‘We are going to introduce some new units that will allow us to produce 800 megawatt and, moreover, combine the production of thermal energy with electricity which will, in its turn, lead to a smaller prime cost,’ Leonid Chetverkin, Managing Director of the local subsidiary of TGK-9 JSC, generating company, announced at today’s press conference. According to Mr Chetverkin, TGK-9 is producing plenty of energy now. During the cold weather week, for example, the company had been producing 1,000 megawatt more than was actually needed for Sverdlovsk region, so 1,700 megawatt of extras was given to

Uralvagonzavod Federal State Unitary Enterprise hosted a meeting initiated by the Carriage Department of Russian Railways Public Company. Representatives of Russian Railway Transport Research Institute, of various Russian carriage makers and of carriage services operating on Siberian and Far Eastern railroads were among the participants. The meeting concerned the launch of the new 18-578 trolley that had been designed in Ural Carriage Engineering Design Office and produced by Uralvagonzavod. 14,000 12-132-03 gondolas with this trolley type had been produced throughout 2004 and 2005. According

The decision of Tartar Republic Court of court of Appellate Jurisdiction concerning the liability of Nefis Cosmetics JSC to publish the court order prohibiting the production and selling of its Milenkaya Feya (Pretty Fairy) shampoo is going to come into effect this week, reports the spokesperson for Kalina Concern JSC. This court order is due to Kalina Concern JSC (the producer of Malenkaya Feya (Little Fairy), their registered trademark) making use of its own rights. The trademark legislation provides for the right of the producer to demand that the producer of infringing goods publish the

‘Foreign banks are bound to increase their involvement in Russian banking business,’ Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia and Director of Crediting Organizations Inspectorate Gennadiy Melikyan announced at the press conference on Friday. ‘Yet their share is not too big at the moment, especially compared to Poland or Hungary with their 95% share of foreign banks. We’ve only got 11%. It has been on the increase lately, but I don’t think we can expect a dramatic upstart,’ Mr Melikyan said. ‘We can only create subsidiaries of foreign banks in Russia and not branches as such as it is not

While the weather remains cold, Chelyabinsk state district power plant works in a tensioned mode. The thermal load comes to 485 Gcal per hour whereas the installed thermal power amounts to 838 Gcal. 6 of 8 turbines and all the 4 water boilers are functioning at the moment. The heating medium temperature is kept at about 115 degrees centigrade. It could be increased to 150 degrees centigrade, if needed. The water boiler load comes to 60%. In view of the gas supply restrictions that touched Chelyabinskaya Generiruyushchaya Kompaniya energy supplier, Chelyabinsk state district power plant is

The Federal Space Agency has made the results of its selection process known. The position of General Director of Machine Building Works of Zlatoust Federal State Unitary Enterprise was given to Sergei Lemeshevskiy, the company’s acting GD since September 2005. The Federal Space Agency is going to sign an agreement with the new GD shortly.

Shareholders of Uralterminalmash CJSC, industrial company of Miass, Chelyabinsk Region, are to consider the company’s financial policy on February 28, 2006. The agenda of this extraordinary meeting includes the company’s economic policy. The shareholders are going to address the first board of creditors asking them to improve the company’s financial policy. The second item on the agenda concerns the early leave of the General Director Peter Pavlov and the new GD election process.

According to EESK JSC, electricity supplier of Yekaterinburg, the local electricity networks are no longer overloaded since the outside temperature has gone up. Today’s peak was only 850 megawatt (compared to last Friday’s alarming record of 916 megawatt), and the equipment is being gradually put to the normal winter operation routine.