December 6, 2012. This year, seven investment projects on reconstructing and building the local engineering infrastructure are being implemented in Sverdlovsk Region. 136.85m RUR has been allocated from the regional budget to finance the local cities’ work on this, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Press Service & Information Administration refers to deputy minister Andrei Kislitsin as saying today. Now starting July 2012, such projects became a part of the regional multi-purpose communal housing services system modernization and development program; the program aims to help the local cities

December 6, 2012. It was decided at Koltsovo Airport’s extraordinary general meeting that the company’s Director-General Evgeny Chudnovsky should leave before the end of his term, the company’s information transparency server states. 99.8% of voting shareholders seconded this decision. This means that Chudnovsky will have to resign on December 31, 2012. The airport management authority has been handed over to Regional Airports Management Company.

December 6, 2012. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s head plant came up with a report on the preliminary results of the year’s performance. It is already clear that the year 2012 was very successful for the company, the corporation’s press service reports. This is true of all the basic divisions: the carriage- and mechanical assembly ones as well as the metallurgical one. Uralvagonzavod actually managed to exceed the target figures set before the workers at the beginning of the year. For one, this year’s expected number of carriages was manufactured as early as late

December 6, 2012. Some rockslide occurred at Krasnaya Shapochka mine, killing one worker (according to preliminary data), the press officer of the Russian Emergencies Ministry’s Ural Regional Center reports. The rock fall occurred at 2:31 AM Moscow time; a rescue team is now working on the scene of the accident. Krasnaya Shapochka is a bauxite mine that belongs to United Company RUSAL’s SUBR.

December 6, 2012. A.I.Brizhan Youth Council at Sinara Pipe Plant (a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK)) won in the municipal youth organizations contest called The Leader of the Year 2012, TMK’s press service reports. The results of the contest were announced at a local youth seminar held in Kamensk-Uralsky’s Social/Cultural Center. Sinara Pipe Plant’s Council was declared the best in the city, while its head Denish Cheburin won in the Head of Youth Organization category for this year. ‘It’s nice to know that our activity, aimed at developing the youth movement at the plant, has been