January 24, 2014. The construction of Palace of New Culture is now in progress at Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group); this is going to be an innovative site for training and creative development of young workers, the enterprise's press service reports. The project on Palaces of New Culture has been implemented by the Russian Federation Culture Ministry since 2012; this is supervised by Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev. Palaces of New Culture will also be put up in Vladivostok (Isle Russky) and in Kaluga. Pervouralsk is the first city where the

January 24, 2014. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant Deputy Director-General for Human Resources Oleg Kosykh and Chairman of the plant's Long-Service Employee Council Nikolai Lozhchenko congratulated the plant's legendary turner Vassily Gusev on his 90th birthday. The man of the day was glad to receive his gift – a recently published Book on ChTZ People, with one of the chapters dedicated to his renowned self,' the company's press service reports. 'The exhibition dedicated to Vassily V. Gusev was opened in the plant museum recently and proved popular with our visitors. The

January 24, 2014. January 23, 2014 is a special day for Uralvagonzavod – this is the 70th anniversary of phasing-in the legendary Great Victory tank, the T-34-85, Uralvagonzavod's press service reports. 'The Germans relied heavily on their new Tiger and Panther tanks at Kursk salient in 1943, which forced the Soviet designers to intensify their work on equipping their armored vehicles, including tanks, with some more powerful weaponry. A few months of hard work resulted in a new modification of Tank 34 – the T-34-85 tank that was phased in in January 1944 and two months later, the

January 24, 2014. The first produce of the Russian-Japanese joint venture Ural Wiring Systems that deals in production of automobile cord assembly for Renault and Nissan's Russian factories will roll off the production line in June 2014. This information was reported by the JV's Director-General Toru Shinagawa to Sverdlovsk Region Minister for International and Foreign Economic Relations Andrei Sobolev during a recent meeting. According to the Governor of Sverdlovsk Region's Information Policy Department, Sumitomo Wiring Systems and Radio Equipment Plant signed an agreement on

January 24, 2014. DHL, the express delivery service, will stop delivering goods from online shops based abroad on January 27. This has to do with the new, stricter customs regulations, DHL Yekaterinburg office told UrBC. There was some news on the Internet earlier that the Association of express delivery services (DHL, FedEx, Pony Express, UPS, DPD, TNT, and SPSR Express) are forced to stop importing express cargo with personal use items to Russia due to the more complicated customs declaration procedures. The problem is that the customs officers of Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport demand