December 28, 2012. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s head plant made its 120,000th car axle, which is a record for both the Nizhniy Tagil-based enterprise and the entire railway carriage-making industry. No other company either in Russia or abroad is capable of producing 30,000 car sets of axles a year. To celebrate this achievement, a solemn meeting took place at the plant’s department, the corporation’s press service reports. The standard production capacity of other such manufacturing lines comes to about 48,000 axles a year. Uralvagonzavod’s automatic line, which is

December 28, 2012. The year 2012 proved productive for all the sections of the corporation’s investment project. The Development Corporation’s energy sector activity deserves special attention, as it is in this area where the company achieved the most significant results,’ the corporation’s press office reports. First, this year the company successfully completed its project on putting up the infrastructure for the Purpe-Samotlor pipeline system. Within the framework of this project, Development Corporation commissioned two 110/10 kilowatt-substations and two 110-kilowatt electric mains for

December 28, 2012. Yekaterinburg Council’ press service reports that Mayor Alexander Yakob is expected to sign a special decree very soon that will reserve a land allotment in Vikulov St-Metallurgi St-Third Ring-Road-Verkh-Isetsky Pond for the housing of the World Universal Exhibition EXPO 2020. The area of this allotment comes to 555 hectares. The site was chosen primarily because, after the EXPO 2020 is over, this territory, with all the created engineering infrastructure, will serve for the good of the city. According to the current plant, the northern part of Tatishchev St up to the shore

December 28, 2012. Auchan was fined for violating the labor and labor protection legislation. This decision was taken after the company was checked for compliance with the labor, tax, and migration laws, Sverdlovsk Region division of State Labor Inspectorate’s press officer reports. The inspection was carried out upon the request placed by the public prosecution authorities of Yekaterinburg’s Verkh-Isetsky District. Following the detection of the violations, the chief state inspector for the trading sector issued a protocol on a temporary ban on Auchan’s activity; however, de facto the

December 28, 2012. Sinara Pipe Plant/SinTZ (a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK)), is now putting up the first section of a training ground for the Personnel Training & Development Center. The ground is located on the industrial site of the B-3 pipe finishing shop, TMK press service reports. This is a part of Sverdlovsk Region continuous professional development program for 2011-2015. The project on setting up a training ground is included into Sinara Pipe Plant’s investment program in accordance with the regional Education Ministry and the plant’s cooperation concept. The

December 26, 2012. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) came up with an energy-saving report for MMK Group enterprises and its subdivisions in nine months of 2012. Over the given period, 142 energy-saving measures were taken in order to save on electric power, fuel, drinking water, manufacturing water, heating energy, and air separation products spending. 15 more measures are now being implemented in accordance with the schedule. As a result of all the steps taken in the nine months of 2012, the company will have saved over 5.8m kilowatt-hours worth of energy by the end of the year; this

December 27, 2012. End-of-year results were discussed at the traditional solemn gathering of Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant’s employees. A number of guest speakers, winners of the Man of Labor Contest, and casts from I.V. Okunev Palace of Culture wished the workers happy holidays, the corporation’s press service reports. First, Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Igor Kholmanskikh walked onto the stage and gave a speech. In his recent past, Kholmanskikh was the head of Russia’s primary tank assembly line at Uralvagonzavod, so he

December 27, 2012. The employees of Uralvagonzavod Corporation received awards for their achievements in 2012: this year proved extremely successful and record-setting for the company. The enterprise’s production performance improved, and so did the remuneration for this: the average bonus came to 27,500 RUR, which is 1.4 times more than in 2011, the corporation’s press service reports. The bonus was given to about 28,000 people, including not only the head plant employees but also workers from Volchansky Mechanical Plant and the company’s Chelyabinsk subsidiary. The total payments amounted

December 27, 2012. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) came up with an energy-saving report for MMK Group enterprises and its subdivisions in nine months of 2012. Over the given period, 142 energy-saving measures were taken in order to save on electric power, fuel, drinking water, manufacturing water, heating energy, and air separation products spending. 15 more measures are now being implemented in accordance with the schedule. As a result of all the steps taken in the nine months of 2012, the company will have saved over 5.8m kilowatt-hours worth of energy by the end of the year; this

December 27, 2012. Seversky Pipe Plant (STZ), a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK), contributed to the reconstruction of Cheburashka Kindergarten No. 60 in Polevskoy. The kindergarten received some 6m RUR to devise the project and design documentation and buy new furniture. The solemn ceremony for the opening of Cheburashka, fit for 110 children, took place on December 25. All the 110 children are expected to join the daycare throughout February. Thanks to STZ and Polevskoy Council’s long-term cooperation, the town now has the kindergarten buildings, which had earlier been used for

