Golden crown card. Transport card Golden Crown Methods for replenishing your balance

For a convenient way to pay for travel, the Zolotaya Korona transport card was issued, the use of which does not cause difficulties. Working in the Electronic Travel Pass system, this card makes life much easier for users. Thanks to the Golden Crown, people can travel on any public transport, pay by bank transfer, and make payments this way - conveniently and quickly.

Currently, the Zolotaya Korona transport card can be used in such Russian cities as:

• Blagoveshchensk;
• Gorno-Altaisk;
• Chrysostom;
• Miass;
• Biysk;
• Kemerovo;
• Samara;

• Novosibirsk;
• Krasnodar;
• Orenburg;
• Yaroslavl;
• Birobidzhan;
• Novokuznetsk;
• Stavropol.

You can pay for travel in this way in the system of about 200 transport organizations. Currently, passengers have purchased more than 3 million cards, which are used to make more than 40 million payment transactions monthly. People prefer this payment method for several reasons:

1. Convenience – you can pay with one card in all types of public transport.
2. Time saving – the payment process is much faster, there is no need to look for and count change.
3. Financial savings - when used, a person receives a discount on travel, thereby saving his personal budget.

Types of transport cards, places of purchase

When the Golden Crown plastic card, intended for paying for travel, was being developed, it was decided to divide the country's population into social groups and issue a different type of card for each group. For this reason, there are currently several types of cards.

Pupil or student card, unified transport card

All of them are available for purchase at places where such cards can be refilled. Naturally, their acquisition is a paid service; moreover, a student card is issued in the name of a specific person and is valid only as long as he is enrolled in the educational institution.

Personalized social cards

Issued free of charge to persons who have certain social benefits. Obtaining such payment cards is available from social organizations.

Corporate and bank card

Those where finances are credited by the employer - here the option of paying for travel is combined with the possibility of performing other settlement transactions. A similar card is issued at the enterprise where the user works.

Discount social and transport card.

Those that are discounts at retail outlets of partners of the Golden Crown payment system are issued at cash desks, where you can immediately top them up with certain amounts.

Most often, such plastics are used by schoolchildren, students and people with social benefits. However, recently there has been interest among citizens in purchasing them.

To find out what types of cards are available in your city, look at this table:

Checking the balance of the Golden Crown transport card

You can find out the balance on your balance in several ways:

In order to clarify how and where you can check your card balance, just contact the Golden Crown support center at 8 800 200-55-75, where specialists will explain everything in detail.

Where can I use the card?

The scope of use of such plastic is dictated by the fact that it belongs to its type. So, with all transport cards you can pay for:

• travel in the subway;
• travel in city and suburban transport;
• travel in private minibuses, subject to their participation in the “Electronic Travel Pass” system.

If such a card is a bank card or allows you to cooperate with Zolotaya Korona partner retail outlets, it can also be used to carry out other operations such as:

• payment for purchases;
• payment for social services;
• the fastest possible transfers to cards of other users and others.

Replenishment methods

For each city, replenishment options will be different, but the most popular methods are the following: metro ticket offices, where they can be purchased, kiosks near public transport, Sberbank and Russian Post. In the event that the plastic is associated with the user’s employer company, transfers are made from their funds as advance and salary payments.

You can find out the current replenishment methods for your city on the website https://t-karta.ru in the “Refill Points” section.

Mobile applications for iOS, Android

For ease of use, a mobile application of the same name has been developed and presented for download. It stores all the information about linked transport cards, which allows you to view travel history, balance, and expiration date.

Using the application is easy: just follow the required link below, download it, and then enter the unique card number. After this, all program functions become available. The user can also connect cards of all members of his family to one application.

The MTBank-Corona card is a full-fledged bank payment card, which simultaneously has the functions of the “Pleasant Shopping Store” discount program of the Corona chain of stores. Both as a payment card and as a discount card, it gives its owners additional bonuses and opportunities.

