UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation got its APE 120 UVZ /T3 elastomeric unit certified for compliance with the TR TS 001/2011 Railway Rolling Stock Safety Requirements with support from its member enterprise Ural Railcar Building Design Office, the corporation’s head plant’s press service reports. Units in the T3 category are meant for freight railcars that are used to transport particularly hazardous substances. The units, developed at Ural Railcar Building Design Office, must be used, for reasons of safety, in Ural Vagon Zavod’s 15-5181 tank cars (meant for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2017. The team of EVRAZ Holding’s West-Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK) won in the 2nd corporate WorldSkills championship, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Relations Center reports. The company coordinated its second blue-collar job skills contest at EVRAZ ZSMK training site. This year, there were more categories than before; also, the number of both the championship participants and eligible age groups went up. Sixty-eight workers from the holding’s various member enterprises competed in WorldSkills all in all, and over a thousand locals,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Karabashmed in Karabash, Chelyabinsk Region is now working on the assembly of a new, fully automated copper-casting line and three new 150,000-kg converters, the company press service reports. The equipment upgrade will mean the plant’s production capacity will rise 50% compared with the year 2014, that is, up to 150,000,000 kg of crude copper a year (including up to 130,000,000 kg of crude copper obtained from mineral stock. In order to keep up with the increased production capacity, the plant is planning to also invest more in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2017. An environmental event coordinated by Trassa and Gazprom Transgaz Yekaterinburg’s trade union will take place in Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District on May 31, 2017, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The tree-planting is part of Gazprom’s Year of the Environment and is scheduled around International Children’s Day. Trassa reporters and Gazprom employees will be planting a rowan-tree alley together with their children. ‘This is the second stage of the project Akademicheskiy embarked on four years ago. In May 2013, twenty rowan-trees got planted

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2017. Ural Airlines are now offering additional discounts to their loyalty scheme Wings Club members, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘All you need to do is sign up for our Wings program on the company website. Every newcomer gets a welcome bonus (up to 1,000 RUR) upon registration; the bonus points can be immediately used as a ticket price discount, even if you have never flown with Ural Airlines before. You can later use your bonus points to partially or fully cover the cost of your plane tickets,’ the press service says. Every Wings Club member gets up

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2017. Over 1,200 people took part in Ural Vagon Zavod’s 75th track-and-field relay race, with prizes sponsored and given out by the company newspaper Mashinostroitel. This year, the race is dedicated to the newspaper’s 85th anniversary, as the very first issue came out on March 3, 1932, the company press service reports. The first relay race with prizes by Kominternovets (as the newspaper was then called) took place in 1942; in the decades that followed, the event has come to be one of the largest-scale and most popular sports occasions in town. At the start of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2017. Sinara Group and Siemens’s joint venture Ural Locomotives’ Granit 2ES10, an electric freight locomotive with an a-synchronic drive, got certified for compliance with the Customs Union’s technical requirements, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. ‘The certification tests of Granit’s three-section version were carried out at the All-Russian Railway Transport Scientific Research Institute’s experimental railway ring in Scherbinka and at Sverdlovsk Railways. The loco was subject to pull and energy efficiency tests, electromagnetic compatibility tests, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2017. The fifth railway wheel treatment line will soon get launched at EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK), EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. The contract for the delivery of all the needed equipment was signed by NTMK Managing Director Alexei Kushnarev and Niles-Simmons-Hegenscheneidt Managing Director Gero Martel. ‘We signed an agreement that is expected to result in a much greater wheel treatment output and thus to help us fully cover the home and international markets’ needs. Our partner

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) keeps improving its electronic and mobile banking services. Starting from May 25, iPhone owners who use UBRD’s m-banking services can get authenticated on the app through Touch ID, that is, with their fingerprint. According to the bank’s press service, the option was designed and launched following the many requests of UBRD online bank users. ‘Virtually every one in two pieces of our customer feedback has to do with the missing Touch ID option. This is why we tried to meet our customers’ needs by

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2017. An industrial business incubator will soon be put up in Bogoslovsky Tech Park, Sverdlovsk Region. The project design documentation has already been approved of by a state board of experts, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. Governor Evgeniy Kuivashev says Bogoslovsky is one of the area’s important growth points. ‘Our top priority is to provide the park’s residents with all the conditions they need for their business. This is a key project for this constituency,’ he says. The first 1,500-m2 section of the incubator will

