April 8, 2014. MMK (Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works) Director-General Pavel Shilyayev confirmed the company's Environmental Program for 2014, the company says. This year's Environmental Program provides for 63 different projects worth a total of some 2,035m RUR, including 1,898m RUR to be spent on environmental projects within MMK itself, and 137m RUR will be spent within MMK Group enterprises. The reconstruction of sulphur-filtering units in the ore mining and processing facility, the reconstruction of the coke gas cooling unit 1 in the coke department, and the construction of

April 8, 2014. Professional re-training courses in Industrial Electronics were offered at Uralvagonzavod Corporation's head plant for the first time. The corporation's press service says that this training is part of the enterprise's cooperation program with Novouralsk Technological Institute, a division of National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute). 'This educational establishment is Uralvagonzavod's long-term partner. The school-leavers of Nizhniy Tagil obtained blue-collar skills thanks to our cooperation with Novouralsk

April 8, 2014. The number of industrial accidents amounted to 421 in 2013, which was 17% lower in 2013 compared with 2012, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region's Information Policies Department refers to the local division of State Labor Inspectorate as reporting. According to the head of the inspectorate Nikolai Shedlovsky, workers in the building industry were mainly injured due to falling down from heights, vehicle accidents, getting hit by falling objects, and so on. 'If you look into industrial accidents, you can come to the conclusion that their number tends to go down,'

April 8, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region Physical Education, Culture, Sports & Youth Policies Ministry designed a 'roadmap' for training volunteers for the World Cup in Yekaterinburg in 2018, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region's Information Policies Department reports. 'The 'roadmap' provides for the development and implementation of a multi-faceted volunteer training program. The program will comprise modules on language training and personality development. I believe that these steps, taken in 2014-2018, will result in the emergence of a team of active, positive, and

April 8, 2014. Photographs from the archive of Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant Museum (the plant, known as ChTZ, is a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation), are going to be on display at an international exhibition in Italy. According to the corporation's press service, the research work that these photographs depict is going to be presented in Venice by a student from Boston Irina Chernyakova. 'This MIT student, who studied the history of the architectural movement called constructivism, asked ChTZ management for the photographic materials she

April 8, 2014. Consumer price index relating to all the goods and services in Sverdlovsk Region rose by 1.1% in March 2014 compared with February 2014, SverdlovskStat's official papers say. The figure is actually 7.3% higher than in March 2013. The food items index (including the data on strong drinks) was 1.9% more in March 2014 than in February 2014; the strong drinks price index increased by 2.2%. Compared with March 2013, both figures went up by 7.6% and 10.9%, respectively.