July 16, 2013. The Nevyansk Tower Museum is now joining a multimedia contest Russia 10: the contest is aimed at selecting Russia's ten most recognized tourist landmarks. 'At the moment, Nevyansk Tower is in the 58th place, but the voting situation changes every day. We have to make every effort to make sure this symbol of the Urals becomes the symbol of Russia as well,' Tourism Development Center Director Elmira Tukanova said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. According to Sverdlovsk Region's Culture Minister Pavel Krekov, this museum meets all the necessary

July 16, 2013. STM-Service, a daughter company of Sinara-Transport Machines, is going to do operation and maintenance of Russian Railways' locos run by Sverdlovsk-Sortirovochny depot; such a decree was signed by President of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, Sinara Group's PR Center reports. Under this document, STM-Service is now given access to the facilities, buildings, and technological equipment of Sverdlovsk Locomotive Repair Depot and provides full maintenance of its fleet of locos. The depot currently operates over 300 2ES6 and VL11 locos and about 50 TEM18 and TEM7A locos.

July 16, 2013. Ural Airlines is now offering a special price range on its Dubai-bound flights. Starting July 16, 2013, appealing prices will be offered on round trip tickets from Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Samara, Krasnodar, and Myneralnye Vody to Dubai and back, the air carrier's press service reports. Those who like planning their holidays in advance can benefit from Ural Airlines' special price offers: if you book a round trip ticket to Dubai 61 or more days before the flight, the price will come to 12,340 RUR; if you book 31 to 60 days in advance, the tickets

July 16, 2013. ChTPZ Group is now among Russia's top five pipe manufacturers, according to the Rating of Russia's Leading Metal Goods Producers and Suppliers in the First Half of 2013. This rating was carried by a metallurgical journal Metallosnabzheniye I Sbyt. ChTPZ Group's metal goods trading division, Uraltrubostal Trading House, is among the top ten trading houses set up by the manufacturing companies in order to sell their produce, the Group's press service reports. The rating is based on the findings of a questionnaire completed by metal goods customers, a survey

July 16, 2013. 388,700 sq m of housing was commissioned in Sverdlovsk Region in January-June 2013, which was 7.8% more than in January-June 2012. 3,957 apartments were built (compared with 4,124 apartments in January-June 2012), SverdlovskStat reports. A number of private individuals used their own savings and borrowed funds to put up 240,400 sq m worth of housing, which is 23.1% more than a year earlier. Private houses made up 61.8% of all the housing construction (compared with 54.2% in January-June 2012).