UrBC, Moscow, October 4, 2016. The number of Russians officially registered as jobless came to 869,848 people last month, Prime refers to the Russian Labor Ministry representatives as stating. ‘The number of job-seekers registered with the state-run employment agencies dropped by 1.4% between September 21 and September 28, 2016 and reached 869,848 people (against 881,980 people on September 21),’ the ministry says. It is also reported that the number of jobless rose in twelve federal constituencies, among them Ingushetia, Yakutia, Sevastopol, Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region, and Murmansk

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 4, 2016. Sinara Group’s charity fund ran its annual Give Their Smiles Back to Kids blood donation campaign for the last two weeks in order to help children patients from Yekaterinburg cancer clinic, the company press service reports. As usual, employees of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK), Sinara Group, SKB-Bank, Sinara Transport Machines, STM-Service, TMK-Chermet, TMK-Neftegazservis, Sinara Development, Seversky Pipe Plant, Ural Diesel Motor Plant, and Ural Locomotives came to donate their blood. All in all, some 90-plus workers from Sinara Charity Fund’s sponsor

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 4, 2016. A movie dedicated to the Great Patriotic War veterans born in the South Urals that was created by Ural1 and Russian Copper Company won the Best Internet Project Prize at Motherland in My Heart, an online media and television festival focused on patriotically inclined media products, Russian Copper Company’s press service reports. Around a hundred projects from all over the country got submitted for the contest. Some ten projects made it to the final selection round, including this film by Ural 1 financed by Russian Copper Company. The judges, Russia’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 4, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation took part in the 9th International Conference on Rail Machine-Building during the Innoarans 2016 Exhibition in Berlin, the corporation’s press service reports. During the conference, winners of Russian Railways’ 7th annual rolling stock and technical systems quality contest received their awards. Russian Railways coordinate the contest in order to help bring the produce they use in compliance with the modern technical requirements, cut maintenance costs throughout a product’s lifespan, improve the goods’ quality and ensure

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 4, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Plant 9 got two new stretching and rolling machines as part of its retooling program, the company press service reports. Once the equipment got delivered, the manufacturer’s representative arrived at the plant to get the mill assembled and to train the mill’s future operators. ‘The stretching and rolling machines are meant for forming and pre-bending of cylinder- and conically shaped shells made of rolled steel sheets. Since we make cylinders and casing coves out of steel sheets, such mills are essential,’ says Boris