March 12, 2014. Yekaterinburg is now busy running a tender for the design and survey work contract relating to the coordination of the FIFA Festival in Mayakovsky Park, Sverdlovsk Region Minister for Physical Culture, Sports, and Youth Policies Leonid Rapoport said at the first meeting of an ad hoc team who is in charge of coordinating the World Football Championship of 2018. The meeting was chaired by Sverdlovsk Region Government Vice Premier Valentin Gripas. 'It is already clear that most of the jobs will have to do with improvements in the park. I have asked the local Energy and

March 12, 2014. An electronic system called Windchill is now being launched at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ). This innovation is meant for managing engineering data, for set-up and maintenance of design and preproduction planning, and for automation of the process of managing an item's parameters, Uralvagonzavod Corporation's press service says. The employees of the plant's IT Center, headed by Lyudmila Filatenko, tuned in the system, worked through the operation routine, and converted their goods composition database from the traditional Omega into Windchill. This rather

March 12, 2014. The members of Sverdlovsk Region Cabinet, in the course of their meeting on March 11, approved of Sverdlovsk Region Government draft bill on setting the minimum cost of living figure for the second quarter of 2014 that had been calculated by Sverdlovsk Region Economics Ministry. The minimum cost of living calculated for Q'II 14 came to 7,317 RUR per capita a month; this is 1.1% more than in Q'I 14. For working age residents, the figure was 7,792 RUR, for retirees, the figure was 6,012 RUR (+1.2%), and for children, the figure was 7,384 RUR (+2%).

March 12, 2014. MegaFon informs all the supporters that its popular sports app called WATCH+ will still be available during the winter Paralympics in Sochi. Over 600,000 users downloaded the app during the Olympics, and now WATCH+ can be used to keep track of all the events of the Paralympics online, MegaFon's press service reports. WATCH+ was immensely popular during the winter Olympics. Not only did it make it to the top few free apps at AppStore and GooglePlay, but it also was the confident second most popular app in the Sports category throughout most of the Olympics. The number of

March 12, 2014. The final fights and the solemn closing ceremony of Russia's female boxing championship for juniors competing for Natalia Ragozina Prize took place at Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation sports club. Natalia Ragozina is the world's absolute boxing champion among professional players and Deserved Master of Sports. According to Uralvagonzavod Corporation's press service, the second Natalia Ragozina Prize championship in Nizhniy Tagil this year became a high-profile event, rising from the local to the national level. Throughout the championship,