June 4, 2013. The top managers of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation took part in the section dedicated to the ‘broad gage’ problem in the course of Strategic Partnership 1520 Business Forum in Sochi. According to the holding’s press service, the Director-General of the corporation’s daughter company UVZ-Logistic Dmitri Yeremeyev made a report on the railway carriage manufacturers as freight forwarders and therefore on the aspects of a new business strategy. In his introductory speech, he said that the freight forwarding market and its future prospects did not look good.

June 4, 2013. A healthcare campaign targeted at children took off at Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s head plant. The holding’s press service says that 9m RUR were allocated for the purpose in 2013, which will fund the holidays of 1,700 children of the plant’s employees. Some of them will go to municipal camps such as Antonovsky, Zvezdny, Zvonkiye Golosa, Izumrudny, Lesnoy Rucheyek, Severyanka, Solnechny, and Uralsky Ogonek as well as to health resorts such as Sosnovy Bor and Roosh.1,169 trips have been booked for the summer for the plant workers’ children, which is

June 4, 2013. ChTPZ Group Education Center and Pervouralsk Metallurgical College are now enrolling students for their joint cadre training the Future of White Metallurgy program. All school-leavers with complete general secondary or vocational secondary education from all parts of Russia are eligible to apply. Within three years, they will acquire at list four blue-collar qualifications, and the best students will be offered jobs at ChTPZ Group’s innovational production facility, the enterprise’s press service says. This year, students are enrolled for the following qualifications: metal

June 4, 2013. Sberbank Leasing is handing over to UVZ-Logistic (a member of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) about 7,500 railway carriages. The lease contract was signed by acting Director-General of Sberbank Leasing Kirill Tzarev and Director-General of UVZ-Logistic Dmitri Yeremeyev during the 8th International Railway Business Forum on Strategic Partnership 1520 in Sochi, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press officer reports. It is reported that this is the largest contract on the Russian railway carriage leasing market at the moment. The project is worth about 30bn RUR

June 4, 2013. All of Yekaterinburg Bus Union Municipal Unitary Enterprise’s buses have been fitted with an alarm button for informing dispatchers about emergencies. Yekaterinburg Council’s press service reports that this comes to 525 buses that transport about a half of all the passengers who use the intra-city routes. To make passenger trips safer, all the drivers and bus fare collectors are obliged to undergo special training on how to act in case some explosive or life-threatening substances or unattended bags and packages are found in the cabin. Besides, during their trip along the route