UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2016. Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev, Vice Premier Arkadiy Dvorkovich, Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov, Industry & Trade Minister Denis Manturov, and President of Russian Railways Oleg Belozerov came to Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s stand at the 10th International Russia’s Transport 2016 Exhibition, the company press service reports. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko presented the company’s sample polymeric tank railcar meant for transportation of a wide range of chemicals. This KTsKh.PKM-25/0.4 tank was designed with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) now makes 20P channel beams; 600,000 kg of these were shipped to customers in November, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. The beams are hot-rolled from construction steels with the help of special mills. Depending on the customer’s needs, they can be made out of low-alloyed steel with improved performance characteristics. These 20P beams are popular with Russia- and CIS-based construction businesses and oil and gas companies. These beam types are particularly suitable for low

UrBC, Moscow, December 6, 2016. ChTPZ Group plans to sell over 1,700,000,000 kg of pipes by the end of the year, the company Director-General Alexander Grubman said in his interview to Interfax. ‘As we are now selling more goods that result in high margin profits, our revenues are expected to reach 130bn RUR by the end of the year, and approximately just as much next year,’ Grubman said. According to Grubman, the demand for pipe products will come to around 9.2 to 9.3m tons on the Russian market this year; the executive believes next year’s figures will be more or less comparable.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region’s annual price increase came to 5.8% compared with last year, Sverdlovskstat reports. Food items grew 5.8% more expensive, non-food items 6.6%. Alcohol drinks are now 7.2% more expensive, while the price of services rose by 5.2% on average. Inflation rate amounted to 5.2% in the Mid-Urals since the start of the year and to 0.5% in November 2016 against October 2016.

UrBC, Moscow, December 6, 2016. A draft bill that will speed up the lifting of the ban on leaving their home country for those who paid off their debts will probably be complemented by amendments that will also raise the upper debt limit that makes it illegal for the debtor to travel abroad, Vedomosti reports. The bill was drafted by the Justice Ministry and proposed to the State Duma in October; the lower chamber public construction and legislation committee intends to get the paper ready for the first hearing by December 8. People with 10,000 RUR or more worth of unpaid debts are now not