January 28, 2014. The Russian online hotel booking service called Oktogo.ru came up with the list of the most popular tourist destinations in Russia last year. In terms of cities most often traveled to, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan, Sochi, Nizhniy Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Krasnodar, Kaliningrad, and Yaroslavl were the top ten cities, The rating offered by Oktogo.ru was based on the online hotel booking data relating to the Russian citizens’ booking activity in 2013. ‘In 2013, Russian residents stayed in Yekaterinburg for three days and paid 3,700 RUR a day for their hotel

January 28, 2014. The iPhone 5S and 5C smartphones now get MegaFon 4G/LTE support, the telecommunications provider’s press service reports. ‘Starting January 25, a new update that activates Russia’s largest 4G network is available for Apple iPhone 5S and 5C smartphones. The super-fast mobile network that can offer up to 100 Mb/sec in terms of speed is now available to the owners of four smartphone varieties: : iPhone 5S — A1457 and A1530 and iPhone 5C — A1507 and A1529. As early as November 2013, MegaFon’s 4G network also became available to the owners of other Apple devices such as the

January 28, 2014. 94,394 new passenger and light commercial vehicles were sold in Yekaterinburg last year, which was 6% or 5,796 cars less than in 2012, Auto-Dealer-Yekaterinburg reports. ‘8,631 automobiles were sold in Yekaterinburg in December, which was 1% or 73 cars more than in December 2012. For the second month in a row, the local automobile market kept growing. The last time the two-month market growth occurred was in early 2013 (January and February), whereupon sales kept declining every month,’ the agency’s message states. Lada still remains the best-selling vehicle of the year in

January 28, 2014. ChTPZ Group delivered a set of arc-welded pipes to the Byelorussian oil company Naftan. The pipes have the diameter of 530mm to 820mm and wall width of 10mm to 14mm; they are made from carbonated steel and will be used to reconstruct the primary crude oil processing unit, the pipe-rolling enterprise’s press service reports. ‘This order is specific in that we have to meet the customer’s particularly strict property requirements: the metal strength and the quality of the seam were tested at the temperature of 25 degrees centigrade below zero (the GOST standard requires that

January 28, 2014. Two Behringer band saw machines, one automated and one semi-automated one, were recently bought by Plant 9, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation. This was part of the plant’s technical upgrade program. The equipment has already been installed and is expected to reach its full production capacity in the spring of 2014, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s press service reports. The machines were purchased for the blank production sector and are supposed to replace the abrasive cutting-off equipment soon. Unlike this