April 30, 2013. UV-Logistic became the owner of 10,000 carriages today, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. ‘We congratulate the company team on this event,’ the enterprise’s message says.

April 30, 2013. Ural Transport Machine-Building Design Office – a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation – received an employer trust certificate recently. The certificate was signed by heads of Sverdlovsk Region division of State Labor Inspectorate, Sverdlovsk Region Union of Industrialists & Employers, Ural Chamber of Commerce & Industry, and Federation of Sverdlovsk Region Trade Unions. The certificate was given to the company at the international conference dedicated to labor safety as part of a good job. The famous tank-designing office’s

April 30, 2013. A protocol of intent was signed by the Mid-Urals Government and the Japanese holding Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering Co. Ltd. This has to do with the decision to set up an enterprise that will deal in design and production of waste-burning equipment in the Titanium Valley Special Economic Zone. The protocol was signed by Governor Evgeny Kuivashev and the Japanese company’s President Kazuaki Kimura. Now Japan is currently the world’s leader in the waste-recycling industry: 1,800 out of 2,400 waste-recycling plants that exist all over the

April 30, 2013. ‘How much money does one need to feel they can afford anything they want?’ – that was the question that the Public Opinion Fund analysts asked Russian citizens. In fact, they found out what Russians thought of their financial status first. It turned out that the overwhelming majority of respondents rated their family’s quality of life as average, including those respondents whose monthly income comes to more than 30,000 RUR and those who make less than 10,000 RUR a month, SKB-Bank’s press service reports. In their answer to the question, ‘What monthly income do you feel would

April 30, 2013. Koltso Urala Bank paid the coupon yield on the second coupon period of its own 01 Series bonds. The bond owners received the coupon yield of 57.66 RUR per bond, given that the coupon interest rate comes to 11.5% a year. So the total interest paid on the second coupon amounted to 57.66m RUR, the bank’s press officer reports. Now Koltso Urala Bank went through with the first issue of 1bn-RUR worth of 01 Series bonds on April 27, 2012. The bonds are to be in circulation for three years (1,098 days), with an offer option in one year’s time. On April 17, 2013, the issuer declared

April 29, 2013. A pilot oil tank car 15-5117 meant for transportation of light oil got assembled at Uralvagonzavod’s pressing and welding department. One of the new tank’s peculiarities consists in a light-weight platform framework and additional strength added to the tank, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press officer reports. This is the second pilot oil tank-car 15-5117 assembled at the plant; the first sample is being subject to a mechanical run test at the moment. The new product from Uralvagonzavod’s pressing and welding department will soon undergo trial testing at the company’s

April 29, 2013. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ, a member of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) completed the assembly of four multi-functional processing centers produced by the Austrian firm WFL, Uralvagonzavod’s press service reports. The units are installed on the promising technologies production sites, and they now operate 24/7. The new machinery will be used to produce car parts for different series of engines, including the new engine family T. All one has to do is feed a billet into the system in order to get a part that has received completed mechanical treatment at the exit. A single

April 29, 2013. The recent annual meeting of Sverdlovsk Region Union of Machine-Building Enterprises was attended by the region’s Vice Premier Alexander Petrov. The Union Chairman Alexei Molotkov reported on the regional machine-building industry’s performance in 2012 and on this sector’s targets and development prospects in 2013, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Press Service & Information Department reports. ‘The year 2012 was quite successful for the local machine-building sector: the revenues kept going up, as did the shipment volumes. An overwhelming majority of enterprises came back

April 29, 2013. The annual general meeting of Ural Airlines shareholders took place on April 25. The agenda of the meeting covered points such as deciding on the members of the Board of Directors, approving the company’s annual report for 2012 and of the accounting report, distribution of profit at the end of the financial year, approval of related party transactions, and so on, the airline’s press service reports. The year 2012 was quite special in that there emerged a number of positive factors that ensured an increase in the company’s production output: the number of aircraft the airline

April 29, 2013.In 2013, the growth of Bank Svyaznoy’s loan book will slow down to 20% to 30% a year. This is a drop down from the previous 130% caused by the Central Bank’s regulatory measures, the bank’s majority shareholder Maxim Nogotkov said in his interview to Prime. Credit cards issued to private individuals currently make up the better part of the loan book; however, Svyaznoy had to halt the issuance of cards for three months (from December to March) due to the Central Bank’s recommendations to stop attracting private individuals’ savings so actively: the regulator is always wary of an

