Yekaterinburg is one of the cities with the most extensively booked hotels alongside such cities as Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, and Kazan. Russian travelers who coordinate their trips themselves typically book hotel rooms for business trips rather than tourist visits for three days on average, ProHotel, a web portal dedicated to the hotel industry, reports. However, Yekaterinburg was not among the cities where the number of bookings increased during the high season. The fact that the hotels in Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, and Novosibirsk are mostly popular with

The workers of ChTPZ Group – the representatives of the production, technical, and commercial departments of the company – took part in a retreat coordinated by Gazprom’s daughter enterprise Gazprom Dobycha Astrakhan. The pipe manufacturers could look at how natural gas is produced right at the natural gas deposit, ChTPZ press service reports. Before the end of the year, such traveling seminars will be held for ChTPZ employees at Gazprom’s other daughter enterprises: Gazprom Transgaz Yekaterinburg (in order to introduce the workers to gas transportation process and the repair and maintenance

According to the Federal Treasury, the Ural Federal District-based constituencies’ consolidated budget showed a surplus of 77bn RUR in the first half of 2012. Expenses came 374.6bn RUR and revenues amounted to 451.7bn RUR, Rosstat announced. Russia’s Federal Tax Service’s updates show that the in-flow of taxes, levies, and other obligatory payments rose by 20% in Ural Federal District in the first half of the year compared with a year earlier and reached 1,411bn RUR. Debts resulting from unpaid taxes and levies to the Russian Federation’s consolidated budget came to 49bn RUR for Ural Federal

A shift foreman was killed at EVRAZ NTMK furnace shop on September 14, a Nizhniy Tagil-based news agency Vse Novosti reports. The accident occurred at about 6:30 AM when the foreman was inspecting the department. According to some reports, the 40-year-old was hit by train footstep and drawn under the train.

The final stage of the international tournament Ural Steel 2012 dedicated to the computer game World of Tanks took place in Moscow. Russian teams won the first three prizes, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s press service reports. For the second year in a row, contests dedicated to one of the most popular multi-player online games have been supported by Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation, Russia’s leading producer of combat tanks. The super-play-off featured the strongest teams: four Russian ones, four teams from North America, and four teams from