January 27, 2014. UTair Aviation Company had the greatest number of emergencies last year among all the air carriers based in Ural Federal District, the district’s Deputy Public Prosecutor for Transportation Maxim Grishayev said at a press conference. ‘This was the case last year and the year before the last. However, the reason for such statistics is that the company operates over 400 aircraft,’ he explained. According to Grishayev, in most instances, the airplanes had to perform emergency landings because of false warnings. ‘The overall security index stands at more than 90% for all the

January 27, 2014. Experts from Municipal Transport Inspection carried out 1,102 inspections of how Yekaterinburg passenger transportation companies complied with their contract terms in 2013. The city council’s press service reports that 1,972 violations were detected, resulting in 159 warnings and 45 fines. ‘The violations mainly had to do with the schedule of these transportation companies, the insufficient number of carriages at work, and with the sanitary condition of the vehicles. What is more, inspectors tracked down the illegal operators that dealt in passenger transportation without a

January 27, 2014. An encyclopedia dedicated to the employees of Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod) was published recently. According to the corporation’s press service, the Book on ChTZ People that was published by Chelyabinsk House of the Press, is an encyclopedia-style reference book on the enterprise employees with biographical sections on the workers who actually put up the plant, on the Great Patriotic War veterans, on workers with government awards, on outstanding service employees who became well known in Chelyabinsk Region and in Russia, on social