February 27, 2015. A federally owned land allotment near Novo-Sverdlovskaya Power Station that is over 100 hectares big and two pieces of land in Istok that are 33 and 35 hectares big will be allocated to Sverdlovsk Region, the Governor’s press service reports. The first slot is expected to be used to set up an industrial park. According to Sverdlovsk Region Public Property Management Minister Alexei Pyankov, this will create at least 7,000 jobs in the machine-building, food manufacturing, construction, and telecommunications sectors. ‘Besides, the ministry’s proposal that the two land

February 27, 2015. Kamensk Uralsky Foundry Plant (KULZ, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) started using an industrial-purpose X-Ray device to test its aluminum and magnesium alloy castings for defects. According to the corporation’s press service, the 3m-ruble equipment set was bought by the plant late in 2014. ‘The new 225-kilowatt fault detector came to replace its less powerful and less productive 150-kilowatt predecessor. The radiation-emitting devices were installed in a properly insulated room with a special automatic door. However, the safety of the equipment had to be

February 27, 2015. LEPSE ( a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) is going to coordinate a contest for investors and production improvers this year. ‘The main idea is to enhance the prestige of creative activity among our younger workers, to promote the innovations culture, and, most importantly, to build the company’s scientific research potential,’ the corporation’s press service says. The contest will be held on the Inventor’s Day (the last Saturday in June) on an annual basis. Any employee aged under 35 will be eligible to compete as long as they have submitted an improvement

February 27, 2015. 1,870 people applied to Yekaterinburg Employment Center looking for a job; 95.1% of the applicants are without a position at the moment, Sverdlovsk Region Labor & Employment Department’s press service reports. 930 citizens were officially registered as jobless in January 2015. As of February 1, 2015, 4,204 unemployed Russian citizens were registered with the local employment agencies (compared with 3,524 people a year earlier). Yekaterinburg’s official unemployment rate stood at 0.58%. At the same time, the number of people who don’t have a job at the moment but are on

February 27, 2015. Prices keep going up slightly, albeit slowly, on Yekaterinburg housing market: they only rose by 0.6% compared with the start of the year, with the average asking price coming to 76,685 RUR per m2, Ural Chamber of Real Estate’s press service reports. In February, the supply resumed growing on Yekaterinburg existing homes market: there are currently 8,100 apartments and 1,200 rooms in communal apartments in the Chamber’s database. Unlike now, the number of apartments the Chamber advertised as available for purchase kept going down quickly since November and shrank from

February 27, 2015. A federally owned land allotment near Novo-Sverdlovskaya Power Station that is over 100 hectares big and two pieces of land in Istok that are 33 and 35 hectares big will be allocated to Sverdlovsk Region, the Governor’s press service reports. The first slot is expected to be used to set up an industrial park. According to Sverdlovsk Region Public Property Management Minister Alexei Pyankov, this will create at least 7,000 jobs in the machine-building, food manufacturing, construction, and telecommunications sectors. ‘Besides, the ministry’s proposal that the two land