December 23, 2014. Eight B10M bulldozers shipped by Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) to Magadan Region’s housing services and utilities companies have arrived on site, the corporation’s press service reports. Governor of Magadan Region Vladimir Pecheniy came to the solemn handing-over ceremony for the vehicles. ‘Renovating our fleet of utility vehicles is one of our top priorities. Unless we upgrade, we can’t possibly maintain the facilities and infrastructure in our villages clean and tidy. This is why we embarked on this project. Quite a few

December 23, 2014. Over 90% of Uralvagonzavod (UVZ) Corporation’s member enterprises made some net profit in 2014, the corporation’s press service refers to Director-General Oleg Sienko as saying at the end-of-year management meeting in Moscow. Sienko said in his speech that, economic difficulties notwithstanding, the corporation had been making net profit for five years in a row. He also pointed out that UVZ did a lot of work towards the government defense order (54.4bn RUR worth of goods, which was 2.7 times more than in 2013). 1,500 units of new and upgraded military vehicles were

December 23, 2014. Around 380m RUR were invested in Sverdlovsk Region-based businesses’ fixed assets in 2014, which amounts to 22.7% of the area’s GDP for this year, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policies Department reports. 115,000 new jobs were created in the area (29.5% more than the target figure) in accordance with the Russian President’s decree, local statistical bodies report. Sverdlovsk Region Vice Premier and Minister for Investment & Development Alexei Orlov announced at a government meeting chaired by Governor Evgeniy Kuivashev that investments reached 217.8bn RUR

December 23, 2014. Transaero Airlines is planning to stop operating flights from Yekaterinburg to Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport starting next January. ‘The airline has informed us that they were planning to stop operating flights from Yekaterinburg to Domodedovo and to keep operating only the one from Yekaterinburg to Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport,’ Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport’s press service told UrBC. The airline does not state any reason for giving up on this flight. Media commented earlier on Transaero possibly stopping operating any flights whatsoever due to financial troubles. The airline

December 23, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region’s government debt rose by 10%, or 3bn RUR, by December 1, and thus amounted to 34bn RUR, Sverdlovsk Region Finance Ministry’s website states. The debt amounted to 33,939,645,800 RUR on December 1 against 30,949,657,400 RUR in November. Incidentally, the upper limit for the constituency’s debt in 2015 was set at 100bn RUR. The local municipalities’ debts amounted to 5bn RUR in December.