UrBC, Moscow, May 29, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) won several prizes at Archimedes 2017, the 20th Moscow International Innovations Show, in mid-May. ‘Both our board of experts and international judges’ panel assessed MAGSTRONG trademark very highly. The trademark covers a range of highly durable construction steels and four patented developments to do with ways of making increased durability and wear-resistant welding steel,’ MMK says. The company’s MAGSTRONG trademark was awarded a gold medal and a certificate. Another gold medal was given to MMK for a special technology

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 29, 2017. The telecommunications provider MegaFon’s Urals-based subscribers can now take their gadgets to a next level with Life Control, the company press service reports. Users can now have a set of smart-home features in their apartments (any given set is unique and gets put together like a set of Lego pieces) if they buy a control system and the necessary sensors and devices to do the work. All of the Life Control units within the system will exchange data via a high-speed 4G Internet connection and alarm the users to any dangerous activity in the house. ‘Life

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 29, 2017. Russian Copper Company presented its project on reclamation of territory currently covered by Korkinsky Mine at the 8th Neva International Environmental Congress, the company press service reports. The presentation was part of a round table discussion on the Urals’ environment and innovations in the field. The attending experts, government officials, and business community representatives all had their concerns about the situation in Korkino, Chelyabinsk Region, where Europe’s largest coal mine is situated. The facility is a threat to the locals’ well-being

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 29, 2017. Sinara Group’s Sinara Development, the general contractor for the reconstruction of Yekaterinburg Stadium in time for the World Cup 2018, is now working on site improvements, the Group’s PR Center reports. 80,000,000 kg of macadam chips (varying in size) were delivered onto the site to create pavements and crossings around the arena. Behaton and granite paving stones will be used around the stadium; there will also be 5,500 m2 of green lawns with granite stone fencing. ‘We’ll also have some coniferous and deciduous trees as well as shrubs and flowers planted

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 29, 2017. A new service depot by Ural Locomotives (a joint venture run by Sinara Group and Siemens) recently opened at East Siberian Railway, where the company’s first 2ES7 A/C electric freight loco is operated, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. The depot employs Ural Locomotives’ highly skilled mechanics to do the after-sale and maintenance jobs. ‘2ES7 has been used to take over sixty trains through Taishet-Severobaikalsk-Taksimo section of Baikal-Amur Mainline so far; over a half of these trains weighed more than 5,000,000 kg. This section of the railway has a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 29, 2017. Sinara Group and Yekaterinburg Council updated the exhibition located in the pedestrian area in Vainer St, the Group’s PR Center reports. The open-air collection of paintings features two big themes: an art trip (Landscape Polyphony) and Victory’s Milestones, a selection of propaganda posters from the Great Patriotic War. The former unites paintings and graphics by Ural artists that are normally part of Yekaterinburg Gallery of Contemporary Art’s collection. The exhibition features works by different generations of artists: some of them see a landscape as a

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, May 26, 2017. It was decided at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) annual general meeting that a dividend of 1.242 RUR per share (tax considered) should be paid out to shareholders, the company reports. The shareholders also received the dividends for MMK’s performance in the first half of 2016 (0.72 RUR per share, with taxes accounted for). The AGM also elected MMK’s new Board of Directors: Viktor Rashnikov, MMK Director-General Pavel Shilyaev, MMK Deputy DG for Sales Nikolai Lyadov, MMK Deputy DG for Production Sergey Ushakov, MAGSTORN Finance

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 26, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation denies having been handed over to Kalashnikov. ‘A number of media commented on the corporation’s alleged acquisition by Concern Kalashnikov, but this is not the case. Both Rostech Corporation and Kalashnikov reported earlier that the reports were inaccurate. No talks on selling the company shares have been or will be held,’ the corporation’s press service says. The holding reports an investigation will be held to look into how these rumors spread. Now Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on December 27 handing Ural

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 26, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil now holds a license to get its testing equipment certified; the equipment in question is used to make sure the company’s defense industry goods meet the necessary requirements, the corporation’s press service reports. The Federal Agency on Technical Regulation and Metrology’s All-Russian Scientific Research Institute for Physical & Radio-technical Measurements issued the necessary approval by a board of experts, effective March 20, 2017. The approval means Ural Vagon Zavod can now do its own

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 26, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Russian Copper Company’s Chair of the BOD Igor Altushkin with the Order of Friendship, the company press service reports. The awarding ceremony took place in the Kremlin on May 24, 2017. Some thirty prominent scientists, industrialists, sports players, healthcare officials, and culture activists received orders and honorary titles all in all. The President said in his address to the audience that state awards were an ultimate acknowledgement of these Russian nationals’ achievements. ‘You achieved great things in all