UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 25, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant coordinated its Best Chef Contest in celebration of the plant’s 80th anniversary, the company press service reports. Eighteen cooks from Ural Vagon Zavod’s canteen/catering unit took part in the competition. Their tasks were to make a presentation on their culinary skills, join a cooking one-on-one contest, and present the dishes that had made in advance. The presentation could be delivered in any form, so people could sing, read poetry, and so on. The contestants could also use their support group in different

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 25, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company coordinated a Safety & Increased Productivity Month last month, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s press office reports. The company’s mining teams engaged in this competition shortly before Miner’s Day. The main idea was to ensure emergency-free performance and reach personal target output figures. Alexander Lyane’s team from Erunakovskaya 8 Mine proved the best among the stope staff: the miners produced 282,700,000 kg of coal last month (the target figure stood at 280,000,000 kg) without a single job safety problem.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 25, 2016. Chelyabinsk 280, a professional boxing show in celebration of Town Day, will be held in Chelyabinsk’s Tractor Arena on September 9. The event is coordinated by Titov Boxing Promotions, with Russian Copper Company acting as the primary sponsor and partner. The gala show is also supported by Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky, the city council, and Ariant Holding. ‘The Russian boxer and former IBF featherweight world champion Evgeny Gradovich (21-2-1, 9 KO) is going to be one of the event’s most spectacular stars. Gradovich recently signed a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 25, 2016. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) supplied a large batch of OCTGs with premium threaded joints to Gazprom Dobycha Noyabrsk, TMK PR Department reports. These are casings with TMK GF and TMK FMC threaded joints and oil-well tubing with TMK FMT joints. The batch amounted to over 4,500,000 kg. The pipes were manufactured by TMK’s TAGMET, Volzhsky Pipe Plant, and Sinara Pipe Plant. They are needed for the construction of oil wells at Chayandinskoye oil and natural gas deposit, the key one for Gazprom’s gas extraction facility in Yakutia and the primary source

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 25, 2016. Federal Grid Company (FGC UES) launched a fourth transformer unit at Muravlenkovskaya Power Substation in Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous District. According to the company press service, this increased the substation’s power-generation capacity by 125 MVA, so now the substation can provide power supply (up to 9.6 MW) to users in Noyabrsky District (including Gazpromneft-Noyabrskneftegaz assets). ‘The new transformer unit was made in Russia and is fitted with an up-to-date energy-saving cooling system and a multifunctional high-voltage bushing 24/7 control and