June 5, 2014. Fifteen engineers from Transport Machine-Building Design Office (KBTM, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) took part in the 3d Siberian Engineers Conference in Omsk Expocenter on May 28-30, 2014. According to the corporation's press service, participants from 18 different parts of Russia arrived at the conference. The motto of the event ran, 'Engineering is the Basis of Russia's Development'. The primary idea behind the conference was to consolidate the expertise and the best practices from different constituencies in the field of industrial

June 5, 2014. Yekaterinburg police officers detained a young man who is suspected of a series of frauds, the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry reports. ‘According to the police data, the alleged offender had been renting flats for one day and then sublet them for a longer period since the beginning of 2012. The man used fake IDs in the names of Gordy, Mittelman, and Khild. He found his victims on the Internet and invited them to have a look at the apartment. In order to sound more convincing, he would show the future tenants documents relating

June 5, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor got a query from customers of the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD), who complained of violations of consumer rights. The bank charged its customers for some additional services without complying with the legal requirement that information should be provided as to the price of these services and as to the customers’ right to turn the offer of these services down. The total commission that one of the customers had to pay throughout his loan period amounted to more than 85,000 RUR, the agency’s press service

June 5, 2014. Electromachine (a Chelyabinsk-based member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) is now commissioning five different units. The jobs will be implemented within the framework of a large-scale technical improvements program the company runs, Uralvagonzavod’s press service reports. An up-to-date milling processing center DAHLIH MCV-1020 is being installed at the mechanical department. It will primarily be used for making pilot batches of new products and will make it possible to considerably increase the existing milling capacity of the enterprise. A selective soldering unit

June 5, 2014. Ural Locomotives (a joint venture operated by Sinara Group and Siemens) was successfully tested by an interregional acceptance committee; the enterprise’s R&D and design efforts in the field of making the AC 2ES7 loco (Project 11201) were assessed. According to Sinara Group’s press service, the committee was comprised of representatives of Russian Railways, railway institutes, railway equipment suppliers, Ural Locomotives, and Siemens and chaired by Russian Railways Chief Engineer and Senior Vice President for Innovative Development Valentin Gapanovitch. In the course of the