How to get a 7% discount in Korona stores?

The MTBank-Corona card expands the capabilities of the already existing discount program “Pleasant Shopping Store”. The program itself makes it possible to get a discount of up to 5% depending on the amount of purchases in the Korona shopping center, the Castle shopping center, Korona Techno (with the exception of promotional items) and in many Fashion Mall stores (a complete list of stores can be found check on the website korona.by). With the new MTBank-Corona card you will receive an additional 2% discount, already from your first purchase.

From May 3, 2017, an improved discount system has been in effect. For details, see the section "How does the card work?"

How does the money-back (money back) function work on the MTBank-Corona card?

The money-back function means that part of the funds you spend is credited back to the card every month. You don't need to make any effort for this. It’s simple: you use the card, and at the end of the month MTBank returns 1% or 0.5% (for grocery stores with MCC 5411) of the amount spent for any purchases in real money (except for purchases in the Korona retail chain) to your check.

You can obtain additional information on the MTBank-Corona card from a bank specialist by calling: 509 99 99 (all mobile operators).

For holders of the MTBank-Corona card, the amount of the discount that is provided as part of the “Pleasant Shopping Store” discount program automatically increases by 2%. That is, it ranges from 2% to 7%. Moreover, you can get a 2% discount from your first purchase! However, in the future, in order to receive an increased discount, one simple condition must be met - the average monthly balance of funds on your card for the previous month must be at least 100 BYN.*
* this condition does not apply since October 2016

Your average monthly balance is determined by adding up your card account balances on the morning of each business day in the month and dividing by the number of business days in that month. Thus, there is no need to keep at least 100 rubles on the card every day, the main thing is that such a balance on the card accumulates on average per month.

The amount of the discount depends on the total accumulated amount of purchases over 90 (ninety) days made by you when paying with the MTBank-Corona card in the Corona retail network and is calculated as follows (from May 3, 2017, an improved discount system is in effect:):

Important!

To receive a discount, the owner of the MTBank-Corona card must present it to the cashier until settlement for the purchase.

Discounts are not provided if purchases are made with an MTBank-Corona card using the mobile application.

The amount of the discount from the “Pleasant Shopping Store” loyalty program is not transferred to the MTBank-Corona payment card.

The discount does not apply to:

• for alcoholic and low-alcohol drinks, beer
• for tobacco products
• on promotional items (including the discount cannot be combined with the discount on SP after 20.00)
• per packaging

The Korona retail chain is:

MINSK
- Shopping center Castle (Pobediteley Ave., 65)
- st. Kalvariyskaya, 24
- ave. Independence, 154
- st. Korzhenevsky, 26
- Shchomyslitsky s/s, 28A
- st. Baramzina, 8a (Sokol)
- st. Kuntsevshchina, 37
- Zhdanovich, Zarechnaya 1B-3
- st. Odintsova, 9-67
- st. Olesheva, 1
- st. Ya. Brylya, 24.

BREST
- st. Moskovskaya, 210
- st. Puganova, 4

BOBRUISK
- st. 50 years of the Komsomol, 33-3

BORISOV
- st. 3 International, 5

VITEBSK
- Beshenkovichskoe highway, 3rd
- Goncharnaya st., 11
- ave. Moskovsky, 109-1

GRODNO
- Ya.Kupaly Ave., 16a-1

SOLIGORSK
- st. K. Zaslonova, 29v BARANOVICHI
- ave. Sovestky, 2-1

Including:
- “Crown Techno” (excluding promotional items)
- “Fashion Mall”

The discount program “Pleasant Shopping Store” allows you to save up to 5% in Korona hypermarkets, as well as in Fashion Mall stores that have a special designation.

Anyone can purchase a discount card, regardless of the amount of the check. You just need to fill out a form at the information center in any Korona shopping center or in the Castle shopping center, and in Korona stores you can purchase a discount card at the checkout.

