UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 19, 2019. A new, advanced geometry tool got commissioned and launched at EVRAZ West Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Plant (ZSMK) Rail & Beam Department’s non-destructive testing line for 100-meter rails, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Communications Center reports. The new tool controls nine parameters of the product that have to meet the GOST requirements with high precision and throughout the rail’s entire length. ‘This is a fully automated, testing error-free process. We only used to check for four parameters automatically: the rail height, the top

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, September 19, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) is taking part in the international real estate investment forum PROEstate 2019 which opens in Moscow today, the company’s Information & PR Department reports. MMK intends to present Prityazhenie, its unique urban improvement project proposed by the company’s Chair of the BOD Viktor Rashnikov. ‘The idea is to create a comfortable, very high quality urban environment on a 400-hectare patch of land owned by Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The site will house up-to-date sports facilities, medical clinics,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 19, 2019. ChelPipe Group introduced a special digital solution to improve its steel-smelting process. Machine-learning technology was relied upon to develop and launch a ‘steel-smelter’s support algorithm’ that makes it possible to control the composition of steel and minimize losses related to the raw material consumption. According to the Group’s press service, the company is expected to save RUB 50m by the end of 2019 and as much as RUB 100m and more in the following years. The solution has been launched at the electric furnace-melting department Iron Ozone

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 18, 2019. 3,726 people were part-time employed on Sverdlovsk Region labor market as of August 1, Sverdlovsk Region Labor & Employment Department reports. The data on part-time workers got submitted by fifty different businesses with average staff count of 7,611 people. At the moment, 3,641 locals are working part-time; 183 people are on idle time through their employers’ policy, and 82 people are on unpaid leaves.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 18, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region’s employers owed their staff RUB 25.2 million in delayed pay as of September 1, 2019, Sverdlovskstat reports. This was 25%, or RUB 5 million, more than one month previously.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 18, 2019. The average asking price rose by 5.8% (up to RUB 66,149 per m2) on Yekaterinburg existing home market between August 2018 and one year later, Novosel’s research findings indicate. According to the company’s Head of Analytics Sergey Menshenin, prices rose most noticeably in Staraya Sortirovka (+8.8%), Uralmash (+8.2%), and VIZ (+7.1%) and least noticeably in Shirokaya Rechka (+1.9%), ZhBI (+3.3%), and Vtuzgorodok (+3.3%). Compared with the start of the year, the average asking price went up by 1.8%.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 18, 2019. OOO FORES’s Kuryi branch keeps working on its environmental monitoring program, the company’s press service reports. The company says the quality of air on the premises of and next to the company’s Kuryi branch met all the normative requirements as of last summer. The official protocols from Lab Test & Measurement Center (CLATI) branch in Ural Federal District that FORES received in September confirm this. Now the air samples got collected on the border of FORES Kuryi sanitary protection area and in the nearby residential sections of Kuryi in June,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 18, 2019. EVRAZ Holding is launching yet another round of its social welfare project grant contest in Nizhniy Tagil and Kachkanar, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center’s PR Department reports. Grant applications will be submitted on September 15-November 15, 2019, with the successful applicants getting selected in December after the candidates have presented their projects in person. The company has allocated RUB 6.5m for the purpose. Applicants based in Nizhniy Tagil will be able to develop and present a project and get up to RUB 500,000 in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 17, 2019. Ural Airlines added one more Airbus A320neo (aircraft registration number: VP-BRZ) to its fleet of aircraft. The liner comes directly from Airbus assembly line in Toulouse and will be used under the terms of a service lease contract Ural Airlines signed with CDB Aviation. According to the air carrier’s press service, the maiden flight Yekaterinburg-Sochi got operated on September 14, 2019, with 171 passengers on board. The aircraft is primarily meant for Yekaterinburg-Vladivostok-Yekaterinburg flights in the future; this flight will be available every

UrBC, Moscow, September 17, 2019. MegaFon now offers its business customers an anti-hacking software solution MegaFon.Antivzlom Business; the app track and prevents cyberattacks on the mobile devices of a company’s employees, the telecom company’s press service reports. This is Russia’s first digital solution in the Enterprise segment to protect mobile devises against cyber threats. In case certain activity is seen as risky, the app will limit the mobile device’s access to corporate data. The software package was developed in collaboration with the Russian branch of Check Point Software

