Chelyabinskregiongas Ltd., natural gas supplier, cut back on supplies for the boiler houses located in CHMK JSC, metallurgical industrial complex of Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk Region, the spokesperson for the town council reports. The temperature of the heat carriers in the area now comes to 105 degrees centigrade as opposed to the norm of 120 degrees. The complex is trying to use other kinds of fuel but it is apparently not enough to keep the temperature of the heat supply system the same as the temperature of the air. This could lead to a 5- to 7-degree decrease of temperature in the flats of

Vladimir Bobrov, former R&D Director of Visokogorskiy Gornoobogatitelniy Komninat JSC, ore mining and processing enterprise of Nizhniy Tagil, was appointed the company’s Managing Director on January 25, 2006. Mr Bobrov was born on October 22, 1948 in Nizhniy Tagil. The former Managing Director Mikhail Krupin resigned on January 21, 2006.

Evraz Group management decided to cut back on natural gas consumption by Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Nizhniy Tagil JSC since the complex has significantly exceeded its consumption limit within the last ten days, which was caused by the cold weather. The complex has been providing heat for 100,000 residents of Nizhniy Tagil. According to their spokesperson, coking plants and blast furnaces are now operated differently in order to increase the assist gas outlet. This helps to save on the natural gas but increases the prime cost of the produce. The complex is now saving all the energy

Uralskaya Khimicheskaya Kompaniya (Ural Chemical Company) JSC is starting to distribute its first share issue. ЕThe Federal Financial Markets Service registered this issue to be distributed through public subscription on December 8, 2005. The emitting company is distributing 500,000 shares with face value of 1,000 RUR each. The serial number is 4-02-31401.

‘We are inclined to do business with Ashan trading company and will consider their cooperation proposal, which, hopefully, will lead to a mutually beneficial partnership. Should a customer check out their hypermarket and fail to find our produce, he or she isn’t going to look for it elsewhere. That is why we’d better place our stuff in Ashan stores,’ Managing Director of Meat Packing Plant of Yekaterinburg JSC Sergei Vorobyev.

The daily consumption limit of 56.5 million cubic meters of natural gas allotted to Chelyabinsk Region has been exceeded by 74 million cubic meters throughout January 17 to 26, 2006, reports the spokesperson for Chelyabinskregiongas Ltd., natural gas supplier. During these ten days, the regional enterprises were supposed to have given 130 million cubic meters of gas to dwellings, socially important buildings and communal services, according to the Plan # 1 scheme. Despite these schemes, the management of local businesses (Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Magnitogorsk, Metallurgical Works

‘Ural Airlines have recently signed a preliminary agreement on leasing tow Airbus – 320 aircrafts. Yet the delivery date is a trade secret not to be disclosed for now,’ the company’s spokesperson said to UrBC representative. It is reported that the aircrew hasn’t yet got down to operation training courses; the learning is scheduled for 2006 shortly before the aircrafts are put into use.

‘The new unified tax on imputed income of individual entrepreneurs coefficient has lead to a $50 increase in price of a 3 by 6 meters billboard side’, the spokesperson for Gallery Service Ltd. said to UrBC representative. ‘The amount of open-air advertising hasn’t changed dramatically in 2006, not even after the federal Regulation of State Standards made it obligatory to place the billboards at a certain distance from the roads and flanks. The billboards keep being placed everywhere in the city, so the Regulation was not trend-setting,’ the spokesperson said.