Ural Airlines keeps on with its fleet of vehicles upgrade program. One more Airbus A320 plane bearing Ural Airlines’ company colors took off in Beirut and landed in Koltsovo Airport the other day. This means the airline now operates 24 Airbus liners (fifteen A 320 ones and nine A 321 ones). Just like the other planes, this one was acquired on operating lease terms. The airplane has both business and economy class sections and is intended for operating scheduled flights. The air carrier plans to expand its Airbus collection to thirty planes by 2014 as well as to buy long-haul aircraft for

Yekaterinburg city council says that the most important strategic task in the field of local trade infrastructure development is enhancing Yekaterinburg’s role as a major interregional wholesale and retail trading center. The capital of the Urals currently houses 1,071 grocery stores and 2,660 shops selling non-food items as well as 26 shopping centers. In 2012, seven more malls are expected to open in the city. These are: RADUGA Park Shopping & Entertainment Center at the intersection of Repin St and Leningradskaya St, Panorama Shopping Center at the intersection of Malyshev St and

Sinara Pipe Plant’s net profit (calculated in accordance with the Russian Accounting Standards) amounted to 153.68m RUR in 2011, the company’s report states. The plant’s revenues rose by 23.4% and reached 27.56bn RUR.

Ukraine’s Consulate-General in Ural Federal District will relocate from Tyumen to Yekaterinburg. This news was announced at Head of Russian Federation Government Vladimir Putin’s meeting with Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovitch, Interfax reports. According to the Ukrainian Ambassador Vladimir Yelchenko, the consulate will move house in about one month. He also said that another Ukrainian consulate-general would be transferred from Vladivostok to Novosibirsk.

Bayer and Ural Pharmaceutical Cluster representatives met to discuss the joint production of pharmaceuticals in Russia. It was announced that the first stage of Bayer and Ural Pharmaceutical Cluster’s cooperation would consist in full-cycle production of Bayer’s medicines using the facilities of Medsintez Plant (one of Cluster’s residents) in Novouralsk. The production will make use of on both the plant’s existing facilities and the new production sites the Cluster is planning to put up. At the moment, the medicines that are expected to be manufactured in Russia are antibiotics Avelox and