UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 9, 2016. Russian Copper Company offered its financial and organizational support in coordination of The Archangel Michael Cup, an international shooting tournament in Yekaterinburg, the company press service reports. For one, the company covers all the catering services for contestants and guests as well as the show on the closing day of the event’s first stage. This first stage of the tournament will be over in November 2016 and will involve over two hundred sports players from twenty-six different parts of Russia as well as Spain, Moldavia, and the Czech Republic.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 9, 2016. SKB-Bank’s Deputy Chair of the Board Margarita Burbik got on Russia’s 40 Most Successful Women Bankers List, according to Sravnivai.ru, the bank’s press service reports. ‘SKB-Bank congratulates Ms Burbik and all the other women on the list on this well-deserved acknowledgement and on International Women’s Day!’ the press service says. The rating was based on the Chairs’ and Deputy Chairs’ official biographical information (available on their respective banks’ websites) and only included executives from banks which made profit last year (according to the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 9, 2016. The amount of wages and salaries Sverdlovsk Region’s employers delayed paying to their workers reached 14.914m RUR on February 1, 2015, Rosstat reports. One year earlier (in February 2014) the arrears of wages were estimated at 3.771m RUR, four times less than the 2015 figure.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 9, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development came first in the rating of Sverdlovsk Region’s most profitable banks, their press service refers to the analytical agency Expert as stating. The bank’s profit amounted to 2.67bn RUR on January 1, 2016, which was 656m RUR more than one year earlier. The company’s assets stood at 360.5bn RUR at the start of the year, which was 32% more than in the preceding year, while its own funds reached 29.09bn RUR (+9% on a year earlier).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 9, 2016. Kamensk Uralsky Foundry Plant/KULZ (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) held a trade union conference recently, the company press service reports. Chair of the plant’s trade union Alexandra Vinogradova presented her report. She stressed that the organization’s main focus was on the protection of the workers’ social and labor rights, control over timely payment of wages and salaries, inflation adjustment of pay and other pay raises, the application of labor legislation, labor protection, healthcare, and coordination of cultural, sports, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 9, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant is launching the automated production planning system Omega, the company press service reports. The system, developed by Minsk-based Omega Production, is called to replace the plant’s current planning system that was customized specifically for mass production. Omega is based on up-to-date methods, approaches, and production planning and management mechanisms as well as a unified database of legal and reference information. The system already controls and keeps track of the way parts and components get transferred