In addition to the main discount card, the buyer receives a mini-card “Pleasant Shopping Store” (keychain card “Crown”) - an identification (numbered) plastic card that has a common savings account with the purchased discount card and entitles the bearer to receive discounts provided by the discount card program. The “Crown” key fob card is presented to the cashier before payment for the purchase. The Crown key fob card cannot be restored.

The cost of the card and key fob is 2 rubles. 00 kop.

As soon as the card is activated (a purchase is made), you become a member of the “Pleasant Shopping Store” discount program. Now all purchase amounts will be credited to the savings card. The accumulation period is 90 days. The size of the discount depends on the accumulated amount.

From May 3, 2017, changes to the “Pleasant Shopping Store” discount program come into force:

The discount program does not apply to:

• Tobacco products;
• Alcoholic and low-alcohol drinks, beer;
• Promotional goods;
• Packaging;
• Gift certificates;
• Goods purchased in Fashion Mall stores (including the Fashion Mall sections of the Korona store) using the Magnit installment card from OJSC Savings Bank Belarusbank, Purchase Cards from Belgazprombank, Installment Card No. 1 “Halva” from MTBank (including partial payment of the cost of the goods), as well as in the event that it is impossible to identify the bank payment card used by the buyer for payment;
• Products from the “DISCOUNT” store (Minsk, Kalvariyskaya str., 24);
• Services provided to the population;
• Catering facilities of the Korona shopping center chain and the Zamok shopping center.

You can obtain more detailed information about the discount program from information center employees or by following the link

Owners of the new MTBank-Corona payment card will be able to receive a discount of up to 7% in the chain stores “Corona”, shopping center “Castle”, “Fashion Mall” and “Corona Techno”, as well as a 1% cash back on all purchases.

Discount cards have long ceased to be a curiosity for Belarusians - at least one card can be found in every wallet. True, we often use them more “automatically”, without thinking about whether the card brings real benefits. In the meantime, today you can save money on literally every purchase. For owners of the new MTBank-Corona payment card, savings can be up to 7% of the purchase amount.

What is the MTBank-Corona card?

The amount of the discount depends on the total accumulated amount of purchases over 90 (ninety) days made by you when paying with the MTBank-Corona card in the Corona retail network and is calculated as follows:

For “ ” card holders, the discount amount automatically increases by 2%. That is, it ranges from 2% to 7%. Moreover, you can get a 2% discount from your first purchase! Subsequently, to receive an increased discount, one simple condition must be met - the average monthly balance on your card for the previous month must be at least 100 BYR.

Your average monthly balance is determined by adding up your card account balances on the morning of each business day in the month and dividing by the number of business days in that month. Thus, there is no need to keep at least 100 rubles on the card every day, the main thing is that such a balance on the card accumulates on average per month.

How much can you save using the MTBank-Corona card?

Let's count! Let's say the amount of your monthly payments on the card - from transport costs to going to the cinema - is 800 BYR. In this case, at the end of the month you will receive a refund of 8 rubles on your card. How to spend them - pay for mobile communications, have lunch in a cafe or go to a coffee shop - is up to you.

The cost of the MTBank-Corona card itself is 19.9 Belarusian rubles. per year - easily pays off already at this stage.

By shopping in the stores of the Korona shopping center, the Castle shopping center, Fashion Mall and Korona Techno, you can save even more significant amounts. So, having a 5% discount + 2% bonus and purchasing products for 50 BYR, you will immediately receive a discount of 3.5 BYN. By purchasing a Benetton jacket at the Fashion Mall store for 350 BYN, you will save 24.5 BYN. rubles, And purchasing a refrigerator at “Corona Techno” for 1000 Belarusian rubles. - already 70 Belarusian rubles. Total, with a purchase amount of 1400 BYR. you will receive a discount of 98 BYR.

Start saving wisely!

