UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, October 13, 2015. MMK Trading House (a member enterprise of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works) came up with a performance report for the three quarters of the year. The company delivered 100,000,000 kg of goods to its customers in the third quarter of 2015, with the overall resulting revenues at 10bn RUR. This was 8% better than the target figure. As for the three-quarter period, the company sold 140,000,000 kg of goods more than a year earlier, with revenues up 7.5bn RUR on January-September 2014, the company reports. The company's Moscow

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 13, 2015. The cost of new homes in Sverdlovsk Region went down by 2.3% in the third quarter of the year compared with the second quarter; existing home prices went down by 4.9%, Sverdlovskstat reports. Apartments in the medium price range grew 0.2% less expensive, while the price of better quality homes was down by 3.4% and that of premium class ones by 3.7%. The average price of a new home now comes to 59,775 RUR per m2. As for the existing home market, all types of dwellings grew less expensive: those of lower quality by 12%, those of average quality by 6.8%,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 13, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region State Labor Inspectorate carried out 3,025 scheduled inspections of companies in the nine months of 2015 to detect over 9,000 instances of labor law violation, their press service reports. 3,230 legal entities and officials had to face administrative liability as a result and pay a total of 75m RUR in fines (59m RUR in administrative fines have been paid so far). 6,500 complaints were placed with the inspectorate by private individuals; this exceeds the figures for a year earlier (5,124 complaints) by 25%. Most of these have to do with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 13, 2015. Vityaz Machine-building Company and Armored Vehicle Repair Plant 81 (both member enterprises of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) reported to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on meeting the procurement order of the third quarter of 2015, the corporation’s press service reports. Plant 81, for example, keeps working on repairing its armored carriers BTR 80 and upgrading them to BTR 82AM. A new set of carriers received the MoD’s approval and is ready to be shipped. This year’s target figures have already been met by 78%. The upgrades given to the carriers

UrBC, Omsk, October 13, 2015. Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) presented its produce at VTTA Omsk 2015, an international exhibition dedicated to hi technologies and equipment for the Arctic, Siberia, and the Far East, the corporation’s press service reports. Omsktransmash Chief Designer Igor Shumakov made a presentation on the plant’s most promising vehicles on the opening day of the exhibition. The audience included Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Siberian Federal District Nikolai Rogozhkin, Governor of Omsk Region Viktor

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 13, 2015. The powers station at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant turns eighty this year, so the company intends to celebrate in a number of solemn ceremonies, the plant’s press service reports. In fact, the entire year 2016 will be dedicated to the eighty years since the plant’s launch. Ural Vagon Zavod’s power station is a strategically important facility which supplies electric power not only to the production site but also to Nizhniy Tagil’s Dzerzhinsky District, a home to more than 120,000 people. The station keeps launching advanced technologies and