June 17, 2013. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) took part in the All-Russian Zero Environmental Impact event that was coordinated by the Natural Resources Ministry as part of the Year of Environmental Protection in Russia and on the eve of the World Environmental Protection Day, TMK press service reports. The event was targeted at demonstrating the business’s environmentally responsible status to the public: all of the company’s Russian assets coordinated special activities that could support careful use of natural resources and provided some practical contribution on the pipe manufacturers’

June 17, 2013. Ural Airlines recently added a new Airbus 319 plane to its fleet of vehicles: this is the company’s first such make, in fact. This means that the air carrier currently operates the entire family of Airbus 320 planes. The new liner arrived in Yekaterinburg from North America; it is fit for 134 passengers (there are 136 economy class seats and 8 business class ones). The aircraft will be used for both international and domestic flights, the airline’s press officer reports. Ural Airlines launched its fleet upgrade program in 2006, and so the company adds some new aircraft to its

June 17, 2013. A two-tier railway and motorway bridge across Verkh-Isetsky Pond will be built in Yekaterinburg in case the city wins the right to host the international exhibition EXPO 2020. The structure will provide a link between the city center and the exhibition site, the official city portal states. The bridge that will house the air express rails as well as other means of public transport is to become one of the city’s key transport links. In fact, special attention will be paid to the all-round modernization of Yekaterinburg transportation system in the course of preparing for the

June 17, 2013. An international seminar/meeting of trade union heads from pipe manufacturing enterprises based in Russia, Ukraine, and Byelorussia took place on the premises of Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (a member of ChTPZ Group). The meeting was coordinated by the International Trade Union Association Proftsentr Soyuzmetall, the company’s press service reports. The meeting was aimed at sharing experience on cooperation inside the trade union divisions. The meeting participants talked about motivating and attracting new members and about improving their image and significance in the

June 17, 2013. More than 660bn RUR will be allocated to coordinate and host the world football championship of 2018 in Yekaterinburg; 336bn RUR out of this sum will be directed from the federal budget, Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev said at a government meeting. He stressed that this money should be spent ‘in the most efficient and transparent way possible’, Finmarket refers to the official as saying. 32 national football teams and about 1m supporters are expected to arrive at the event. Medvedev pointed out that in terms of the number of visitors, the World Cup will be ‘a much larger