UrBC, Moscow, October 22, 2015. Russia’s TV commercials market is expected to shrink by 17% by the end of the year, Interfax refers to Vi as claiming. ‘We can see the prices have grown stable now, and the situation is predictable on the whole,’ Vi Director-General Sergei Vasilyev said at the Dentsu Aegis Network conference recently. Vi expects the commercials market to sag by 17% this year, even though the forecast made in December 2014 spoke of the less optimistic 25% to 40%. The company feels the market will decrease by another 7% after a 10% fall in September, a 14% fall in August, and a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2015. Yekaterinburg Council intends to purchase fifty more new buses to add to its fleet of public transport vehicles, the city council’s press service reports. This is the second tender the city council is holding this year; the idea is to get 46 to 47 buses on a lease. These buses need to have foreign-made engines and gearboxes, low-floor bodies, and large capacity and to run on natural gas. ‘We expect all the major Russian and the CIS suppliers such as MAZ, LiAZ, NefAZ, and Volzhanin as well as all the other large Russian and CIS bus manufacturers, to make

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2015. Gagarinsky Health Resort run by Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant/PNTZ (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) won the first prize in Sverdlovsk Region’s Best Children’s Camps Contest, the company press service reports. The winner’s certificate was given to the company representative by Sverdlovsk Region’s Vice Premier Vladimir Vlasov at the All-Russian Children’s Recreation Conference. There were seven countryside camps competing for the prize all in all. Gagarinsky was chosen for its innovative approach to the organization of the plant employees’ children’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2015. A new, numerically controlled HPM machining center was launched at Kamensk Uralsky Foundry Plant/KULZ (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation). The machine costs over 15m RUR, the company press service reports. The machining center will be used for making metallic moulds, coreboxes, and presstools. The digitally operated unit can make any kinds of fittings that can be up to 1.6 meters long and up to 2,300 kg heavy. Floors had to be taken off and new foundation had to be laid to mount the new machine, since the digitally controlled machining

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2015. Designers from Tomsk Electro-technical Plant (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) Alexei Drozd and Daria Stepanova took part in the 2nd All-Russian Top 100 Engineers Contest. The corporation’s press service reports the final round was coordinated by Russia’s Economic Development Ministry and Ulyanovsk Region Cluster Development Center. 181 contestants from 30 Russian constituencies, including employees of major industrial enterprises, students, and young researchers competed for the Best Designer title. The task was to complete one of