An employee of Uralmashzavod is now on average forty-five years old, the enterprise’s HR Director Natalya Babilurova announced at Sverdlovsk Region Women’s Parliament Council meeting in Yekaterinburg. According to Ms Babilurova, only a thousand workers haven’t reached the age of thirty-five yet, all of which is explained by the workforce shortage. By 2012, the median age of Uralmashzavod’s employees is expected to go down to forty, the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly reports.

In 2010, Russian Railways is planning to implement its restructuring program and set up Russian Railways Holding, which means, among other things, that Sverdlovsk Region Railways (the company’s subsidiary) will no longer have some if its front offices; also, its non-core activity will now be outsourced, says Sverdlovsk Region Railways’ PR Department. Sverdlovsk Region Railways insists the reorganization will not result in large-scale layoffs. The company expects to outsource its motor vehicle facilities to OOO ResourceTrans this year. In addition, Russian Railways’ local customer service

Russia might only be able to launch 71 giga-watts worth of new electricity-generating facilities by 2020 instead of the proposed 72.5 giga-watts, RIA Novosti reports. ‘According to the findings of the Energy Ministry, forty-three power generating units out of 107 proposed new units are not being constructed at the moment. This comes to 9.82 giga-watts worth of power. Seventeen units are currently at the preparation work stage, building and assembly jobs are being done at thirty-eight units, and nine units have been launched this year,’ RIA Novosti states. The Energy Ministry says such

OOO Gazpromneftfinans sold a potion of OAO Gazpromneft-Ural’s shares and now only owns 33.73% of the latter’s stock. Gazpromneftfinans used to hold 43.6% of Gazpromneft-Ural’s shares. At the same time, OOO Ural-Viktan now owns 7.9421% of Gazpromneft-Ural’s shares.

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Russian Federation Anne Pringle and a delegation of officials from the UK Consulate General in Yekaterinburg visited OAO Uralelectromed (Ural Mining & Metallurgical Company’s asset) and met the company’s Director Vladimir Kolotushkin. This is the fifth time Anne Pringle has come to the Urals, but the Ambassador has never been to the premises of UMMC or Uralelectromed before. The British official looked at the chemical & metallurgical and the copper wire rod shops. ‘UMMC