UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 30, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation signed two strategically important agreements on hi tech produce development for both civilian and special purposes, the company press service reports. The first of these agreements, on technology transfer, was signed by Director-General Oleg Sienko on the corporation’s behalf and by Chair of the Board Igor Drozdov on behalf of the Skolkovo Foundation. ‘The goal is to efficiently introduce hi tech developments by Russian innovative companies into production process and to make them popular on the market as well as to work

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 30, 2016. Evraz Holding’s West-Siberian Metallurgical Works (ZSMK) invested some 3bn RUR in production upgrades, retooling, and capital repairs this year, Evraz Holding Siberia’s press office reports. The key goal was to get the plant’s continuous casting machine reconstructed. The upgraded machine resulted in increased output, a new method of steel-teeming, and reduced environmental impact. Also, the plant keeps investing in capital repairs of the equipment used at its sintering, blast furnace, and steel-smelting departments. In 2016, two of the company’s blast

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 30, 2016. The world’s first interactive 3D map available to over 4m people who come to Koltsovo Airport every year was introduced in Yekaterinburg recently. The map was developed and installed as part of Multimobility Project coordinated by Belaya Trost (‘White Cane’), a non-profit organization for the visually impaired, and the telecommunications provider MegaFon, the company press service reports. The map will be useful for everyone, including people with vision disabilities, who can use the map’s sensor surface and an in-build audio support system. The map and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 30, 2016. Historic tours of local landmarks are available for Yekaterinburg residents and visitors to the city in Akademicheskiy District, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The participants will be taken on a guided tour in the company of an experienced guide and themed travel expert Polina Ivanova. ‘Some of the city districts represent a perfect historic model of the way Yekaterinburg looked at a certain time period. VIZ, for example, is an old plant with a square, a church, a hospital, and workers’ log cabins. Uralmash, Elmash, and Khimmash have the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 30, 2016. Representatives of Russia’s largest machine-building cluster based in Tatarstan came to Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) to discuss their possible cooperation, the company press service reports. Executives of Tatarstan’s industrial enterprises expressed an interest in using the plant’s emerging industrial park Technics; Traktorozavodsky Park manager Mikhail Titov made a presentation on the site’s potential. According to Titov, the new technological park will provide its residents with all the necessary infrastructure such

UrBC, Moscow, November 29, 2016. Ural Airlines recently introduced one more Moscow-Kaliningrad-Moscow flight, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Starting from December 4, 2016, we are offering our passengers a daily scheduled flight with departure and arrival times that will suit both the capital’s residents and passengers flying from Kaliningrad. Once in Moscow, the latter will be able to go onto their connecting flights to other cities in Russia, the CIS member states, and abroad,’ the press service says. Tickets can be booked on the company website, through UralAirlines mobile app,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 29, 2016. Ural Airlines’ flight attendant Yulia Yamalova won the third prize in Russia’s Flight Attendants 2016 Contest, the air carrier’s press service reports. The final round of the contest took place in Moscow last weekend. Over 1,500 flight attendants submitted their applications altogether, and twenty-eight female contestants made it to the finals. The candidates had to take a life-saving equipment test, an English test, and a stress interview and then to talk about their home town and their job in the final presentation. Yulia Yamalova did very well on all

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 29, 2016. Evraz Holding’s Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise’s Kachkanar Power Station got certified for compliance with the technical regulations for the heating season of 2016/2017, Evraz Holding Ural’s press office reports. The company directed around 25m RUR to getting the station ready for winter. ‘During the summer repairs, the station got new equipment that meets the strictest standards. Overhauls were given to our steam turbine and turbine power generator, and gas-distributing plant gas ducts got upgraded. Repair and maintenance jobs were

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 29, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s Science Editor Sergei Ustyantsev was recently shortlisted for Voyenno-Promyshlenny Kurier’s and Russia’s Writers’ Union’s prestigious Fatherland’s Shield & Sword Prize, the corporation’s press service reports. Ustyantsev was proposed as a nominee for his fundamental research on the history of Russia’s 20th century industrial culture that came out as a series of essays. The prize will be given out in Pashkov House on December 21. So far, Sergei Ustyantsev has written three volumes on Ural Railcar Building

Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation took part in Strategic Partnership 1520: Caspian Region, the international raid industry business forum, in Baku on November 24-25, the company press service reports. The forum was primarily dedicated to the International North-South Transport Corridor, a multi-modal route that makes freight forwarding from India, Iran, and the Persian Gulf to Azerbaijan, Russia, and then to Northern and Western Europe possible by sea or by rail/road. The route was designed as a speedier and lest costly alternative to the overloaded Suez Canal. The participating countries’

