May 21, 2013. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ), which won a tender for supplying vehicles to Russia’s Ministry of Emergencies, has already shipped 2 B-12 bulldozers to the customer, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The customer will receive the standard, series-produced vehicles, but with larger 690-mm tracks that are suitable for performing on softer soils. What is more, the vehicles are fitted with three-shank rippers, which allows for more uses. The tractors can be employed for clearing up the debris after some man-caused accidents or natural disasters. This is the first

May 21, 2013. The quality of 12-132 high-sided wagons produced at Uralvagonzavod meets the highest standards set by the Russian Quality program. This has been confirmed by the All-Russian Quality Organization’s diploma issued to Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant. Under this program, the quality of goods is assessed on the basis of qualitative, measurable data that are obtained in accordance with a pre-determined procedure and are put down in a report. Not only the quality of a product or a service is assessed, but also the conditions in which it was produced and sold, as this affects

May 21, 2013. The employees of Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (a member of ChTPZ Group) took part in the international Clean Shores program. The Clean Shores days are organized two times a year at the initiative of EnviroChemie, a German company. On these days, everybody takes part in a large clean-up; this year, the event took place in several parts of Russia as well as Lithuania, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. On May 18, Pervouralsk’s Nizhniy Pond and one of the world’s most beautiful lakes the Issyk-Kul were cleaned from all the waste, ChTPZ Group’s press service reports. About 60 m3 of waste was

May 21, 2013. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) proved Russia’s banking market first player to use the ruble as the VISA international payments currency. According to the UBRD Bank Card Management Director Alexei Piskunov, this will bring the costs down for ruble-card holders when they use their cards abroad, the bank’s press service reports. ‘We used to recommend our customers to open euro accounts before using their UBRD-issued VISA cards in countries that have their own currency, such as Turkey, Egypt, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and some others. The thing is, our

May 21, 2013. On May 17, on the third day of the SITDEF-2013 exhibition’s opening, a delegation headed by Commanding General of the Peruvian Army General Ricardo Moncada Novoa visited Uralvagonzavod’s stand again, the corporation’s press service reports. The Commander-in-Chief personally examined a life-size working model of the T-90C tank and got acquainted with the specific design features of this armored vehicle. Later on, negotiations were held between Peru’s Commanding General of the Peruvian Army and Rosoboronexport and Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation; it was