August 19, 2013. As of August 1, 2013, the total arrears of wages among businesses outside the SME sector was 2.526bn RUR, which was 11m RUR, or 0.4% more than on July 1, 2013, Rosstat (the Federal State Statistics Service) reports. The arrears of wages grew by 1.6 times or 63% since the beginning of the year (the figure stood at 1.56bn RUR on January 1, 2013). As for Ural Federal District, the arrears of wages here amounted to 11.5m RUR as of August 1, 2013. This is 7.4% more than a month earlier. Sverdlovsk Region currently owns 1.2m RUR to the locally employed workers, which is up 7.7% on

August 19, 2013. Ural Airlines and Koltsovo Airport held a solemn reception for the aviation industry workers at the Hyatt Hotel in Yekaterinburg to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Ural aviation industry, the airline’s press service reports. The reception was attended by Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev, who awarded honorary certificates of Sverdlovsk Region Government to heads of aviation enterprises: Ural Airlines Director-General Sergey Skuratov, Ural Airlines Production Director Vladimir Chikilev, Koltsovo Airport Director-General Evgeny Chudnovsky and Koltsovo Airport

August 19, 2013. The volume of investments in the capital assets of Sverdlovsk Region-based enterprises came to 116.7bn RUR in January-June 2013, which is 3.1% more than a year earlier, the region’s Economics Ministry’s press service reports. According to the statistical data provided by the ministry, 77.2% of all the investments (90bn RUR) was directed to Sverdlovsk Region-based enterprises that are not SMEs. About a half of this money (48.5% or 43.6bn RUR) is aimed for industrial development and 17.8% or 16bn RUR is aimed for transport and telecommunications development. The social sector

August 19, 2013. The solemn opening ceremony took place at a new school in Academic District of Yekaterinburg on August 16. This is the second secondary school to be set up in this district. School 19 is fit for 875 schoolchildren per shift, and 150 first-graders will be welcomed there on September 1, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policies Department reports. The school happens to be one of the most spacious in Sverdlovsk Region: its area comes to more than 16,000 square meters. The school has got large recreation areas, a conference all with 520 seats, two gyms, a swimming

August 19, 2013. It has been determined that the amount of revenues coming into the Russian Federation consolidated budget from Sverdlovsk Region increased by 3.4% or 4.441.7m RUR in the seven months of 2013, Sverdlovsk Region division of the Federal Tax Service’s press service reports. In terms of what economic sectors the revenues came from, the amount of tax paid by the processing industries rose by 17.4% or 6,482.6m RUR, that paid by the electricity, natural gas, and water producers and distributors went up by 22.2% or 1,841m RUR, that paid by the companies dealing in real estate, rent,