UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 13, 2019. EVRAZ Holding signed a socioeconomic cooperation agreement with Kachkanar Council, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. EVRAZ Vice President and Head of EVRAZ Holding Ural Denis Novozhenov, Managing Director of Kachkanarsky Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise (EVRAZ KGOK) and EVRAZ Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) Alexei Kushnarev, and Mayor of Kachkanar Andrei Yaroslavtsev signed the agreement in the presence of First Vice Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexei Orlov. The agreement sets our the terms and conditions on

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 13, 2019. Oracle Modern Business Forum 2019 took place in Moscow on February 7, 2019; Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) contributed with a talk on the company’s experience with Oracle Sourcing-based e-trading platform. According to MMK’s Information & PR Department, the report was made by Senior Analyst from MMK’s Category-Based Purchases Department Evgeny Trakhtengerz and Senior Expert from MMK Informservis’s Supply Department Andrei Suvorkov. MMK introduced its own Oracle EBS-based e-trading platform in November 2007. The platform has been open to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 12, 2019. 604,072 people flew with Ural Airlines in the first month of 2019 (+7% on a year earlier), the air carrier’s press service reports. 317,249 people went on the airline’s domestic flights, 121,112 people flew internationally, and 165,711 people went to and from the CIS member states. The airline operated 4,423 flights in January 2019 (+4% on January 2018), including 2,301 domestic ones, 860 international ones, and 1,262 flights to and from the CIS member states. The company’s passenger turnover rose by 9% and reached 1,485,160,000 passenger-kilometers.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 12, 2019. Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky and Chelyabinsk Region’s Human Rights Commissioner Margarita Pavlova presented special medals to twenty locals to acknowledge their bravery, valor, and selfless efforts to help others. Among the awardees were members of rescue teams who helped deal with the explosion at an apartment building in Magnitogorsk, MMK’s press service reports. The solemn awarding ceremony took place at the Governor’s residence. The entire event was mostly dedicated to the aftermath of the explosion at 164 Karl Marx St. It was to

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, February 12, 2019. ChelPipe Group’s shareholder and Chair of the Board of Directors Alexander Fedorov received Priznaniye, a prize awarded to people and companies involved in charity. The solemn awarding ceremony took place at Chelyabinsk World Trade Center this week. According to the Group’s press service, an exclusively designed figurine that symbolizes the prize was given to Alexander Fedorov by provisional Mayor of Chelyabinsk Vladimir Yelistratov. ‘I’d like to thank the prize committee and the town council for the acknowledgement of our charity efforts. It’s worth

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 12, 2019. Ural Airlines are putting their flights to more than two hundred summertime destinations on sale; the offer holds on February 11-24, 2019; the flights will get operated between April 1 and October 31, 2019. According to the air carrier’s press service, you can get up to 40% off. The tickets are available at the airline’s booking offices, on the company website www.uralairlines.com, on Ural Airlines mobile app, and over the phone +7-800-7700-262. Wings Club bonus points apply and can get added to the overall discount. This is a limited offer. Ural

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 12, 2019. RSG-Akademicheskoye found a contractor for the construction of a storm water drainage system in Quarter 26 in District Akademicheskiy, Yekaterinburg, the developer’s press service reports. The tender committee chose OOO StroyMontazh as the winner and OOO Standart stroy as the semi-finalist. The contractor will have to do everything related to the construction of a storm water drainage system in Quarter 26 (Blocks 26.1, 26.5, 26.7, and 26.9) in District Akademicheskiy, Yekaterinburg between the day the contract gets signed and July 2019. The opening bid

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 11, 2019. Rosatom’s Chelyabinsk Region-based member enterprise Mayak Production Association intends to start recycling Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station’s spent fuel in 2024, Vestnik Mayaka refers to the company’s Director-General Mikhail Pokhlebayev as stating. Now the spent fuel coming from Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station’s oldest AMB 100 and AMB 200 reactor-based power-generating units started entering Mayak as early as 2017. This was the key factor in getting these power-generating units finally decommissioned after they got shut down in 1981 and 1989.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 11, 2019. Ural Airlines are now offering their customers No Luggage and Luggage Included tickets on the flights operated from Moscow Region’s Zhukovsky Airport to Prague, Rome, Paris, and Nice. Similar options will soon be available on the flights operated from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport to Montpellier and Bordeaux, the air carrier’s press service reports. No-meal-and-no-luggage ticket allows the airline to cut flight maintenance costs at their airports of departure, which, in its turn, means Ural Airlines can offer cheaper tickets and make air travel more

