April 14, 2014. The net loss of Uralkhimmash amounted to 411,554,000 RUR last year, whereas a year earlier, the figure was 2,505,464,000 RUR, the company’s annual accounting report states. The enterprise’s revenues came to 4,692,731,000 RUR against 4,459,124,000 RUR in 2012. Its gross profit was 610.389m RUR, its sales revenues stood at 17.372m RUR.

April 14, 2014. Governor of Kaluga Region Anatoly Artamonov paid a visit to Kalugaputmash, a track machine and hydraulic power drive plant and a member of Sinara Transport Machines Holding, on April 9, 2014. The enterprise housed a meeting on the development of railway machine-building in the area, the holding’s press service reports. The meeting was attended by Sinara Group BOD Chairman Dmitri Pumpyanski, Sinara Transport Machines’ Director-General Evgeny Gritsenko, Deputy Director for Technical Policy at Russian Railways David Kirzhner, and Director-General of RPM Group Konstantin Danilov.

April 14, 2014. Ural Airlines came up with a special offer for passengers flying from Yekaterinburg to Prague. On April 23, 2014, and on this day only, one can fly to Prague and go back within a week for €245 (all fees and charges included), the airline’s press service says. These specially priced tickets will be available at the booking offices starting from April 12, 2014. ‘Springtime in Prague, full of flowers in bloom and of green leaves, is particularly wonderful. The gorgeous blossoming sweet cherry trees, and the snow-white tulips in full bloom in front of the Jan Hus monument in the

April 14, 2014. In 2013, the natural increase in population in Yekaterinburg was 2.7 times greater than a year earlier; this was announced at the city healthcare committee meeting. According to Yekaterinburg Council’s press service, demographic experts say 23,227 people were born in the Mid-Urals’ capital in 2013, and 16,097 people passed away. This means that natural population increase (excluding the data on immigrants) was 7,130 people. ‘This is the biggest figure since the Soviet times. Compare this with 3,282 people in 2012 and 2,175 people in 2011,’ experts report. According to Deputy

April 14, 2014. On April 12, 1969, the first set of industrial tractors T-130 was embarked upon at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation). According to the corporation’s press service, the new tractor came to replace the T-100 make, which proved the bestseller of the 60s. ‘The machine was designed by a large team of designers from the plant’s lab chaired by Ivan Kavyarov. It was he who coined the term ‘industrial tractor’ – the collocation was faced with some skepticism on the experts’ part at first, but was later fully adopted into scientific and