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