March 18, 2015. The 10th Russia Arms Expo, the international exhibition of arms, military vehicles, and ammunition, is likely to become the most spectacular one so far in terms of the scale of the vehicle demonstrations, the event coordinators report. The shooting range in Nizhniy Tagil will undergo major reconstruction for the purpose. For one, all of the racing tracks, the target layout, the helipad, and lines of fire and firing positions will be rebuilt and expanded. ‘All this will improve the range quality and will naturally help produce a better quality show at the exhibition,’ the

March 18, 2015. Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky paid a visit to Karabashmed (a member enterprise of Russian Copper Company Group) in the course of his business trip to Karabash. The Governor could have a look at the construction site of the new sulfuric acid department, RCC press service reports. The department’s head Andrei Chernenkov explained four startup complexes would be built for the facility all in all. The first one is ready to be launched, and startup and commissioning jobs will begin on the second one this month. Besides, a tank washing station, a modular unitized

March 18, 2015. Vysota 239, a production department at Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) was given the 9th position on the list of the world’s 25 most beautiful plants; the list was made by CMMS Software Insight, an American web resource on computerized maintenance management systems in the industrial sector. An unusual color scheme and pedestrian walks and recreation areas with parquet floors as shiny as a basketball court make Vysota 239 look more like an amusement park than like a pipe-producing department, says CMMS Software Insight Managing Editor Justin

March 18, 2015. This year, Sverdlovsk Region Government will provide 232m RUR to subsidize air carriers which operate domestic flights, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. A number of airlines are planning, for example, to operate flights from Koltsovo International Airport to Barnaul, Kazan, Nizhniy Novgorod, Tyumen, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, and Volgograd this year. The list of airlines entitled to subsidies, as well as the list of routes was made by Rosaviation at the start of the year.

March 18, 2015. An up-to-date OES analyzer was launched at the central lab of Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s LEPSE Electric Machine-Building Plant in Kirov. The analyzer can determine the composition of various metals and iron-, copper-, aluminum-, tin-, and titanium-based alloys. The launch of this new machine means that optical emission spectroscopy can be performed faster and in a more precise way, which takes the lab onto a better, higher level, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘In contrast to our old equipment, the new spectrometer relies on the CCD (charge-coupled device) that is