Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Nizhniy Tagil JSC (part of Evraz Group) is going to renovate 50,000 square meters of roads within this summer. The company’s employees from the land improvement department have already cleaned up the entire production site, created flowerbeds and lawns, and planted 30,000 flowers and 1,500 trees and shrubs. Using the needed equipment, the special division of the department deals in renovating of both external and internal roads and routes on a daily basis, reports the spokesperson for Evraz Group.

There are now almost twice as many foreign workers employed in the region legally than before. According to the Federal Migration Service in Sverdlovsk Region, the figure has soared from 7,700 permits in 2005 to 14,500 permits in 2006. 70,000 migrant workers from the NIS have registered with the regional authorities since the beginning of the year, which exceeds the figures for 2005 by 6%. These workers were in greatest demand in the fields of building industry, trade, and consumer services.

A group of PESCO executives and some representatives of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technologies of Japan have recently visited Beloyarskaya nuclear power plant within the framework of the Russian-Japanese MOX-fuel cooperation program. The Russian party is represented by a research institute of Dimitrovgrad and Beloyarskaya nuclear power plant of Sverdlovsk Region (the fuel assemblies with MOX-fuel are now being tested at the plant). In the future, fast-fission reactors using MOX-fuel should become the basic component of the closed nuclear fuel cycle, which will

Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Nizhniy Tagil JSC (part of Evraz Group) has been developing new software needed for No. 5 blast furnace, No. 5 cokery, and circulation degassing device at the converter shop. All these bits of equipment are controlled automatically, and every units has a special program with a database and monitor unit. The company’s computer programmers are now fixing the order in which the facilities should function in order to perform best and designing a supporting set of programs to be included in the company’s information network. The united activity-monitoring

According to provisional estimations, the total amount of direct insurance premiums received by Ingosstrakh branches affiliated to the company’s Ural Regional Center has come to 511.006m RUR during the first half of 2006, which exceeds the corresponding figures for the previous year by 44%. The voluntary insurance premiums amounted to 439.203m RUR (an increase of 48%), including 101.266m RUR of personal insurance fees (an increase of 41%). The property insurance premiums came to 324.935m RUR (an increase of 48%), whereas the liability insurance premiums increased by 120% up to 13.002m RUR.

Within the first half of 2006, the long-distance telephone communication gain of Uralsvyazinform JSC decreased by 70.4% (or 1,163.8m RUR). The drop was driven by the introduction of some new legal regulations since January 1, 2006 and by an increase in outgoing calls within the intraareal network. Thus, the landline calls amounted to 425.8m minutes, while the landline/mobile ones amounted to 1,723.4m minutes. The reduction of intraareal telephone connection tariffs by about 4% from September 1, 2005 also contributed to the drop. The information was reported to UrBC representative by

Karabashmed CJSC of Chelyabinsk Region, part of Russian Copper Company, is carrying out the third stage of its reconstruction. The company accomplished a cold start of an iron-and-steel furnace with immersible tuyere produced by Ausmelt of Australia. A cold start is test launch of a furnace without charging. It is directed at checking the joint performance of the furnace units and systems. The furnace launch will complete the third stage of Karabashmed reconstruction. The furnace designed by Australian specialists is able to smelt blister copper from the very low copper minerals, which allows

Chelyabinsk Region energy supplier ChelyabEnergo JSC decided to set up the Technological Connection Administration. According to the company’s spokesperson, increasingly more natural persons and legal entities need to be connected to the regional electrical networks, as the region is developing economically, more buildings are being put up, and large industrial enterprises feel the need for connection as well. The company received 3,678 applications in 2005 and 3,115 applications in the first half of 2006. The connection process used to be a rather complicated and procrastinated one, but the

The members of the Bank’s Board and some top managers decided to redistribute their shares in the company’s authorized capital. Deputy General Director Zoë Koshalko, for instance, increased her share holding from 7.051% to 7.058%, which led to an increase in her share in the company’s authorized capital from 7.059% to 7.067%. These changes were registered on July 31, 2006.