UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 20, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant came up with a performance report for last year and looked at production goals for the year 2017, the company press service reports. Ural Vagon Zavod’s Executive Director Vladimir Roschupkin said ‘the team met all the goals for the year, with the best outcome possible in the given circumstances.’ ‘Despite the current economic hardships caused by the stagnating railcar market and rising metal goods prices (+3% to 33.5%), the plant managed to perform as well as in the record-setting year 2012. We made over 101bn

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 20, 2017. Chelyabinsk Forging Skills Center was set up at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ), the plant’s press service reports. The new joint venture was founded by Ural Vagon Zavod’s Traktorozavodsky Techno Park and KONAR Industrial Group under the aegis of Governor of Chelyabinsk Region. ‘KONAR Group supplies the operating funds, while Traktorozavodsky provides production sites and facilities. The new JV comprises all the four buildings of ChTZ forging division, with all their equipment, and now employs all the workers who performed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 20, 2017. A project on the construction of a new bus terminal in Botanichesky District got approved in the course of recent public hearings in Yekaterinburg; Obschestvo Malysheva 73 will act as the developer for the project. The traffic hub will be put up in Krestinsky St-Schwarz St-Belinsky St (19,9 hectares altogether). The construction is expected to begin as soon as next year. The project was approved by Yekaterinburg Council Urban Planning Committee last summer. According to the project designers, the terminal building will be a three-story one, with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 20, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant (KMEZ) won bronze in the annual Collective Agreement Contest held among Chelyabinsk Region-based companies with 1,000 to 2,000 employees, Russian Copper Company’s press service reports. ‘The contest is coordinated for local businesses and organizations by Chelyabinsk Region’s trilateral social/labor relations committee. The goal is to improve the way social/labor relations get regulated through collective agreements and to make the companies’ decision-making process more efficient. Companies’

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 20, 2017. The project on the construction of a set of new apartment buildings in Uktus District got approved in the course of recent public hearings in Yekaterinburg. Some 170,000 m2 worth of new housing will get put up along the embankment of Nizhneisetsky Pond. Ten hectares of land in Scherbakov St-Krestyanskaya St-Nizhneisetsky Pond-Dunitova Lane will be used to build five 12- to 32-story apartment buildings. There will also be a kindergarten for 350 children and a schools for 1,100 students. The infrastructure will provide for 2,125 underground and auto-silo