June 19, 2013. A new, modern outdoor asphalt concrete plant Bernardi MIC 100/125 that was recently launched on the premises of Uralvagonzavod has reached its projected capacity by now. The maximum productivity comes to 175 tons an hour; the plant belongs to Uralvagonzavod’s daughter enterprise UBT-Service. The new plant was assembled during the difficult spring-time conditions, but, even so, all the jobs were completed very fast – within one month. During the start-up and commissioning, the plant operated at 130 tons an hour and produced 600 tons of asphalt within five hours. The first 400

June 19, 2013. After EXPO 2020 exhibition comes to an end in Yekaterinburg, the city will be left will a full-fledged district suitable for living in, head of Yekaterinburg Administration Alexander Yakob said when looking at the preliminary results of implementing the city’s Strategic Development Plan. He says a land allotment of 550 hectares has been reserves on the right bank of Verkh-Isetsky Pond to house both EXPO Park and EXPO Village. ‘Pavilions will be built for the participant countries to host their shows, as well as a residential area for the support personnel during the

June 19, 2013. Representatives of forty-five African countries are going to visit Yekaterinburg as part of the Ural-Africa Economic Forum during Innoprom-2013. According to Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Press Service & Information Department, the event is planned within the framework of Russian-African relations development: this was stated as one of the country’s foreign affairs priorities in the President’s decree issued in May. The forum is coordinated by Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, EXPO 2020 Application Committee, the Industry & Trade Ministry, and Russia’s Chamber of

June 19, 2013. Sinara Pipe Plant (SinTZ, a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company/TMK), came up with the results of the first stage of launching Directum-based e-document management system. While the system was being launched, a number of processes were automated, including processing memos and decrees, incoming and outcoming documents, and internal memos. As a result, the document flow has become significantly speedier, thanks to no more manual registration and accounting for most of the documents that come into all of the plant’s divisions. At the moment, the e-document management involves

June 19, 2013. Only Russia’s EXPO 2020 application features video addresses by the Russian President and by an astronaut filmed on board an international space station, head of Yekaterinburg Administration Alexander Yakob said after the trip the Russian delegation made to the BIE General Assembly meeting in Paris. ‘The Administration head pointed out that each of Russian application presentations went through in a very impressive way, which makes us optimistic about the future. The Russian delegates were headed by Russian Vice Premier Arkady Dvorkovitch, who was also one of the primary