UrBC, Chelyabinsk, July 12, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is now Hi Tech Produce Exporter of The Year, singled out among all the other enterprises operating in Ural Federal District, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The awarding ceremony for Exporter of The Year Prize winners took place during the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS 2019) in Yekaterinburg this week. MMK won in the Ural Federal District round of the contest (Large Business) and will now take part in the all-Russian stage of the competition. The Exporter of The Year Prize was

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 12, 2019. The sock filter RIF 1700 stayed functional for over two years at the rotating roasting kiln unit at FORES’s Kuryuinsky branch; at the end of June, a new set of filtration sleeves had to get installed there, the company’s press service reports. ‘The filtering appliances’ lifespan depends on how much workload they have to handle. Albokos, the filter manufacturer, provided a two-year performance guarantee on the product. As a matter of fact, the filters remained efficient for much longer,’ says the branch director Vladimir Golovin. According to FORES, a filter

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 12, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company is going to coordinate a grand-scale sports event Raspadskaya GunterCup 2019 in Novokuznetsk; Russia’s leading basketball players and the band Quest Pistols Show will be contributing to the show. According to Raspadskaya Coal Company’s PR Department, the event will take place at Arena Novokuznetsk on July 13. Workers from EVRAZ Consolidated West-Siberian Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ ZSMK), Sibuglemet, and Raspadskaya Coal Company, young sports players from Novokuznetsk’s children’s sports clubs, and the town locals are

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 11, 2019. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin took a tour of Innoprom 2019 International Industrial Exhibition during his recent visit to Yekaterinburg. According to the Kremlin’s website, the President went to the stand of Russia’s Ministry for Trade & Industry, where Aurora, the Russian mobile operating system, and Aquarius, a tablet computer, are being featured at the moment; Vladimir Putin also attended a presentation of SmartFlat and visited the stands of several Sverdlovsk Region-based companies. The last time Vladimir Putin went to Innoprom in Yekaterinburg

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 11, 2019. The business-oriented bank DeloBank and SKB-Bank present a range of business solutions at their joint stand at Innoprom 2019 International Industrial Exhibition this year, the bank’s press service reports. The stand can be found at Pavilion 1 in Yekaterinburg EXPO and features an up-to-date mobile office with two information desks. Visitors to DeloBank’s area can learn about the bank’s services and commissions/fees as well as evaluate the potential of DeloKassa, a smart terminal/electronic cash desk. You can try it out right there, for example, pay for a

UrBC, Moscow, July 11, 2019. 4,242,555 people have flown with Ural Airlines in January-June 2019 (+8% on one year earlier), the air carrier’s press service reports. 2,057,414 passengers went on the airline’s domestic flights; 2,185,141 passengers have flown internationally. The airline operated 29,237 flights in January-June 2019 (+4% on the year 2018), including 14,536 domestic flights and 14,701 international flights. The company’s passenger turnover increased by 10% and reached 10,364,646,000 passenger-kilometers. ‘944,120 people flew with Ural Airlines in June 2019, which exceeded the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 11, 2019. The annual Ural Youth Forum/UTRO 2019 took place in Tyumen this week; young workers at MMK Group participated in the event, the Group’s press service reports. The forum included Rosmolodezh’s all-Russian youth project contest as usual: 89 proposals, including 29 submitted by Chelyabinsk Region-based applicants, are now expected to receive grant funding (total amount to get granted: RUB 16m). This means the local winners will bring RUB 6.76m to Chelyabinsk Region to implement a series of social projects. Two of the winners come from MMK: one of them, Dmitri

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 11, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s representatives gave a talk on the company’s comprehensive area development and urban improvement projects at RBC’s round table discussion on investing in Russian constituencies and sustainable development; the discussion was part of the 10th Innoprom International Industrial Exhibition in Yekaterinburg, the Group’s press service reports. Russia’s Industry & Trade Ministry and Economic Development Ministry officials, members of the expert community, and representatives of industrial enterprises all talked about the ways the government

UrBC, Moscow, July 10, 2019. Ural Airlines are taking part in the international industrial exhibition Innoprom for the tenth time this year, the air carrier’s press service reports. Ural Airlines’ stand features the company’s destination network, the new offers available this summer, and the airline’s new booking system that works both on the company website and on the mobile app. ‘In our traditional selfie area, visitors to the stand will be captured with a moving turbine in the background, surrounded by a group of flight attendants. You can also buy branded souvenirs and useful travel

