November 18, 2013. For the first time in their history, Ural Airlines transferred its 4,000,000th passenger of the year. The new record was set in November; a year ago, the company offered its services to its 3,000,000th passenger that month. This year, the lucky passenger was Yegor Konyukhovsky, who checked in for flight U6 261 from Moscow to Yekaterinburg. The special passenger was welcomed aboard with congratulations and compliemts from the airline. Upon arriving in Yekaterinburg, a premium class automobile was waiting to take Konyukhovsky to Koltsovo Airport’s cozy VIP terminal. Ural

November 18, 2013. Kommersant Publishers will host a multimedia business forum Promkadry dedicated to training cadre for the industrial sector at Digital October Center in Moscow on November 26. ChTPZ Group is one of the forum’s strategic partners and initiators, the company’s press service reports. The enterprise is well known for its vast experience in training highly skilled blue-collar workers. For the third year in a row, ChTPZ Group and Pervouralsk Metallurgical College have been working on a unique project called The Future of White Metallurgy. Over 600 students are studying at the

November 18, 2013. At the moment, UVZ Logistic (a member of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) is operating more than 29,000 railway vehicles, including 21,000 items that are owned by the forwarder. According to the corporation’s press officer, this freight forwarder operates 20,000 all-purpose gondola cars and more than 2,000 innovative railway carriages with increased axial loading. There are also 8,000 tanks. One big advantage of the company’s fleet of vehicles is the fact that the items are new: all of UVZ Logistic’s carriages and tanks are under 3 years old. ‘The company is moving confidently

November 18, 2013. The investigative authorities are now deciding whether criminal proceedings should be instituted regarding the fact that heat supply was interrupted in the southern part of Polevskoy, the spokesperson for public prosecution authorities of Sverdlovsk Region reports. The heat and hot water supply stopped at 12:10 PM on November 14 as the supplier, ZAO GAZEX, stopped delivering natural gas to the boiling house of Novaya Energetika. As a result, 190 apartment buildings with a total of 15,000 residents, seven kindergartens, six schools, three hospitals, and an orphanage were

November 18, 2013. The net loss of Uralmashzavod amounted to 2,420,335,000 RUR in the third quarter of 2013, while a year earlier, the figure was 741,907,000 RUR, the company’s quarterly report says. In January-September 2013, the enterprise’s revenue dropped down to 5,175,847,000 RUR against 7,336,188,000 RUR a year earlier.