April 26, 2013. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation won a tender for the delivery of 1,200 oil cisterns to Federal Freight Company, the corporation’s press service reports. The news became known when Russian Railways Trading House announced the results of an open tender for the right to sign a freight carriages delivery contract with the enterprise. According to the company’s decision, UBT-Uralvagonzavod that took part in the tender on Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s behalf was declared the winning bidder in two lots for the delivery of 1,200 oil cisterns in April and May

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, April 16, 2013. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is planning to increase its share on the key metal-consuming industries’ market in the future, MMK Business Development & Efficiency Management Director Evgeny Redin said at the 5th International Industrial Forum on Reconstruction of Industrial Enterprises. According to the company’s top manager, MMK’s strategy is now targeted at raising the share of domestic shipments in the total sales structure, which has to do with the fact that the home market is now growing faster than the global one and with the fact that

UrBC, Moscow, April 22, 2013. On April 17, laureates of the National Environemntal Prize known as ERAECO 2012 were awarded in the course of Moscow International Environmental Forum. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) was declared the laureate for its Sheet-Rolling Department 11 Project in the Setting up Green Facilities category. The department in question houses cold-roll Mill 2000 that is currently unique to Russia. The facility is mainly meant for making high quality cold-rolled and galvanized rolled stock for the Russian car manufacturers and the world’s leading carmakers’

April 26, 2013. EXPO 2020 Coordination Committee has announced a contest for the best slogan for the World Universal Exhibition in Yekaterinburg. The news was disseminated via EXPO 2020 Yekaterinburg Facebook page, the spokesperson for Yekaterinburg Council reports. ‘If you are in favor of holding EXPO 2020 in Yekaterinburg, take part in our slogan contest! Think of a slogan for the exhibition to be held in the Urals’ capital and this will be your statement perhaps that will represent World Exhibition in Yekaterinburg in 2020! The most unusual, interesting, and creative slogans will be

April 26, 2013. Sverdlovsk Region Vice Premier Alexander Petrov held a meeting with the representatives of Wikov Holding based in the Czech Republic, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Press Service & Information Department reports. The meeting included a presentation on the holding’s production capacity and a discussion of possible options for the mutually beneficial cooperation between the Czech company and Sverdlovsk Region-based enterprises. ‘We are actually interested in buying the Czech machinery, but our preferred priority would be to set up joint ventures in Sverdlovsk Region, in the

April 26, 2013. In March 2013, the amount of unpaid taxes and levies, including fines and tax sanctions, decreased by 795m RUR, or 2.9% in Sverdlovsk Region and came to 27.91bn RUR on April 1, 2013, the press officer of Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service reports. It should be noted that this drop was both due to the main debt declining by 506m RUR (2.6%) and due to the debts in fines and tax sanctions declining by 288m RUR (3.4%). According to the fiscal authorities’ data, over 182,000 claims with demands to pay levies and taxes (totaling to 5.987bn RUR altogether)

April 25, 2013. Uralvagonzavod came up with a report on the results of all innovational activity in the company in the first quarter of 2013. In these three months, workers from Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s head plant submitted 69 improvement proposals, 52 of which have actually been incorporated into the production process. Workers from 30 different divisions of the company took part in this improvement effort, and the target figures for the amount of this innovational activity were met 100%, the corporation’s press service reports. The actual economic effect thus

April 25, 2013. A meeting of the Expert Council under the Russian Federation Ministry for Economic Development took place in Moscow today. The meeting was aimed at assessing the business plans proposed by the potential residents of the Titanium Valley Special Economic Zone – Urals’ Machines and Praxair Titanium Valley, the press service of the special economic zone project reports. Now there are currently three registered residents in the Titanium Valley: Ural Optical Plant, Sinersis, and StroyDiesel-Composite. This means that about 10 hectares out of the 72 hectares allocated for the first

April 25, 2013. An incredible increase in the number of privately owned cars has made any noticeable traffic improvements in Yekaterinburg impossible so far, Yekaterinburg Council’s press service reports. Given that the construction and reconstruction of roads and junctions alone are not enough to solve the transport problem, it was decided to implement a well-balanced transport policy targeted at the development of the street and highway network and at making public transport a priority type of transportation. It is expected that as a result, 20 highway sections, 20 road junctions, 2

April 25, 2013. The second stage of Russian football championship for children from orphanages and boarding schools took place in Perm recently. The winners’ cups and trips to Sochi where the final stage of the championship will be held were awarded to the teams from Kirov and Tobolsk, MegaFon’s press service reports. The all-Ural stage of the football championship for children who have no parents was attended by the young sportsplayers from ten different territories in the Greater Urals. The judges’ team was chaired by President of Perm Territory Mini-Football Federation and Director of