December 13, 2012. The new Industry & Natural Resources Minister of Chelyabinsk Region Yegor Kovalchuk visited Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. Acting Director-General Sergey Golygin presented the plant’s produce to his guest and showed him the production sites where the reconstruction and technical upgrades take place. Speaking of the plant’s developmental priorities, the enterprise’s top manager mentioned the federal special purpose program that is coordinated through the head plant Uralvagonzavod; this program offers a total of 17.5bn RUR

December 13, 2012. Uralvagonzavod Armored Vehicles Museum is now one of the most popular tourist attractions in the Urals, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service refers to the museum affairs, culture studies, and tourism experts as saying. Uralvagonzavod’s Armored Vehicles Museum housed at the corporation’s head plant was recently visited by the representatives of national and local industrial magazines, some specially invitied experts from the Russian Tourist Industry Union, tour operator representatives, and potential investors from Moscow, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Riga, and other cities

December 13, 2012. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation launched a special high-performance computing center in Nizhniy Novgorod, the company’s press service reports. The center was set up within the framework of the federal special-purpose program aimed at the development of the Russian defense industry sector. The launch of the HPC technologies will mean that Burevestnik, the scientific research institute that houses it and is a member of Uralvagonzavod, will take analytical engineering to a new level by cutting down on the new product development and mastering times and

December 13, 2012. A ‘health check’ carried out by TNK-BP was complete at the member enterprises of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK), one of the world’s leading OCTG manufacturer, the company reports. Throughout this fall, Moody’s auditor and TNK-BP Chief Quality Management Expert, accompanied by the representatives of TMK Trading House, paid visits to Volzhsky, Seversky, and Sinara Pipe Plants and to TAGMET. The inspectors looked at the enterprises’ production facilities, at the way the equipment works, at the commissioning trials process, at the quality management system, and at the methods

December 13, 2012. The Russian Expo Arms Exhibition in Nizhniy Tagil will reach self-repayment levels, the city Mayor Sergey Nosov said after negotiating with a representative of the French arms exhibition Eurosatory, the Nizhniy Tagil Administration’s press service reports. The exhibition’s Director-General Major General Patrick Colas des Francs confirmed at the end of the talks that the French experts were willing to cooperate with their Nizhniy Tagil counterparts in terms of the exhibition industry development. He pointed out that Eurosatory’s management team were particularly interested