UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 17, 2015. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s souvenir shop UVZSHOP.ru and Russia’s leading model and board games manufacturer Zvezda are launching their new collection of toy-sized replicas of military vehicles produced by the corporation’s member enterprises. According to the company press service, the first two models – T90S (tank) and Solntsepek TOS-1A (flame-throwing unit) – are already on offer in shops. 10,000 copies were made for each of the two models. Toy replicas of Terminator and Terminator 2 (combat fire support vehicles) and Meta-S (self-propelled

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 17, 2015. Yekaterinburg incoming tourist traffic came to 2.1m people in the eleven months of 2015, the city council’s deputy head Sergei Tushin said in his interview to Open Studio. Yekaterinburg on Channel 41. ‘These figures definitely prove that our authorities’ continuous efforts to promote local tourist services have been successful. The steps we take to make the city’s economy more diverse result in various points of tourist attraction in Yekaterinburg,’ the official said. Tushin said companies organizing tours along the Trans-Siberian routes were key

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 17, 2015. There were 417,600,000 kg of grains stored at Sverdlovsk Region’s agricultural and processing facilities as of December 1, 2015; this is 5.6% less than one year earlier, Rosstat reports. As for the country on the whole, Russia’s grain reserves amounted to 39.9m tons in early December, which was 2.9% (1.2m tons) more than one year earlier.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 17, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region came 29th on RIA Rating’s list of Russian Federation constituencies with the most affordable mortgages. Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region was at the top, with mortgages possible for 49% of local households; Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region (37%) came second, Magadan Region (35%) was in the third place, Kamchatka Territory (29%) was in the fourth place, and Murmansk Region (29%) was in the fifth place. Only 15.5% of Sverdlovsk Region’s households can afford to take out a mortgage, which is much worse than the figures for neighboring

UrBC, Moscow, December 17, 2015. Russia’s industrial production index declined by 3.3% in January-November 2015 compared with January-November 2014, Rosstat reports. In the month of November 2015, the IPI went down by 3.5% compared with last November and by 0.2% compared with October 2015.