June 25, 2014. ChTZ-Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) is going to deliver five B10M bulldozers and two DET-400 heavy-duty diesel electrical tractors to Russia’s largest diamond manufacturer ALROSA, the corporation’s press service reports. The contract provides for the delivery of the vehicles within thirty days. The entire set of B10M bulldozers that are meant for the diamond manufacturer are ChTZ tractors with cold-weather options and with a set of customized options that were set out in the customer’s technical requirements. ‘The vehicles will be used at ore

June 25, 2014. The owners of small and medium enterprises are now opening credit lines increasingly more often. The service only used to be popular with big businesses before, Bank Koltso Urala’s press service reports. According to head of the bank’s SME Lending Department Marina Smirnova, representatives of SMEs followed in the footsteps of managers of big enterprises this year by showing a better quality approach to managing their businesses and turning to special-purpose banking products. ‘For one, we observe an interest in the opening of credit lines that make it possible to plan for

June 25, 2014. All the electric power consumers based in Sverdlovsk Region owe Oblkommunenergo State Unitary Enterprise 598,047,000 RUR altogether, the enterprise’s press service reports. Among the top non-payers are state-run organizations, Oblkommunenergo’s sales experts say. These organizations sometimes fail to pay their bills for three to seven months. Thus the accumulated debt the state-run organizations have towards 13 ‘heating constituencies’ of the power supplier comes to 7.685m RUR. Most of this debt falls onto two constituencies, Tugulym (4.414m RUR) and Kushva (3.131m RUR). Among

June 25, 2014. Russia’s Deputy Healthcare Minister Tatiana Yakovleva chaired a meeting on the construction of a medical cluster in Yekaterinburg’s Academic District. Sverdlovsk Region Prime Minister Denis Pasler, the local Healthcare Minister Arkady Belyavsky, and Rector of Ural State Medical Academy Sergey Kutepov represented the local authorities at the meeting, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policies Department reports. ‘Governor of Sverdlovsk Region and Sverdlovsk Region Government are interested in the construction of a medical cluster in Academic District. We are primarily

June 25, 2014. VUZ-Bank coordinated a large-scale (in terms of the number of visitors) and unique (in terms of format) event for its business customers last weekend. Starting from 2014, the bank has been implementing a new approach to customer service that is based on the customer club principle. Members of VUZ-Bank Club gathered together at an out-of-town resort on June 21 to get acquainted with one another, find new business partners, take part in useful workshops, and talk about the painful issues their businesses are struggling with, the bank’s press service reports. Nearly 200 sole