April 20, 2015. Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev signed a decree appointing Viktor Koksharov Rector of Ural Federal University, the official legal information website states. Koksharov’s contract expired on April 8, 2015, along with the terms of ten UFU vice rectors. It wasn’t clear until the end of last week whether the Russian Education Ministry would renew the contract. On April 13, a decree issued by Education Minister Dmitri Livanov reappointing Viktor Koksharov Rector starting from April 9, 2015, arrived at the university.

April 20, 2015. Head of Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant/ChTPZ Tube Rolling Department Evgeniy Gaas presented the plant’s White Metallurgy Production System at the 10th International Pipe Manufacturers’ Congress. According to the plant’s press service, Gaas has been contributing to the project since the day it was launched. He worked at Vysota 239, the system’s pilot department, assisted Vladimir Putin in the department’s opening ceremony in 2010, and was appointed head of the department at the age of twenty-six in 2012, which made him the youngest manager in the Russian metallurgical sector.

April 20, 2015. Yekaterinburg scored 11th in the rating of Russia’s most migrant workforce-appealing cities. RBC research involved cities with population of more than 150,000 people, the agency indicates. This place in the rating means Yekaterinburg is one of those cities where the number of working people exceeds that of its residents: the figure currently stands at 103%. ‘Companies provide data on their employees’ income tax depending on where the company is located and regardless of where an employee’s residence address is. This means the more taxpayers there are in a city’s database, the

April 20, 2015. ChTZ Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) is going to supply five B14 bulldozers to Vietnam, the corporation’s press service reports. The vehicles with moisture-insulated equipment and high quality coating that can withstand tropical temperatures will be shipped to customers as soon as in May. The plant’s Head of CIS & International Sales Alexander Sergeyev says the delivery contract was signed in December, but the letter of credit was only made available in March due to sanctions imposed on VTB Bank. ‘To make sure the agreement can go through, our

April 20, 2015. Kamensk Uralsky Foundry Plant/KULZ (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) took on a number of young workers with less than one year’s experience, the corporation’s press service says. ‘Several scores of young workers gathered together at the company’s assembly hall; some of them started working as recently as a month ago. These are blue- and white-collar workers under thirty-five years of age from the plant’s non-ferrous casting, pig-iron casting, mechanical, assembly, molding, repair, galvanothermic, electrical, water supply, transport, and technical control