Vyacheslav Prakin, former executive director of Sverdlovsk regional branch of Rossiyskie Kommunalnye Sistemy JSC (Russian public supply systems) is appointed GD of Regionalnaya Teplosnabzhayushchaya Kompaniya, a member of KES-Holding. The appointment was reported by the company’s PR-department. According to the company’s spokesperson, it’s been evoked by the on-going merger of housing and communal services business of KES-Holding with Rossiyskie Kommunalnye Sistemy JSC.

The gas network modernization operations of Chelyabinskgorgaz JSC in Planovy settlement of Chelyabinsk have reached the completion phase. The modernization will be finished after the replacement of tubes at a 100-meter sector of Planovy pipelines. The new tubes will be of a bigger diameter, so the replacement is to open a possibility of increasing the gas supply of the settlement. The replacement is to be accomplished within two days. The main gas network of Planovy was constructed 25 years ago. Since that time, a lot of new houses have been built. Therefore, gas consumption naturally

On March 14, 2006 1.4% shareholding of Uraltransbank was sold at an auction. The shareholding was put up to the auction by a Gazprom subsidiary, Uraltransgaz Ltd, within the framework of Gazprom getting rid of its marginal assets. The shareholding was acquired by Dorstroyinvest Ltd. According to the spokesperson for Uraltransbank, Dorstroyinvest paid 10 million RUR for the shares, whereas the opening bid was 5 million RUR. Dorstroyinvest Ltd is located at 10 Tramvayny Lane, Yekaterinburg. It might have acted in the third party’s interests.

In 2005, Chelyabinskaya Generiruyushchaya Kompaniya JSC, member of Territorialnaya Generiruyushchaya Kompaniya №10, purchased 1,412,571,000 RUR worth of equipment, raw materials and services. The purchases were made on a competitive basis. Due to the suppliers’ competition the company saved up 52,822,000 RUR off the initially declared purchasing price. The purchases were mainly accomplished through an open competition. In more than 80% of the purchases, the company employed national electronic B2b-energo trading floor. In particular, Chelyabinskaya Generiruyushchaya Kompaniya purchased the

On March 14, 2006, Ural Turbine Works CJSC (part of Renova Group) presented its new PGU-90 combined-cycle plant that is fully competitive with the world’s leading brands yet is more economical at the 4th annual international conferenceexhibition RUSSIA POWER 2006. ‘The Russian and global power engineering markets potential are extremely favorable for our company to become the key player in the field as Yekaterinburg is back in the vanguard of power machine building. Both our company and the current state policy as declared by the President are correspondingly oriented. The new combined-cycle

‘As Gazprom has been getting rid of its marginal assets, its executive Mr Miller ordered that all assets be sold. Thus, UralTransGas sold its 1% something shareholding to UralTransBank today,’ Chairman of UralTransBank JSC Valeriy Zavodov announced at the press conference. ‘UralFinance Bank, supposedly acting on behalf of some Moscow bank, was one of the bidders at this auction. To be able to take part in the auction, a bank has to have a guarantee from a highly capitalized bank, which was not the case with UralFinance. As all of the local banks refused to give it the guarantee, it applied to

According to the spokesperson for Yuriy Zolotov, Deputy Public Prosecutor of Ural Federal District, GD of Mayak Production Association Vitaliy Sadovnikov was removed following the decisions of the public prosecution authorities and of the court sitting of March 13, 2006. The respective decree was signed by the Head of Federal Atomic Energy Agency S. V. Kirienko yesterday. Mr Sadovnikov is being charged with safety violations concerning environmentally hazardous waste treatment based on Clauses 246 and 247 of Russian Criminal Code Deputy GD and Chief Engineer Alexander Suslov will become the

Magnesite Industrial Complex has already retrained 3893 employees in January and February 2006. This has cost the company 890,520 RUR The retraining was made possible due to the special individually designed programs aimed at improving the skills that are currently in greatest demand and help employees form the practical skills in both instructors and workers as well as newcomers. Such retraining scheme meets the requirements of the quality management system. As the company’s spokesperson said to UrBC representative, there are currently 11,427 people working, of whom 9,585 (87.7%) are in the

Turkish airlines will perform Yekaterinburg-Istanbul flights starting March 26, 2006. According to the spokesperson for Koltsovo airport of Yekaterinburg, Turk Hava Yollaru will perform two flights a week (Mondays and Thursdays) using A-320 aircrafts; the agreement is now being finalized. ‘The other companies who said they wanted to fly to Yekaterinburg haven’t yet applied for the slots; thus, we’re still waiting to hear from Finnish Airlines and Malev; we’ve also been negotiating with the Chinese Public Airlines that is considering flights to Yekaterinburg,’ the company’s spokesperson Yulia

Metallurgical Works of Zlatoust is going to introduce a competitive purchase system that will cover everything the plant buys, from raw materials to unique equipment and sophisticated technologies to respective services. The first competitive purchase auction is open to 15 suppliers dealing in working clothes. The samples have been tested by the plant committee consisting of safety, laboratory and other specialists. After looking at the prices, paying terms and delivery offers, the committee will make the final decision in the trading firm RusUglemer of Moscow. The order will comprise 56