May 20, 2013. Ural Airlines is launching as many as two new scheduled flights this month: the Yekaterinburg-Khanty-Mansiysk flight and the Moscow-Blagoveshchensk one, with a stopover in Yekaterinburg, the airline’s press service reports. The flights from Yekaterinburg to Khanty-Mansiysk will be operated from June 17, every Monday and Thursday; the flights to Blagoveshchensk will be launched on June 18 and will be operated on Mondays (the return flight to Yekaterinburg will be available on Tuesdays). All of Ural Airlines’ flights are operated using the modern Airbus 320 liners that have both

May 20, 2013. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ, a member of Uralvagonzavod Corporation), shipped 2 electromechanical transmission bulldozers to one of the mining companies in the Polar North that deals in mineral deposit development, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The company needed the vehicles in the high drawbar category for uncovering solid soils and producing the minerals. The miners were choosing out of the Chinese and Russian products and decided on the ChTZ bulldozers. They say their choice was influenced by the fact that Chelyabinsk-produced vehicles are reliable,

May 20, 2013. Peru’s Deputy Defense Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Army Forces gave a very high estimate of the T-90C tank in the course of their visit to Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s stand at SITDEF 2013 arms exhibition in Lima. The T-90C tank was given a central place in the Russian exposition; it was presented at an indoor site and aroused a lot of interest from both the experts and simple visitors to the exhibition, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. Commanding General of the Peruvian Army General Ricardo Moncada Novoa looked very

May 20, 2013. Deputy Mayor of Yekaterinburg for National Events Coordination Sergey Tushin said Yekaterinburg Red Line might acquire its own infrastructure in the nearest future. The Red Line is more than just a red line on painted on the asphalt. This is an important project that is starting to acquire its own infrastructure. For one, all of Yekaterinburg’s information kiosks are supposed to be linked to the Red Line system. A number of local maps also display the Red Line on them, and this year, a municipal program on ‘coding’ the buildings began. The idea is to assign a QR code to all the

May 20, 2013. OAO Kamenskoye (one of the Mid-Urals’ largest agricultural enterprises and a member of Sinara Group) keeps up with its sowing campaign. This spring, the overall planted acreage is expected to rise by 1,000 hectares and to come to more than 14,000 hectares. Most of the land will be used to plant crops: over 2,000 tons of wheat, barley, and oat seeds have been prepared for the sowing. Barley, a popular animal forage grain, is expected to make up a large share of all the planted crops. More than 3,000 hectares of arable land has been allocated for this. To ensure good harvest,