December 10, 2012 Sinara Pipe Plant (a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company/TMK) held a professional skills contest among its pipe-cutters for the first time this year. This competition was part of the corporate youth program and involved eight contestants from the under-30 age group, TMK’s press service reports. The board of jurors comprised employees from Sinara Pipe Plant’s subdivisions and members of the company’s trade union committee; for a week, they evaluated the contestants’ theoretical expertise and practical skills. As for the theoretical part, the workers had to answer questions

December 10, 2012 Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation and Bombardier presented their joint vision of the public transport of the future at the international exhibition and forum Russia’s Transport 2012, the corporation’s press service reports. The forum, held under the auspices of the Russian Transport Ministry, gathered the representatives of all transport enterprises, government officials, expert and scientific communities, and members of transport NGOs. This year, delegates from 20 different companies visited the exhibition, and over 100 companies took part in the event.

December 10, 2012 Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court declared OOO Ural Trade & Industrial Enterprise insolvent (bankrupt), the court’s website states. Denis Kolchurin of the Regional Self-Regulatory Organization of Professional Trustees in Bankruptcy Non-Profit Partnership was appointed the company’s trustee in bankruptcy.

December 10, 2012 A special session initiated by Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation was coordinated within the framework of Russia’s Transport 2012 Forum. During the session, both Russian and foreign manufacturers, government officials, and forwarding companies representatives talked about the advantages of railway vehicles and about their future, the Corporation’s press service reports. Bombardier Transportation Senior Director for New Business Development Flavio Canetti gave a speech on the innovational and efficient solutions for the Moscow Underground. A lot of the

December 10, 2012 Sverdlovsk Region’s Vice Premier Sergey Zyranov and Deputy Director-General of the Housing Construction Development Fund Denis Filippov held a round table discussion on the multi-faceted development of over 20 hectares of land in the Village of Cherdantsevo; these land patches have been allocated by the authorities for housing construction, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Press Service & Information Administration reports. Under the Fund’s requirements, the land allotment is to be used for putting up low-rise economy class apartment buildings up to three storeys high;