Ural Tire Plant’s production output dropped by 77.5% in the first half of the year against a year earlier, thus making the company a loss-making one,’ the plant’s General Director Maxim Yarmak announced at Sverdlovsk Region Ministry for Industry and Science crisis-defying committee’s meeting.

‘So now the plant’s workers keep writing letters to the Russian Federation President and Sverdlovsk Region Government, asking to look into the grave situation at the enterprise,’ he added.