UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 19, 2018. Ural Airlines adjusted the schedule for its Yekaterinburg-Moscow (Sheremetyevo)-Yekaterinburg flights operated on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays: starting January 14, 2019, the departure time shifts to 10:15 AM and the arrival time shifts to 10:55 AM, the air carrier’s press service reports. As for the flights operated on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, the departure and arrival times for flight U6 1 (Yekaterinburg-Moscow) remain the same: 7:30 AM and 8:20 AM, respectively. Flight U6 21 (Yekaterinburg-Moscow (Sheremetyevo)) is also available on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 18, 2018. Nikita Goryunov’s team (head of Section 5: Yaroslav Yerchenko) extracted 2,000,000,000 kg of coal from EVRAZ Holding’s Uskovskaya Mine between January and December 2018. Interestingly, miners from the holding’s Alardinskaya Mine reached the same output figure in September, Raspadskaya Coal Company’s PR Department reports. ‘The mining team at Section 5 is one of Raspadskaya Coal Company’s most advanced and close-knit groups. The miners can set these output records not only because they are using highly productive equipment and comply with all the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 18, 2018. 528 trade-union group organizers underwent trade union training since MMK Group’s learning initiative took off at the beginning of the year. 149 more people will take classes in the nearest future, MMK’s Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. ‘This is a one-day course that the students’ employer fully pays for, thanks to an agreement the trade union reached with MMK through a series of negotiations. The eight-hour program is quite tightly packed, as the trade-union group organizers have to update their expertise in the field of a company’s

UrBC, Moscow, December 18, 2018. Russians spend 31.2% of their monthly disposable incomes on groceries; for the Ukrainians, the figure comes to more than 50%, the findings of RIA Rating’s research (commissioned by RIA Novosti) indicate. The research focused on the spending patterns in forty different countries, including parts of Europe and Russia, Kazakhstan, and Turkey. The data available through the national statistical services, Rosstat, and the International Monetary Fund were also taken into account. Luxembourg was No.1 in terms of how little the locals have to spend on food items:

UrBC, Moscow, December 18, 2018. Importers are struggling with getting their regular amounts of strong drinks to Russia because there aren’t enough new-format excise duty stamps at the moment. Vedomosti refers to head of the Alcohol Importers’ Union Valeriy Filatov as saying that the problem has been brought about by the launch of the updated versions of the federal special-purpose stamps and excise duty stamps starting 2019. Central Excise Customs have so far been unable to start accepting and processing strong drink importers’ applications for the new-format stamps. In fact, the customs

UrBC, Moscow, December 18, 2018. Volkswagen coordinated a program to recall 4,320 Volkswagen Tiguan units, Rosstandart reports. The program will involve the automobiles sold in 2017 and 2018. It appears that moisture tends to gather in their LED modules, which might result in a short circuit and heat release. Volkswagen Tiguan units will have to get fitted with two cable adjusters (one next to the driver’s seat and one next to the front passenger seat) with a built-in fuse between the power connection unit and the LED module in the glass panel that serves as the sliding sunroof. All the

UrBC, Moscow, December 17, 2018. The Russian Government came up with a list of airports and seaports where a duty free outlet may be operating in the Arrivals area. The list is now available on the Cabinet’s official website. There are seventy-five airports, thirty-eight seaports, and three river ports on the list, including Koltsovo Airport in Yekaterinburg. It is stated that the list comprises all the entry/exit points on the Russian border that have to deal with passengers. ‘The following list of the Russian Federation’s border checkpoints where the sale (to private customers) of goods

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, December 17, 2018. The solemn awarding ceremony for Yakov Osadchiy fellows took place at Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChelPipe) this week, ChelPipe Group’s press service reports. ‘The corporate fellowship was established in 2001, the year the plant’s legendary director Yakov Osadchiy would have turned one hundred, in order to encourage and invite gifted young people to come to ChelPipe Group. This year, the fellowship got awarded to students of Russian Technological University, Ural Federal University, and South Ural State University who excel academically, in sports,

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 17, 2018. The local round of the 6th WorldSkills Russia championship took place in Chelyabinsk Region this week. Magnitogorsk schools hosted a number of the championship events, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) press service reports. Vocational schools in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk, and Kopeysk also served as venues for the championship. 372 contestants from twelve different parts of Russia and from Kazakhstan competed in 34 primary, 16 junior, and 5 local categories. Among the contestants were 32 students of Magnitogorsk Polytechnic, Magnitogorsk School

