Deputy General Director and Technical Director of RosEnergoAtom Nikolai Sorokin visited Beloyarskaya nuclear power station on July 11, 2006 in order to hold a meeting with the station management. Mr Sorokin examined the constriction site of the new BN-800 feeding unit as well as the currently operating BN-600, reports the spokesperson for the station. The meeting was devoted to the current state of the units, the construction process, and the possible solutions to the following problems: safe storage of spend fuel from units 1 and 2 in the cooling ponds, extending the estimated life of BN-600

The shareholders of Electrometallurgical Industrial Complex of Chelyabinsk JSC will receive no dividend for 2005; such was the decision made at the company’s annual general meeting on June 29, 2006. The attendees also approved of the company’s annual report for 2005 and of the accounting report, including the profit and loss statement. They agreed to pass a dividend for 2005 as well. The shareholders elected seven Members of the Board (Yuriy Antipov, Vladimir Karnoukhov, Igor Katsina, Alexander Kretov, Pavel Khodorovskiy, Alexander Sheikin, Sergey Varlamov), and the inspection committee.

‘Since the company has no license at the moment, Sredneuralskiy Winery Ltd. (part of AVS-Group) has to hold up production for the time being. This lack of license is also the reason why we still have not been able to obtain the second batch of excise duty stamps. We have already received the first batch okay, but receiving the second one appears to be more difficult,’ the company’s employee Olga Cherepanova said to UrBC representative. ‘Whether the winery is going to bottle Moldavian wine remains to be seen. All I can say is, we are definitely going to bottle different kinds of port,’ Ms

The net profit of Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Magnitogorsk JSC has come to 15.525 billion RUR in the first six months of 2006, which is 10.8% less than in January to June 2005 (17.410 billion), says the company’s report. The complex has made 72.3bn RUR within the given period, with the prime cost going up by 2.9% (from 49.654bn to 51.110bn); the company’s pre-tax profit has gone down from 23.122bn to 20.600bn RUR.

Ural Airlines JSC won the tender coming from Personnel Training and Retraining Department of Government of Yakutia/Sakha; the winning carrier will service the students studying in colleges and universities of Ural Federal District. There were five applicants altogether, one of them being Yakutia Airlines. Given Yakutia’s geographical position (this part of Russia is quite distanced from major educational and scientific facilities), the Government of the republic puts a lot of effort into holding and supervising the annual campaigns aimed at giving their students a chance to get a degree in

Three new magnetic filters have recently been installed at the processing shop of Vanadium Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise of Kachkanar (part of Evraz Group), which is part of the complex renovation program. The enterprise bought 15 new magnetic filters made by Rudgormash of Voronezh at the beginning of March. In April, the company’s technicians from the repair center installed the first seven filters in the magnetic separation area. This renovation is targeted at increasing the efficiency of ore processing technologies, namely, at making the process less expensive. The upgrading should

The management of Vanadium Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise of Kachkanar JSC (part of Evraz Group) decided to set up a new department that would deal in designing a long-term development strategy for the company. The experts from this department are expected to both thoroughly calculate the potentially fruitful projects and adapt the existing technological advances to the specific conditions of the company’s production process, reports the spokesperson for Evraz Group.

The shareholders of Electrometallurgical Industrial Complex of Chelyabinsk decided to reorganize the company by merging with Manganese Komi JSC of Inta, Komi, and Vladprom and Co. CJSC of Vladivostok. The corresponding agreement was approved of at the AGM by 631,505,117 votes, or 99.996% of the company’s voting stock. 945 votes, or .00015% of the voting stock, voted against the decision. The shares of Electrometallurgical Industrial Complex of Chelyabinsk in the authorized capitals of both companies now come to 100% (compared to the previous 20%); these changes were registered on April 7,