January 21, 2014. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Board of Directors appointed Pavel Shilyaev acting Director-General as the provisional sole executive body. It was reported earlier that MMK former DG Boris Dubrovsky was temporarily appointed acting Governor of Chelyabinsk Region by the Russian President’s Decree dated January 15, 2014. Pavel Shilyaev was born in Kurgan on July 3, 1970. He graduated from Chelyabinsk State Technical University with a degree in Electric Operation and Automation of Commercial Plants in 1992. In 2006, he was trained within the framework of the

January 21, 2014. Some 10,500 employees of Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) were trained by their companies in 2013, the enterprise’s press service reports. Approximately 6,850 blue-collar workers and over 3,600 white-collar ones and managers were able to enhance their professional skills at the Russian educational establishments, at the enterprises’ company training facilities, and at ChTPZ Group’s company Training Center in Pervouralsk that has the most advanced mill simulators, lab units, and classroom simulators. In 2013, the Group implemented a

January 21, 2014. Head of Yekaterinburg Administration Alexander Yakob asked the road-cleaning services to focus on the removal of snow that was swept off the streets and put into huge piles. Every district is expected to deliver at least 2,000,000 kg of snow to special snow disposal dumps every day, the Administration’s press service reports. In addition, Alexander Yakob asked that special attention should be paid to clearing the snow off auxiliary driveways and passages that make it easy to ender the yards. Now the long and heavy snowfalls that started on Friday night made the road

January 21, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court processed Russian Magnesium’s trustee in bankruptcy D. Seleznev’s petition on terminating the trusteeship, declaring the company insolvent, and going forth with the bankruptcy proceedings. Now Russian Magnesium was set up in 2004 in order to put up a new magnesium-producing plant in Asbest. The projected capacity was estimated at 70,000,000 kg of magnesium and 90,000,000 kg of precipitated silica a year. OOO Solimag owned by an American businessman Mark Lisnyansky controls 50% plus two shares of the company’s authorized capital, 25% minus

January 21, 2014. Three FORMAX cold forming presses are now being assembled at Uralvagonzavod’s head plant. The corporation’s press service reports that the equipment is meant for making metal goods for the railway carriage assembly and mechanical assembly departments and was purchased within the framework of the Federal Program on the Development of the Defense Industry Sector in 2014-2020. ‘The old equipment is being dismantled and the large joints relating to the foundation are currently being assembled by Uralvagonzavod’s mechanical repairs department; however, very soon the rest of the

January 21, 2014. According to the recently available data, Sverdlovsk Region’s budget revenues amounted to 153.8bn RUR in 2013, while spending came to 180.4bn RUR, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Press Service & Information Department reports. The unfavorable global economic factors resulted in a decrease in the federal constituency’s budget inflow, and the planned target figures were only met by 98% (the revenues were 3.3bn RUR less than expected). As for the budget spending, this was 180.4bn RUR, which exceeded the figures for 2012 by 15.7%, or 24.5bn RUR. It has preliminarily calculate