UrBC, Chelyabinsk, August 16, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s workout championship started with the first, selective round in Chelyabinsk Region on August 11, the company press service reports. Fifteen sportsmen and women, both professionals and amateurs, gathered together at a workout site in Karabash. ‘The contestants competed in Freestyle, Triathlon, and Biathlon. Sports players in the 12-17 age group used no extra appliances in triathlon and biathlon challenges, while those over 18 had to use extra weights. Semen Barmin proved Karabash’s No.1 in Junior Freestyle, Timur Titovich won the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2017. ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Project’s coordinators launched ProfMetalClub, a job counseling project, at Gagarinsky Sports Camp in Pervouralsk. ‘The project is aimed for summer campers aged 11 to 16. This is part of the Ural Engineering School, a program supported by Governor of Sverdlovsk Region,’ the Group’s press service reports. The goal is to help attending children and teenagers develop their engineering and design-oriented thinking, technical skills, and logic and master teamwork. Five fifty-people teams will have two

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems is going to install 622 multi-frequency vibration dampers at the electric mains in Yugra’s Nizhnevartovsk District, FGC UES Western Siberia’s PR Department reports. ‘Our power engineers will install 228 vibration suppressors at the 220-kilowatt Belozernaya-Kompressornaya Main in August alone. These new appliances, made in Russia, have a wider vibration-suppressing frequency range and spiral reinforcement-type fittings. This means the mains are less likely to get damaged by a strong wind,’ the department

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2017. Sinara Transport Machines’ Lyudinovsky Locomotive Plant coordinated a technical meeting on the plant’s TEM14 loco upgrade potential. According to Sinara Group’s press service, the meeting was attended by Russian Railways’ locomotive operators from Northern, Moscow, Volga, South-Eastern, and Sverdlovsk Railways, since two-diesel, electric transmission locomotive shunters of the TEM14 type are particularly popular in these parts of the country. ‘An experimental TEM14 sample loco was made at the plant in July 2011; this make has been produced on a serial

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2017. 866,700 m2 worth of new housing got commissioned in Sverdlovsk Region in January-July 2017, which was 14.2% less than one year previously, Sverdlovskstat reports. 153,800 m2 worth of new housing got commissioned in the month of July alone, which, in fact, exceeds the figures for July 2016 by 1.7 times. 13.2% of this new housing (59,200 m2) fall into the private houses segment.