June 18, 2014. A filtering exhaust device made by the Czech company Messer Enviro Tec is now being installed at Thermal Department 3 of Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant. The capacity of the device is estimated at 20,000 m3 an hour. According to the corporation’s press service, another device is now being prepared for assembly and will be launched before the end of the year. The department uses German fume-cutting machines to make spare parts for railway carriages and special vehicles; these machines can cut alloyed steels and special steels. One side effect of fume-cutting is harmful

June 18, 2014. According to the data provided by the federal statistics agencies, 329 hotels and similar types of accommodation operated in Yekaterinburg in late 2013, Sverdlovskstat’s press service reports. This number included 267 hotels (81.2% of all accommodation types), 43 furnished apartments (13.1%), 16 hostels (4.8%), 2 boarding houses (0.6%), and 1 other type of accommodation (0.3%). Small enterprises ran 170 hotels and similar types of accommodation (51.7%), enterprises other than small ones ran 91 hotels (27.6%), and sole traders ran 68 hotels (20.7%). By the end of 2013, 41 hotels

June 18, 2014. The ongoing economic crisis forced most large enterprises to cut their investment programs by 1.5 to 2 times. This, in its turn, will result in slower construction speed and dropping profits, the Economic Events Bureau claims. The Director-General of GEN STROYURAL Construction Company Evgeniy Golubenko pointed out that small and medium enterprises might turn out to be the ones that will get hit the hardest, since these are the SMEs that are least resistant to shocks. The current state of affairs is made even worse by the fact that the competition on the construction market is

June 18, 2014. ChTZ-Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corproration) shipped this year’s second batch of spare parts for B10M, T-170, and DET-250 tractors to its Ukrainian dealer Assol. The first shipment of parts and joints for the caterpillar track vehicles was made to Zaporozhe in the spring, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘The van loaded with 10,000 kg of goods, headed off to Vassilyevka across the Ukrainian state frontier. The dealer runs a spare parts warehouse and a repair depot for servicing ChTZ-Uraltrac’s vehicles in this town. The B10M bulldozers also get

June 18, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Corporation is one of the 28 Russian companies that are taking part in Eurosatory 2014, the international arms, security technologies, and protection devices exhibition in Paris, the corporation’s press service reports. In Paris, the holding presented the military vehicles made at two of its member enterprises, Nizhniy Tagil-based Uralvagonzavod and Omsk-based KBTM. The stand features TOS-1A combat vehicle, TMM-6 mechanized bridge, a bridge-laying vehicle, IMR-3M counterobstacle vehicle, and BREM-3M armored recovery vehicle made by KBTM. ‘Visitors and exponents