UrBC, Moscow, February 11, 2019. According to Philip Morris International (PMI), Russia’s tobacco market shrank by 8.4% by the end of 2018, down to 238.1 billion units. The company’s share of the Russian market rose by 0.6% and reached 28.4%, Prime refers to PMI’s annual report as stating. At the same time, Philip Morris supplied 68 billion cigarettes to Russia last year, which was 6.1% less than in 2017. As for the last quarter of 2018, the amount of cigarettes imported to Russia rose by 1.3% and came to 19.3 billion units, the company says. The country’s tobacco market declined by 8% in the

UrBC, Moscow, February 11, 2019. The Bank of Russia decided to keep the key rate at 7.75% per annum, the bank’s official website states. The Board of Directors’ meeting took place on February 8, 2019. The bank reports that the annual inflation rate remained within the lower end of the expected range in January 2019. At the same time, both households’ and businesses’ inflation expectations were on the rise. The 2% increase in the VAT proved only a moderate contributing factor in the growing consumer prices last month. ‘The effect of the VAT increase on inflation can be fully assessed no sooner

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, February 11, 2019. A branch of the International Commercial Arbitration Tribunal at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation will open in Chelyabinsk in the course of a solemn ceremony on February 22, the South Urals Chamber of Commerce & Industry reports. The International Commercial Arbitration Court (ICAC) is an alternative to the law-court processing of economic disputes involving Russian and non-Russian legal entities and sole traders. President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation Sergey Katyrin, Governor of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 8, 2019. MegaFon is now using double-duty pole structures as supports for its base stations in order to improve signal quality and/or introduce 4G connection at newly commissioned apartment buildings in Sverdlovsk Region. These measures improved the connection quality for 15,000 locals in the last two months, the company’s press service reports. Similar construction projects used to take twice as long to build and to cost 33% more to launch in the past. ‘Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Kamensk Uralsky, Aramil, Revda, Sysert, and Kashino are the first Sverdlovsk Region’s towns

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 8, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) is embarking on a digital upgrades campaign this year; introducing the advanced Solid-State Array by Pure Storage into the bank’s IT infrastructure was the first step on the way to becoming more productive and reliable and to cutting equipment-related costs. The UBRD decided on the Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and the five-year repayment period (in equal installments) as the most sensible cost-optimizing option, the bank’s press service reports. ‘The UBRD keeps implementing its strategy to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 8, 2019. KORTROS Group intends to get 286,000 m2 of new housing commissioned in 2019, which will be 12% more than one year previously. The plan covers a number of new apartment buildings in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy, which is now one of the largest urban development projects in Europe, the Group’s press service reports. ‘The apartment buildings and social infrastructure facilities in Akademicheskiy all have the modern engineering appliances, including ‘smart home’ systems. The systems in question allow home owners to control their utilities and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 8, 2019. Ural Airlines will now be operating Yekaterinburg-Prague flights six times a week, the air carrier’s press service reports. In addition to the regular flights U6 701/702 available on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays, you can now also fly to Prague on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Ural Airlines also introduced Zhukovsky (Moscow Region)-Prague flights in December 2018. You can book your flight on the company website www.uralairlines.com, using Ural Airlines mobile app, over the phone +7-800-7700-262, and at booking offices.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 8, 2019. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) produced a performance report for 2018 on its Children Believe in Miracles Charity Project, the bank’s press service reports. The bank complemented re-adjustment group therapy with personal development plan for every single child last year; the plan covers steps to promote self-actualization, job counseling support, and outlook-expanding courses. Fifteen children and teenagers aged 12-17 from the local social service center took job orientation tests and received personal development plans; many

UrBC, Moscow, February 7, 2019. Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems (FGC UES) Chair of the Supervisory Board Andrei Murov is now a member of the Russian Engineering Union’s executive committee/bureau. Murov will also chair a new committee on energy efficiency technologies, FGC UES Western Siberia’s PR & Media Group reports. The decisions regarding Murov’s new appointments and memberships were made at the Union’s bureau and the League for Assisting Defense Enterprises of Russia’s latest joint session. The new committee’s goal is to promote higher energy efficiency in the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 7, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) supplied nearly 550,000,000 kg of metal goods to customers in the car-making industry last year; so far, this has been the best result the company’s ever achieved, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The plant supplied 22,000,000 kg more goods to customers in 2018 compared with the year 2017. Car manufacturers have long been MMK’s top priority partners, so the company has been investing in automobile body sheet production facilities as part of the national import substitution program for many years now.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 7, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region’s court officers imposed an international travel ban on 16,000 local residents in January 2019. Together, these people owe around RUB 3 billion in tax payments, child support money, and other debts. According to the Federal Service of Court Officers’ Sverdlovsk Region division, 600 people who were informed about their debts and travel bans made RUB 74m worth of repayments at once. All in all, nearly 100,000 Sverdlovsk Region’s residents can’t leave the country due to debts right now. Their accumulated debt amounts to RUB 82.138 billion;