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 17, 2018. Magnitogorsk-based Metallurg Charity Foundation coordinated its annual end-of-year meeting with heads of local children’s establishments, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) press service reports. The meeting got attended by members of the foundation’s board, representatives of the benefactors (Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works being the largest), Deputy Head of Chelyabinsk Region Social Relations Ministry’s Child Welfare Department Tatiana Matveyeva, Chair of the Board at Russian Children’s Foundation’s Chelyabinsk Region division and member of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 17, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Mine was founded forty-five years ago this year. To celebrate the special date, an exhibition entitled The Faces of Raspadskaya by the author of Russ Press Photo Vassily Prudnikov opened in Mezhdurechensk, Raspadskaya Coal Company’s PR Department reports. The exhibition features sixty unique works that have never been previously published. The photographs were taken for Raspadskaya.45, a book that came out in the legendary enterprise’s anniversary year as well. Following the presentation, several copies of the book were

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 14, 2018. ChelPipe Group launched Quantorium Children’s Tech Park at Innovative Culture Center in Pervouralsk this week, the Group’s press service reports. The solemn opening ceremony made part of the All-Russian Children’s Tech Park Opening Marathon coordinated by New Education Format Development Foundation and Russia’s Education Ministry. ChelPipe Quantorium was set up by ChelPipe Group and Sverdlovsk Region Government as a public-private partnership. The 550-square-meter park comprises a number of quantum units (multi-aspect tech creativity locations) fitted

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 14, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) now offers even better terms on its special-offer Growing Interest Deposit, the bank’s press service reports. ‘We now offer a greater annual interest rate on Growing Interest Deposit. The interest comes to 7.5% between the 1st and the 180th day of the deposit period and to 8.5% between the 181st and the 200th day. What is more, the offer is now open to everyone and is available both online at any of the bank’s branches,’ the press service says. ‘Better deposit terms are seen as a way of making

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 14, 2018. Koltsovo Airport Customs (Yekaterinburg) had to process 70 million shipments this year so far, which made Yekaterinburg the country’s No.2 in the national shipment-acceptance sector (No 1. is Moscow), head of V.A. Sorokin Koltsovo Customs Anatoly Timoshenkov said at a press conference. According to Timoshenkov, 90% of all the consignments are goods locals order online: clothing, footwear, gifts, gadget accessories, and various spare parts. As the number of shipments to Yekaterinburg keeps rising, so does the number of freight forwarding-related

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 14, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) was recently featured in the WWF Russia rating as one of the country’s best companies, MMK Information & PR Department reports. The rating gets coordinated by the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) and the Russian representation of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP); this year’s one got completed by the National Rating Agency based on the companies’ publicly available data such as annual reports, presentations, media footprint, and company websites. The final rating was based on three crucial criteria: a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 14, 2018. Ural Airlines are introducing a new Zhukovsky-Prague flight starting December 26, 2018, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Flight U6 751/752 will get operated on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays. The departure and arrival times are very convenient: you leave Zhukovsky at 6:30 AM and arrive in Prague as early as 7:30 AM so that there’s a whole day ahead to be spent walking around. The flight is three hours long. You then leave Prague at 8:30 AM and get to Zhukovsky two hours and forty-five minutes later,’ the press service says. A

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2018. ChelPipe Group’s Quantorium Children’s Tech Park opens at Innovative Culture Center at 18B Lenin St in Pervouralsk at 4 PM on December 13, 2018. The solemn opening ceremony will make part of the children’s tech park opening marathon in which over thirty new sites in twenty-five different parts of Russia are participating. ‘ChelPipe Quantorium was set up by ChelPipe Group in collaboration with the government-run New Education Format Development Foundation and with support from Sverdlovsk Region Government and Pervouralsk Council,’ the Group’s press

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2018. Four employees of ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) received government awards based on the Russian President’s special decree. The solemn awarding ceremony took place at Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District’s office, the Group’s press service reports. PNTZ Managing Director Alexei Dronov received the Medal of the Order ‘For Merit to the Fatherland’ (Class II). Dronov came to work at PNTZ as a foreman’s assistant two decades ago. He proved highly professional and managerially talented

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2018. Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station’s Power-Generating Unit 4 first got connected to Sverdlovsk Region’s power grid three years ago this month (December 10, 2015). The unit has produced 13.7 billion kilowatt-hours of electric power since then, Beloyarskaya’s press service reports. The power-generating unit with its BN-800 reactor has operated safely and reliably throughout these three years. Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station’s Director Ivan Sidorov commented on the importance of their BN-800 unit for the Russian nuclear industry: ‘This power-generating

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2018. Ural Airlines will be operating direct Yekaterinburg-Kaliningrad-Yekaterinburg flight during the winter school break. According to the company’s press service, flight U6 403 (Yekaterinburg-Kaliningrad) will get operated on December 29, 2018 as well as on January 3 and January 8, 2019. Departure (Yekaterinburg): 8:40 AM. Flight U6 404 (Kaliningrad-Yekaterinburg) will be operated on the same dates. Departure (Kaliningrad): 10:25 AM. Prices start from RUB 8,690 for Yekaterinburg-Kaliningrad flights and from RUB 9,390 for Kaliningrad-Yekaterinburg ones.