UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 26, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation plans to sell 14,500 freight railcars of all types next year, the company’s First Deputy Director-General Yuri Bolyayev said at a BOD meeting. According to the company press service, the Board of Directors met in Moscow on December 22 to look into the year’s performance results. The meeting was attended by the corporation’s top management as well as by heads of the company’s member enterprises, including design offices and research institutes. ‘Ural Vagon Zavod remains one of the Russian defense industry’s most viable

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 26, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant fulfilled Russian Railways’ large order for the production and delivery of nine multifunctional TMV2 vehicles. These have been manufactured and sent to customer. The company press service reports this was part of Russian Railways’ investment project on the introduction of resource-saving technologies for railway transport. Russian Railways placed its order for nine TMV2s with Ural Vagon Zavod’s head plant following a tender in late September. The auction procedure was carried out through the corporation’s member

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 26, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) got twenty of its tractors repaired and recycled; the tractors were made at the plant a while ago and grew worn-out by now, the plant’s press service reports. The repair/recycling jobs were done for the customer in charge of maintaining the oil company Bashneft’s facilities. ‘The tractors got de-assembled, washed, cleaned, and inspected inside. All the parts that needed to get repaired or replaced were sent to our production department. The tractors were then re-assembled in accordance with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 26, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon reports its Board of Directors plans a general meeting to get shareholders’ votes to approve the purchase of 11.5m A shares and 21.9m ordinary shares in Mail.Ru Group Limited; this controlling shareholding (63.8% of voting shares) currently belongs to USM Group, MegaFon’s press service reports. Under the terms of the prospective deal, MegaFon is to purchase 11.5m A shares and 21.9m ordinary shares in Mail.Ru Group’s authorized capital (63.8% of the Group’s voting shares) from New Media and Technology Investment

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 26, 2016. ChTPZ Group’s employees are to celebrate the coming New Year’s Eve in Chelyabinsk (on December 22) and Pervouralsk (on December 23) with shows that over 1,000 workers will see, the company press service reports. As usual, the awarding ceremony of the annual Golden Fund Contest is going to be the key feature of the day. Thirty-eight metallurgical workers, including a rolling mill operator, an arc welder, a boilmaker, and a crane operator, got awarded by the company management for their exceptional skills and support of the company values (Reliability,