UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2016. An accident at Chkalovsky Heat and Power Station left over four hundred buildings in the area without any hot water supply since May 27, the district’s communal housing services department informed UrBC. The problem is expected to be fixed by May 30. However, other buildings in Chkalovsky District may still be left without any hot water supply on June 1-5 since the power station is planning to do hydraulic pressure tests. Last year, residents of Vtorchermet and Shinniy actually had to make do without hot water for one and a half months. The supplier simply

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2016. Russian Copper Company’s charity foundation organized a number of events to celebrate Children’s Protection Day in Karabash, Sverdlovsk Region, the company’s press service reports. For one, a special ceremony was coordinated for two hundred children (elementary school students, kindergarten-goers, and children from the less socially adjusted families) next to School 1. ‘This was an interactive event. The boys and girls, as well as their parents, grandparents, and children, were involved in various games by the favorite presenter Uncle Sasha Zaitsev. All the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2016. Ural Airlines and Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport are now working on introducing more connecting flights with a stopover in Yekaterinburg for international transit passengers, the air carrier’s press service reports. For one, scheduled flights from Yekaterinburg to Rome and Paris were launched in late March 2016, timed conveniently with those from Beijing to Yekaterinburg. This means passengers traveling from China can enjoy a new opportunity to fly to Europe through Yekaterinburg. In fact, the share of transit passengers on Yekaterinburg-Beijing flights

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil coordinated its 74th Mashinostroitel Prize Relay Race, the company press service reports. This year’s race was dedicated to the plant’s 80th anniversary, with last year’s winners and sports veterans from Sputnik Hockey Club taking part in the opening parade. ‘Our company has always had strong sports traditions, and every single issue of the company newspaper Mashinostroitel always covered this or that sports event. I hope the race participants set some new records that our newspaper can write about

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2016. Chair of Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry Plant/KULZ (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) trade union Alexandra Vinogradova is going to make part of Sverdlovsk Region Aviation Industry Trade Union’s delegation coming to the17th national trade union’s conference in Moscow, the corporation’s press service reports. The agenda of the conference covers issues related to protection of workers’ rights, job safety, trade union-member enterprises interactions, and other points. Delegates from different parts of the country will also have to elect a new Chair

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2016. Tominsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (Tominsky GOK, a member enterprise of Russian Copper Company) is going to appeal against the ruling pronounced by a court of appeals in regard to the prospective construction of a lime warehouse at the plant, the company press service reports. Now the company applied to Sosnovsky District Council for a construction permit on July 29, 2015, but the application was turned down. Upon this, the company management took the case to Chelyabinsk Region’s public prosecution authorities; having considered their

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2016. Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems (FGC UES) supplied an extra 5.5 megawatts of electric power to Nizhnevartovsk Gas Company, Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous District, the company’s press service in West Siberian division reports. The plant receives its electric power from Meredian, a 110-kilowatt substation powered by FSG UES 500-kilowatt Belozernaya and 220-kilowatt Varyegan facilities. The Nizhnevartovsk company is one of Sibur Holding’s seven primary gas-processing enterprises in Western Siberia. The plant processes associated petroleum gas to make

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development now offers milder lending terms for small and medium enterprises: according to the bank’s press service, the interest rates on Partner Overdraft and Security-Backed Overdraft went down by 1% and 1.9%, respectively. What is more, the loan period can now be extended to up to 730 days (2 years), which is twice as long as the original offer was. The unsecured Partner Overdraft is now available at 17% a year and Security-Backed Overdraft at 14.8%. Additionally, the bank came up with new terms on its Business

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil coordinated an amateur Olympics sports championship for children from foster homes at the company stadium, the plant’s press service reports. The idea to celebrate Children’s Protection Day in this way was proposed by Nizhniy Tagil’s public prosecution authorities and co-organized by the corporation’s head plant. A hundred children from Nizhniy Tagil boarding school for children with disabilities and Nizhniy Tagil Foster Homes 5, 6, and 1 took part in the event.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2016. Two workers from Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant Evgeniy Lozhkin and Vladimir Chugunov were awarded with For Merit to the Fatherland Medal at the Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District’s official residence on May 25, the company press service reports. Evgeniy Lozhkin has worked as a sling operator at the plant’s thermal department for four decades now, while Vladimir Chugunov has been a setup operator for fifty-five years. They were both awarded for their special contribution to the Russian