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 10, 2019. MegaFon is now working on a dating service in cooperation with Tinder; the telecom company’s customers will get a series of exclusive options within the app, MegaFon’s press service reports. It is reported that MegaFon’s customers can enjoy a premium account at a lower price, unlimited access to the dating app even when they have no money in their mobile phone account, and the option of paying for things on the app directly from their mobile phone account. ‘There are about 500,000 Tinder users in Russia at the moment, and every one in three is also a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 10, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s shareholder Andrei Komarov contributed to the plenary session on the Industry of the Future: Growth Potential in New Digital Technologies & Organizational Models at the international industrial exhibition Innoprom 2019. According to ChelPipe Group’s press service, Russia’s Deputy Minister for Industry & Trade Oleg Bocharov chaired the session. Government officials and members of the expert and business communities, including KAMAZ Director-General Sergey Kogogin, Chair of the BOD at SOLLERS Vadim Shvetzov, Director-General at SAP

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 10, 2019. The average price of a laptop came to RUB 37,300 on the Ural market in the second quarter of 2019; this exceeds the figures for one year earlier by 7%, Svyaznoy/Euroset’s PR Department reports. ‘Laptops keep growing more expensive at RUB 37,300 per unit on average, which is 7% more than one year earlier. Users go for costlier versions intended for hardware-intensive computer games and compatible with advanced image editing software,’ says Head of Svyaznoy/Euroset Ural Alexander Voronin. 89,000 laptops (total worth: RUB 3.3bn) got sold on the Ural market in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 10, 2019. Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Vysokinsky commented on the expected effect of the city hosting the second Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS), the town council’s Information Policy Department reports. ‘The Urals’ capital has gotten used to hosting such high-profile events as the Global Summit. Occasions like these naturally shape Yekaterinburg’s image and attract ever more people, resources, and investment here,’ Vysokinsky said at the summit’s opening. Vysokinsky stressed that Yekaterinburg was one of Russia’s key industrial centers

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 9, 2019. Ural Airlines are launching their annual off-peak season sale, with tickets to popular summertime destinations available at a discount for the months of September and October, the air carrier’s press service reports. Discounts are available on July 8-21, 2019 if you book flights scheduled for departure on August 20-December 23, 2019. There are 10,000 tickets for domestic flights starting from as little as RUB 1,000 and tickets to over two hundred other destinations up to 50% off. Tickets can be booked on the company website www.uralairlines.com and at any

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 9, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is taking part in the international industrial exhibition Innoprom 2019 in Yekaterinburg this week, the company’s Information & PR Department reports. The plant intends to present its technology for making rolled metal goods from ON9 cryogenic structural steel at the exhibition; the technology was developed at MMK last year, while the steel variety is used extensively for production, storage, and transportation of liquefied/compressed natural gas. In terms of their cryogenic performance, ON9 steels are fully

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 9, 2019. Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Vysokinsky opened Yekaterinburg’s own stand at the international industrial exhibition Innoprom 2019, the town council’s website states. The stand (1D3) can be found at Pavilion 1 and is 176 m2 large. The town council designed a very busy schedule for every day of the exhibition. To begin with, the mayor will sign a series of agreements at the stand on the first day of the forum, July 8. The next day will be dedicated to Yekaterinburg Council Investment Coordination Committee’s meeting and presentations of the projects for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 9, 2019. More than forty countries are planning to come to the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS) 2019 in Yekaterinburg on July 9-11. The event gets coordinated by the Roscongress Foundation. According to the foundation’s press service, the largest delegations are coming from the United Arab Emirates, China, Germany, Austria, the U.S., Great Britain, Venezuela, and India. Over 2,000 people are going to take part in the event all in all, including Russian and foreign officials, heads of large enterprises, and leading industrial production experts

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 9, 2019. RIA Rating recently carried a rating of income levels in different Russian constituencies; Sverdlovsk Region came 11th in the rating. 9.7% of the constituency’s residents live below poverty line; 1.3% live in extreme poverty. According to the statistical data available in the report, Sverdlovsk Region’s residents’ incomes exceeded the cost of a basic food basket and indispensable services by 1.85 times in 2018. The rating states that people’s income levels are directly related to economic growth. Salaries, wages, pensions, and other sources of income have no

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 8, 2019. Yekaterinburg Council adopted a plan for the landmarking and the layout of parts of District Akademicheskiy meant for road-building, the town council’s official website states. The plan has to do with the prospective construction of roads in Akademik Sakharov Ave (from Sukhodolskaya St to Ryabinin St); Sukhodolskaya St (from Tenistaya St to Khrustalnogorskaya St); Evgeny Savkov St (from Khrustalnogorskaya St to Kosoturskaya St); Kosoturskaya St (from Evgeny Savkov St to the existing section of Sukhodolskaya St and the River Patrushikha canal). ‘The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 8, 2019. EVRAZ Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) supplied more than 3,500 Larssen sheet piles to the logistics terminal LUGAPORT in Ust-Luga in the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. ‘Larssen sheet piles will get used to set up artificial patches of land and eventually to build a shore in the area. EVRAZ NTMK provided its own special-purpose railcars to get the bulky cargo transferred safely to its destination. The metal goods got forwarded from Smychka, Sverdlovsk Railways, to Kotla, Oktyabrsk