February 21, 2013. ChTPZ Group directed 724m RUR to the implementation of CSR programs in Chelyabinsk and Pervouralsk last year, the company’s press service reports. In addition to the obligatory welfare benefits and payments that the Russian law states employers must pay, the workers of Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant were offered an additional benefits package which included medical insurance (with services provided by the company’s medical unit), non-state retirement insurance, and vacation and healthcare options (available through the health resorts and

February 21, 2013. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) employees are sending their second set of five B-12 bulldozers to Vietnam. This shipment is part of a contract for the delivery of ten bulldozers to the Southeast Asian state that was landed at the end of last year, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation reports. The 40ft sea shipping containers have been supplied to the plant’s assembly shop so that the B-12 bulldozers could be packed in there. The vehicles get dismantled into modules first, then they are re-painted and prepared carefully for the long trip. Before the end of

February 21, 2013. At the moment, the construction site for Polyarnaya Heat & Power Plant is busy 24/7, and all the necessary steps are taken to make sure the station’s first launching facility is commissioned on time (that is, at the end of 2013), the Development Corporation’s Deputy Director-General Sergey Shindyalov reports. More than 300 people and about 80 construction vehicles are currently being used in the construction process. All the jobs related to preparing the foundation for the main building are nearly finished: by now, 80% of the necessary poles have been installed. The

February 21, 2013. A group of Sverdlovsk Region delegates headed by Governor Evgeny Kuivashev are now on a business trip in Japan, and this is expected to ensure the successful fulfillment of the Land of the Rising Sun’s plans to establish a bilateral partnership with Russia. This was discussed at the Governor’s meeting with Takayuki Ueda, the director general of the manufacturing industries bureau of Japan's Trade Ministry, the Governor’s Information Policies Department reports. The Japanese party sees the year 2013 as that of great expectations and feels this is the start of a new era

February 21, 2013. Electric power will get accumulated at night time and used during the peak load hours in Yekaterinburg’s Academic District, the spokesperson for Renova-StroyGroup Akademicheskoye reports. The electric power accumulating system has the capacity of 150 kilowatts and will be installed in one of the buildings in Academic in the summer of 2013. ‘As the electricity rates are growing, so is the need for such kind of equipment. In addition to the intelligent energy control, the accumulating device can also ensure smooth end user supply even in case of a voltage jump and switch to