In January 2006, Pervouralsky Novotrubny Zavod JSC (new tube maker works of Pervouralsk) produced 46,600 tons of tubes, which exceeds the figures for the same period of 2005 by 14%. During the first month of 2006, the company shipped 40,800 tons of its production (an increase of 7% compared to 38,300 tons of tubes shipped by the company in January 2005). In January 2006, the total shipping of tube production by the group of consolidated tube works of Chelyabinsk and Pervouralsk including Pervouralsky Novotrubny Zavod and Chelyabinsky Truboprokatny Zavod came to 98,400 tons (an increase of 20%

Following the decision of the Public Prosecutor of Verkh-Isetsky borough of Yekaterinburg, Rosnedvizhimost (public real estate of Russia) Administration demanded that Atomstroykomplex CJSC developer company be held accountable for unauthorized land occupation and violation of dwelling construction procedures. Thus, Atomstroykomplex was inflicted a penalty of 21,000 RUR, Sverdlovsk Region Office of Public Prosecutor says. The investigation performed by the public prosecution bodies revealed that Atomstroykomplex had commenced its building and assembly operations to erect a multistory

Russian Federation Technical and Export Surveillance Service decided to give United Banking History Bureau Ltd. the license which is going to make the company a legally protected right to develop and/or produce equipment and software designed for protection of confidential information, the company’s spokesperson said to UrBC representative. This license is soon going to appear on the corporate website to testify the company’s right to independently develop, produce, supply and service hardware, firmware and equipment meant for protection of confidential information. This license will make the

N.A. Semikhatov Scientific Production Association of Yekaterinburg and V.P. Makeev design office of Miass, Chelyabinsk Region, have been negotiating on the order to modernize Brazilian carrier rocket. RosCosmos and Space Agency of Brazil signed the intention transactions as early as October 2005, Deputy GD of N.A. Semikhatov Scientific Production Association Lev Belskiy reported. The negotiations will have to be carried on into late February and, after the contract has been signed, the Association is going to get down to designing the rocket-control system using some earlier schemes,

The cold weather in January 2005 made Gazmontazh, the regional gasification company, slow down on tubing. The frost penetration of soil comprises between 1 and 1.5 meters, which makes it extremely difficult to do any mainlaying. At the moment, Gazmontazh CJSC is assembling the polyethylene and metal pipes in the pipeline trenches that were prepared earlier. The pipelines are being installed in areas of Nikolo-Pavlovskiy, Mikotkino, Kurganovo and Kamensk-Uralskiy. According to the spokesperson for Ural Gas Pipelines Ltd., Gazmontazh constructed over 100 kilometers of mains in 38 municipal

Chelyabinsk Region Bank of Russia Administration officially reported the introduction of Raiffeisen Bank of Austria subsidiary in Chelyabinsk. The subsidiary is called South Urals and is located at 38 Karl Marx Street. It was registered in the State Registration Book on January 27, 2006. Shukrat Sabirov was appointed Director of the subsidiary.

The debts of heat consumers to Generating Company of Chelyabinsk had come up to 300 million RUR by January 1, 2006, the company’s spokesperson said to UrBC representative. The biggest debtors are represented by the dwelling organizations of Chelyabinsk.According to the company’s spokesperson, the company has faced a number of attempts of debt repudiation, for example, via bankruptcy, restructuring the business and transferring the dwellings to another enterprise. Thus, a debt of 16 million RUR is pending after one of the local Municipal Unitary Enterprises went bust; 2 million RUR still have