June 20, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Corporation is now organizing summer holiday programs for the youngest residents of Nizhniy Tagil. Last year’s experience has shown that edutainment programs are very popular with children, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘Every Thursday at 6PM throughout the summer months, edutainment shows will be coordinated for Nizhniy Tagil’s young residents at I.V. Okunev Palace of Culture: Uralvagonzavod decided to brighten up the leisure hours of the children who are spending their holidays in town,’ the company’s press release says. Uralvagonzavod started

June 20, 2014. ChTPZ Group’s Training Center coordinated an awarding ceremony for the winners of Work Dynasties Contest. The event was attended by the contest finalists and representatives of Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant, the company’s press service says. Over 300 students from local vocational schools created presentations on their future blue-collar jobs and presented these to students from local secondary schools in the course of career guidance sessions between March 1 and March 31, 2014. The goal of the contest is to enhance the prestige of blue-collar jobs, to inform the youth about

June 20, 2014.One of Jaguar and Land Rover’s two Yekaterinburg-based dealers – Krasnolesye Auto Show - is going to lose its status as the brands’ official representative on June 30, 2014. ‘Starting on June 30, 2014, Jaguar Land Rover Russia stops cooperating with Krasnolesye in Yekaterinburg upon the parties’ mutual agreement; this has to do with differing views on the brand’s market development,’ Jaguar Land Rover’s PR Manager Daria Golovina explained to UrBC. The company representative added that a renovated, up-to-date dealer Britannia had been operating in Yekaterinburg since March 2014.

June 20, 2014. The charity work done by for-profit organizations based in the Urals (as well as by those located in the rest of Russia) has been evolving in an extensive way and needs to be made more efficient, Director of CAF Russia (Moscow) Maria Chertok said at a press conference on charity projects in the Urals. Now according to the findings of a research on corporate charity projects conducted by Expert Ural Analytical Center among for-profit organizations, corporate volunteer work remains the prevalent form of charity. The most wide-spread projects are financial aid to specific families

June 20, 2014. Head of Yekaterinburg Administration Alexander Yakob signed a decree that set out an additional list of roads to be repaired and reconstructed this year. According to the administration’s press service, the appendix to the document contains a list of motorways and roads that have to be repaired in 2014. There are 34 such roads on the list. An additional 700m RUR will be allocated from Sverdlovsk Region budget for the purpose. Among the most important structures are Shevchenko St (from the viaduct to Karl Liebknecht St), Gagarin St (from Blyukher St to Pervomayskaya St),