December 15, 2014. 100+ Forum Russia, the second international construction forum, will be held in Yekaterinburg on September 23-25, 2015, Executive Director of the Urals’ Developers’ Guild Vyacheslav Trapeznikov told UrBC. ‘A coordination committee met in Moscow on Wednesday to decide on Yekaterinburg as the regular site for hosting the forum. I’d like to point out that this event is currently unique to Russia both in terms of participants attending and in terms of the issues under discussion. In 2015, the forum will be dedicated not only to skyscrapers, but to all sorts of

December 15, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s Executive Director Vladimir Rochshupkin was elected Chairman of Sverdlovsk Region Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs’ Gornozavodskoy branch; the council members all voted unanimously in his favor, the corporation’s press service reports. The council meeting was attended by heads and members of Sverdlovsk Region Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs’ Gornozavodskoye branch, Sverdlovsk Region Industry & Science Minister Andrei Misyura, directors of major enterprises in the area, and representatives of Nizhniy Tagil Council.

December 15, 2014. The reconstruction of Yekaterinburg Central Stadium began in preparation for the World Cup 2018 games. The city council’s press service says the internal parts of the stadium will get dismantled in December, whereas all the other remaining components will be removed from site by the beginning of summer, upon which the reconstruction per se will start. All in all, it will take twenty-two months to make the football stadium meet all of the FIFA’s requirements. The surrounding area will be improved as well. ‘Yekaterinburg Council has already come up with all the tender files

December 15, 2014. Ural Airlines offered its services to 4,801,504 people between January 1, 2014 and November 30, 2014, which was 17% better than in January-November 2013, the airline’s press service reports. The air carrier expects to fly its first-ever 5,000,000th passenger in the second half of December. The airline has operated 37,362 flights since the beginning of the year altogether, including 11,723 international flights, 18,008 domestic flights, and 7,361 flights within the CIS member states (up 19% on last year). The company’s passenger traffic came to 12,433,388,000

December 15, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation Director-General Oleg Sienko was among the delegates accompanying Russian President on his visit to India. According to the corporation’s press service, Sienko took part in President Vladimir Putin and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with the representatives of Russian and Indian business communities; he also attended the meeting with the President of the Republic of India Pranab Mukherjee. ‘Uralvagonzavod is a well-known name on India’s military vehicles and technologies market; the corporation has