November 13, 2013. A new international mail exchange terminal was opened at Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg today. The terminal is located in the freight department. The volume of mail delivered to Koltsovo is expected to go up to 12,000kg a day as soon as December 2013, the Russian Post reports. ‘The new terminal will mean speedier delivery to the addressee (2-3 times faster) as well as more orders and therefore increased economic efficiency for the Russian Post. The creation of this terminal will also become an important part of the relationship developing between Sverdlovsk Region and

November 13, 2013. ChTPZ Group and SOT Plant are going to ship pipes and take-offs (diameter 820mm, wall width 12, 17, 19 mm made of K56 steel) to Transneft. The total volume of shipments of pipes made at Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant is more than 12,500,000kg, that of pipes made at SOT Plant is 293 units, the Group’s press service reports. All the take-offs and some of the pipes (about 2,000,000kg) meant for the third extension to the Zapolyarye Purpe oil pipeline are to be insulated with polyurethane coating with a protective layer at the new sections of Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant. The

November 13, 2013 Ural Airlines announce the launch of a special price offer on its Yekaterinburg-Tel Aviv-Yekaterinburg flight. The new, advantageous tariff is a part of the new tariff scheme that will mean passengers will be able to save a considerable amount of money when booking and to choose a convenient departure date, the airline’s press service reports. If you book six days before the flight, the round trip ticket from Yekaterinburg to Tel Aviv and back will cost you 13,600 RUR; if you book two months before the flight, the price will come to 17,990 RUR, and if you book 31 to 59 days

November 13, 2013. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation (UVZ) and Semey Engineering from Kazakhstan signed a founding treaty on the creation of a joint venture that will offer O&M services for armored vehicles. The JV is to be called UVZ-Semey Engineering. The treaty was signed in the course of the 10th Interregional Russia-Kazakhstan Cooperation Forum that was attended by the two country’s presidents: Vladimir Putin and Nursultan Nazarbayev. Semey Engineering is actually Kazakhstan’s only company to deal in overhauls and upgrades of armored vehicles. UVZ was represented

November 13, 2013. While in Sverdlovsk Region, Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a visit to Ural Locomotives (a joint venture of Sinara Group and Siemens AG in Verkhnyaya Pyshma), where the production department for ES2G Lastochka trains was launched on that day, Sinara Group’s PR Department reports. Vladimir Putin, accompanied by Russia’s Industry & Trade Minister Denis Manturov, President of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, Siemens AG BOD Chairman Joe Kaeser, and Sinara Group BOD Chairman Dmitri Pumpyanski, looked at the body production section, the carriage assembly section, and