UrBC, Saint Petersburg, October 7, 2016. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is currently taking part in the 6th Saint Petersburg International Gas Forum. For one, Head of MMK Technical Department Grigory Shchurov presented his report at a round table discussion on the Russian pipe-manufacturing industry’s innovative development. According to Shchurov, MMK is working to develop new rolling technologies to enable import substitution of large-diameter pipes. The company produced and certified pilot batches of K60 heavy plates for the Power of Siberia Pipeline, for example. The plates are

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 7, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s museum opened a new exhibition called UVZ: The Country’s Stronghold, the company press service reports. The exhibition is part of the All-Russian Research-to-Practice Tankprom 3 Conference and is dedicated to the special date: Ural Vagon Zavod was founded eighty years ago this month. The exhibition features the plant’s modern developments, technologies, and produce by the corporation’s twenty-four member enterprises. The exhibits will be on display through the end of November and will then be stored at Ural

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 7, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation has been fulfilling all of the defense procurement requirements in time and in full for the last six years, with some items delivered ahead of schedule, the company press service reports. ‘This year, some 1,300 military vehicles and weaponry units will be supplied to Russia’s Defense Ministry, and over a half of these are our latest makes. The company is working on a wide range of tasks relating to design, upgrade, and production of promising weapons and vehicles,’ the press service says. The defense procurement requirements

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 7, 2016. Nevyansk Court upheld a motion by defense lawyers of Sergei Dubinkin, former head of Russian Pension Fund’s Sverdlovsk Region branch, granting him parole. The court ruling was possible as Dubinkin, who got sentenced to ten years in Penal Colony 46 for bribery, has served two-thirds of his prison term by now. The official was detained in Yekaterinburg in November 2009 with charges of bribery (36.5m RUR and $50,000) for transfer of pension fund’s money onto Bank VEFK accounts, and sentenced in December 2011. He spent the two years of trial in Remand Prison

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 7, 2016. Russian Copper Company and Chelyabinsk Uralstrong Federation are coordinating The Strongest Kid, a multiathlon for children, the company press service reports. The first such championship was held for 11- to 12-year-olds in the spring, with over 1,500 children from twenty Chelyabinsk schools taking part in the event. This time, the multiathlon will be held on a wider scale and will involve kids from schools located in seven different city districts: Kalininsky, Kurchatovsky, Leninsky, Metallurgichesky, Sovetsky, Traktorozavodsky, and Tsentralny. Some

UrBC, Moscow, October 7, 2016. Toyota Motor is calling off 219,811 cars (Toyota Auris, Toyota Prius, Toyota Corolla, and Lexus CT 200h) that were sold on the Russian market, Rosstandart was informed recently. These are 7,561 Toyota Auris ones, 210,511 Toyota Corolla ones, 825 Toyota Prius ones, and 914 Lexus CT 200h ones, all sold between February 15, 2009 and September 19, 2015. The said automobile makes are fitted with a carbon vapor recovery filter in the fuel tank. ‘The filter exhaust stack is located in a spot where it is likely to crack. Moreover, this crack could get bigger over time,