December 24, 2012. Maria Savinova, an alumna of Sputnik Sports Club, an organization sponsored by Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation, made it to the list of the top ten sports players of the year created by the Federation of Sports Reporters, the corporation’s press service reports. Last year proved the most successful one in Savinova’s career so far. The gold medal she won in the 30th Summer Olympics in London was her main achievement: Savinova completed the 800-meter track with the world’s best season in that year: 1: 56.19, the press release says. The year’s best sports

December 24, 2012. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) will deliver 10 B-12 bulldozers to Vietnam before the end of the year, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s press service refers to ChTZ Deputy DG for Sales & Marketing Andrei Sentyabov as saying. The vehicles will be used by Vietnam’s Defense Ministry’s engineering corps as well as in the road-building industry. ‘I am very pleased with the quality of your machines: they are inexpensive, very maneuverable, and easy to repair. Our short-term plan is to buy a large number of bulldozers from ChTZ in 2013,’ says the

December 24, 2012. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and Metalloinvest announced they had signed a long-term contract on expanding the volume of iron ore raw materials supplied by the latter to the former. This agreement determines the price formula for the goods delivered on the basis of current market indicators and the global iron ore market price dynamics. The new contract ensures an increase in the amount of iron ore raw materials delivered to MMK. The ore concentrate and pellets will be shipped onto MMK production sites from Lebedinsky and Mikhailovsky Ore Mining &

December 24, 2012. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) recently presented its renewed brand concept that covers all the production, mining, maintenance, sales, financial, administration, and social welfare-focused divisions of the Group. The new brand was launched in the year of MMK’s 50th anniversary. The MMK trademark registered in 1962 is currently Russia’s only logo that still looks exactly the same as it did in the Soviet era. MMK Group’s brand currently has an 18% share of the domestic metal goods market and is one of the world’s leading metallurgical companies. ‘MMK Group is a

December 24, 2012. On December 17, 2012, Banki.ru’s Information & Analytics Service carried a rating of banks based on the number of people they employ and the median monthly pay in the nine months of 2012. As a result, the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) proved the best bank among all Sverdlovsk Region-based lending institutions, the bank’s press service reports. According to Banki.ru, the UBRD, which employs 4,220 people (as of October 1, 2012), is now 32nd largest bank among the country’s top hundred. The number of employees has actually gone up by 24.41% since