UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 12, 2016. Georgiy Bedrik was elected new Chair of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s Veterans’ Council, the company press service reports. Georgiy Bedrik was born in Nizhniy Tagil on November 9, 1948. He came to work at the plant as a measuring equipment technician in August 1966 and graduated from Ural Polytechnic with a degree in Motor Drive & Industrial Plant Automation in 1972. Bedrik went all the way through from blue-collar jobs to managerial positions and worked as the plant’s Senior Power Engineer. Georgiy Bedrik was also involved in social and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 12, 2016. More than 3.46m people have used Ural Airlines’ services this year so far, up 18% on one year earlier, the air carrier’s press service reports. The airline operated 26,170 flights all in all (+13% on last year), including 16,490 domestic ones, 4,670 international ones, and 5,000 flights around the CIS member states. Passenger traffic has amounted to 8.15m passenger-kilometers since January 1, 2016, which exceeds the figures for a year earlier by 15%. More than 801,000 people flew with the carrier in July (up 17% on July 2015); the airline operated 5,000

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 12, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region risks losing up to 20% of possible harvest yield due to abnormally hot weather, Ural farmers informed UrBC. According to Anatoly Zhiganov, a local farmer, insufficient humidity might affect everything: grains, potatoes, and cabbage, and the yield thus might turn out even worse than last year. ‘Things will look worse this year than last summer. We did have some excessive rain, but the harvest yield was good enough after all. This year’s output will probably be around 20% smaller,’ Zhiganov said. Director of Bitimsky Farm Cooperative

UrBC, Moscow, August 12, 2016. The average receipt amount at Ural Federal District-based shops declined by 6% in July 2016 and now comes to 410 RUR, Romir Holding reports. In Russia on the whole, the average receipt amount actually rose by 1.2% in July against one month earlier and came to 510 RUR. This means that this amount has been very low for the last six months, at a level comparable with that of late 2013 and early 2014. Last month’s average receipt amount dropped by 8.8%, or 49 RUR against July 2015. Given the yearly inflation rate of 7.2%, the actual amount shrank by as much as 16%.

UrBC, Moscow, August 12, 2016. Russia’s weekly deflation rate was registered at 0.1% on August 2-8, 2016, just like one week earlier, Rosstat reports. For one, the price of fruit and vegetables dropped by 3.5% last week, including a 10.7% and an 8.2% drop in the price of tomatoes and cucumbers, respectively. Potatoes, carrots, and cabbage grew 4.1% to 4.9% less expensive, respectively, while the price of fish, eggs, rice, and pasta declined by 0.1% to 0.3%. At the same time, the price of sugar went up by 0.6%, that of toffee, buckwheat, and chicken by 0.2% to 0.4%, and that of gasoline and