internet traffic rose by 50% in the first quarter of 2015 alone against a year earlier. ‘Our primary focus is on providing highest quality service. We have expanded our network by 1.5 times in the last three years, for one. Over

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 17, 2015. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development, Visa, and the electronic goods chain M.Video are holding their Visa Double Luck Contest, the bank’s press service reports. Under the terms of the contest, M.Video customers who make 2,990RUR worth of purchases before August 3, 2015 are entitled to money prizes such as up to 5,000-ruble discounts on their next purchase and a chance to win 1m RUR every week. Besides, the prize amount gets doubled if customers pay by their Visa cards, so the next purchase discount comes to 10,000 rubles.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 16, 2015. Some 100 young employees of Uralvagonzavod Corporation are going to train as software-controlled machine operators at the company training center in Voronezh this year, the corporation’s press service reports. This training is a multi-faceted process, from testing and selection of candidates to the actual practice with new equipment. Four groups of 8-12 people from the head plant’s carriage assembly, mechanical assembly, tool-making department, and some other divisions have undergone training by now. ‘Every group spent two weeks attending Voronezh experts’

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 16, 2015. Ural Airlines’ passenger traffic rose by 8% in June, with the airline operating 4,273 flights all in all. Of these, 898 flights were international ones, 2,567 flights were domestic ones, and 808 flights were operated to and from the CIS member states, the air carrier’s press service reports. The airline flew 2,259,312 people in the first half of the year, which exceeded the figures for a year earlier by 2%. Ural Airlines operated 18,422 flights, including 3,624 international ones, 10,085 domestic ones, and 4,713 flights to and from the CIS member states.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July16, 2015. The number of MegaFon subscribers who used the option of getting a customized dial tone rose by 15% in the six months of 2015 compared with a year earlier, the telecommunications provider’s press service reports. ‘Based on our business customer preference analysis, every one in ten Urals-based businesses replaces the standard dial tone with a customized tune,’ says MegaFon Ural Business Customer Director Evgeniy Ivanov. Most of such subscribers are located in Sverdlovsk Region, Tyumen Region, and Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region. MegaFon reports Russian

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 16, 2015. SKB-Bank awarded prizes to the winners in the third round of Double Win Lottery, the bank’s press service reports. The lottery began on March 4 and involved every customer who took out a consumer loan. ‘Under the terms of this special offer, prizes are given out to the 90th, 250th, and 500th participant in every round. During the second round, for example, the 90th loan was issued to Alexander Sozinov from Verkhnyaya Salda. The winner received his prize, the Apple iPhone 6 smartphone, in the course of a solemn award ceremony. Yaroslav Magerya from our

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 16, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region’s industrial production index dropped by 3.7% in the first half of 2015 compared with the first half of 2014, Sverdlovskstat reports. At the same time, the index rose by 5.7% in June 2015 compared with the previous month. The index declined by 12.1% in the fossil industry and by 1% in the processing industry compared with January-June 2014. The figures decreased most in the fossil fuels sector (-82.7%), textile and clothing sector (-56%), and pulp and paper and publishing sector (-22.7%). On the other hand, the footwear and leather goods

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 15, 2015. MegaFon presented the updated version of My Account, a self-service option that allows a subscriber control their mobile phone bills and manage telecommunication services they need, the company press service reports. Additionally, My Account makes it possible to get all the information regarding one’s mobile account without having to contact the call center or go to the mobile carrier’s website. The app interface was completed in ‘tiles’, which made searching for activated rates and options as well as editing one’s personal settings much easier. The updated

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 15, 2015. Bank Koltso Urala awarded twenty lottery winners from Sredneuralsk, Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Yekaterinburg, Gai, Uchaly, Shadrinsk, Kemerovo, and other cities, the bank’s press service reports. The Money for Purchase Back Lottery was launched by the bank in June and involved the cardholders who used their cards to pay for their shopping. For the rest of this year, twenty winners chosen at random every month will get 2,000 RUR into their bank account, and a finalist will be selected in November who will get the entire amount spent on purchases that were paid for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 15, 2015. Uralvagonzavod Corporation hosted a meeting of the company youth council and a group of Chinese delegates, the company press service reports. The Chinese delegation included representatives of NGOs, the media, the country’s business community, finance experts, scientists, doctors, civil servants, and high-profile officials from All-China Youth Federation. ‘Young people from both countries got a chance to share their experience and learn about the life of their counterparts in the neighboring states. The company museum guides gave the Chinese visitors a tour

