UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 5, 2019. The solemn closing ceremony for the UN-Habitat World Cities Day took place at Yekaterinburg EXPO Congress Hall on October 31, 2019, the town council’s website states. The Executive Director at UN-Habitat Maimunah Mohd Sharif commented on the event’s geographical diversity: more than 650 people from 42 different countries attended the forum. On behalf of the Untied Nations’ Secretary-General, Maimunah Mohd Sharif thanked Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Vysokinsky for the memorable ambience of the World Cities Day and said Yekaterinburg was the perfect

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 5, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region came 7th in the rating of Russia’s thirty leading constituencies with the largest new and used car loan markets. The overall number of car loans issued in Sverdlovsk Region rose by 2.2% in the third quarter of 2019 and reached 8,722 (compared with 8,534 loans one year earlier). According to the National Credit History Bureau, Moscow, with its 19,300 car loans issued in the third quarter, Moscow Region (15,800 loans), and Saint Petersburg (15,400 loans) topped the rating for QIII’19. Yet the increase in the number of newly issued loans

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 5, 2019. MMK Group’s Magnitogorsky Zavod Prokatnyh Valkov launched a highly productive NC roll-turning machine for treatment of rolls meant for sheet-rolling mills, section rolling mills, and rail and structural steel mills, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘The new roll-turning machine meets all the modern machine-building standards, ensures high precision, and is structurally stable, reliable, and long-lasting. Now that the machine has been launched, the plant is prepared to start making rolls with the diameter of more than 1,000 mm,’ MMK says. The

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 1, 2019. A number of Chelyabinsk Region’s enterprises and social welfare organizations switched to Rosatom’s Lean Manufacturing standards this year, Southern Urals State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company (ChelTV) reports. Six months ago, local transport operators started working in compliance with Rosatom’s standards. As a result, the time it takes to get a vehicle repaired went down by 50%, which means passengers don’t have to wait as long for their trams and trolley-buses to arrive. ‘We developed a set of so-called check lists for repair mechanics to go over

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 1, 2019. Kortros Group’s President Veniamin Golubitsky gave a talk on the District Akademicheskiy Comprehensive Urban Development Project in Yekaterinburg during the International 100+ Forum Russia this week. ‘We started by collecting feedback from District Akademicheskiy’s potential residents. This was in 2006. Everything was different in terms of technologies and digitization back then. Yekaterinburg locals said they saw safety as extremely important. This concern was taken into account when the tech specifications got elaborated. As a result, the security

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 1, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) was among the winners of the All-Russian Competitive Purchases Leader Award in Developing Team’s Potential, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The final round of the annual competition took place in Moscow in late October. This year, 220 companies from all over Russia submitted their applications to compete. In the end, 14 companies won the Competitive Purchases Leader Award in various categories. MMK made a presentation on category management in its Purchases Department in 2019. The idea is to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 1, 2019. People buying homes in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy will be able to use a one-stop multifunctional center for state and municipal services. The district developer RSG-Akademicheskoye has already introduced an electronic sign-up service and a mortgage center as part of the project, Deputy Director-General for Marketing & Sales at RSG-Akademicheskoye Pavel Petrichenko said at the International 100+ Forum Russia on October 30, 2019. ‘The market currently offers a wide range of options for your mortgage application to get processed. We had

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 1, 2019. ChelPipe Group took part in the 8th International GTS 2019 Conference this month, the company’s press service reports. ChelPipe Group presented its own developments in the field of pipe manufacturing that are used for pipelines operated in complicated environments. ‘The Group’s representatives gave a talk on the company’s own multiple-pass welding technology, developed within the framework of the Nord Stream 2 Project. The technology is unique in that a specific type of arc welding is used to make the pipe weld highly durable and to make the pipes

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 31, 2019. Ural Airlines will operate three special Christmas flights from Yekaterinburg to Barcelona on December 28, 2019, January 4, 2020, and January 11, 2020, the air carrier’s press service reports. The press service says both Economy and Business class tickets are currently available. Prices start from RUB 18,608/€260 (one way) and from RUB 31,603/€442 (there and back). ‘Winter is one of the best seasons to visit Barcelona. Gaudí’s enigmatic, fanciful works turn into spectacular objets d’art enveloped in hundreds of Christmas lights. You can go skating in the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 31, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s West-Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ ZSMK) reduced its pollution discharge in the Konobenikha River by 900,000 m2 in 2019 compared with one year earlier thanks to the plant’s water conservation program for 2017-2022. The plant’s PR Department reports one step they took was reduce sweet water spending at the rail and beam department’s pumping station. The station used to replace the warm manufacturing water from the rolling mills with cold water from the river. This is no longer necessary: following an assessment of the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 31, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Group’s MMK-UGOL was among the winners of 1C: Project of The Year Contest, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The company won as the Best Project in the Mining Industry category. The contest’s organizing committee spoke very highly of MMK-UGOL’s project on improvements in the system for planning and keeping track of a company’s production and financial performance indicators based on 1C: ERP Mining Industry and 1C: CORP Document Management. The company decided to introduce the 1C: ERP Mining Industry

