Russia’s First Vice Premier Igor Shuvalov asked the Economic Development, the Transport, and the Finance Ministries to consider and to forward him some coordinated proposals on the construction of high-speed railway lines in Russia and of Trans-Eurasian Container Railway Line, Prime refers to his letter as stating. According to this letter, the ministries’ proposals must be drawn up on the basis of the earlier requests and ‘as soon as possible’, and a report must also be prepared for the Russian Federation President. Shuvalov issued his requests after receiving a letter from President of

Russia’s Minister for Industry & Trade Denis Manturov congratulated the workers of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation and the corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko on Trooper’s Day. The governmental wire gives thanks for the people’s performance, contains some heart-felt good wishes, and praises the workers’ contribution to the development of the world tank-manufacturing industry, Uralvagonzavod’s press service reports. ‘On behalf of the Ministry for Industry & Trade of the Russian Federation, I congratulate you on your professional special event: Trooper’s

The pubic prosecution authorities of Yekaterinburg’s Chkalovsky District monitored the overall activity of the companies in the communal housing services sector and inspected, among others, Ural Energy Service Company, located in Gotvald St in Yekaterinburg; it was detected that as of April 1, 2012, the company owed Uralsevergaz Independent Gas Company 39.283m RUR, the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities reports. With balance at deficit and the lack of own working assets, the debtor company’s management still spent at least 1m RUR on things the business could

Switzerland’s visa center will start operating in Yekaterinburg on September 21. The address is 22 Karl Liebknecht St Off. 313. Up to now, Switzerland only used to process the applications directly and did not resort to any intermediaries for preliminary processing tasks. In addition to Yekaterinburg, visa centers will open in fourteen more Russian cities: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Krasnoyarsk, Rostov-on-Don, Novosibirsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Kazan, Sochi, Kaliningrad, Irkutsk, Ufa, Khabarovsk, and Vladivostok.

The technical design documentation for the direct current electric train ES2G, based on Desiro RUS (Lastochka) modification, was presented at a meeting at All-Russian Scientific Research Railway Transport Institute (VNIIZHT) dedicated to the coordination of electric trains manufacturing at Ural Locomotives (a joint venture belonging to Sinara Group and Siemens AG), Sinara Group’s press service reports. Ural Locomotives’ designers presented their technical solutions (which give a full idea of the design, application field, assembly and maintenance rules, and repair-ability of the future city