December 27, 2012. Sverdlovsk Region will be allocated 30m RUR worth of subsidies to support the federal constituencies that help and promote Russia’s emerging information society. The subsidies are provided within the framework of the state-run Information Society Program, the Russian Communications Ministry’s website reports. Sverdlovsk Region became one of the 22 federal constituencies that won in the information society development contest. All in all, a total 670m RUR worth of subsidies will be allocated this year, with sums varying from 3.5m RUR for Stavropol Territory to 50m RUR for

December 26, 2012. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation (UVZ) became a laureate of Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Energy-Saving Prize in 2012. The corporation was given a diploma in the Best Machine-Building Organization category, UVZ press service reports. The award was given to the company’s Director-General Oleg Sienko for his effective management of the business that resulted in great energy savings and enhanced energy efficiency. Uralvagonzavod’s combined heat and power plant is strategically important not only for the corporation itself but for the entire city of

December 26, 2012. In 2012, the retail trade turnover in Yekaterinburg will amount to 630bn RUR, Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Yakob said in the course of a TV show called Open Studio Yekaterinburg. ‘This year, our forecast stands at 630bn RUR: this is a very large figure. Last year was a record-setting one as well, as a matter of fact, this was the best figure among all Russian cities with the population over 1m people: we finished last year off with 563bn RUR,’ Yakob said.

December 26, 2012. Deputy Governor of Tyumen Region Sergey Degtyar was appointed Vice President of TNK-BP Management, the Governor of Tyumen Region’s press service reports. Degtyar was appointed Deputy Governor on July 1, 2009. His duties involved working on the project known as Buy Tyumen-Made Goods and improving on cooperation with the trading businesses. Degtyar will assume new office in the oil company on January 9, 2013. Governor of Tyumen Region Vladimir Yakushev announced that the coordination of and control over the licensing and Tyumen Region consumer market regulation will now

December 26, 2012. The representatives of German companies that are members of Vossloh AG Concern paid a visit to Lyudinovsky Diesel Locomotive-Building Plant (a member of Sinara Transport Machines). The locomotive manufacturers presented their projects and made their presentations for the German party and talked about the production cooperation prospects with them, Sinara Group’s press officer says. The German delegates, chaired by Vice President for the CIS and Mongolia René Kaltenborn, had a tour of the company’s main departments and looked at its innovational TE8 Super Skid and TEM14

December 26, 2012. A special agreement was signed by Sverdlovsk Region Government, the regional-scale employer organization called Sverdlovsk Region Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs, and Sverdlovsk Region Trade Union Federation. The document is only a short-term one for the time being and will be valid in 2013-2014. This agreement determines the general principles for regulating the social and labor relations and the corresponding economic relations in Sverdlovsk Region. The agreement is targeted at providing socioeconomic stability in this federal constituency. For one, the paper

December 25, 2012. Uralvagonzavod management’s end-of-year meeting with the directors of daughter enterprises and affiliated companies took place in Moscow recently; the meeting was chaired by the corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko. The participants commented on the expected positive financial and economic performance indicators for the year 2012. For one, the projected revenues from the sales of goods and services are expected to come to 125.357bn RUR (according to the company’s consolidated financial report), and, given the performance results of affiliated companies, it will

December 25, 2012. Uralvagonzavod Corporation made a nice New Year present to the residents of Nizhniy Tagil: the company’s Clean Pool Resort was reopened for everyone after a major overhaul. The resort has not seen such large-scale remodeling since 1992, when it was first built. All the jobs were completed within a very short period of time, in only two months. Uralvagonzavod’s daughter enterprise UBT-Uralvagonzavod acted as the general contractor for the project, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s press service reports. The Clean Pool Resort, located on the shore of

December 25, 2012. The Industrial Urals-The Polar Urals Energy Company is now a member of the Market Council Non-Profit Partnership as well as a member of the Expert Board. This decision was confirmed by the partnership’s Supervisory Board (Protocol 35/2012), the company’s press service reports. The Market Council for the Organization of Efficient Wholesale and Retail Electric Power Trade Non-Profit Partnership deals in operating and controlling the wholesale and retail electric power markets. ‘Our membership in the Council is one step on the way to coordinating an energy company’s activity

December 25, 2012. Sverdlovsk Region Government Prime Minister Denis Pasler asked the officials in charge to speed up their decision-making on the infrastructure issues relating to the Titanium Valley, a special economic zone, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Press Service & Information Administration reports. The Prime Minister said that MRSK Urala was not going to put up the primary source of electric power for the valley’s residents – the Titanium Valley 220-kilowatt substation – in 2013. Nevertheless, the energy enterprise is willing to put the construction project on its investment