May 30, 2013. A high-precision Zeiss check station will be installed at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant’s cutting-edge technologies production site, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s press service reports (ChTZ is a member of the corporation). It is reported that this modern piece of equipment was produced in Germany at the famous Zeiss enterprise that is well-known for the great quality of the tools it makes. The measuring accuracy of the machine is estimated at 3.7 microns: no other check tool that the plant’s metrologists are using at the moment is as precise as that.

May 30, 2013. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s head plant drew up a list of its investment priorities. This year, the company intends to direct 11.4bn RUR to the development of Uralvagonzavod, the corporation’s press service reports. Uralvagonzavod is currently implementing over 35 different projects and programs, and about 15 are being elaborated at the moment. Last year, the Nizhniy Tagil-based plant’s development budget amounted to nearly 4.5bn RUR, which is about 20% more than the record-setting figure for 2011 – 3.7bn RUR. The better part of this money (3.9bn RUR)

May 30, 2013. Ural Diesel-Motor Plant (a member of Sinara Transport Machines) started the erection supervision work at the testing stand for the single-cylinder unit of a diesel engine. All the jobs are done within the framework of Dieselstroy, a state-funded special purpose program, the enterprise’s press service reports. The plant already has all the basic equipment for the stand: a system for treatment and delivery of coolants, diesel fuel, and oil and a frequency converter, which was the most labor-intensive piece of machinery to install. The plant workers and experts from the German

May 30, 2013. The construction of Russian Copper Company’s largest facility – Mikheyevsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise in Chelyabinsk Region – started one year ago today. On May 29, 2013, the foundation of the enterprise was laid in the course of a solemn ceremony attended by Governor Mikhail Yurevitch; the facility’s capacity is estimated at 18m RUR of green ore a year; the ready produce output is estimated at 270,000 tons a year, the company’s press officer reports. Mikeyevskoye porphyry copper ore deposit is one of Russia’s largest copper deposits. CRU, an independent

May 30, 2013. A high-speed railway link that is supposed to connect Moscow, Kazan, and Yekaterinburg will go through Ufa. This decision was made after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with President of Bashkortostan Rustem Khamitov, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. A group of experts is expected to arrive in Bashkortostan very soon in order to discuss the technicalities relating to building the link. A special bifurcation leading to Ufa will be constructed, which will connect the capital of Bashkortostan with the country’s largest cities through a modern railway link.