February 1, 2013. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation met its labor protection plan for the head plant by 100%. This cost the company about 680m RUR, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. Last year, 42 measures were taken to improve the plant employees’ working conditions. For one, the impact of the primary culprits was reduced, namely, that of noise, vibration, and fumes and dust contamination. As a result, the work places of several thousand employees were improved. The dust levels dropped for nearly 3,500 workers and vibrations were decreased for 250 staff

February 1, 2013. The share of Ural Federal District on Russia’s new foreign cars market is now 10.49%. All in all, 234,700 cars were sold, which was 18.9% more than a year earlier, AutoStat Analytical Agency reports. Central Federal District, with its 937,200 new automobiles sold last year, was the market leader. Its share of sales came to 41.9% of all the car sales in Russia. Central Federal District was followed by Volga District, where 414,100 cars were sold (this comes to an 18.5% share of the market). North-Western District, with its 264,100 cars (an 11.8% share of the market), was in

February 1, 2013. Just like very year, Ural Airlines is about to expand its international destinations network for the summer season of 2013. New scheduled flights will be operated from Moscow, Nizhniy Novgorod, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, and Yekaterinburg, the airline’s press service reports. Moscow-Pula and Moscow-Podgorice flights will depart from Domodedovo Airport every Saturday starting June 1; the cheapest tickets are available for ?390. The flight from Nizhniy Novgorod to Burgas will be operated every Tuesday starting May 28; the cheapest tickets can be booked for ?380. Also, Nizhniy

February 1, 2013. Sinara Pipe Plant/SinTZ (a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK)), purchased a modern mobile lab in order to test the quality of air samples. The machinery was supplied within the framework of SinTZ and Sinara TransAuto’s joint investment project, and its purpose is to reduce the company’s environmental impact, the enterprise’s press officer reports. This mobile environmental lab is a portable analytical facility comprising a gas-analyzing and meteorological units as well as a system for collecting, processing, and transferring data and the facilities for getting air

February 1, 2013. The end user rates of The Industrial Urals-The Polar Urals Corporation (UP-UP) set for the electric power sales remained the same as in the year 2012 and came to 5.39 RUR per kilowatt-hour; this price will be valid through June 30, 2013. Under Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region’s Prices & Rates Department’s decree, the price of the electric power produced by Harp-12 Power Plant will amount to 5.39 RUR per kilowatt-hour until June 30, 2013. It is reported that electric power rates had actually been reduced twice before: from 7.3 RUR down to 6.24 RUR per kilowatt-hour and