The BOD Chairman of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Viktor Rashnikov has been featured in the business leaders rating once again; the rating comprises the top managers and leading administrators of Russia’s largest enterprises. Kommersant carried the 13th annual rating called Russia’s Top100 Managers that had been prepared by the Association of Russian Managers. This rating serves as a measuring tool for getting an objective estimate of the leading Russian top managers’ professional skills. It looks into their performance in the course of one year and singles out the most

This year’s heating season began in Dzerzhinsky District of Nizhniy Tagil. The supply network is currently being filled and rinsed. On September 20, heating will be supplied in several stages to the socially important buildings and dwellings. Uralvagonzavod’s power and heating supply facilities are fully prepared to provide the heating, the corporation’s press service reports. In order to be prepared, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant launched a large-scale repairs campaign. The company spent about 60m RUR on replacing and reconstructing its heat supply facilities. During the summer,

Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation presented its produce at InnoTrans-2012 in Berlin on September 18. Railway vehicles, city transport, road construction vehicles, agricultural vehicles, and the multi-purpose TMV-2 - the corporation’s wide range of innovational products meant that Uralvagonzavod could be among the most impressive participants of the world’s largest transportation technologies exhibition, the corporation’s press service reports. For one, cooperation between Uralvagonzavod and a major transport corporation Bombardier was discussed at InnoTrans. The plant

The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development signed a framework agreement with AKA Export Finance Bank. The agreement means the German bank can now take part in financing the UBRD and its customers. The signing of this agreement is one more step on the way to strengthening the UBRD’s international position, the bank’s press service reports. The agreement was signed in the course of the UBRD’s road show that covered meetings with the representatives of Europe’s largest banks. The meetings were dedicated to further cooperation and the possibilities of using some new products and services

The construction of the first commercial apartment buildings in Sverdlovsk Region will begin in 2013, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Press Service & Information Department reports. ‘Early in 2013, a pilot project on the construction of commercial apartment buildings will begin in Sverdlovsk Region. The city council of Kamensk-Uralsky will provide the first location for the buildings. After the apartments in these two economy class buildings have been commissioned, they will be let to specific categories of local residents and to Kamensk-Uralsky businesspeople who are interested in