The Production Management portal carried the annual rating called Russia’s Industrial Elite: 100 Best Production Managers 2012. The rating is primarily aimed at selecting, with the help of reputed experts, the most successful industrial sector managers who made a significant contribution to the development of their companies, their branch of industry, and the country’s economy on the whole. The rating was based on ‘the best choose the best’ principle. Over 500 respected managers from well-known companies acted as experts and offered their opinion on who they think are the best production

‘The work-related diseases situation in Sverdlovsk Region is not getting any better. What is more, the statistics for illnesses not directly related to one’s professional activity look dramatically worse. There are virtually no healthy people in the production process at the moment. We run special programs for children and retired workers, but no one takes care of those who produce the gross national product,’ head of Labor Surveillance Department of Rospotrebnadzor’s (the state consumer rights watchdog) Sverdlovsk Region division Vadim Ruzakov told Oblastnaya Gazeta. According to Ruzakov,

Yaroslav Zhdan, the Director-General of Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ), was featured in the rating called Russia’s Industrial Elite – 100 Best Production Managers 2012. The rating is the Production Management portal’s initiative and is aimed at presenting the most successful industrial managers who have made a significant contribution to the development of their enterprises, their branch of industry, and Russia’s economy. The rating is based on the opinions given by over 500 reputed representatives of well-known businesses. The experts’ verdicts were based on such criteria as the

Uralvagonzavod Scientific Production Corporation’s total debts come to 25.84bn RUR, including 3.82bn RUR worth of overdue debts. This information is available from the company’s report for the first quarter of 2012 uploaded on the plant’s website. The debt to the state budget and the state-run non-budgetary funds comes to 244.98m RUR. ‘The debt repayments to suppliers and contractors are overdue as well. The reason for this nonpayment is mainly the fact that the contractors do not ask for the money,’ the report states.

Ural Airlines has once again become the laureate of the Russian Wings Prize, the air carrier’s press service reports. The annual awarding ceremony for the Russian air industry players took place in Moscow on May 14. This year, forty-eight Russian air carriers have been nominated for the title of Airline of the Year. This includes nearly all of the country’s aviation companies such as the major air carriers, regional-scale airlines, business flights operators, specialized freight forwarders, helicopter operators, and tour operators.

The teams participating in the world football championship of 2018 in Yekaterinburg could stay in the Novotel and the Moskovskaya Gorka hotels. This suggestion was made during the FIFA committee and the cup coordination committee’s recent visit to the city, Uralsky Rabochy says. Yekaterinburg was the 5th Russian city on the committee’s route. The delegation is responsible for drawing up a report on the thirteen candidate cities’ potential to host the World Cup 2018 games. The officials and other VIPs are expected to stay at the Hyatt and the Atrium Palace Hotel.