UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 28, 2016. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems got the protection relays and automation systems upgraded at its 500-kilowatt Tarko-Sale Power Substation in Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region, the company press service reports. The new equipment will be used on Tarko-Sale-Svetlaya main and was necessary to get connected to Tyumenenergo’s 110-kilowatt Svetlaya Substation. The relays are resistant to outside temperatures and have a self-diagnostics option. Their function is to prevent short-circuit failures. Tarko-Sale Substation has been in use since

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 28, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation recently held a meeting on the introduction and implementation of job standards in the company’s personnel management system. According to the company press service, twenty-one heads of personnel departments from the corporation’s twelve member enterprises (Burevestnik Central Scientific Research Institute, Electromachine, ChTZ-Uraltrac, Omsktransmash, 144 BTRZ, and others) attended the event. The meeting participants mostly talked about how to adjust to the recent legislative changes and how to introduce job standards at

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 28, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon managed to maintain running infrastructure despite the recent anomalously cold weather (forty degrees centigrade below zero) in the Urals, the company’s press service reports. Wednesday, December 21, proved the coldest day of the week, with outside temperature dropping below forty-two degrees centigrade below zero in certain locations in the Greater Urals. Still, MegaFon’s mobile connection quality remained very high, with the connection itself available in 99.9% of cases (which is even better than the 95%

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 28, 2016. Sinara Group’s Sinara Development, the general contractor for the reconstruction of Yekaterinburg Arena Stadium in time for the World Cup 2018, reports the stadium will get commissioned in about twelve months, the company press service says. ‘The perimeter of the would-be stadium is now complete: there are eight pylons to support the roof, metal structures of the roof itself, concrete structures of the northern and southern spectator stands, and almost complete structures of the western and eastern stands (these are now seven levels high). We are

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 28, 2016. Yekaterinburg-based developers are going to get 900,000 m2 of new housing commissioned by the end of the year, head of city council Alexander Yakob said at a press conference. One year earlier, the figure was 1.197m m2. ‘This has been a difficult year for the building industry, due to economic circumstances, among other things. Quite a few developers chose to stick with finishing their older projects and never started any ones,’ Yakob said. Nevertheless, the final figure might still reach 1m m2.