In order to start saving, you don’t have to deny yourself anything. Rather, on the contrary: with the MTBank-Corona card you will be convinced that you can afford even more without going beyond your budget. Let shopping be profitable, enjoyable and always a pleasure for you!

The MTBank-Corona card can be issued from representatives in retail outlets of the Corona retail chain and at any of the MTBank branches.

Corona render is a rendering system that has recently entered the market. More precisely, not even on the market yet, but as the 5th alpha version, which is freely available. Anyone can take part in testing and post the results on the official forum: http://corona-renderer.com/forum/index.php.

A burning desire to learn more about the plugin arose immediately after seeing the pictures. We talked to beta testers - good 3D artists who love their job. So, let's get started.

The creation of this render began in 2009, and in 2012 the first Alpha version appeared. At the moment, there is a public Alpha 5 version that can be downloaded and used for free; you can get it on the official website http://corona-renderer.com.

Developer:
A very talented programmer and CG Artist from the Czech Republic is Ondrej Karlik.

Rendering benefits:

1. Photorealistic shading.
2. Excellent global illumination with a large number of secondary reflections.
3. No obvious dependence of rendering time on the number of light sources (Lights), focus (DOF), motion blur (Motion Blur), displacement.
4. Excellent reflections/refractions with deep tracing depth and no clipping.
5. Very fast glossy reflection/refraction effects.
6. Good GI caustic.
7. A minimum of parameters requiring adjustment of the render itself (in 95% the default values ​​give the best result).

Render settings.

8. VCM rendering engine – allows you to calculate photorealistic caustics of any nesting.
9. Very logical setting of materials.

Material editor corona render.

10. Ability to use different rendering engines for primary and secondary bounces to get full unbiased / biased results. Moreover, the biased mode is visually very close to the unbiased mode, but has 2 times the rendering speed.
11. High speed of rendering complex scenes.
12. Interactive exposure adjustment during rendering or at the end.
13. Very quickly obtaining images for preview (within 1-2 minutes) on almost any scene complexity.
14. Excellent preview of materials.
15. Free Alpha version.

I described only some of the obvious advantages that were identified in the process of working with this render. And also in comparative tests with other renderers.

My thoughts on this matter.

In this section, I will personally share my thoughts on this product, what attracted me personally to it. It is known that the most difficult task for the algorithm for calculating global illumination is interior lighting. Next comes the task of rendering a complex exterior, with many high-polygonal objects (usually natural vegetation). Then comes subject visualization, which focuses primarily on object shading.
If the first problem has an excellent solution, i.e. excellent GI in the interior in a short time + there will be no obvious restrictions on the number of objects and polygons, as well as light sources, then all other tasks are solved automatically.
Yes, for VFX there are also specific tasks for rendering fluids, various atmospheric effects, lens effects, well, as a rule, this all happens in separate passes and is not tied to a specific render.

Personally, I was attracted to this render by its very simple and very logical setup, which saved my time a lot and I was able to get a satisfying result with minimal effort. I was surprised how simply and quickly subject visualization is done. How realistic the materials look and how logically they are configured. Working with HDRI was also a pleasant surprise for me, the lighting was very realistic and fast, adjustment in 1 click. The interactive exhibition seemed like a fairy tale to me; finally, the rendering was not modal, I thought this was not possible at all.

The artistic process of setting up lighting is very fast and simple, thanks to progressive rendering, i.e. obtaining a readable image in a very short time. Emitters - I was pleased that the lighting from them was absolutely the same as from the light sources, i.e. The process of light modeling has been simplified significantly. How surprised I was that the preview materials were 100% consistent with the final render, it was just a dream. Therefore, for me personally, most of the problems were solved and solved very efficiently.
I would also like to note that personally, my work process has sharply shifted towards artistic work on projects, with minimal technical effort. settings. I won’t lie, I will say that there are many necessary functions that have not yet been implemented in the latest Alpha version, these are SSS, DR, Layered shader, Matte Shadow (Shadow Catcher), particles, VFX and many others, but the developer promises to do all this and development is currently in full swing.

