UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 20, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region’s state construction surveillance authorities inspected 258 buildings under (re)construction and detected 1,562 instances of non-compliance with the existing urban development legislation, their press service reports. In 57% of cases (namely, 891 cases), problems consisted in violating the obligatory technical requirements and project documentation provisos; in 23% of cases (366), developers failed to comply with the safety regulations or process organization requirements; in 18% of cases (281), companies failed to ensure construction

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 21, 2016. Rental homes grew, on average, 11% cheaper in the Urals last year, N1. RU reports after looking at over 80,000 housing ads for places in Yekaterinburg, Perm, Chelyabinsk, and Tyumen. ‘Rental prices declined the most in Perm and remained nearly the same as in the previous year in Chelyabinsk. Yekaterinburg market experienced the third biggest price decrease,’ the company reports. The average monthly rent amount dropped by 11% and came to 18,600 RUR in Yekaterinburg (against 21,000 RUR in 2014). This was also the case in most large Ural cities. Prices

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 21, 2106. Pipe Metallurgical Company’s (TMK) Russian division now also comprises a new enterprise cluster TMK-Central Asia (Astana-based TMK-Kazakhstan and Uralsk-based TMK-Kaztrubprom), TMK PR Department reports. The introduction of a new cluster will mean TMK could use its potential on Kazakhstan’s and the CIS pipe market more efficiently. TMK-Central Asia will be run by the company’s Business Development Director in the Republic of Kazakhstan Vladimir Kolesnikov, who came into office on January 18, 2016. Kolesnikov has nineteen years’ experience on the Central

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 21, 2016. Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant/PNTZ will pay a compensation to the family of their strapper Alexander Popov, who had a production accident and later passed away in hospital. The company press service reports their Collective Agreement ensures an incidental allowance of 100,000 RUR for every family member (children, wife, and mother) and 5,000 RUR a year for every child under 18 until they come of age. ‘The company management also decided to pay the family the deceased worker’s average monthly wage until the youngest child is eighteen. Popov’s co-workers are

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 21, 2016. Russian Maritime Register recently issued safety acceptance certificates for Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s KTsKh.PKM-25/0.4 composite body containers. According to the company press service, this means the tank containers can now be used for freight forwarding by rail, car, and sea. The tank container is meant for transportation and storage of a wide range of chemicals; the body made of composite materials weighs 4,500 kg (which is lighter than the earlier versions) and has an increased freight capacity of 31,500 kg. Besides, these composite materials