April 30, 2015. A special firefighting vehicle produced by Omsk Transport Machine-Building Plant (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) will now be used by the Russian Armed Forces; a decree to this extent was signed by First Deputy Defense Minister Valeriy Gerasimov in early April, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘The machine was designed by our Omsk-based experts in 2012; this is one of those rare cases when it only takes a year to design, test, and produce the vehicle. In 2013, the machine was presented at Russian Arms Expo in Nizhniy Tagil and aroused great interest

April 30, 2015. Students on ChTPZ Group’s The Future of White Metallurgy Training Program came to Moscow upon the invitation of People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Konstantin Raikin, the Group’s press service reports. The trip to Moscow was made possible due to a special cultural exchange program initiated by the company shareholders Andrei Komarov and Alexander Fedorov and due to personal support of Konstantin Raikin, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, Professor, Artistic Administrator of the Higher School of Stage Arts. The idea is to offer a chance for all-round education of

April 30, 2015. Bank Koltso Urala’s experts modeled a portrait of a ‘typical customer’ opening a bank account with them. Such a customer is likely to be a woman between 45 and 55 years of age who lives in a large city or the primary town in a particular district and keeps slightly over 300,000 RUR in the bank, Koltso Urala’s press service reports. ‘The data we have been collecting over the last year or so indicate women remain the most proactive private customers: over 70% of all the bank deposits get opened by female clients. Nevertheless, male customers place larger sums with the bank:

April 30, 2015. MegaFon is launching a special offer on its international roaming services. Calls to destinations from among the most popular ones in Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport’s timetable are now up to 68% cheaper than the market’s average, the telecommunications provider’s press service says. According to Koltsovo Airport’s data, Egypt, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and India are going to be the most popular places to travel to this summer. As for Europe, holiday-makers will head mostly for Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Finland, Italy, Spain, and Montenegro. MegaFon’s base rates for

April 30, 2015. 14,000 employees of Sverdlovsk Region-based enterprises had to switch to working part-time; another 5,000 workers are now on unpaid leaves, Chair of Sverdlovsk Region Trade Union Federation Andrei Vetluzhskikh said at a press conference. ‘They could all lose their jobs in the nearest future. There are currently 32,700 people registered with Sverdlovsk Region unemployment agencies, and another 19,000 could join them soon,’ he said. According to Vetluzhskikh, things have grown much worse lately: a year ago, there were virtually no employees working part-time or on unpaid leaves