February 6, 2013. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s head plant invested 98.95m RUR in environmental protection in 2012. Over 48 conservation projects were implemented over this period, which reduced the negative impact Uralvagonzavod makes on the environment and residents of Nizhniy Tagil, the corporation’s press service reports. The reconstruction of the plant’s filtering facilities was one of last year’s largest and most significant projects. Within the framework of this project, obsolete technologies are being replaced with the up-to-date ones, which will both

February 6, 2013. The Ural Federal District Women Boxing Championship started at Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s Sputnik sports arena. Women and girls are competing for the World’s Professional Boxing Champion Natalia Ragozina Prize. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation acts as the event’s primary sponsor and Sputnik Sports Club is coordinating the championship, the company’s press service reports. The tournament is being held at Natalia Ragozina’s initiative; Ms Ragozina is one of Sputnik’s most recognized alumni with the greatest number of prizes.

February 6, 2013. Sinara Development won in the tender for two land allotments meant for housing construction; the auction was held in Yekaterinburg Town Hall on January 31. As a result, the company is now entitled to the right to rent two land allotments with the total area of 3.1 hectares in Shirokaya Rechka. These land allotments will be used to put up a number of apartment buildings. The cost of the two lots located in Yekaterininskaya St and Khrustalnogorskaya St came to 221m RUR, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. The rough design will be ready in early spring 2013, and three months

February 6, 2013. Sverdlovsk Railways handled 9.5m tons of cargo in January 2013, which was 8.5% lower than a year earlier, the company’s press service reports. The cargo turnover decreased by 7.8% in January 2013 compared with January 2012 and amounted to 15.02bn ton-kilometers. This January, the amount of daily cargo shipments declined by 28,000 tons (by 25,000 tons a day on average where the building industry cargo is concerned). This was due to the successful completion of the project of supplying macadam to Ural Federal District’s northern regions last season, which means the consumers

February 6, 2013. MegaFon is now opening its customers unlimited Internet access for traveling around Russia. The subscribers can now enjoy the unlimited Internet access around the country using the updated Internet XS option, MegaFon Ural’s press officer reports. ‘The popularity of mobile Internet connection during trips keeps on rising. At the moment, over 50% of subscribers who use their mobile phones to make calls while traveling are also using their gadgets for Internet access. Given that a business trip outside one’s federal constituency lasts for seven days on average, the Internet XS