Our research group has conducted many comparative tests to solve various problems, and so far Corona is definitely not inferior to such giants as Vray, Maxwell, Octane, and often surpasses in the capabilities that are currently implemented in Corona render.

Our work:
It’s ours, because I’m just one of the “activists” in improving the software product. Our research group conducts constant “deep” tests and studies of Corona in various tasks and conditions, we try to identify errors as quickly as possible and write them back to the developer. We conduct comparative tests on different renders to understand the advantages and disadvantages, which we also write back to the developer, suggesting that they introduce new features and improve current ones.

Future:
Corona still has enormous potential for development, so now this is just the beginning. A lot of new and tasty things are planned in the future:
1. Distributed Rendering (DR)
2. Interactive rendering
3. SSS
4. Layered shader
5. Shadow Catcher
6. Adaptive Sampling is a powerful thing that will greatly speed up rendering.
7. New Frame Buffer with Color Correct
8. Pause/save/resume rendering
9. Participating media
and many many others.

My works and tests using Corona Renderer:
Here I will show some of my works in which I used Corona Renderer, and also briefly describe the technical aspects of setting up rendering and materials, indicate the resolution and render time.

Hardware used: i7 – 980 (4Ghz) – 24 gb ram.1. Not a commercial work-test.

I have been involved in visualization for a long time, and from the very beginning of my acquaintance with 3ds max, I also studied vray at the same time. And for me personally there was no point in switching to something new, and there was no great desire either, since the chosen work scheme completely satisfied me. But just for fun, I decided to download the notorious Corona and do a couple of tests. The result, to put it mildly, amazed me, I switched to it almost immediately.

For me personally, the advantages are obvious, since I mainly do visualization of architecture, or rather interiors, here’s what I like:

1. The result of your efforts is visible very quickly, almost instantly. You don’t need to do a bunch of intermediate test renders to achieve a sane result. And the rendering itself is not inferior in speed to viray, and in some moments even surpasses it.

2.Easy to learn, settings of materials, lighting, everything is very logical and understandable. On off. There are material and light converters on the forum that work quite well. But it’s better to create everything from scratch.

3. Lighting – there are a lot of options: you can use the sky, HDRI, the sun, your own ICs, self-lights, IES. Self-lights are a separate conversation. Corona has a very well done function, similar to vraylightmtl in Virya. And with such material, appropriated, for example, to a spiral in a light bulb, you can illuminate the entire interior!

4.Good work with “honest” depth of field, rendering proceeds with almost no increase in speed.

5.You can adjust Color mapping directly during rendering. The same goes for exposure and contrast.

6. It has its own Corona scatter, proxy, and as it develops, I have no doubt, it will be “overgrown” with new functions and plugins.

7.Physically correct rendering. There is no “cotton wool” on the cornices, no “ladders” on thin objects, everything looks clear. If you wish, you can do all the “physics”, with caustics, but the rendering time, of course, will increase. But still not the same as in Maxwell).

8.Render time does not depend on the number of polygons.
The list can be continued, but it is worth mentioning the disadvantages. Of course, they are not as important as the advantages, but they still exist.

1. There is no analogue of Virey SSS shaders and some other materials. But do not forget that at the moment this is an alpha version, and development is still ongoing.

2. There are not enough actual lighting units, such as lumens, or watts. Everything is done “by eye”, with relative intensity.

3.Working with procedural textures on displace is not yet very stable, crashes are possible. In this case, it would be better to use the standard Displace modifier and make the correct geometry with a dense mesh, rather than the material. Rendering speed will be the same.

Without going into details, we can summarize: Corona render has the right to life, and in the near future it may “eclipse” many rendering systems.

In the end, I would like to thank Maxim Kagirov (Polymax) and Oleg Lyashenko (docent). Visit their blogs and follow new beautiful works of talented 3D artists.