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 31, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) keeps working to modernize its blast furnace facilities, MMK’s leading expert at the Blast Furnace Department’s Tech Group Vitaly Beginyuk said at the Best Available Blast Furnace Production Techniques Conference in Magnitogorsk. According to Beginyuk, MMK has reconstructed the casting beds of four blast furnaces in the last few years, which reduced the amount of harmful emissions in Magnitogorsk air considerably. ‘We started upgrading the casting beds of MMK’s blast furnaces in 2013; the first blast furnace to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 31, 2019. Expert-Ural Analytical Center carried a rating of the Urals and Western Siberia’s 400 largest companies in 2018; OOO FORES came 160th in the rating, the company’s press service reports. ‘The rating is based on the businesses’ official statistical data on last year’s sales. According to these data, OOO FORES, with its RUB 13.7bn worth of industrial produce sales, was a little behind UralAsbest (RUB 13.9bn worth of sales, No. 159 in the rating) and ahead of Ural Pipe Plant (RUB 13bn worth of sales, No. 161 in the rating). At the same time, FORES’s net

UrBC, Moscow, October 30, 2019. According to Forbes magazine, Brusnika is among Russia’s top five most reliable housing developers. ‘The company was set up in Tyumen in 2004; in 2015, the HQ moved to Yekaterinburg. Brusnika operates in Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Surgut, and Moscow Region. The company’s Director-General Alexei Krukovsky is believed to be the business’s primary owner,’ Forbes says. The magazine’s rating of the most reliable housing developers is based on the United Developers’ Register’s list of the 100 leading developers with the largest amount of housing commissioned

UrBC, Moscow, October 30, 2019. Kortros Group came 13th in the Forbes magazine’s rating of Russia’s most reliable developers. The company’s sales revenues amounted to RUB 53.3bn in 2016-2018, with 684,400 m2 of new housing getting commissioned over the same period. ‘The company was set up by Viktor Vekselberg’s Renova Holding in 2005 and was known as Renova StroyGroup through 2013. Within the last fourteen years, the developer has commissioned over 2.5m m2 of new housing in eight different Russian federal constituencies. The company runs some 20+ projects, including Yekaterinburg’s District

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 30, 2019. ChelPipe Group supplied 170,000 kg of weld-less, hot-deformed pipes (diameter: 57 mm to 325 mm; wall thickness: 4 mm to 8 mm) to Titan Group of companies. Titan Group is based in Russia and deals in petrochemicals. According to ChelPipe Group’s press service, the pipes that have been manufactured at Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe) and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) will be used for the reconstruction of the iso-propyl benzene production facility at Omsk Caoutchouc (Titan Group’s key enterprise). The new equipment will make the iso-propyl

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 30, 2019. The fourth and final round of OOO FORES’s autocross competition took place in Sukhoi Log this week, the company’s press service reports. The race participants (including several employees of FORES’s Sukhoi Log branch and contestants from Sverdlovsk Region, Kurgan Region, Perm Territory, and Moscow Region) drove UAZ, GAZ, and ZIL trucks. ‘Only seven UAZ drivers out of the thirteen that joined in the race actually made it to the finish line due to unexpected breakdowns. The only racer who managed to fix his vehicle and go on with the race was Alexander

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 30, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) came up with a new service that helps you complete the process of applying for a credit card online in just a few minutes and saves you time, the bank’s press service reports. According to the bank, all of the UBRD’s new and existing customers can sign in to the bank’s website menu using their Gosuslugi account. Once you have been authenticated, all the data (your name, passport number, and residence address) will get entered into the CC application automatically. You only have to check all the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 29, 2019. The average asking price on Yekaterinburg’s existing home market reached RUB 72,509 per m2 as of of October 21. This is 0.4% lower than one month previously, Ural Real Estate Chamber’s Analytical Department’s report states. Homes in Yekaterinburg’s second and fourth priciest locations grew 0.1% less expensive in the last four weeks; homes in the third priciest locations grew 0.4% less expensive. Apartments in centrally located buildings grew 0.3% more expensive, and those in the fifth priciest locations grew 0.5% more expensive. The price of studio

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 29, 2019. A group of delegates from Orenburg Region Trade Union Federation paid a visit to Magnitogorsk, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Information & PR Department reports. ‘The visit was primarily seen as an experience-sharing opportunity. Visitors to the plant learned about MMK trade union’s operation principles and gave talks on how they coordinate trade union member interaction. The delegates took a special interest in the information management mechanisms, organizational structure, and everything that makes a trade union efficient,’ the company