December 2, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s member enterprises organized a number of festive events to celebrate Mother’s Day, the corporation’s press service says. For one, Kirov-based LEPSE paid money bonuses to women with many children: there are currently seventy-four such female workers at the plant. Kamensk Uralsky Foundry Plant congratulated the members of the fair sex working for the company as well. Around 50% of the plant’s workers are female, and all of them are actually mothers. Mothers employed at Yurga Machine-Building Plant were congratulated, too: the plant currently

December 2, 2014. ChTPZ Group took part in the 6th International Vocational Education & Business Forum: Partners’ Dialogue in Astana. The forum was chaired by Kazakhstan’s Vice Premier Berdibek Saparbayev According to the Group’s press service, the forum was attended by deputies of Kazakh Parliament, heads of respective ministries and departments and councils, and representatives of national and international companies, professional associations, and educational establishments. Russia was represented by Chelyabinsk Region Education & Science Minister Alexander Kuznetsov, head of

December 2, 2014. Ural Airlines offered its Wings Club members new quests to go through, the airline’s press service reports. ‘‘Family in the Sky’ is one good reason to take your entire family on a trip. ‘Invite a Friend’ means you can invite your friends to join Wings Club and get 200 bonuses for each of your friends’ registration as well as 2,000 bonus rubles for every trip a friend makes. Frequent fliers will enjoy ‘1,000 Li’ – 1,000 bonuses for every 5,000 km you fly with the airline. Finally, there is ‘The Equator’ – 10,000 bonus rubles for 40,000 km you fly with Ural Airlines. You can

December 2, 2014. Yekaterinburg housing market output rose by 11% in the nine months of 2014 compared with January-September 2013 as well as increased by 6% in comparison with the previous all-time high reached last December. 2.8m sq m worth of housing was put in Yekaterinburg by September 2014, Ural Chamber of Real Estate’s Analytical Department reports. The construction tempo was also on the rise, so around 1m sq m worth of new housing might be commissioned by developers by the end of the year. As for Yekaterinburg’s satellites, 308,000 sq m worth of housing (mostly apartments in

December 2, 2014. An electrician from Neiva, a gold-mining cooperative, has recently been charged with violation of safety rules at work, which resulted in serious damage to human health. The spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Investigative Committee’s Investigative Department, the accused violated safety rules when working as a steeplejack, when maintaining electric units, and when dismantling electric mains in May-August 2014. ‘The said safety rules violations resulted in an accident involving a 47-year-old team member on August 16, 2014. The man was standing on