August 14, 2013. According to the data provided by the local division of the Federal State Statistics Service, the average pay of a consumer industry worker in Sverdlovsk Region came to 28,388 RUR in June 2013, which is 11.9% more than in June 2012, the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region Economics Ministry reports. In January-June 2013, the average pay of a Sverdlovsk Region-based consumer industry worker was 26,753.6 RUR (+10.8% on January-June 2012); as for the country average, the figure was 28,828 RUR (+13.3%). In the first half of 2013, the average month's pay went up on the

August 14, 2013. The first stage of the start-up and commissioning jobs at the ultra-filtering water treatment department is compete at the Western filtering station of Yekaterinburg Water Supply & Waste Water Treatment Plant. On Wednesday, August 14, Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Yakob and his deputy for housing and public utilities issues Alexei Kozhemyako are going to take part in the launch of this preparatory stage of the start-up and commissioning process. Yekaterinburg Water Supply & Waste Water Treatment Plant's press service says that Yekaterinburg really needs the

August 14, 2013. 201,000 foreign workers have been registered in Sverdlovsk Region since the beginning of the year, with about 150,000 migrants arriving in the area through Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg, Deputy Head of Sverdlovsk Region division of the Federal Migration Service Vadim Lysakov said at a press conference. 'Out of the total number of foreign residents who arrived here this year, some 43,000 came to work. Most of the foreign labour still comes from the former Soviet republics: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and some others. As for those countries whose residents need

August 14, 2013. An open-to-all tourist youth conference called Azovka 2013 was held at Seversky Pipe Plant (a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company). This conference was rejuvenated after a big break 13 years ago and has been held in Azov Mountain for the eighth time this year. This is an all-city event attended by teams from companies and organizations of Polevskoy. This year, there was a record-setting number of participants: 23 teams and 500 people. The teams competed in several kinds of sports: fencing, weight lifting, air rifle shooting, darts, and tug-of-war. Also, an assault course was

August 14, 2013. 1.87m RUR worth of paid administrative fines was paid to Yekaterinburg budget in January-July 2013; these were the fines issued by the administrative committees for various offenses, the spokesperson for Yekaterinburg Council reports. The committees looked into 1,998 protocols in these seven months; most of these were based on the quarterly inspections. In 187 cases, the proceedings were stopped due to various circumstances, in 429 cases, the offenders received just a warning, in 1,381 cases, they had to pay a total of 13,807,1m RUR worth of fines. The most common offenses,