November 25, 2013. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) decided on the first students to receive the A.D. Deineko Scholarship that was established by the company in the summer of 2013. According to the company’s press service, three students of MISiS National Research Technological University were awarded the scholarship for their scientific and academic achievements in the metallurgical field. TMK’s A.D. Deineko Scholarship was set up to support, encourage, and invite to the company’s member enterprises the most gifted students. The scholarship was named in the honor of Alexander D. Deineko

November 25, 2013. A group of delegates from Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation took part in the 4th international conference on armored vehicles in New Delhi, India, on November 19-20, 2013, the corporation’s press service says. The conference was dedicated to the current condition and development prospects of India’s armed forces’ fleet of tanks; it was coordinated by the country’s Defense Ministry. Representatives of the world’s leading producers of armaments and military vehicles for ground forces attended the conference, including such companies as OTO Melara and

November 25, 2013. The development of Yekaterinburg will speed up by 30 years in the course of EXPO 2020 preparations, Soviet of the Federation member and head of the EXPO 2020 Application Committee’s Supervisory Council Arkady Chernetsky said in his interview to Kommersant. ‘Over the six months preceding the EXPO event, Yekaterinburg is to receive a number of visitors that is dozens of times bigger than the city’s population. So the city needs to make every effort to make sure that the transportation and the road network are a supporting factor and not an obstacle to getting around the city

November 25, 2013. MegaFon implemented its multi-faceted program on improving the customer service for its corporates: this project required over 70m RUR in terms of investments. In addition to upgrading the traditional service channels, the mobile communication carrier built the Federal Corporate Customer Service Center, with one main function of processing the subscribers’ written queries, the company’s press service reports. The construction of the Center was yet another stage of the multi-faceted corporate customer service improvement program. The Center’s sites in Bryansk and Samara are

November 25, 2013. Both foreign and Russian subway experts pointed out that Yekaterinburg subway was highly developed technically and had good development potential. They believe it is exactly the subway that can best solve the city’s traffic problems. Yekaterinburg Administration’s press service reports this meeting of Metro International Association Council took place in Yekaterinburg on Thursday, November 21. Heads of Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Nizhniy Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Tashkent, Kyiv, Kharkov, and Minsk subways talked about the performance and safety of subways