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