December 20, 2012. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation won in two categories of the interregional Urals and Siberia Business & Politics Award also known as Year’s Achievements. The awarding ceremony took place at the Hyatt Regency Yekaterinburg Hotel. For the 7th time, the event was coordinated by the expert information channel UralPolit.RU under the auspices of the Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District’s Administration. For a few months, 600 experts selected the Urals and Perm Territory’s leading economic and political

December 20, 2012. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (a member of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) directed its PK-46 loader to Afghanistan so that the vehicle could be presented to the local road building enterprises, Uralvagonzavod’s press service reports. The lift truck’s design features a number of innovational solutions, including joystick control. Amin Qasim, the enterprise’s official dealer in Kabul, is to organize a presentation of the vehicle to the employees of building, road-building, and communal housing services enterprises. Despite the fierce competition from the

December 20, 2012. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) mastered the production of hot-dip galvanized rolled metal products whose surface quality meets the standards of Type C (the highest class there is), MMK reports. The company expects to start supplying its key customers with this steel after the product has been approved and the supplier status has been granted to the enterprise. The sales are expected to start in 2013. Next year, MMK intends to start producing its pilot batches of hot-dip galvanized rolled metal goods pertaining to Type C for such major carmakers as Renault, Ford,

December 20, 2012. In 2012, Sverdlovsk Region was one of the top 10 most economically and socially successful federal constituencies in the Russian Federation. Its gross regional product grew by 7.8% in 2012: in money terms, this amounts to 1.4 trillion RUR, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policies Department reports. In terms of industrial goods supplied to consumers, Sverdlovsk Region is in the 6th position in the national rating; in terms of retail trade, it is in the 3d place, only outstripped by Moscow and Moscow Region. In terms of capital asset investments, the region is

December 20, 2012. MegaFon is going to install an ice MegaMoney-Box next to Yekaterinburg’s largest skating rink GlavYelka; this structure is meant for collecting donations for children who are ill, and anyone can donate money from now to January 19, MegaFon’s press service reports. All the money collected in this way will be used for preventing and curing child cancer and for rehabilitation of the young cancer patients through the charity fund called ‘We Are Together’. MegFon subscribers can also help the children any time by simply sending a text message to 000777. One text message costs