July 29, 2013. Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ, a member of ChTPZ Group) company museum celebrated its 40th anniversary recently. The museum is Pervouralsk's largest historic and cultural center and one of the most available and fullest sources of information about the history of the plant and the most remarkable workers and Pervouralsk residents, the enterprise's press service reports. 'This is not a coincidence that the museum offers data on both workers and residents: the city was developing alongside with the plant. This is why not only the plant's top management,

July 29, 2013. Ural Airlines keeps expanding the network of destinations available from Irkutsk. A new international China-bound flight will be launched on October 21, 2013: the Irkutsk-Harbin one, the air carrier's press officer reports. The price of a one-way ticket comes to ?90 (fees excluded). The new scheduled Irkutsk-Harbin-Irkutsk flight will be operated every Monday. Harbin is one of the most important cities in the North-Western China. In addition to being an administrative and economic resource hub, the city is also a home to the country's largest ski resort Yabuli;

July 29, 2013. Markswebb Rank & Report, an analytics agency, did a research on the efficiency of m-banking services offered to private individuals; the result was the Mobile Banking Rank 2013. Life Financial Group's m-banking was rated as the 11th best iPhone application and 19th best Android app, VUZ-Bank's press service reports. There are 29 banks in the rating that offer their customers iPhone apps and 28 banks that offer applications for Android. The criterion against which the quality of mobile apps was assessed was just how fully the customers' needs were satisfied.

July 29, 2013. Sverdlovsk Region is going to be given 5bn RUR worth of federal budget subsidies to have its agricultural equipment and vehicles upgraded and replaced, Russia's Agriculture Minister Nikolai Fedorov said during his bilateral meeting with Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev, the Governor's Information Policies Department reports. 'I can say say that we intend to allocate another 5bn RUR to renovate the agricultural vehicles. I believe Sverdlovsk Region is going to get a very visible share of this. So far, we have only allotted this area 2.3bn RUR,'

July 29, 2013. Over 20 industrial enterprises based in Sverdlovsk Region are going to receive subsidies from Sverdlovsk Region budget so that they can pay the interest on the loans they took out to implement their investment projects, the region's government's press service reports. Following a tender, the Ministry for Industry & Science decided to offer government support to 22 businesses; the subsidies total to 186.3m RUR and are to be directed to the payment of loans taken out to finance investment projects. The interest in question comes to no more than two-thirds of the