UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 17, 2019. Ural Airlines will start operating a new direct flight from Yekaterinburg to Almaty and back on December 22. According to the air carrier’s press service, Yekaterinburg-Almaty flights will get operated every Friday and Sunday; Almaty-Yekaterinburg flights will get operated every Monday and Saturday. The flight is three hours long. Prices start from RUB 8,808 (one way) and from RUB 15,481 (there and back). The tickets are already available at the company website www.uralairlines.com, on Ural Airlines mobile app, over the phone +7-800-7700-262, and at

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 17, 2019. A polyclinic for adult patients is now being designed for Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The clinic will be located in Blizky (Vavilov St-Timofeyev St-Resovsky St-Akademik Landau St) and will be big enough to cater to 1,200 (out)patients within every two shifts. There will be an internal medicine department, a surgery department/block, an ER/X-ray diagnostics department, a first-aid station, a day-patient department, an ob/gyn department, a contagious disease treatment unit, a diagnostics lab, a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 17, 2019. ChelPipe Group signed a number of cooperation agreements with large industrial holdings in Saudi Arabia within the framework of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s state visit to the Kingdom, the Group’s press service reports. The agreements were signed on the Russian Direct Investment Fund’s platform. ‘A mutually beneficial cooperation agreement was signed between ChelPipe Group and Lamar Saudi United Holding Company; Chair of the Board of Directors at ChelPipe Group Andrei Komarov and President of Lamar Saudi United Holding Company Dr. Lina Noureddin

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 16, 2019. The quality certificates for metal goods made at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) now all have a QR code on them, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. Customers can now use their smartphone or tablet to check whether the quality certificate is authentic. ‘To do so, you need to scan the QR code and get an e-copy of the certificate onto your smartphone. The service has been available since June 2019. The QR codes have been enabled by MMK Group’s MMK InformService and MMK’s Quality Control & Acceptance Department,’ the company says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 16, 2019. Miners from Section 1 (Head: Vladislav Krasnikov; foreman: Sergey Guryanov; mechanic: Evgeny Matsulevitch) are now EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s fifth team to produce 1,000,000,000 kg of coal; the coal got extracted from Coalface 4-1-5-6, Raspadskaya Coal Company’s PR Department reports. The production upgrades Osinnikovskaya Mine is undergoing at the moment will help keep up with and improve on this achievement. EVRAZ purchased a Fazos unit specially for the mine, so as to account for all of its particular mining and geological parameters.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 16, 2019. Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Vysokinsky invited representatives of Sverdlovsk Region’s five administrative districts, mayors of all the local cities and towns (more than sixty people all in all), mayors of thirteen cities with population over 1m people, and rectors of 10+ colleges to celebrate UN Habitat’s World Cities Day, the town council’s website states. ‘We find it important to host this international event on an impressive scale so as to present Yekaterinburg nicely. This is expected to contribute to next year’s 100+ Forum Russia in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 16, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company directed RUB 10m to dam overhaul in Zapadny, Mezhdurechensk, the company’s PR Department reports. This was part of EVRAZ’s urban improvement program; the work on the site started in the spring, and the renovated dam got reopened on October 11. ‘All the planning and implementation got handled by Mezhdurechensk Council. 2.7km of the dam got renovated. For the first time, asphalt pavements, street lighting, two viewing platforms overlooking the Usa River, and benches all got installed in the area. Flights of stairs

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 16, 2019. Brusnika Development topped the ratings in three Russian federal constituencies at once, the company’s press service reports. According to the press service, Brusnika’s Pervy Kvartal Project topped the rating in Moscow Region; Evropeysky Kvartal, Vidny, and Novin topped the rating in Tyumen, and Novin in Surgut was No.1 housing project in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region. Up till now, Brusnika only managed to top the rating in two Russian constituencies simultaneously. An independent data aggregator carries developers and housing projects’ ratings on a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 15, 2019. Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev awarded HR Director at OOO FORES’s Sukhoi Log branch Neonilla Bulatova an honorary certificate, the company’s press service reports. ‘This is the first time in FORES’s nearly-twenty-year history that a company employee has received the Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s award. The ceremony took place at the company’s Sukhoi Log branch on Friday, October 11. The company HR Director Neonilla Bulatova was awarded for many years of dedicated work, outstanding professional skills, impressive personal contribution to

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 15, 2019. Steel Heart of Russia, a short documentary by Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), won the MineMovie Festival Award during MINEX Forum, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The documentary won as the Best Corporate Film. The second and third prizes went to Polymetal’s Just Work and Petropavlovsk’s Golden Work, respectively. MineMovie is Russia’s first movie festival featuring ‘short documentaries about companies and people working in the mining and geological industry.’ This year, the festival covered the documentaries made in 2017-2019

