June 3, 2014. It was decided during the Supreme Hockey League Board meeting on May 30 that Sputnik Hockey Club and not Sputnik Sports Club should join the League. The hockey club was established as an independent legal entity and a non-commercial partnership, Uralvagonzavod's press service reports. The decision that was taken in the Board of Trustees' meeting was implemented. The new entity was set up by Sputnik Sports Club (whose general sponsor is Uralvagonzavod Corporation), Nizhniy Tagil Council, and Sverdlovsk Region Ministry for Physical Education, Sports and Youth Policy.

June 3, 2014. Uralvagonzavod hosted its traditional 72nd track-and-field relay race for the Mashinostroitel prize. This contest became a whole-corporation event a long time ago. In 2014, 1,370 people ran the traditional 2,775-meter distance. In addition to Uralvagonzavod sports players, athletes from other member enterprises of Uralvagonzavod Corporation took part in the race. Workers from Nizhniy Tagil-based Uralcryomash, UBT-Uralvagonzavod, Ural Transport Machine-Building Design Office, and Ural Railway Carriage Design Office, Ural Scientific and Technological Division, representatives of

June 3, 2014. Uralkhimmash was fined for violating the existing sanitary legislation; the violations were detected in the course of an on-site inspection conducted by the experts of Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor. According to the agency's press service, most of the violations detected had to do with failure to provide acceptable working conditions and failure to meet the current hygienic regulations for dust and pollutants content in the air within production departments. It was also determined that the licensing agreement on the use of ionizing radiation source was not

June 3, 2014. The fan zone in Mayakovsky Central Park in Yekaterinburg is expected to be expanded for the World Football Championship of 2018 so that it can fit 35,000 people, Director of The Urals' Capital Anna Baichibayeva said at a press conference today. The venue that is now being prepared for hosting the visitors to Supporters' Festival in Yekaterinbrg in 2014 is only big enough for 5,000 people. 'Under the FIFA requirements, a fan zone must be at least as big as to host 35,000 viewers. We are now considering the idea of putting up a fan zone in the park. The current