May 16, 2013. Tankograd, a veterans’ club of Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ, a member of Uralvagonzavod Corporation), was declared the best in the Socio-Political Organizations category, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The plant club’s Chairman Eduard Sobolev was given an honorary certificate signed by the city manager of Chelyabinsk Sergey Davydov in the course of a solemn ceremony. In his thank-you speech, the head of Tankograd expressed his gratitude to the city for the high estimate of the veterans’ efforts in the field of the military-patriotic education of young

May 16, 2013. Sverdlovsk Railways’ freight turnover rose by 4.2% in April 2013 against April 2012 and amounted to 15.88bn ton-kilometers. The April shipments amounted to 10.9m tons, which was 0.5% less than in April 2012, Sverdlovsk Railways press service says. In the first ten days of May, a number of continuous production cycle enterprises from the metallurgical and O&G sector exceeded their target figures for shipments. What is more, an ad hoc counter planning team resumed its work on organizing cargo shipments for building socially important assets in the north of Ural Federal

May 16, 2013. A large delegation of Czech businesspeople, headed by Prime Minister Petr Nečas, is going to visit Sverdlovsk Region on May 28-29, 2013, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Press Service & Information Department reports. This visit is done within the framework of the Czech Prime Minister’s business trips to a number of Russian Federation constituencies. The Mid-Urals was placed on the agenda due to its great industrial potential, the existing strong business ties between Russian and Czech enterprises, and also because of Yekaterinburg applying for EXPO 2020. Sverdlovsk Region

May 16, 2013. Sverdlovsk Region Government issued a decree on Tuesday that adopted the changes in the local program on the development of infrastructure, nano-industry, and innovations in Sverdlovsk Region; the program provides some subsidies on the loan interest rate payments for local enterprises this year. The total amount of subsidies for 2013 has been set at 300m RUR, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Press Service & Information Department reports. Sverdlovsk Region Industry & Science Minister Vladislav Pinayev says 47 enterprises, which submitted 60 investment projects, have

May 16, 2013. The net profit of Gazprombank (calculated in accordance with the Russian Accounting Standards) dropped by over 4 times in the first quarter of 2013 and amounted to 4.991bn RUR against 20.485bn RUR a year earlier, the bank’s report states. Gazprombank’s assets reached 3.199 trillion RUR on April 1, 2013, which was 36% more than in the first quarter of 2012. The bank’s own capital rose by 2.6% since the beginning of this year and came to 357.45bn RUR. The private individuals’ deposits rose by 23.4% compared with Q1’12 and reached 312.35bn RUR. The non-finance organizations’