UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 9, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant keeps implementing its operation and maintenance and warranty services program for the company’s railcars, the company press service reports. To ensure the best service, the company management decided to focus on two primary tasks: maintenance and in-plant repairs of railcars. ‘First, a lifespan maintenance unit was set up to control our rolling stock. We landed contracts with railcar repair depots such as VRK-1 and VRK-2 as well as with a number of private depots that will store our spare parts for us. There are

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 9, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Uralcryomash is now making its new 15-5106 tank-type railcars (65.4m3 large) on a serial scale; the tanks are meant for transportation of liquefied natural gas and ethylene, the company press service reports. The first batch of five railcars got shipped to customers and will soon be in full use. The corporation’s press service says this new tank car is Uralcryomash’s unique development and the only such liquefied natural gas tank in the 1,520mm zone. This 15-5106 tank underwent a full cycle of certification audits and got

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 9, 2016. Russia’s first final repository for short-lived radioactive waste was recently launched in Novouralsk, NO RAO’s press service reports. The first batch of radioactive waste materials (47m3 in thirteen packs) got disposed of between November 28 and December 2. The event was attended by members of Novouralsk NGOs, the local nuclear facility representatives, and reporters, who could all watch the containers placed under the ground. The repository is an underground facility that meets all the new legislative standards and the IAEA requirements and is meant

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 9, 2016. Special workshops on how to make environmentally friendly New Year’s trees will be held at schools in Yekaterinburg’s Akademichesky District this week, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. Kids will learn how to make a tree out of paper, rags, coffee beans, clothes pins, cocktail straws, lace, and all sorts of buttons, beads, pebbles, and flowers. Some of the trees will be made from plastic, grocery plastic bags, and glass. Twenty ‘objets d’art’ of different shapes and sizes are expected to come out as a result. ‘The year 2017 is Russia’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 9, 2016. Ural Airlines are now offering their customers tickets for Yekaterinburg-Paris and Yekaterinburg-Rome flights at a special price: 17,100 RUR and 20,660 RUR, respectively, the air carrier’s press service says. Flights to Paris are operated every Thursday, those to Rome every Sunday. The ticket price covers one piece of luggage under 10kg. ‘Shopping for a new wardrobe during Europe’s traditional sales season or scrolling the numerous Christmas markets are both great winter break options. Ural Airlines invite you to enjoy the Christmas magic in one of the