UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 8, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s ChTZ Uraltrac is now working to improve its production facilities and switch to independent heat supply for its tractor-making and engine-manufacturing facilities. ‘First, we need to focus on the engineering and design work and put up boiler plants that will be powerful enough to provide heating and hot water supply to our maintenance buildings and offices. We then need to get the production facilities’ heating appliances reconstructed and introduce gas-fueled heaters there,’ the press service says. The company is now

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 8, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation awarded the winners of the 3d WorldSkills Russia blue-collar job championship. The company press service reports their HR Director Sergei Saranchuk presented gift certificates for up-to-date tablet computers to first-prize winners in all the seventeen competition categories; the tablets are bound to prove quite useful for work and for the winners’ studies. ‘For one, students of Nizhniy Tagil Metal Treatment Institute (a member school of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporate University) prove the best in Industrial Robotics for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 8, 2016. ChTPZ Group’s employee Nikolai Vinogradov won the first prize in Industrial Automation at the 3d WorldSkills Hi Tech Russia Championship in Yekaterinburg, the Group’s press service reports. ‘The Group’s production facilities provide everything necessary for one’s professional skills development. During the competition, I relied on the expertise, skills, and equipment that come in handy at a modern plant every day. This the victory I share with my team and with my entire company that trusted me to represent the Group in Industrial Automation. I’d like to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 8, 2016. MegaFon Ural’s subscribers started using the telecommunications provider’s online app increasingly more often in the last three months, with the number of transactions in MegaFon’s My Account going up by a quarter and reaching some 3m transactions all in all. The number of My Account mobile app subscribers also rose by 20% and currently exceeds 20,000 users. Additionally, 9% more users subscribed to the regular web version of the service. Based on the ISP and mobile carrier’s statistics, male users check their smartphone’s self-service system 1.5 times

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 8, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) issued 25% more loans in the third quarter of the year than in the previous quarter; the overall amount thus came to 5.8bn RUR, the bank’s press service reports. According to the bank’s Deputy Marketing Director Evgenia Ginsburg, an increase in the amount of all loan types during the summer has to do with people regaining trust in borrowing practices and with the overall improvement in their social feelings. ‘The All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center’s findings indicate that Russians started