UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 23, 2016. 431 automobiles belonging to people with unpaid debts got seized in Sverdlovsk Region this year, the local division of the Federal Court Officers’ Service reports. ‘Court officers regularly go on raids to identify and seize automobiles that belong to people involved in enforcement proceedings. The launch of our Mobile Search app this year helped double the number of debtors’ cars we could find. The idea is quite simple: a court officer walks through a parking lot with a mobile device in their hand and scans all the license plates with an in-built

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 23, 2016. SKB-Bank is among the best-performing Russian banks of the year according to The White Square Journal, the bank’s press service says. SKB-Bank was given the 51st position in the rating. The journal analysts explain their rating was based on the following criteria: online banking and mobile app usability, customer satisfaction, brand awareness, development dynamics, turnover, market share, brand’s market worth, and service innovations. Corporate culture, customer-friendliness, top managers’ professional skills, CSR projects, adjustments for people with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 23, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (KGOK) agreed on the changes in the plant’s Collective Agreement for the year 2017, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. ‘All the terms and conditions of this year’s agreement have been complied with; the plant implemented all the programs aimed at improvements in working conditions in full. By now, all the wages, salaries, and bonuses have been paid out,’ the press office says. Next year, the company expects to make inflation adjustments on the worker’s base pay rate, provide two

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 23, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Omsktransmash was granted experts’ permission to get its military produce testing equipment certified, the company press service reports. The plant is now busy upgrading its existing test stands that are used for strength, airtightness, and thermal impact tests as well as for simulating real-life operation conditions. The stands need to be brought in compliance with the current government standards. Omsktransmash is Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s first member enterprise and Russia’s 55th company to be allowed to certify

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 23, 2016. Science Editor of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s PR Department Sergei Ustyantsev was recently awarded the Fatherland’s Shield & Sword Prize, the company press service reports. The awarding ceremony took place at the Pashkov House in Moscow. Ustyantsev was awarded for his Essays on the History of Russian 20th Century Industrial Culture. ‘The three-volume piece is dedicated to Ural Vagon Zavod, an enterprise with a unique industrial culture that works to create all kinds of produce: railcars, cryogenic equipment, and armored vehicles. The