MMK Group announces some new appointments: Sergey Ushakov will now become MMK-METIZ Director, Vladimir Lebedev has been appointed Director of Mechanical Repairs Unit, and Sergey Berdnikov was promoted to Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Deputy Director for Capital Construction. ‘MMK management has always been guided by one basic principle when shaping the company’s management potential: professionalism and universal applicability of the managers’ skills and competences. Nowadays, one cannot limit oneself to the narrow professional field of very deep but very local knowledge of

On September 14, an exhibition presentation will be coordinated at Yekaterinburg Central Stadium within the framework of Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art. The biennale will be held from September 13, 2012 to October 22, 2012, with support from Russia’s Culture Ministry, the Governor Administration, Sverdlovsk Region Government, and Yekaterinburg Municipal Council, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. Ural Industrial Biennale is the largest international exhibition that houses its exhibits not on the traditional museum floor but on the premises of industrial enterprises

The trade turnover between Sverdlovsk Region and Ukraine rose by 25% (about $70m) in the first six months of the year. Also, Ukraine launched its Consulate-General in Yekaterinburg in August 2012, which means the two areas now have more possibilities for cooperation, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s press service reports. Sverdlovsk Region Foreign Economic Relations Minister Alexander Kharlov points out that the region has great potential in building up on its cooperation with Ukraine. Sverdlovsk Region is willing to supply medical equipment to the country and import agricultural produce from

The profit of OAO MRSK Urala came to 168.372m RUR in the first half of 2012, which is 15.8 times less than in the first half of 2011 (2,664,790,000 RUR), the company reports. Profits from the company’s assets selling electric power amounted to 1,800,298,000 RUR on June 30, 2012, which is nearly two times less than a year earlier (2,694,125,000 RUR). ‘The decrease in profits has to do with Bogoslovsky smelter: this company stopped buying electricity from us in January 2012 and is now connected directly to the electric network of UES Federal Network Company. What is more, the rates were lowered

On September 19, the region-wide professional skills contest called Glory to the Man of Labor (in the Turner category, to be precise) will be held at OAO Uraltransmash, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The Glory to the Man of Labor Project is meant to enhance the prestige of vocational jobs and the professional skills of the contestants, and to attract young workers to the production field. This time, the most highly qualified turners from the different enterprises in the region will compete in the contest. The competition will be held on the production premises of