UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 24, 2016. New, up-to-date resource-accounting systems to control electric power, natural gas, and water spending were installed at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) at the corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko’s initiative, the company press service reports. ‘We looked at other member enterprises’ experience with these before switching to new systems ourselves. The results were better than expected, so we are absolutely confident about the economic benefits to come. The power meters’ data get transferred to our dispatcher’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 24, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Board of Directors unanimously adopted the corporation’s development strategy for 2017-2025, the holding’s press service reports. ‘Our adopted strategy is based on several key development components: improvements in our management system; increase in sales; leadership in innovation and military and transport machine-building, with at least a 75% share of innovative goods in the company’s overall output; new partnerships in R&D, production, and sales; improvements in operational efficiency; increase in labor

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 24, 2016. Sinara Transport Machines’ Kalugaputmash started making new UGP1200TV1 hydraulic drives in November, Sinara Group’s press service reports. The new equipment was designed at the plant for upgraded TGM8KM locos made at Sinara Transport Machines’ Lyudinovsky Locomotive Plant for Ferrocarriles de Cuba. The universal, 1,200-horsepower-strong UGP1200TV1 has improved technical and resource-spending parameters and is suitable for humid tropical climates. Under the terms of their current contract, Sinara Transport Machines have to supply 60 TGM8KM locomotive

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 24, 2016. Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems recently launched a new chemical analysis laboratory at its 220 kilowatt Urengoi Substation in Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous District, the company press service reports. The new lab is expected to improve the diagnostics oil-filled equipment from the company’s five substations in the Polar North and the Subarctic and is fit to carry out over 500 physical and chemical tests every year. The lab analysts test and control the condition of circuit-breaker oil, insulators, adsorbents, battery electrolytes, and distilled

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 24, 2016. The number of apartments available for long-term rent in Yekaterinburg has gone down by 42%, from 2460 to 1,420 since the start of the year, N1.RU’s estate market analysts’ research findings indicate. The web portal’s press service reports the overall market supply dropped by 45% against last year, with the low hit in September, when only 1,080 apartments were on offer. The average monthly rent amount went down by 2% to 4% and currently comes to 19,300 RUR. ‘The shrinking supply probably has to do with the fact that increasingly fewer new and existing