June 26, 2013. Three B-11 bulldozers made by ChTZ-Uraltrac (a member of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) arrived in the village of Ust-Neira in the east of Yakutia. According to the corporation’s press service, it took the bulldozers two and a half months to travel from Chelyabinsk to Oimyakon District through Magadan, where the company’s local service center is located. ‘Poisk Prospectors’ Crew selected a new make of the tractor with the final reduction gear and hydromechanical transmission. What is more, the machines have the Webasto pre-heater and double glazing of

June 26, 2013. ChTPZ Group intends to take part in the Job Counseling Day during the Innoprom 2013 exhibition, the company’s press service says. This year, the group is going to present its business, society, and army cooperation project at the exhibition; this will be a part of a multi-faceted new-generation employee training program. More than 50 volunteers, including people from the Group’s White Metallurgy division, ChTPZ Educational Center students, and the first alumni of the Future of White Metallurgy Program who have served their term in the army, will take part in the event.

June 26, 2013. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) and Gazprom Neft signed a joint scientific and technological cooperation program for 2013-2015. The program aims to provide the oil company with highly competitive, home-produced pipe products with enhanced technological and economic properties, TMK press service reports. TMK has been cooperating with Gazprom Neft for a long time by supplying pipe casing, pipeline components, and oil well tubing for oil production and transportation, including pipes with premium thread joints. The two parties’ further cooperation that was reflected in the

June 26, 2013. In 2012, the average salary in Yekaterinburg came to over 33,000 RUR a month, which was 22% better than in Russia on average, Head of Yekaterinburg Administration Alexander Yakob said at Yekaterinburg Duma meeting recently. He explained that the unemployment rate registered in Yekaterinburg in late 2012 – 0.49% - was the lowest within the last 18 years, while the large and medium enterprises industrial production index stood at 115%, which was 11% better than in Russia on average and 4% better than in Sverdlovsk Region on average. ‘The Urals’ capital is traditionally No.1 among

June 26, 2013. UC RUSAL is going to reduce aluminum production at Bogoslovsky smelter down to 25,000 tons a year, with only Section 6 in operation. The company expects to produce 300,000 tons less of aluminum altogether this year than last year, which has to do with unfavorable market opportunities, RUSAL First Deputy DG Vladislav Soloviev said in his interview to Prime Agency. ‘The matters are quite settled with Bogoslovsky - we will buy Bogoslovsky heat & power station and will only leave Section 6 in operation, which will produce about 25,000 tons of metal,’ the top manager replied to