April 27, 2015. Pipe Metallurgical Company/TMK Board of Directors met on April 23 to announce that the company’s annual general meeting would be held at 1/15 Kotelnicheskaya St in Moscow at 12 PM on June 23, 2015. TMK BOD proposed the following agenda for the meeting: the company’s annual report, the annual accounting report, distribution of profit made in the year 2014, and electing the BOD members. The following candidates were proposed: M. Yu. Alexeyev, E.E. Blagova, P. O’Brien, A.B. Chubais, B. Foresman, A.Yu Kaplunov, I.B. Khmelevsky, S.T. Papin, D.A. Pumpyanski, O.A. Shchegolev, A.N.

April 27, 2015. Uralvagonzavod Corporation is getting all the interior and exterior finishing jobs done and engineering infrastructure installed at the head plant’s polyclinic now. According to the corporation’s press service, the clinic is being put up to the schedule, with the opening ceremony expected in three to four months. ‘The interior of the multi-storey hall is now being finished. Thanks to a glass roof, the atrium will be completely filled with day light. Also, two panoramic-view elevators made of highly durable glass will be provided. A touch-screen infomat will be installed next

April 27, 2015. Rimera’s R&D Center and ChTPZ Engineering (both parts of ChTPZ Group) presented their new, advanced drilling equipment at the 12th International Machine Mining 2015 Conference/Exhibtion, the Group’s press service reports. Among the developments presented was a highly reliable, dirt-proof, piston-type protector with a dynamic labyrinth seal, a protector with a retainer ring which ensures the inside of the protector remains airtight, 0615 Series compressor pumps which are suitable for substances with increased mechanical admixtures content (up to 1 gram per liter), and

April 27, 2015. Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s UVZSHOP.ru now sells DVDs with videos dedicated to combat vehicles made at the corporation’s head plant both at all of its outlets and online. Now all those interested in documentaries and indie films about Russian armored vehicles can buy movies such as T34, the Victory Weapon and Tanks: The Ural Nature. ‘Both films are a story of how Uralvagonzavod’s famous combat vehicles were created and what challenges their creators had to overcome. T34, the Victory Weapon also tells the viewers about the theory behind the unique T34 and about how all the

April 27, 2015. 24% of Urals-based companies have had to face layoffs in the last nine months or are planning to let some workers go in the near future, director of HeadHunter’s Ural branch Anna Khvostova says. ‘Additionally, 9% of local businesses had to cut their workers’ pay by 10% to 15% on average. This was mainly true of office workers, blue-collar workers, reporters, and people in the banking and logistics sectors,’ Khvostova said. According to the executive, Yekaterinburg labor market is nevertheless still in a much better condition now than in was in the recession of 2008 and 2009.