UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 11, 2018. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems completed its overhaul of the 63 MVA power transformer unit at 220-kilowatt Pangoda Substation in Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous District. According to FGC UES’s Western Siberia branch, the unit’s stable performance is crucial to the power supply to Gazprom’s oil and gas deposits in the north and to end users in Nadym and Pangoda. ‘The repairs involved a series of high-voltage tests, a check of the transformer unit’s active parts and the cooling system, replacing the rubber seals and fittings, a check of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 11, 2018. Ural Airlines is taking part in Innoprom 2018 International Industrial Exhibition for the ninth time this year; the exhibition is held in Yekaterinburg through July 12, the air carrier’s press service reports. This year, the airline went along with the event’s theme (Digital Production) and presented its updated booking system that is now used on the company website www.uralairlines.com, the new services available within UralAirlines mobile app, and the new Oracle-based Airline Data Model platform that ensures better passenger service. Ural Airlines’ stand

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 11, 2018. ChelPipe Group and the state-run organization RusEduFund signed a cooperation agreement at Innoprom 2018 Exhibition in Yekaterinburg. The agreement was signed by ChelPipe Chair of the BOD Andrei Komarov and the foundation’s Director-General Marina Rakova. According to ChelPipe Group’s press service, the agreement is expected to promote the development and launch of advanced educational projects as well as support children’s tech development and the Russian youth’s R&D efforts. One project will be dedicated to setting up a children’s tech park in

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 11, 2018. MMK Group’s Ogneupor completed the overhaul of its Rotary Furnace 2 at the Chamotte Ware Department ahead of schedule, MMK Group’s Information & PR Department reports. The department in question makes chamotte that is used for making refractory items. The overhaul began as early as the end of April and was to have been completed in forty-five days, but everything was actually ready by June 5. The plant provided enough chamotte beforehand to supply to Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), the main customer of refractories, and to the external

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 11, 2018. Rosstandart imposed RUR 28m worth of fines on Russian filling stations in the first half of the year — all of them to do with poor quality fuel, head of Rosstandart Alexei Abramov told reporters at Innoprom Exhibition. ‘It took us quite a while to convince everyone that turnover-based fines would solve the fuel market’s problem. And it looks like we hit the nail on the head,’ Abramov said. According to Abramov, this year’s fines already exceeded the overall amount imposed on offenders in 2017. Shell had to pay the largest fines, as three of its stations had