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 15, 2015. Metcombank introduced a new, around-the-clock branch at Rostov-on-Don Airport, the bank’s press service reports. ‘The bank keeps on introducing its branches at Russian airports: Rostov-on-Don is the fourth city to get one, preceded by Yekaterinburg, Samara, and Nizhniy Novgorod, where the outlet is located right in the main terminal. The new branch offers private customers such services as exchange of currency, taking money out of a cash machine, money orders, and putting some money into one’s mobile phone account. Business customers can use the bank’s cash

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 15, 2015. Most of bank transactions made by the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s cardholders occur at supermarkets, cafes, and restaurants, the bank’s press service reports. As of July 1, 2015, payments for supermarket shopping amounted to 60% of all the cashless transactions in the second quarter of the year (up 3% on a year earlier). Remarkably, every one in ten transactions were made at Monetka supermarket chain. Such chains as Kirovsky, Magnet, Krasnoye I Beloye, and Pyaterochka were also on top of the list. Megamart used to be among the top five

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 14, 2015. Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) sold 2.75 times more goods (up to 6.8bn RUR, in monetary terms) in the first half of 2015 than in the first half of 2014, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘We sold nearly three times more military-purpose goods, both through export contracts and through procurement. At the same time, sales of goods from our foundry department went down; this was especially noticeable in the railway goods segment,’ the press service says. Railway goods made up only 4% of the company’s production output

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 14, 2015. Uralvagonzavod Corporation is introducing risk management and internal control options at the plant, the company press service reports. The goal is to create and launch the best corporate governance practices throughout the company – and to respond efficiently to the Russian President’s commission. ‘The task is being fulfilled by one of Moscow-based companies whose experts contributed to the drafting of methodological guidelines for risk management at state-run corporations. These experts are among those who developed a professional risk management standard

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 14, 2015. ChTPZ Group took part in the international industrial exhibition Innoprom 2015, including its business agenda, the Group’s press service reports. For one, head of ChTPZ Group Training Center Nikolai Desyatov presented his report in a webinar on dual-education blue-collar worker training that could meet the requirements of modern hi tech industries. The report was followed by an expert discussion session in order to come up with a list of guidelines for dual-education vocational training that the federal constituencies on the Agency for Strategic Initiatives

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 14, 2015. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development was the primary coordinator of a syndicated loan for Belarusbank, the bank’s press service reports. Alfa-Bank acted as the mandated lead arranger and agent bank for the loan; the contract was signed on July 10, 2015. There are seventeen lending institutions involved in the €203m loan altogether: the UBRD, Alfa-Bank, Novikombank, Promsvyazbank,Transkapitalbank, Finservis, Globex, Uralsib, Gazprombank, Sviaz-Bank, Asian-Pacific Bank, Intesa, Zenit, Kazkommertsbank, Absolut, and Nefteprombank. The loan period

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 14, 2015. Ural Airlines introduced a range of extra options and services to its Amadeus booking system, the company press service reports. ‘For one, the new, easy-to-use service allows for speedier booking, since ordering special-menu meals, making pet transfer reservations, arranging for a child to travel without parents or relatives, selecting a specific seat, pre-paying excess luggage fees and getting an order confirmation now only takes a few minutes,’ the press service says. The airline reports passengers can book and buy these options not only online but also

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 13, 2015. Uralvagonzavod Corporation/UVZ and Mail.Ru Group are going to give out tickets to the 10th International Arms, Munitions, & Military Vehicles Exhibition Russia Arms Expo 2015 in a lottery prize-drawing for Armored Warfare players, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘To take part in the lottery, you need to create and submit a video clip dedicated to anything PvE-related, from an impeccable accomplishment of a mission supplied with commentary to an in-depth coverage of all the intricacies of interacting with non-player characters. Detailed manuals