UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 2, 2016. A series of unhappy events finally resulted in a 50% drop in the number of Ural supporters going to the Rio Olympics this year, Ural Tourism Association Executive Director Mikhail Maltsev informed UrBC. According to Maltsev, many of the fans decided to stay at home due to both economic factors and the outbreak of the Zika virus disease in South America. News of growing crime rate in Brazil and reports on unfinished Olympic facilities served as an additional scare factor. Finally, there was the doping scandal on top of all this, which meant Russian

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 2, 2016. Rostechnadzor completed its second check of Akademicheskaya Power Station and issued an approval report on July 28, T Plus’s Sverdlovsk subsidiary reports. Sverdlovsk Region authorities also agreed that the station could be commissioned and launched. T Plus submitted all the necessary papers to Market Council Association to make sure the power station is allowed to operate on the energy market. The station will be the primary power supplier for residents of Yekaterinburg’s Akademichesky District in the upcoming heating season.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 2, 2016. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company is going to reconstruct an outdoor switch gear at its 220-kilowatt Megion Substation in Nizhnevartovsk, Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region, the company’s West Siberian branch reports. ‘The repairs will ensure more reliable power supply to Nizhnevartovsk consumer and a trouble-free heating season 2016/2017,’ the company says. The substation will thus get a new system of 110/220-kilowatt outdoor switch gears to make the transformer units more reliable and reduce the time it takes to switch the supply from one unit to another

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 2, 2016. Russian Copper Company’s Mikheyevsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise, Aleksandrinskaya Ore Mining Company, Karabashmed, and Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant made 20.8bn RUR in terms of revenues in the first half of 2016, the company press service reports. For one, Mikheyevsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise made 8.9bn RUR in revenues, 3.26bn RUR in pre-tax profit, and 2.5bn RUR in net profit. Aleksandrinskaya Ore Mining Company made 1.9bn RUR in revenues, 218m RUR in pre-tax profit, and 174m RUR in net profit. Karabashmed made 4.6bn RUR in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 2, 2016. A book on industrial artifacts located on Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s premises is to come out in celebration of the plant’s 80th anniversary, the company press service reports. ‘This full-color catalogue with plenty of pictures and photographs and essays on the plant’s history in Russian and English will come out soon. The new edition will feature pieces on the industrial architecture of the world’s largest machine-building giant, Russian Constructivism, and Socialist Classicism. Readers will learn about the impact the plant’s production