UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 24, 2016. Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System has introduced more control over its energy facilities in the time of the year when thunderstorms and forest fires are more likely to occur, the company press service reports. In all of the company’s divisions, rescue and maintenance teams underwent special drills and training to make sure they can stay alert and concentrated in an emergency. The power facilities have been inspected, the teams also made sure all the firefighting implements were there and in perfect working order. Higher-risk territories are now

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 24, 2016. Heads of Russia’s major pipe-manufacturing enterprises Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant/ChTPZ, United Metallurgical Company/OMK, Pipe Metallurgical Company/TMK, and Severstal met with Gazprom Chair of the Board Alexei Miller at ChTPZ site on Friday to talk about their scientific and technological cooperation prospects. According to ChTPZ press service, the meeting was attended by Chair of the Pipe Manufacturers’ Association Coordination Council Ivan Shabalov, ChTPZ Member of the BOD Andrei Komarov, TMK Chair of the Board Dmitri Pumpyanski, OMK Chair of the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 24, 2016. Miners from Mezhegeiugol Mine (a part of EVRAZ Holding) in Tyva switched to chamber-and-pillar mining, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s PR Department reports. The new technology means that the coal bed is worked by sections, that is, chambers separated from one another with pillars supporting the roof. It takes three teams, each of them working in two sections at a time, to do the preparation work. While a combine machine is hewing coal in extraction chamber 1, miners do the walling in extraction chamber 2. This means that no equipment has to wait idle and labor

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 24, 2016. Workers from LEPSE (Kirov-based machine-building plant and a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod) won prizes at the national skills contest for millers, turners, and mechanics, the company press service reports. The contest was coordinated by the Russian Engineering Union, Russia’s Trade & Industry Ministry, and Profavia, the national trade union for aviation industry employees. LEPSE’s miller Mikhail Lazarev and turner Alexander Chernyadyev won first prizes in their respective categories, while Dmitri Garanin won bronze in Machine Assembling. All in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 24, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Scientific & Production Corporation sponsored the heavyweight (under 90.71 kg) boxing match between the 36-year-old Russian, WBA boxing champion Denis Lebedev and the 32-year-old Argentinean, IBF champion Victor Ramirez. The fight took place in Moscow’s Megasport Palace on May 21. Lebedev, the winner, unified both the WBA and the IBF champion belts through a knockout as soon as the second round. This is the fourth time in a row Lebedev has won a champion’s belt, and the first time for the boxer to win two champion titles at once. The