IES Holding and Evraz group S.A. signed an agreement on the sale of Sverdlovsk Region-based Kachkanar power station (a member of TGK-9). The station will be sold to EVRAZ Kachkanarsky Ore Mining & Processing Plant (EVRAZ KGOK). The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of December 2011, after all the formalities have been fully processed.

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court accepted the application placed with it by Bioproject: the company insists that Uralmashzavod be declared bankrupt, a court representative told Russian Agency for Legal & Court Information (RAPSI). The date of hearing the case has not been set yet. The enterprise’s Director-General Oleg Danchenko said at a briefing in July that Uralmashzavod’s revenues were expected to nearly double in 2011 against 2010 and reach 10bn RUR. He said the plant’s revenues amounted to 5.3bn RUR in the year 2010.

The details of an emergency landing performed by Lufthansa plane flying from Yekaterinburg to Frankfurt have recently been announced. According to Senior Assistant to Head of Ural Investigative Administration for Transportation’s PR Division Irina Sarkisyan, the emergency landing of Lufthansa aircraft had to be performed because of a fire in the kitchen. The flight attendants noticed the smoke and told the pilots about it, so the captain decided to land in Perm Airport. The investigative committee did not confirm the rumor that two people on board had carbon monoxide poisoning.

Ural Airlines will launch its first scheduled international flight from Mineralnye Vody to Dubai on October 25, 2011. Now the people living in the Northern Caucasus can get to the East’s most luxurious city directly from their home towns, the company’s press officer reports. The flight will be operated every Tuesday. The cheapest round trip tickets are available for ?399 (plus the airport charge). Tickets can be booked via the airline’s website www.uralairlines.com or УральскиеАвиалинии.рф as well as in the company’s booking offices.