April 7, 2014. A conference on compliance with corporate collective agreements in 2013 was held at Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant. The attendees also looked at the results of the head plant’s socioeconomic development and spoke about the challenges and prospects in 2014 and set out some of the priority development segments, the corporation’s press service says. ‘Deputy Director-General for Human Resources Svetlana Ivanilova pointed out that the company fulfilled all of its contractual obligations and social benefits schemes in 2013, and the number of staff remained the same,’ their

April 7, 2014. 5,489 people came to Yekaterinburg Employment Center in search of a job since the beginning of the year, and 3,295 people actually found a suitable job/a source of income, which come to 29.1% of all applicants, Sverdlovsk Region Labor & Occupation Department’s press service reports. 3,441 people were registered as unemployed as of April 1, 2014; the official unemployment rate thus came to 0.47%. Sverdlovsk Region-based employers posted 23,621 vacancies as of April 1, including 6,603 job openings for foreign workers (28% of all the vacancies). The local businesses need

April 7, 2014. Ural Airlines if offering its customers from Novosibirsk an opportunity to travel to Harbin at the special price of €190 (one-way ticket, excluding fees and charges), the airline’s press service says. If you book and buy at least ten days before the flight, the ticket will cost €160. For those who prefer to fly as comfortably as possible, a business class ticket will come to €400. Novosibirsk-Harbin flights are operated by Ural Airlines every Monday.

April 7, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region Economics Ministry started training cadre in the tourist industry in preparation for the World Cup 2018 in Yekaterinburg. The first set of 40 people are now undergoing professional development courses: they will be trained to meet and host large numbers of guests, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policies Department reports. These 40 people are undergoing professional training within the framework of the Tourist Week in the Urals. At least 600,000 visitors are expected to arrive in Yekaterinburg during the Mundial, so the representatives of the