July 1, 2013. Head of Uralvagonzavod Railway Carriage Assembly Department Leonid Matveyev was elected the honorary citizen of Nizhniy Tagil. The overwhelming majority of the municipal Duma deputies voted for his candidacy, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s press service reports. Leonid Matveyev was born in Serebryanka, Prigorodny District, Sverdlovsk Region, in 1951. He came to work at the corporation in 1970 and stayed with the Railway Carriage Assembly Department for over 36 years, moving from an electric welder to the head of this department that is known for the

July 1, 2013. Galatea, a first-class ballet studio at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ, a member of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) Palace of Culture, performed very successfully in Tidal Wave, an international children’s contest held in Tuapse. The holding’s press service reports that the little ballerinas took back home with them to the South Urals five laureates’ certificates (four first-degree ones and one second-degree one). ‘Not a single out of twenty classical dance casts (including those from Abkhazia, Ukraine, and different parts of Russia) was able to get as

July 1, 2013. Rosatom Corporation is one of the world’s nuclear technologies market leader and is currently working on a number of power-generating units for nuclear power stations in Russia and abroad, acting Designer-in-Chief of Hydropress Vladimir Piminov said at the opening of the international industrial forum Atomexpo 2013. ‘The Russian nuclear industry is one of the world’s most advanced in terms of R&D in the field of reactor and fuel design, nuclear power stations maintenance, and personnel qualifications. Our enterprises have enormous experience in solving large-scale problems,

July 1, 2013. This year, the Innoprom 2013 exhibition will serve as a venue for discussing relevant fields in which the Russian industry could develop with a number of foreign experts; the key findings of this discussion will be used for drafting a special bill on the country’s industrial policy that will be ready as soon as by the end of 2013, Russia’s Deputy Minister for Industry & Science Georgiy Kalamanov told the media at a press conference that took place in Moscow on the eve of the Inventor & Innovator’s Day. 510 companies from 70 different countries will join the 4th

July 1, 2013. 37,501 new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles were sold in Yekaterinburg in January-May 2013, which was 5%, or 1,814 cars less than in the first five months of 2012. According to Auto-Dealer-Yekaterinburg, 7,923 cars were sold in the city in May 2013, which was 14%, or 1,246 cars less than a year earlier. This is the greatest drop in sales over the course of one month after the peak of the recession passed in 2009. Lada was still the best-selling car on Yekaterinburg market in the five months of this year. As for the foreign cars, the top three are KIA, Hyundai, and –