December 27, 2012. End-of-year results were discussed at the traditional solemn gathering of Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant’s employees. A number of guest speakers, winners of the Man of Labor Contest, and casts from I.V. Okunev Palace of Culture wished the workers happy holidays, the corporation’s press service reports. First, Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Igor Kholmanskikh walked onto the stage and gave a speech. In his recent past, Kholmanskikh was the head of Russia’s primary tank assembly line at Uralvagonzavod, so he

December 27, 2012. The employees of Uralvagonzavod Corporation received awards for their achievements in 2012: this year proved extremely successful and record-setting for the company. The enterprise’s production performance improved, and so did the remuneration for this: the average bonus came to 27,500 RUR, which is 1.4 times more than in 2011, the corporation’s press service reports. The bonus was given to about 28,000 people, including not only the head plant employees but also workers from Volchansky Mechanical Plant and the company’s Chelyabinsk subsidiary. The total payments amounted

December 27, 2012. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) came up with an energy-saving report for MMK Group enterprises and its subdivisions in nine months of 2012. Over the given period, 142 energy-saving measures were taken in order to save on electric power, fuel, drinking water, manufacturing water, heating energy, and air separation products spending. 15 more measures are now being implemented in accordance with the schedule. As a result of all the steps taken in the nine months of 2012, the company will have saved over 5.8m kilowatt-hours worth of energy by the end of the year; this

December 27, 2012. Seversky Pipe Plant (STZ), a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK), contributed to the reconstruction of Cheburashka Kindergarten No. 60 in Polevskoy. The kindergarten received some 6m RUR to devise the project and design documentation and buy new furniture. The solemn ceremony for the opening of Cheburashka, fit for 110 children, took place on December 25. All the 110 children are expected to join the daycare throughout February. Thanks to STZ and Polevskoy Council’s long-term cooperation, the town now has the kindergarten buildings, which had earlier been used for

December 27, 2012. Sverdlovsk Region will be allocated 30m RUR worth of subsidies to support the federal constituencies that help and promote Russia’s emerging information society. The subsidies are provided within the framework of the state-run Information Society Program, the Russian Communications Ministry’s website reports. Sverdlovsk Region became one of the 22 federal constituencies that won in the information society development contest. All in all, a total 670m RUR worth of subsidies will be allocated this year, with sums varying from 3.5m RUR for Stavropol Territory to 50m RUR for