February 4, 2015. Plant 9 (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) opened a modern canteen, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘Engineers, designers, and technicians now won’t have to go to another building for lunch: the new canteen has enough room to provide meals for forty people simultaneously and for up to one hundred and fifty workers throughout the lunch hours,’ the press service says. OOO Electromechanomontazh was chosen as the contractor for the refurbishing project in the course of an auction. The plant’s employees took care of the engineering infrastructure:

February 4, 2015. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) and Gazprom Neft signed a technological partnership agreement for 2015-2017, TMK press service reports. ‘Our company has been doing business with Gazprom Neft successfully for a while now: we supply pipes for oil production and transportation, including pipes with premium threaded joints. The two companies have been working on their scientific and technical cooperation program since 2013. We have come to understand that TMK’s production capacity, its product range, and scientific and technological potential as well as the geographical

February 4, 2015. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) was qualified by Missan Oil Company as an approved supplier of OCTGs made of Russian materials, TMK press service reports. Missan Oil Company (MOC) is one of Iraq’s largest oil companies. Getting qualified means TMK is eligible to make its bids in the company’s auctions for the supply of OCTGs for oil production projects in Iraq. The list of qualified goods includes threaded, casing, and tubing varieties of OCTGs as well as pipeline tubing. The qualification was preceded by an audit of TMK enterprises. To assess TMK production capacity, MOC

February 4, 2015. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development proved one of Russia’s 35 largest banks, according to Interfax CEA. The bank’s assets exceeded 235bn RUR: the figure rose by 17.7% throughout last year alone, the bank’s press service reports. The UBRD also came first in the ranking of thirty-four Ural Federal District-based banks (there were 776 banks on the nation-wide list altogether). In terms of private individuals’ investments and deposits, the UBRD, with its 98.6bn RUR, was among Russia’s 25 largest banks. In 2014, the volume of private individuals’ money deposited

February 4, 2015. MegaFon recently expanded the range of Login smartphones it offers to customers. On February 1, the mobile carrier started selling MegaFon Login+, a phablet that combines the best properties of a smartphone and a tablet computer. The new gadget is available for the price of 4,990 RUR – the best price in the phablet category, the company’s press service reports. The best thing about the new phablet is the large, 5.5” screen (quite suitable for Internet surfing, watching videos, and reading e-books). Unlike a tablet computer, this device is rather compact (15.5x7.5 cm), which