January 25, 2013. This year, Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant’s personnel training center is planning to have 3,800 employees undergo professional development programs. This is a record-setting number, as last year, only 3,600 workers were trained; in 2011, the figure was 3,150, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports.

The number of workers who improved on their professional skills rose from 11% to 17% of all the staff. So now the metal casters, press operators, pump unit operators and other workers who underwent production and technical development programs have been entitled to higher payment rates.

The plant employees who attended bespoke courses had a chance to master some new machinery, innovational products, materials, and technological processes, all of which was actually an operational requirement.