UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 24, 2016. Akademichesky proved the city’s most comfortable and developed district, N1. RU reports. Yekaterinburg residents were asked to assess the district they live in against fifteen infrastructure parameters. It appears that overall, people (wherever they live within the city) are the least happy with the traffic situation and the quality of roads and the happiest with the number of shops and with friendly neighbors. According to the survey findings, people living in Akademichesky complain mostly about the traffic jams and shortage of parking lots, while all the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 24, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region’s budget deficit came to 8.584bn RUR in January-February 2016, the Finance Ministry’s website states. Budget revenues amounted to 17.138bn RUR (9.7% of the target figure for the year), budget expenses reached 25.722bn RUR (13.5% of the target figure). Sverdlovsk Region’s state debt came to 67,980,958,000 RUR on March 1, 2016.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 24, 2016. Sinara Development (a member enterprise of Sinara Group) commissioned 210,500 m2 of housing and commercial estate in Yekaterinburg, Volgograd, and Volgograd Region last year, the Group’s press service reports. In Yekaterinburg, the first extension of Krylov, a premium class condo near Central Stadium, was commissioned in 2015, as was The Gulf Stream, a set of five apartment buildings in Mashinnaya St and Luganskaya St. The company commissioned 164,600 m2 worth of housing in the city altogether. In Volgograd, the Group commissioned Vertical, a set of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 24, 2016. Kalugaputmash (a member enterprise of Sinara Transport Machines) got visited by students from Moscow State University of Railway Engineering (MIIT) Kaluga subsidiary, the Group’s press service reports. Students and their professors took a look at various production departments’ performance and saw how wheel sets are made, how track machine components are assembled, how sheet metal gets cut and bended, how hydraulic transmission gear is assembled, how components get subjected to thermal treatment, and how frames and smaller parts of track machines get

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 24, 2016. Electromachine (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) is going to direct some 16m RUR to servicing of its engineering infrastructure systems and application software, the company press service reports. A portion of this money will also be spent on maintenance and repairs of office appliances, IT infrastructure, and communication services. The portion designated for the IT segment will be doubled this year compared with the year 2015. For one, Electromachine is planning to purchase new engineering design software, which is expected to cost