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 17, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) has reduced the interest rates on its consumer loans for the third time this quarter: starting September 13, loan applicants can borrow money from the bank at 9.5% a year, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Most banks are charging at least 9.9% a year at the moment, so the 9.5% we offer look quite appealing by contrast. Another advantage is that it only takes a couple of hours and very little paperwork to take out a loan at the bank,’ says the UBRD Retail Product Director Alexander Pateshman.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, September 17, 2019. Prityazhenie, an urban development project in Magnitogorsk, will open up plentiful business development opportunities for the local companies, Deputy Project Manager Ksenia Tenkova said at a recent business conference on export barriers. According to Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Information & PR Department, Prityazhenie is a project set up and implemented at the initiative of the company’s Chair of the BOD Viktor Rashnikov. The project is currently unique to Russia and aims to take comfortable urban environment to a totally new level.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 17, 2019. Activists from Gorod Pervykh, an NGO founded with ChelPipe Group’s support, coordinated their first environmental cycling quest in Pervouralsk. Eleven teams took part in the event. According to ChelPipe Group’s press service, the cyclists went on an eleven-kilometer route with ten stations next to Pervouralsk’s most prominent landmarks. Once at a station, the quest participants had to answer quiz questions on Pervouralsk’s history and geography and had to complete environmental challenges. Fedor Danilov Park was one of the quest’s primary highlights.

UrBC, Moscow, September 16, 2019. The Russian Government is considering adopting a large-scale public transport renovation program initiated by the VEB.RF, Kommersant reports. The ten Russian cities that are already ‘well prepared’ for the upgrades are expected to become part of the program. These are: Yekaterinburg, Perm, Nizhniy Novgorod, Saratov, Tver, Voronezh, Volgograd, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, and Kazan (total population count: 11.1 million people). RUB 196bn will get allocated to replace 5,900 buses, 1,500 trams, and 1,300 trolley-buses with new ones and RUB 112bn will get directed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 16, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region-based companies cut their innovation budgets by RUB 5.158,2bn in 2018 against the year 2017, Sverdlovskstat reports. Last year, businesses’ innovation-related costs amounted to RUB 39.880,5bn, including RUB 39.781,2bn directed to tech innovations, RUB 4.5m directed to marketing innovations, and RUB 94.8m directed to organizational innovations. The share of innovative products, work, and services only amounted to 6.9% of the overall amount of their produce/work/services last year, which was the four-year low since 2015. In 2017, the

UrBC, Moscow, September 16, 2019. The shortage of IP addresses Russia might face as soon as late September could inconvenience end users wishing to browse the web, Izvestia reports. According to the experts the newspaper applied to for information, the websites that used to offer user access, no questions asked, will now need their visitors to confirm they are not robots. A captcha will be there as well. The issue has to do with how the Internet works: if there are not enough IP addresses available, the ISPs’ equipment will have to assign one and the same available address to a series of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 16, 2019. Electrical/gas welder at EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) Blast Furnace Department Alexander Lozhkov won the Sverdlovsk Region round of Glory to The Man of Labor Contest as Best Welder. Silver went to Sergey Vafin from Seversky Pipe Plant, while Sinara Pipe Plant’s Vladislav Iokhin won the third prize. According to EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center’s PR Department, eleven welders from Sverdlovsk Region’s various industrial enterprises competed in the contest. Welder Andrei Kulikov represented the

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, September 16, 2019. The 12th Chelyabinsk Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs Conference took place in Chelyabinsk today. According to Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Information & PR Department, the event was attended by the Union members as well as Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Alexei Teksler, Chair of Chelyabinsk Region Legislative Assembly Vladimir Myakush, Chelyabinsk Region Government officials, members of the Russian Federation’s Federal Assembly, Chelyabinsk Region’s Senior Federal Inspector Sergey Morev, Chelyabinsk Region’s Business Rights

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 13, 2019. 6,408,879 people have flown with Ural Airlines since the start of the year (+6% on one year earlier). 3,185,779 passengers went on the airline’s domestic flights and 3,223,100 people flew internationally. According to the airline’s press service, the company has operated 42,152 flights this year so far (+2% on one year earlier), including 21,604 domestic flights and 20,548 international ones. The air carrier’s passenger turnover rose by 8%, reaching 125,492,636,000 passenger-kilometers. 1,097,717 people flew with Ural Airlines in August 2019, which

UrBC, Moscow, September 13, 2019. The Russian telecom giant MegaFon recently launched Education.MegaFon, a new training service with a wide range of learning courses, the company’s press service reports. ‘We are delighted to present our brand new service Education.MegaFon that lets any mobile Internet user learn online. This is a great option for those who know the value of their time and prioritize continuous self-improvement. Access to education has never been easier: all you need is motivation and a smartphone or tablet with MegaFon SIM card; MegaFon acts as the provider of unlimited