The first facilities in The Industrial Urals-The Polar Urals Project’s railway and power network will be commissioned in three to four years, the Geology & Ore Mining Production Director of Development Corporation Dmitri Baskov told Oblastnaya Gazeta. Last year, we ensured the construction of infrastructure for Purpe-Samotlor pipeline and started building a bridge across the River Nadym; we are also working on a whole series of projects for the power sector. In the future, all of this will result in lower rates, increased economic appeal of the northern territories, the development of

Kamensk-Uralsky Metallurgical Plant’s stockholders decided to increase the company’s authorized capital by eight times, from 1.35m RUR to 10.81m RUR. This decision was made at an extraordinary general meeting. The capital was raised through an additional issue of 18.91m ordinary registered shares; these were offered by private subscription and only to the plant’s stockholders.

All the bonus-entitled members of Ural Airlines Aviation Company’s Wings Club who joined the loyalty scheme after January 1, 2012 can get bonus points for flights operated three months before their registration with the club. This means the newly joining members will receive, in addition to 500 welcome bonus points, points for Wings Club pre-membership time flights, the airline’s press service reports. To have the flights bonus points added to one’s member account, one only needs to fill in an application for bonus rubles via the company’s website at All members of the air carrier’s bonus

Ural Airlines is launching a special offer on the company’s flight from Novosibirsk to Guangzhou and back. Between March 3, 2012 and April 4, 2012 all those willing to do so can book their tickets for this flight for ?249 (plus airport and air carrier charges). The offer is valid for all of the airline’s flights operated between March 3 and April 4, 2012, the airline’s press service reports. Tickets are available via the airline’s official website www.uralairlines.com as well as in the booking offices.

Russian Railways Public Company is not going to finance a rail welding production facility project the rails for which are to be manufactured at Mechel Group’s Chelyabinsk Iron & Steel Works (currently under construction), the company’s head Vladimir Yakunin told reporters in Chelyabinsk. ‘We have been considering our need for producing 100-meter rails for a long time. No such rails are manufactured at our facilities, especially no rails of such quality. Under our standards, a continuous welded rail requires 800-meter rails. The enterprise that is being put up next to the plant will weld