June 11, 2014. The employees of Uralvagonzavod Corporation's head plant are going to plant some 1,000 trees and flowers in Nizhniy Tagil – this is part of the city's Dzerzhinsky District greenery planting program. 'Dahlias, sage and marigold flowers, petunias, phlox, and other flowers will be planted in six central streets and squares in the area and at 15 sites at Uralvagonzavod. Over 30,000 flowers will be planted on the Memorial Mound by employees from the carriage assembly department and in Glory Square which already looks like a multi-colored flower carpet thanks to the

June 11, 2014. Omsk Transport Machine-Building Design Bureau (KBTM, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) keeps working on the launch of new information technologies. According to the corporation's press service, the company ran a test launch of a computer-aided contract confirmation system, and all the work on the data processing center was completed in June. Pre-launch preparations, from designing and upgrading the premises for the data processing center to delivery and assembly to start-up and commissioning of all the equipment of both the engineering and the computing

June 11, 2014. MegaFon, a major telecommunications provider, announced the completion of a tender to do with the delivery of telecommunications equipment; several suppliers were decided upon, including the world's leader in the field of ICT solutions, Huawei, the company's press service reports. The contract between MegaFon and Huawei is valid for seven years. This is a new approach on the Russian telecommunications market. The contract is worth several billion rubles and covers the delivery of equipment for the construction and upgrades of 2G/3G/LTE networks as well as software

June 11, 2014. The team of Burevestnik Central Scientific Research Insitute (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) won the Nizhniy Novgorod 2014 Prize in the Industry category with its naval gun A190-01. The badges and diplomas were given to the laureates by Mayor Oleg Sorokin during the awarding ceremony in Nizhniy Novgorod Kremlin, the corporation's press service says. 'This city thinks very highly of Burevestnik's achievements: the company managed to run full-scale production upgrades and launch serial production of an improved naval gun for its government

June 11, 2014. Passenger turnover at Yekaterinburg-based Koltsovo Airport amounted to 380,000 people in May 2014. All in all, 1.548m people traveled through the airport in the first five months of 2014, which was 7.5% more than in the first five months of 2013, the airport's website states. The international passenger turnover only increased by 1.5% and reached 718,000 people, including 196,700 people who flew in May. The domestic passenger turnover has gone up by 13.2% since the beginning of the year and came to 829,200 people. In May 2014, the domestic passenger turnover went up by