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 27, 2016. UBT-UralVagonZavod (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) won Russian Railways’ order auction and will now supply 400 freight railcars to Federal Freight Company, the corporation’s press service reports. Federal Freight Company placed an order for the innovative drop-bottom gondola railcars 12-196-02, whose advantage lies in their increased freight and volume capacity (75,000 kg and 94 m3, respectively). As it happens, the Federal Tariff Service ruled on January 29, 2015 that the corporation’s innovative gondolas 12-196-01 and 12-196-02 could

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 27, 2016. Sverdlovsk Reigon-based subscribers of the telecommunications provider MegaFon can now enjoy the mobile Internet connection for as little as 4 RUR per megabyte when roaming. Starting June 6, the new rates will apply automatically whenever you leave Russia, the company press service reports. MegaFon offers traffic packages that will be provided at a very good price every day. When in Europe and the CIS member states, for example, you can buy a 66Mb package for only 260 RUR a day; the Popular Countries package (50 Mb) comes for 350 RUR a day, and the Rest of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 27, 2016. Ural Airlines added the eleventh Airbus 321 liner to its fleet of vehicles, the air carrier’s press service reports. The airplane has 220 economy class seats and is suitable for both international and domestic flights. It was used for the first time for Yekaterinburg-Moscow flight today. All in all, the airline now operates as many as thirty-seven airplanes. Ural Airlines embarked on a fleet renovation program in 2006 and has been buying new planes on a yearly basis. Airbus liners proved very efficient and comfortable for mid-range flights.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 27, 2016. Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works/NTMK (a member enterprise of EVRAZ Holding) completed the first stage of constructing a ball-rolling mill on the premises, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR Department reports. The basic engineering preparations consisted in a number of preliminary jobs, the adoption of a general plan, and building the necessary equipment units. The new ball-rolling mill will be located in the Rail/Beam Department, where all the old equipment has already been removed, the lighting has been replaced, and remodeling has been done. The mill

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 27, 2016. Yurga Machine-Building Plant (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) coordinated large-scale drills for its rescue teams to make sure they are ready for all kinds of emergencies at the company power station, the corporation’s press service reports. The drill consisted in a role play where a 6.6-meter-wide hole appeared in the station’s slurry pond, causing massive waste leakage. ‘Our emergency committee (the plant’s first Deputy Director-General I.G. Chapayev, heads of power departments, and the Senior Engineer’s Department) set to work. They

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 26, 2016. A number of Sverdlovsk Region-based enterprises still haven’t been able to find suppliers of spare parts they need because of the sanctions imposed on the country by the West, President of Ural Chamber of Commerce & Industry Andrei Besedin said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg today. According to Besedin, the companies’ European suppliers are not meeting the terms of the contracts they signed with the Ural businesses earlier. Some of the spare parts could, however, be purchased locally. ‘Some of the companies still need to find

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 26, 2016. Yekaterinburg-based dealers sold 10,185 new automobiles between January and April 2016, which was 25% less than one year earlier, Auto-Dealer-Yekaterinburg reports. In fact, the April sales dropped by 20% on last April, even though this proved the mildest decrease this year so far: in the previous months, the contrast was estimated at 22% to 37% against last year’s respective ones. The agency reports sales of KIA, Nissan, and Hyundai plummeted most drastically, by 28%, 45%, and 58% in January-April 2016, respectively, and by 36%, 46%, and 32% in the month of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 26, 2016. EVRAZ NTMK supplied its customer with over 3,000,000 kg of rolled metal products necessary for the construction of Park Legend, a set of premium apartment buildings in Moscow, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR Department reports. The Nizhniy Tagil-based plant has been supplying its double T-rail for the building since 2015 and intends to go on with the shipments this year as well. The rails are known for their excellent property and strength parameters, thus proving indispensable in today’s building industry. The plant now makes over two hundred different kinds of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 26, 2016. ChTPZ Group was recently granted the status of WorldSkills Russia’s official associate partner, the company press service reports. The agreement to this extent was signed by the organization’s head Robert Urazov and the Group’s Director-General Alexander Grubman during the WorldSkills Russia championship in Krokus Expo, Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, on May 23-27. This partnership means ChTPZ Group can now independently coordinate its own corporate championships that will qualify as WorldSkills International competitions, and send its teams to participate in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 26, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant is going to spend 350m RUR on capital repairs this year, the company press service reports. Repairing and fortifying the bearing structures of the plant’s production site and making the arrangements necessary to meet the authorities’ regulations are the most important tasks to work on in this respect. Slightly under a third of the overall amount will be directed to all the jobs supervised by RosTechNadzor and to meeting the Emergency Ministry’s and Rospotrebnadzor’s requirements. The plant will also invest in