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 15, 2019. 7,402,383 people flew with Ural Airlines in the nine months of 2019 (+6% on one year earlier); 3,696,961 people went on the airline’s domestic flights and 3,705,422 people flew internationally. According to the air carrier’s press service, the airline operated 48,405 flights in January-September 2019 (up 2% on the year 2018), including 24,968 domestic flights and 23,437 international ones. The company’s passenger turnover rose by 7% and reached 17,888,506,000 passenger-kilometers. 993,504 people flew with Ural Airlines in September 2019 (+2% on one year

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 15, 2019. Starting October 14, 2019, the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) offers its customers loans up to RUB 300,000 large on the basis of one’s ID only, the bank’s press service reports. UBRD customers who have a paycheck account with the bank can apply to borrow up to RUB 1.5m (no proof of income necessary), and customers who’ve taken out loans with the bank in the past can apply to borrow up to RUB 1m. The loan period is 3.5 or 7 years. The interest rate starts from 9.5% a year. The maximum loan amount comes to RUB 3m (a proof of income

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 15, 2019. EVRAZ Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (EVRAZ KGOK) cleared up the land allotment that will serve as the construction site for titanium-magnetic ore Sobstvenno-Kachkanarskoye Deposit’s open-pit, dumping site, ore re-handling points, and rail- and motor roads, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. A 32-meter-wide and 2.8-kilometer long haul road is currently under construction at the deposit site; the road is meant for 240,000-kg-strong BelAZ trucks and is to connect the open pit with the ore re-handling

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 14, 2019. The Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army, Aviation, and Navy’s second Ural Federal District Motocross Cup competition will take place in Magnitogorsk on October 12. Some 70 sports players from Orenburg Region, Sverdlovsk Region, Kurgan Region, Chelyabinsk Region, and Kazakhstan (both professionals and amateurs) are expected to attend. According to Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Information & PR Department, Magnitogorsk hasn’t hosted any motocross competitions in the last three years because the old racing course on the left bank

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 14, 2019. Chair of the Supervisory Board at SKB-Bank Denis Repnikov won the Man of The Year 2019 Award by the Delovoy Kvartal magazine as Financier of The Year. The awarding ceremony took place in Ural State Variety Theater in Yekaterinburg last week, the bank’s press service reports. ‘The award’s coordinating/expert committee commented on the bank’s impressive technological growth under Repnikov. This year, SKB-Bank was among the first businesses in the finance sector to join the Faster Payments System and to start registering its customers within the United

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 14, 2019. You can now select a specific seat on board a Ural Airlines flight, the air carrier’s press service reports. The preferred seat option can be paid for during the online booking at the airline’s website; after the completion of the booking when checking your order details at the airline’s website; during the online check-in; at Ural Airlines’ booking offices; and during the airport check-in. ‘A choice of a seat is a highly person-specific matter. Some people prefer to sit next to the window and get excellent photo opportunities throughout the flight;

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 14, 2019. The Managing Director at EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) and EVRAZ Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (EVRAZ KGOK)Alexei Kushnarev won the Investor of The Year Award for the construction of a new ball-rolling mill at NTMK, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. The award is part of the Delovoy Kvartal magazine’s 10th Man of The Year Award. The last, and until now the only, time the Investor of The Year got selected was in 2015. Sverdlovsk Region’s Investment Agency suggested the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 14, 2019. A public discussion on ChelPipe Group’s multi-faceted urban improvement plan took place at Innovative Culture Center in Pervouralsk today; the local opinion leaders (members of the business community, NGO representatives, culture experts, and media reporters) took part in the event. Experts from Moscow-based Urban Analytics Center made a presentation on the multi-aspect urban improvement program for Pervouralsk that was developed at ChelPipe Group’s initiative. ‘The town residents are eager for further growth. They need new experiences, new kind of

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 11, 2019. The top managers of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Group’s MMK METIZ met with the company trade union’s leaders at MMK METIZ Culture Palace, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. MMK METIZ currently employs more than 4,000 people, 98% of whom are trade union members. According to Chair of MMK METIZ Trade Union Elena Ramazanova, ‘the thing that matters most for the trade union is to protect and care for the working person. Thanks to the social partnership programs and the company management’s support, we can feel confident about our

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 11, 2019. Ural Airlines got seven stars out of seven in terms of safety in the latest Airline Ratings once again, the air carrier’s press service reports. The rating is based on a research involving more than 435 airlines all over the world; among the factors taken into account are an airline’s accident rate, casualty scale, valid IOSA certificates, and so on. According to Ural Airlines’ press service, the airline developed a multi-level control system to ensure maximum safety in terms of both flight preparation and the flight itself; the system includes