July 23, 2014. In the first half of the year, Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) shipped 2,056,000,000 kg of steel pipes to customers. The shipments in Q2 were 1.2% higher than in Q1, while the shipments of weldless pipes actually dropped by 1.3% against the first half of 2013 and amounted to 1,227,000,000 kg in the first half of 2014. In the second quarter, the weldless pipe shipments also decreased by 3.9% compared with the first quarter and came to 601,000,000 kg, the company report states. As for welded pipes, shipments declined by 7.6% in the first half of 2014 compared with the first half

July 23, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation awarded the winners of Festival PhotoChronicles Contest within the framework of its Tankopedia project, the corporation's press service says. 'Denis Peredrienko from Asbest proved the most active photo contest participant and was awarded with gifts from UVZSHOP, a clothing outlet. The second winner, Vitaliy Kuzmin from Moscow, will also receive his prizes,' the press service adds. Tankopedia, an electronic encyclopedia, suggested that the site frequenters upload photos and news reports from various festive

July 23, 2014. Deputy Mayor of Yekaterinburg for Capital Construction and Land Use Sergey Myamin spoke on television about the steps Kalininetz Sports Complex takes to become one of the reserve training sites for the World Cup 2018 teams, the city council's press service says. 'Kalininetz gets a lot of local visitors, including families with children, yet the facility itself needs some restoration. In preparation for the world football championship of 2018, the city authorities are planning to coordinate a full-scale restoration of the complex and to put up a number of new

July 23, 2014. The second high-speed electric train Lastochka (ES2G Series) that was produced at Ural Locomotives arrived at VNIIZHT experimental track in Shcherbinka to undergo preliminary tests. At this testing site, the braking system and the electric equipment will be tested. Besides, 5,000 km worth of control rides, with speed gradually rising, will take place, Sinara Group's PR Center reports. The first Lastochka produced by Ural Locomotives on May 30, 2014 was successfully tested (kilometrage: 5,619 km) and is now undergoing dynamic strength and braking tests when fully loaded.

July 23, 2014. Another metal-cutting unit HEC 1250 was recently installed at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ-Uraltrac, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation). The machine is meant for making large body parts of modern diesel engines, and was introduced within the framework of the plant's motor production technical upgrades program. According to Uralvagonzavod Corporation's press service, 34 modern equipment pieces have been launched at the plant's motor production advanced technology sites. The machines were supplied by Chezh, German, and Austrian companies; four

July 23, 2014. The management of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is considering different ways of selling several socially important objects: Metallurgists Health Resort in Yessentuki, Berezki B&B, Assol Health Resort, and Wonder Waterfalls Water Park, the company's Director for Business Development and Efficiency Management Maxim Lapin says. 'MMK actually sees ferrous metallurgy as its core business, this is where we make money, have a reputation, and build up on our competences, this is where we have a name, and this is where we have been, are, and will be. I believe