The Board of Directors of TGK-9, the power generating company, appointed former Sales Director Andrei Makarov General Director, reports the company’s spokesperson. Former GD Valeriy Rodin left his position because he was promoted to General Director of TGK-1.

Beloyarskaya nuclear power station summed up the results of its activity in August 2006. BN-600 power generating unit operated at the nominal capacity level. It had to be reduced for three days (August 24 to August 27) from 600 to 400 megawatt in order to eliminate some defects in the drain conduit. These defects did not affect the level of radiation and were classed as a zero event at the INES scale, which means the incident was non-core to safety. According to the spokesperson, there weren’t recorded any safety or limit violations, and the rare gas activity breakthrough in August comprised

Ural Turbine Works (part of Renova Group) is going to re-enter the Ukrainian power facilities market. Tendering for the supply of a 250-megawatt turbine to one Ukrainian enterprise in the nearest future is to be the first step forward. The Ural turbine makers have supplied the country with 45 turbines with the joint capacity of 2,937 megawatt altogether, yet then there seemed to be no cooperation for a while. Last year, the company tried to offer its turbines to Byelorussian businesses, and it is now working on K-63-90 steam turbine that will be bought by power station of Minsk, reports the

Oleg Zakharushkin was appointed the new director of Yekaterinburg subsidiary of SOGAZ Insurance Group. He succeeded Alla Rodygina, who moved to the company’s headquarters to become the Regional Network Management Director, reports the spokesperson for the company. The new director will have to look at the ways to develop personal insurance and risk insurance (including financial and construction risks); the Group still puts great emphasis on the business entities, as far as Yekaterinburg is concerned.

BN-600-power unit of Beloyarskaya nuclear power station will go through the scheduled outage for refueling on September 18, 2006. The outage will be accompanied by the pure non-radioactive gas make through the relief valves. The refueling is expected to last from September 20 to October 9, 2006. In the meantime, the heat and hot water will be provided to the town of Zarechniy by the local boilers and the heating facility of No. 4 generating unit currently under construction, reports the spokesperson for the station.

According to the spokesperson for the Public Prosecutor of Chelyabinsk Region, the recent investigation of how the airports complied with the air safety legislation revealed instances of violating the regulations that could lead to air accidents. Among other things, the luggage inspection points or metal detectors were not equipped with explosive fumes detectors; the inspection of freight at the Cargo Service department was performed without the obligatory appliances such as an X-ray TV stationary introscope. The technical support staff as well as the ground crew and the transportation

‘AutoVAZ has been trying to raise its efficiency by cutting expenses, a great part of which is made up by the price of the metal. This automobile concern has a number of suppliers to choose from, this is why it feels it can write its own ticket as far as Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Magnitogorsk is concerned. It is the Complex that will have to compromise, otherwise it will lose a very important client,’ the expert of FINAM Investment Company Sergey Filchenkov said to UrBC representative, following the recent refusal of the carmaker to use the Complex as their supplier. ‘If the parties