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 28, 2016. Sinara Group’s Sinara Development completed Krylov, a business class condominium at 47A Tatischev St. The commissioning permit was issued on November 14, 2016, the Group’s press service reports. The new building’s total area (including commercial space) comes to 48,800m2; the construction was all completed right on schedule. The developer is currently handing their new homes over to apartment owners. The extension so the the condo’s primary building next to Central Stadium is a five-section apartment building that is 15 to 18 to 30 storeys high, has an

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 28, 2016. Simferopol Airport’s 5,000,000th passenger of this year flew with Ural Airlines on November 25, 2016, the air carrier’s press service reports. ’This special passenger was Elena Kovshova, who was traveling from Simferopol to Yekaterinburg. She was congratulated by Simferopol International Airport’s, Rosaviation’s South Territorial Administration in the Crimea’s, and Ural Airlines’ representatives,’ the press service says. Elena Kovshova was also presented with some souvenirs and a gift certificate for business lounge services; the company also upgraded

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 28, 2016. This year, Russian Copper Company keeps investing mainly in Karabashmed retooling and upgrades, the company’s Vice President for Finance Maxim Schibrik said in an interview to Rossiyskaya Gazeta. ‘This is one of our oldest plants in terms of the foundation date but no longer in terms of how obsolete its equipment and assets are. The plant was handed over to Russian Copper Company in a very poor state back in 2004. This is why we still have to invest most in Karabashmed,’ he said. Schibrik said the new vitriolic shop meant for recycling 99.9% of the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 28, 2016. SKB-Bank recently introduced its Happy Day options for credit card holders, the bank’s press service reports. When using their cards for any transaction, the cardholders automatically join a prize-winning lottery and could get a 100% cash-back on one day’s worth of shopping. ‘This special offer looks particularly appealing at the beginning of this year’s holiday season, when people tend to spend on gifts, winter break travel, and Christmas/New Year dinner ingredients. An SKB-Bank customer who uses their credit card to pay for their shopping might become

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 28, 2016. Urals-based Russians tend to use the money in their smartphone accounts to pay for their shopping increasingly more often; according to the telecommunications provider MegaFon, their Ural customers made nearly 20,000 payment transactions (75m RUR all in all) using their phone account funds in the last month alone. This is possible if you have a MegaFon bank card that is linked to your mobile phone account. Once it was introduced, more than 17,000 subscribers signed up for the option, with most active users based in Sverdlovsk Region, Perm Territory, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant coordinated its annual amateur Olympics that are part of the company’s physical education and sports program, their press service reports. This year, twenty-one sports events were organized at the plant altogether, with more than 25,000 people from 110 different departments and divisions taking part. The best teams were awarded with trophy cups, honorary certificates, and money prizes (10,000 to 15,000 RUR to be spent on sportswear and equipment). The track-and-field race for Mashinostroitel Prize, a volleyball

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development reports a dramatic increase in the demand for bank guarantees based on Federal Acts 44 FZ, 223 FZ, and 615 PP, the bank’s press service reports. The bank issued 2.2 times more guarantees in the third quarter of the year compared with the first quarter, while their overall amount actually tripled. ‘The rising demand was brought about by seasonal factors above all. State-run enterprises coordinate more tenders and auctions in November and December in order to use up this year’s budgets and find reliable

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2016. Renova’s KORTROS Corporation presented its Akademichesky Project as an example of energy-effitcien technologies in the housing construction sector to Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. ‘In addition to being Russia’s largest full-scale housing construction project, Yekaterinburg’s newest quarter can boast innovative energy-saving technologies,’ the press service says. During the minister’s visit to KORTROS’s stand at ENES 2016, Akademichesky Management Company’s Director-General Nikolai Smirnyagin

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 25, 2016. Around 900 apartments currently for sale on Yekaterinburg existing homes market drop in price every week, while around a hundred apartments grow more expensive, Ural Real Estate Chamber’s analysts report. ‘Prices kept going down on Yekaterinburg existing homes market since last February. The price decrease was rather gradual and stagnated throughout the summer until the downward trend resumed in the fall. Housing prices went up a little in certain market segments during the month of October, which has to do with the changing market structure rather than

UrBC, Moscow, November 25, 2016. Russia’s Central Bank detected and eliminated some 120 pyramid schemes in the three quarters of the year, banki.ru refers to Head of Central Bank’s Open Market Fraud Prevention Administration Valeriy Lyakh as saying. ‘Around thirty schemes were uncovered in the last three months and perhaps about 120 since the start of the year,’ he said. The damage has been estimated at 40,000 to 80,000 RUR per every deluded investor on average. The number of victims varies from constituency to constituency, Lyakh said, and comes to between 100 and 150 people. Lyakh also