UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 11, 2016. 115,000 passengers went through Koltsovo Airport during this year’s May break, which was 4.6% less than one year earlier, the airport’s press service reports. ‘The 16.2% increase in the number of domestic flights was thus offset by a drop in the number of international ones. Last year, 24,000 passengers flew to Antalya, Hurghada, and Sharm El Sheikh alone,’ the press service says. Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Larnaca, Sochi, and Simferopol proved the most popular passenger destinations between April 29 and May 9. The airport staff point out that Cyprus proved

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 11, 2016. ChTPZ Group took part in the international Iran Oil Show in Tehran, the company press service reports. The company presented its White Well Project, something that the Group’s pipe-manufacturing and O&G servicing member enterprises are working on together. The goal is to increase production of oil from more complicated wells by ensuring longer time between underground equipment repairs (which, in its turn, is achieved through custom-selected materials and sets of supplied machinery). ‘Our White Well equipment sets have undergone industrial testing at

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 11, 2016. Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant/ChTPZ had its integrated management system audited for compliance with the international standards, the company press service reports. SAI Global’s auditors inspected five weldless pipe production and electric-welded large-diameter pipe production departments as well as a number of ancillary departments. Subject to inspection were all the production aspects to do with environmental impact, industrial and job safety, and product quality. The auditors gave a very high estimate to ChPTZ technological processes and White Metallurgy

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 11, 2016. The management of Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) met with students of Omsk State Technical University in their last year of studies, the company press service reports. ‘The thirty-four young graduates are going to come to our defense enterprise already in the fall. The managers’ goal was to introduce their future co-workers to all the employment technicalities and to tell them about the career and personal development opportunities there are. The graduates were convinced that the plant is more than just a respectable

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 11, 2016. All of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporaiton’s member enterprises coordinated festive events dedicated to the Great Patriotic War Victory Day, the company press service reports. The corporation’s head plant’s veterans council has as its members fifty-six war veterans and 796 home front workers, for whom special events and ceremonies were organized around Victory Day, for example, a checkup at the company’s medical unit and a personalized first-aid box for everyone. Additionally, 6.5m RUR were directed to fund the veterans’ stay at the company Pine Mountains Resort,