Four more enterprises allowed Yekaterinburg Electrical Network Company to limit their supplies of electricity in case one of the power transformers breaks down during the most strenuous winter days, reports the spokesperson for the Company. These are N.A. Semikhatov Scientific Production Association, UralElastoTekhnika CJSC, the local oil and mayonnaise producing company, and ElectroTrans CJSC. Therefore, the electricity supplier now has the consent of 12 companies that use the most heavily loaded substations. One of these substations known as Trud experienced a major breakdown of a power

A 100 square meter-patch of concrete roof fell down at No. 2 shop of Kasli Machine Building Plant (Chelyabinsk Region) due to violation of occupational safety provisions when dismantling metalwork on September 1, 2006. The debris hit and badly damaged a GAZ-66 truck with one person inside, so nine firefighters from Kasli district, six rescuers from Snezhinsk, three rescuers from Ozersk, and seven rescue rangers from Kystym (twenty-five people and seven vehicles altogether) were immediately sent to save the life of the person buried alive under the wrecks of the roof. The 27-year-old victim

A group of inspectors from the Losses Department of Sverdlovsk Region Communal Facilities JSC conducted five raids in the town of Kachkanar and revealed 15 instances of electricity theft that resulted in 60,000 RUR of collected debt, reports the company’s spokesperson. The company recorded 7 instances of theft by natural persons and 8 instances of theft by legal entities last month. For example, Consul, the local shop, removed the official seal of the supplier on the meter, Fashion (another shop) and Rhodonite Ltd. had no functioning meters at all, the meter in a fruit kiosk had a broken

The Board of SverdlovEnergo JSC declared the interest rate to be paid on its bonds: it came to 26.18 million RUR, with a dividend of 52.36 RUR per bond. The total amount actually paid so far has come to 114,047,627 RUR.

In August 2006, Uraltrac Ltd. produced 542.99m RUR worth of commodity goods, which amounts to 98.6% of the target figures. Within the past month, the company produced 189 engineer vehicles worth 355.8m RUR including 25 tractors, 10 pipe-laying cranes, and 154 ripper-dozer units. The total shipments came to 662.61m RUR in money terms (94.4% of the target figures). The company sold 185 engineer vehicles worth 410.981m RUR, including 173 tractors and T-10-based units and 10 ripper-dozer units. The information was reported to UrBC representative by Uraltrac PR-department.

The public prosecution authorities of Sverdlovsk Region determined that the bridge located at the interception of Shevchenko St. and Vostochnaya St. in Yekaterinburg had been ordered by Blagoustroystvo, the local municipal enterprise; they decided on SverdlovskMostoStroy Ltd. as their general contractor. The construction itself was completed by workers from a building company called Mostostroitelniy Otryad 72. The cross-bars of the second, the third, and the fourth bridge footings fell down at 5 PM on September 4, 2006 while the workers were still there. This resulted in complete destruction