UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 31, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation is now working on a new publishing project called the Tankprom Library. Every book in this series will be dedicated to one of the corporation’s member enterprises and its contribution to tank-making industry’s development. The first issue dwells on the corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil. ‘The idea is for the books to come out in time for the member enterprises’ special dates. The second volume, for example, will be available to the public in late 2016 and will describe Ural Transport Machine-Building Design Office in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 31, 2016. Ural Airlines are now selling round trips from Yekaterinburg to Thailand and back for as little as 450 EUR (all fees except for the luggage one included), the air carrier’s press service reports. Flights will be operated between November 1 and December 19, 2016. Tickets can be booked on the company website, using Uralairlines mobile app, over the phone (+7-800-7700-262) or at any booking office. ‘Thailand is sometimes called the land of eternal summer; its tv ad-perfect snow-white beaches and crystal-clear water enchant all holiday-makers at once. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 31, 2016. Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems coordinated a number of emergency drills at its power-generating facilities based in Perm Territory, Sverdlovsk Region, and Orenburg Region, the company press service reports. The drills showed that the local rescue teams and dispatchers were quite well prepared to ensure unfailing system performance in the fall and coming winter. The circumstances of an emergency simulated for training purposes were as follows: the low temperature and a heavy blizzard resulted in massive power outages in several 500-kilowatt

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 31, 2016. Officers from Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog) inspected 53,000 kg of meat products in the first nine months of 2016 and found 15% of the products faulty, the agency’s press service reports. 17.5% of these are all kinds of salami and sausages already past their sell-by date. Besides, twenty-six samples of canned meat got tested, of which seventeen failed to meet consumer standards due to excessive tissue, cartilage, sinew, bone, and vegetable gum content. Also, seven poultry samples got tested for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 31, 2016. The tax checks and audits carried out by Sverdlovsk Region’s tax officers in the three quarters of the year resulted in 6.721bn RUR in extra payments to Russia’s budget; this exceeds the figures for one year earlier by 3.7%, Russia’s Federal Tax Service’s local press service reports. ‘948,000 tax declarations got checked, with extra 1.360bn RUR in payments as well, which is 144m RUR, or 12% more than in the nine months of 2015,’ the press service says. Tax inspectors also carried out 715 on-site audits of companies and 89 inspections of private