April 29, 2015. Workers of Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant, Ural Railway Machine-Building Design Office, Ural Transport Machine-Building Design Office, Uralcryomash, and UBT-Service headed for the streets of Nizhniy Tagil to join in the traditional spring clean. ‘The annual clean-ups have a long tradition in Nizhniy Tagil. The first such event took pace in 1932, when the construction of the machine-building giant barely started. Not a single year has been skipped since then, the spring cleans were there even during the war,’ the corporation’s press service says. For one week, the

April 29, 2015. Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Igor Kholmanskikh gave out state awards to Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant/ChTPZ Department 6 foreman Sergey Nenakhov and Hot-Rolling Department 1 mill operator Evgeniy Zibarev. ‘Sergey Nenakhov, who has been working at the plant for forty years now, was awarded the title of Honored Metallurgist of the Russian Federation. He heads one of the plant’s largest departments, the legendary LDP Department 6. Last year, the company produced 1,000,000,000 kg of large-diameter pipes (up 40% on the

April 29, 2015. Ural Electrochemical Plant’s overall revenues from selling goods, work, and services came to over 20.5bn RUR in 2014, which was 5.9% more than a year earlier, the company’s Director-General Alexander Belousov said in the course of a press tour. According to Belousov, the plant’s net profit came to 6.1bn RUR last year. The annual capacity factor stood at 93.8%. ‘Our revenues have remained at around 20bn RUR for the last few years, and we expect the figure to remain approximately the same in 2015. This unfailing output figure means the company is using all of its facilities to

April 29, 2015. MegaFon, the telecommunications group, organized a round of All-Russian football championship for children from orphanages and special-needs boarding schools, the company’s press service reports. The championship is already past the semi-finals stage, with over eighty players competing for the privilege of representing Sverdlovsk Region in Sochhi. The team of Maloistoksky Foster Home was No.1 among junior teams and players from Tobolsk Foster Home proved the strongest among the adolescent teams for the third time this year. In addition to football games, MegaFon also offered

April 29, 2015. Russian Copper Company coordinated an environmental event called The Green Trail for milled-level and high school students of Tominsky, Chelyabinsk Region; this was part of the company’s new environmental project, RCC press service reports. Students from grades five to nine took part in the quest. The Green Trail is a sort of a scavenger hunt with questions to answer from the fields of environmental studies, chemistry, physics, geography, biology, and the nature of the Arctic; there was also a number of mystery boxes and tasks to identify the tunes and songs about nature based