March 17, 2014. Ural Airlines resumed the operation of its traditional summertime flights from Moscow to Mirny with a stopover in Yekaterinburg and from Yekaterinburg to Nadym and then to Salekhard and then back to Yekaterinburg, the air carrier’s press service says. Starting from May 22, 2014, an addtional Moscow-Yekaterinburg-Mirny flight will complement the existing schedule, so the flight will be operated twice a week, every Thursday and Sunday, with the flights back offered on Mondays and Fridays. As a matter of fact, the Moscow-Mirny flight is on the government subsidies list that makes

March 17, 2014. MegaFon and MegaLabs announce the launch of a new app, MegaFon Tracker, that makes it possible to track the locations of mobile devices with a high degree of precision. According to the telecommunications provider’s press service, the app is using data from GPS/GLONASS, the wireless, and GSM module, which ensures maximum precision in positioning. MegaFon Tracker is used for enhancing the positioning precision for such services as Radar and Cadre Control. The location of both Radar and Cadre Control users used to be identifed based only on the data provided by a few base

March 17, 2014. Burevestnik Central Scientific Research Institute (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) was awarded with the Governor of Nizhniy Novgorod challenge pennant for Defense Industry Enterprises. According to the corporation’s press service, the award was received by DG Burevestnik Georgiy Zakamennykh in the course of a solemn ceremony and is actually to stay at the enterprise forever, since this is the third year in a row the company has won this award. The head of the institute told reporters that the organization managed to raise its

March 17, 2014. A sports festival called Electromachine Ski Track 2014 was held at Khimki Stadium in Kopeisk. This was the beginning of a series of sports competitions to celebrate the company anniversary. Some 200 people took part in this Ski Track event, a lot of company workers came there with their families, and everyone could try their luck in both sports competitions and traditional folk festivities, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The contests included ski races for all sports player categories (including the employees’ children) and a mini-football championship.