UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 25, 2016. EVRAZ Holding held its second annual company relay race in Nizhniy Tagil last Sunday, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR Department reports. Around four thousand people from Yekaterinburg, Nizhniy Tagil, Kachkanar, and other Sverdlovsk Region cities and towns took part in the sports event. Around a thousand runners joined in the five-kilometer relay race, while the children’s race (one kilometer long) attracted over 250 very young sportsmen and women. The race went along Nizhniy Tagil’s primary streets, with every runner getting a personal identification number for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 25, 2016. SKB-Bank is planning to restore Verkh-Isetsky Plant hospital building in Yekaterinburg, a structure on the constituency’s cultural heritage list. The building was purchased in an auction for 1 RUR (although its actual worth, together with the patch of land around, was estimated at 23m RUR), the bank’s press service reports. The hospital building at 15 Verkh-Isetsky Boulevard dates back to the first half of the 19th century and is a classicist piece put up by the architect M.P. Malakhov in 1824-1826. It is currently on Sverdlovsk Region’s cultural heritage

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 25, 2016. Students on ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy corporate training program participated in the opening ceremony of the 4th WorldSkills Russia Championship, the company press service reports. Russia’s Vice Premier Olga Golodets, Governor of Moscow Region Andrei Vorobiev, and President of WorldSkills International Simon Bartley were also present at the ceremony as guests of honor. ’This is in many ways due to Russian contestants’ involvement in WorldSkills championship over the last four years that we see an increase in the prestige of blue-collar jobs in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 25, 2016. The metrology lab run by Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) proved the best in Omsk Region, the company press service reports. The contest was coordinated by Omsk Region State Standardization, Metrology, and Testing Center. Omsktransmash lab experts outstripped by far last year’s winners from Avtomatika-Service as well as contestants from Omskvodokanal and a dozen of other local organizations. ‘This is the first competition our lab has taken part in over the last nine years. We’ve coped with the hard times together with our

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 25, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation is going to take part in the 4th International KAZAKHSTAN DEFENCE EXPO 2016 Exhibition in Astana on June 2-5. The company’s products will make part of Russia’s united stand, the corporation’s press service reports. The corporation’s Nizhniy Tagil-based head plant will present its upgraded tank T72 with a fire control system and a thermal pointer in Kazakhstan for the first time. The vehicle, meant for urban terrain combat, will be displayed statically. Ural Vagon Zavod’s member enterprise Burevestnik, a scientific research