UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 8, 2015. The average monthly pay came to 32,600 RUR in Sverdlovsk Region in the first half of 2015, which, as it turns out, is nearly 3,000 RUR below the country's average, Rosstat reports via the agency website. The statistics agency‘s findings indicate that the average monthly pay in Russia stood at 35,400 RUR in the first half of 2015. The figure for Ural Federal District was 41,300 RUR, with the highest salaries and wages paid in Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region (79,000 RUR a month on average), Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region (65,000 RUR), and

UrBC, Moscow, September 8, 2015. Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev signed a decree allocating 1.25bn RUR worth of subsidies to twenty federal constituencies, the Russian Government's website states. 'The present decree confirms that 1,250m RUR must be allocated from the federal budget 2015 funds to twenty Russian Federation constituencies for the development of twenty-four innovative clusters,' the document states. Under this decree, Tatarstan will get the biggest bit, 158m RUR. 135 m RUR will go to Samara Region, and 104m RUR will be directed to Novosibirsk Region.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 8, 2015. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) delivered its premium pipe products to Yamal SPG, the company press service reports. The two companies signed a contract for premium pipe supplies in 2014-2020 last year. Yamal SPG needs the pipes for the development of its Yuzhno-Tambeiskoye gas condensate deposit in the northeast of Yamal Peninsula. This year, the oil and gas company received 1,748 tons of cold-resistant pipes, including 1,716 tons of premium pipes: 324mm, 244.48mm and 177.8mm casing pipes with premium threaded joints TMK UP FMC and TMK UP PF, 114mm

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 8, 2015. The 10th International RAE 2015 Exhibition is likely to become the most large-scale exhibition of this kind so far in terms of both the grandeur of the military vehicles shows and in terms of the number of international delegations signing up for the event, Director-General of Business Dialogue Anatoly Kitsura said in his interview to Komsomolskaya Pravda Radio Station. The military vehicle show is going to be something quite extraordinary this year. 'The idea is to reproduce a rebuff of an invasion in a real-time mode. Also, any exhibition is a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 8, 2015. 34 young employees of Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant/PNTZ (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) are going to get their college tuition fees covered by the company. This is part of the Group‘s cooperation program with B.N. Yeltsin Ural Federal University. Students will get their degrees in Pipe Production Technologies and Equipment at UFU‘s off-site department that is located right on the plant‘s premises, ChTPZ Group‘s press service reports. Students will specialize in either metal treatment under pressure or industrial units automation. They will be