July 29, 2014. 22,261 people living in Sverdlovsk Region are currently not allowed to leave the Russian Federation because of debts, Sverdlovsk Region division of the Federal Service of Court Officers’ press service reports. As of July 21, 2014, the total amount of debt owed by local residents whose traveling opportunities have thus been limited exceeded 13bn RUR. The better part of such debtors is made up of parents who failed to pay their children’s allowances (3,813 people with consolidated debt of 1,430,808,000 RUR worth of debt); then there are those with unpaid criminal fines (2,594

July 29, 2014. There were 939 hotels and similar types of accommodation in Ural Federal District in 2013, Rostourism refers to Rossstat as stating. There were over 9,800 hotels operating in Russia last year altogether; 76,7bn nights were spent there by a total of more than 42.5bn people. The amount of paid services within the hotel industry exceeded 162bn RUR. According to Rosstat, Central Federal District has the greatest number of hotels (1,861); it is followed by Southern Federal District (1,691), the Volga Federal District (1,607), Siberian Federal District (1,564), North-Western Federal

July 29, 2014. It was 75 years ago when the tractors made at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ-Uraltrac) took part in a special Chelyabinsk-Moscow tour, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. ‘On July 26, 1939, Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant saw two of its C2 transport tractors off to Moscow in the course of a solemn ceremony. These tractors were actually the prototypes of the future artillery towing vehicles that the plant soon started making on an industrial scale. This trial tour was preceded by C2 travelling to nearby Sverdlovsk and Zlatoust. In order to conduct the final test of

July 29, 2014. Igor Dolzhenko, a 5th-labor rank engine tester from Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) received the Russian Federation Defense Ministry award – the Labor Merit Medal. The award was given to him by the Russian Defense Minister General Sergey Shoigu on the acceptance day for the enterprise’s military-purpose produce, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The company says Igor Dolzhenko is a lieutenant of the reserve and is 27 years old. He has been working at Omsktransmash since 2011 and has advanced to the prestigious position of the

July 29, 2014. In the first half of 2014, the amount of profit tax paid to Sverdlovsk Region budget was 5bn RUR smaller than in the first half of 2013. The figures dropped the most in the processing industry and metallurgical sectors. Such segments as trading and construction, however, actually produced greater tax revenues, Deputy Head of Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Taz Service Marina Ryabova announced at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. The tax revenues amounted to 109bn RUR in the first half of the year altogether. Around 80% of this sum came from personal income tax