UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 7, 2015. 219.6bn RUR were transferred by Sverdlovsk Region to Russia’s consolidated budget between January and November 2015, which exceeded the figures for a year earlier by 7%. The federal budget received 60.5bn RUR in revenues (up 6.3%, or 3.6bn RUR, on last year). Most of these came from VAT payments (54.2bn RUR, or 89.5% of the total amount). This year’s VATs were 3.5bn RUR, or 6.8%, greater than a year earlier. Also, 5.3bn RUR worth of corporate tax payments (up 15.1% on last year) were transferred to federal budget as well. Sverdlovsk Region’s budget

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 7, 2015. 1.504m m2 worth of new housing got commissioned in Yekaterinburg in the eleven months of 2015, with 88,000 m2 commissioned in November alone, the city council reports. This figure includes 144,000 m2 worth of private houses, 19,000 m2 worth of low-rise apartment buildings, and 837,000 m2 worth of regular apartment buildings. In November, the apartment building Academic at 54A Shchors St, an apartment building in Section 1.1 of Akademicheskiy District (47 Wilhelm de Gennin St), and the set of apartment buildings Baltiysky at 2 Mikheyev St were

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, December 7, 2015. Seven types of ChTPZ Group’s OCTGs with nano-particles within the welding seal were awarded the Russian Nano-Technological Product Decoration, the company press service reports. The solemn awarding ceremony took place in Moscow during the 4th Nano-Industry Enterprises Congress. The decoration was given out by head of Rosnano State Corporation Anatoly Chubais. These 508 to 1420mm OCTGs were made in accordance with the Group’s own technology. A special combination of welding materials and welding modes resulted in presence of nano-particles in the welding

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 7, 2015. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil hosts Blue-Collar Youth, the 3d youth education forum. The company press service reports this is the first time the forum is being held on a national scale; thus this has become the biggest event so far. Over 300 students from vocational schools based in forty-four different Russian Federation constituencies came to the communication platform at Painting Department 2. The largest group comes from Ural Federal District. The forum, coordinated by the Federal Youth Policy Agency, runs under the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 7, 2015. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation presented its new developments at the 9th International Russian Transport 2015 Exhibition – a venue for advertising the railway, automobile, aviation, and shipbuilding industries’ most important projects. According to the company press service, the corporation’s head plant presented its railway bogie 18-555 for the first time. The product is meant to replace all the current 23.5-ton-force bogies used in lightweight cargo railcars. Head of the company’s Railway Vehicle Promotion Division Mikhail Boyko says the new product’s