UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 1, 2016. The overall amount of money spent on buying textbooks for Yekaterinburg schools reached 104.212m RUR this year, head of Yekaterinburg Council’s Education Department Ekaterina Sibirtseva said at a recent press conference. According to Sibirtseva, a textbook costs 405 RUR on average. ‘All of the city’s 162 schools are fully prepared to welcome their students. Every school underwent some repairs and/or remodeling and got stocked with textbooks. Many of the school buildings were completed with a new gym or canteen as well as outdoor lighting and new

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 1, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region’s farmers are complaining about the poor potato harvest on private farms this year, Deputy Chair of Sverdlovsk Region Vegetable Farmers’ Union Igor Kartuzov said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg today. ‘Private farms go for new seed varieties rarely enough, which means that their harvest deteriorates year by year if the weather conditions are not as good as they could be; this is why private farmers are expected to get very poor potato yield this year due to insufficient watering. It is naturally difficult to get plenty of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 1, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region’s retail trade turnover came to 59.742m RUR in January-July 2016, which is 5.4% less than one year earlier, Rosstat reports. As for the turnover figures on a month’s scale, the figures for July 2016 were 5.6% less than those for July 2015 and 2.9% more than those for June 2016.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 1, 2016. Federal Grid Company (FGC UES) has subjected over 1,800 km of electric mains in Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Kirov, and Orenburg Regions to thermovision inspection this year so far. The company intends to get another 1,500 km tested before the end of the year, their Ural branch reports. The tests can be performed on running equipment, the company explains. Special attention will be paid to the mains whose performance affects power generation; these are the 500-kilowatt mains connecting Iriklinskaya Power Station with Zhitikara and Iriklinskaya Power Station

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 1, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant is going to produce a children’s book called Ural Vagon Zavod’s Legends in celebration of the plant’s 80th anniversary, the company press service reports. The book will tell its readers about the history of both the plant and the city of Nizhniy Tagil in an interesting and engaging way. The plant’s Executive Director Vladimir Roshchupkin is the project’s author and director. The stories were written by a children’s book writer Svetlana Lavrova, a Kniguru Prize winner and Alelita 13 laureate. She was among the