UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 8, 2015. The average bribe comes to 80,000 RUR in Sverdlovsk Region, head of the public prosecution authorities’ anti-corruption division Vladimir Kurochkin said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. Kurochkin said 563 corruption-related crimes were uncovered in the area between January and September 2015, which was 18% less than a year earlier; in seventy-four cases, the crime was to do with bribe-taking. ‘The overall corruption-related damage is estimated at 416m RUR. 32m RUR were reinstituted voluntarily by the accused and 304m RUR worth of assets got seized

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 8, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region is not one of Russian constituencies that are ‘successful tourist territories’, the Information Communications Center Rating reports. ‘Our center relied on the opinions shared by the expert community, namely, those from Otdykh V Rossiyi Media Group (the company behind the magazine on domestic travel by the same name) and the online portals Russian Tourism and Tourism Investments. The Russian constituencies were evaluated on the basis of nine different criteria, including the overall number of hotel rooms per capita, the number of locals

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 8, 2015. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant recently hosted the 3d All-Russian Blue-Collar Youth Education Forum on its premises. The company press service reports participants spoke about the vital problem young blue-collar workers are facing these days learned about Sverdlovsk Region’s enterprises from informative presentations, and did a lot of teamwork. Members of the two winning teams can now enjoy the unique internship opportunity offered by Ural Vagon Zavod and EVRAZ NTMK, Nizhniy Tagil’s primary employers. The practical tasks given to the forum

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 8, 2015. Chelyabinsk-based Electromash (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) is trying to introduce Total Production Maintenance principles at the plant. The company press service says the system is being launched by work group leaders and members at all the primary production departments, with help from maintenance mechanics and the Lean Production launch group. ‘The secret behind TPM is that it does away with treating daily checkups and minor, seemingly unimportant faults as a formality. It is exactly these things that actually cause prolonged

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 8, 2015. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko presented the company’s new, 23.5-ton-force strong 18-555 bogie to President of Russian Railways Oleg Belozerov. According to the company press service, the bogie is meant to be part of lightweight cargo railcars where the more expensive heavy-duty bogies are not necessary. The new product could prove indispensable for regular railcars, platform cars, and tank cars. The bogie’s other advantage lies in reduced impact on the railway infrastructure, which means operation and maintenance of railways