UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 25, 2016. The city’s first well-heated bus stop was put up in Yekaterinburg recently. The stop (Kamenny Ruchei) is located in Shcherbakov St, the city council reports. Deputy Mayor for Urban Development, Transport, & Environment Evgeniy Lipovitch went to look at the bus stop and to test the heat sensors in action. The bus stop comprises a back and two side walls to protect passengers against the wind, three columns covered in protective steel sheets, a roof with in-built LED lighting, an infrared heater benches, and trash bins. The structure is heated with an

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 25, 2016. 5,834 crimes were committed within Ural Federal District’s transport facilities and infrastructure last year, the local division of Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry’s Transport Department reports. 4,500 crimes, 25% of which were classed as grave, got investigated; the whereabouts of 3,000 people hiding from justice were found out. An impressive share of mercenary crimes (around 33%) were related to embezzlement/stealing. 1,863 counts of theft (including 500 counts of stealing private property, 348 counts of stealing cargo, and 584 counts of stealing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 25, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region’s building materials manufacturers’ production output decreased by 10% last year, director of Sverdlovsk Building Industry Union Yuri Chumerin told UrBC. ‘Our plants are only working to 60% to 70% of their capacity, almost at the break-even point. The amount of orders to meet declined by around 10%. The thing is, most of these actually only produce things by customers’ orders, and local developers have been putting up less and less lately. Even though new apartment blocks get commissioned as usual, fewer new buildings get planned, so

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 25, 2015. The number of claims locals place with Sverdlovsk Region’s public prosecution authorities rose by 14.5% last year; every one in five such claims was found to be well grounded, the authorities report. ‘Over 60,000 claims were processed last year; both the overall number of claims and that of resolved claims went up by 8%, as did the number of prosecution proceedings resulting from sustained claims. More than 30,000 people got professional legal advice through personal appointments with the public prosecution authorities officials. Also, the number of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 25, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation bought out production premises of a former railway depot in Volchansk in order to use them as an industrial railcar production department for its Volchansky Mechanical Plant. The building used to belong to Volchansky Section, where dump-cars got repaired. The company press service reports one advantage of buying the site lies in separating the plant’s production lines. Volchansky Mechanical Plant’s current premises will still be used for making grain containers, timber railcars, and tank platforms, while the former railcar