March 11, 2015. A group of delegates from Cuba’s Transport Ministry paid a visit to a number of Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s member enterprises, including ChTZ Uraltrac. According to the corporation’s press service, the visitors were shown one DET 400, a bulldozer with a hoist that can make a part of a recovery train. They also saw the entire range of the plant’s vehicles, from the already historic heavy-duty tractor T800 to the new loaders PK46 and PK65 to Class 10 and 15 bulldozers that could also be used by the Cuban railway services. The delegates were most impressed by TMV2, a car

March 11, 2015. Binbank bought 99.84% of Yekaterinburg-based Uralprivatbank’s shares; the issuer will be able to manage the shareholding starting from March 6, the two banks report. Binbank Board of Directors approved of a merger with Uralprivatbank, so the latter’s branches will now operate under the name of Binbank. The fact that the Moscow bank was going to acquire Uralprivatbank transpired in mid-January. The cost of the transaction has not been announced. As a result, Binbank will now run over ten branches in Sverdlovsk Region.

March 11, 2015. The import of goods from the far abroad into the country amounted to $22.9822bn in the first two months of 2015, which was 36.9% less than a year earlier, the Federal Tax Service reports. In fact, imports dropped by 33.8% in February 2015 alone; the import of food items decreased by 44.3%, that of textile products and footwear by 35.3%, that of machine-building produce by 33.5%, and that of chemical products by 26.3%. As for food imports, dairy products shrank the most, by 5.6 times; the import of fish dropped to a third of last year’s amount, that of sugar by 2.9 times, that

March 11, 2015. Electromachine Scientific & Production Association (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) was issued a license by Chelyabinsk Region Education & Science Ministry; the license means the company is allowed to offer vocational training and issue diplomas. According to the corporation’s press service, the company can now train students in twenty-six blue-collar specializations, including the jobs of an NPC mill operator, a mechanician, a turner, and a miller. ‘We have plenty of experience in the educational field: some 1,000 people undergo professional

March 11, 2015. 1,654 residents of Sverdlovsk Region submitted their declarations to the tax authorities in order to declare the income obtained from letting homes in 2014; in 2013, the figure was 1,498. The said residents paid 18.153m RUR worth of personal income tax last year, Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service’s press office says. ‘Following the tax authorities’ efforts to encourage private individuals to submit their declarations even past the deadline, 339 more people declared their income: this was twice as many as a year earlier,’ says head of the division’s