UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 23, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Omsk-based employees got local and national awards on the eve of Machine-Builder’s Day, the company press service reports.

Around a hundred workers employed at Omsk industrial enterprises were awarded all in all, including head of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Omsktransmash Crossing Equipment Department Natalya Volgina.

The solemn awarding ceremony took place at P.I. Baranov Club’s Assembly Hall on September 20. The local industrial community’s most renowned members, heads of industrial enterprises, and city council and Omsk Region Government representatives all came to the ceremony to present their welcoming addresses to the awardees.

Omsk Region Industry, Transport, & Innovative Technologies Minister Viktor Belov was the first to congratulate the Omsk workers on their awards. He stressed the local machine-building industry’s great economic and production performance indicators over the last five years. For one, the local enterprises’ industrial produce output rose by nearly 2.3 times, the workers’ pay doubled, and some 6,000 new jobs were created, with highly skilled new employees taken on.