October 13, 2014. The supply on Yekaterinburg existing homes market has reached a seven-year high, Ural Chamber of Real Estate’s Analytical Agency reports. There are currently nearly 10,000 apartments and 1,750 rooms in communal apartments available for sale in the Chamber’s database. At the same time, the new homes market supply is rising noticeably. In fact, the record-setting 2.8m sq m worth of new housing are being put up in apartment buildings this year. As for prices, the median price of a square meter of Yekaterinburg-based housing advertised for sale came to 75,830 RUR on October 6,

October 13, 2014. Experts from South Yekaterinburg division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog) in Sverdlovsk Region inspected OOO Labyrinth Yekaterinburg and found unsafe alcohol produce at Red & White Wine Store at 37 Shcherbakov St in Yekaterinburg in September 2014. The strong drink is no longer sold there, Rospotrebnadzor’s press service reports. A lab test protocol provided by Sverdlovsk Region Hygiene & Epidemiology Center indicates that Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey Liqueur in a 0.7-liter bottle (bottled on June 15, 2013), 1926 Fayetteville Hwy Lynchburg,

October 10, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Corporation is going to take part in an exhibition called The Unknown Tankprom: The Tank Industry in the National Economy & Human Life; the corporation will present its exhibits there, the company’s press service reports. The opening ceremony will take place at the State Central Museum of Modern Russian History in Moscow on October 11. The exhibits will include Uralvagonzavod’s freight carriages that were made in the sixties, the seventies, and the eighties and were featured at the Exhibition of National Economy Achievements (VDNKh) at the time. The

October 10, 2014. Ural Airlines rendered its services to 4,052,074 passengers between January 1 and September 30, 2014, which was 18% more than in the nine months of 2013. In the nine months of 2014, 31,054 flights were operated via Ural Airlines’ aircraft, including 10,265 international flights, 14,809 domestic flights, and 5,980 flights within the CIS. This was 21% more than a year earlier. The company’s passenger traffic has risen by 16% since the start of the year compared with 2013 and reached 10,505,165,000 passenger-kilometers, the airline’s press service says. The company flew 565,003

October 10, 2014. As of October 1, 2014, the amount of overdue debt held by Sverdlovsk Region-based enterprises amounted to 23.642m RUR, Sverdlovskstat reports. This figure is 38.2% higher than in the previous quarter and 4.7 times higher than a year earlier.

October 10, 2014. Uralcryomash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) unveiled a bust portraying the plant’s first Chief Designer Mefodiy Veremyev to celebrate its 60th anniversary. According to the corporation’s press service, the unveiling ceremony was attended by Uralcryomash Director-General Dmitri Skoropupov, Designer-General Oleg Cheremnykh, Chief Designer Rudolf Zashlyapin, and the plant’s long-service employees and current workers. According to those present at the ceremony, the Nizhniy Tagil-based sculptress Angelica Yuzhakova recreated the designer’s appearance very

October 10, 2104. Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) coordinated a solemn opening ceremony of Omsk State Technical University’s Chair for Hydro-Mechanics & Transport Machines on its premises, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘Omsk Transport Machine-Building Plant (Omsktransmash) and Omsk State Technical University have been engaged in mutually beneficial cooperation for many years now. The university opened a special department to educate machine-building experts for Omsk Region’s largest defense enterprise. There are currently several dozen students

October 9, 2014. Transaero Airlines decided not to launch its direct Yekaterinburg-London flight after all, a protocol available on the Federal Air Transport Agency’s website states. The agency, also known as Rosaviation, granted Transaero its permission to operate flights from Yekaterinburg to London in May 2014. The air carrier was allowed to use Tu 214 aircraft as well as the air planes by Boeing (737, 767, 777, and 747). The flight was supposed to have been operated three times a week. However, it still has not been launched to date.

October 9, 2014. The youth organization of ChTZ Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) took part in a special event dedicated to the World Day of Trade Unions Acting in Defense of Decent Work, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘Trade unions primarily voice their opinions through pickets and demonstrations. However, the youth organization decided to do something different and, upon the suggestion of Russia’s Federation of Independent Trade Unions, coordinated a number of spectacular events that could serve as a visual presentation of their life stand,’ the press

October 9, 2014. In the three quarters of 2014, Koltsovo International Airport of Yekaterinburg (a member of Regional Airports Holding) offered its services to 3,544,734 people, which exceeds the figures for the three quarters of 2013 by 7.7%, the airport’s press service reports. Domestic flights passenger traffic rose by 13.9% and came to 1,839,567 people; 1,705,167 people were passengers on international flights (+1.8% on last year). The number of sorties increased by 4.6% compared with the nine months of 2013 and amounted to 18,585 take-offs. ‘Flights were operated to 120 destinations,

October 9, 2014. ChTPZ Group is taking part in the 14 international welding materials, equipment, and technologies exhibition Weldex/Rossvarka at Sokolniki Exhibition Center in Moscow on October 7-10. The company aims to present its own ceramic flux manufacturing options: flux is the material that is used in the welding process. ChTPZ Group currently makes six flux varieties that have all been certified by the National Welding Control Agency (NAKS); its production capacity stands at 14,000,000 kg of welding material a year. The Group’s produce is used in the metallurgical sector, in the

October 9, 2014. Ural Airlines was among the best taxpayers in 2013, the air carrier’s press service says. Last year, the airline paid over 1.2bn RUR worth of taxes to budget and non-budget funds, including more than 300m RUR directed to Sverdlovsk Region’s budget. ‘Ural Airlines operate flights all over Russia as well as worldwide and are among the most respectable taxpayers in this federal constituency,’ Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeniy Kuivashev stressed. Interestingly, Ural Airlines was among Russia’s top five air carriers in terms of traffic volume in January 2014. Besides, over

October 9, 2014. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) was on the list of the top five Russian metallurgical companies most frequently referred to in the media in September 2014, Interfax refers to its SCAN (Complex News Analysis System) as indicating. According to SCAN’s data, MMK was mentioned in the Russian media 1,686 times last month. Interfax believes a rating this high has to do with the fact that MMK announced they signed a memorandum on technical and scientific cooperation with ChTPZ Group and Kazakhstan’s KazTransOil; the news received extensive media coverage. The rating,

October 8, 2014. The construction of an experimental and special-purpose railway vehicles department is now in progress at Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil, the corporation’s press service reports. An up-to-date department will employ 270 workers and will be located at the engineering vehicles building. The department projected launch date is 2016, with expected product output of 750 units a year. ‘There has emerged a large niche for a number of goods, including about ten experimental and special-purpose ones, on the railway carriage market, and it is this niche we

October 8, 2014. ChTPZ Group is taking part in the 4th International Gas Forum in Saint Petersburg (October 7-10). The company presents its exhibits at the joint stand of the Russian Federation Ministry for Industry & Trade at Expoforum (Pavilion 3), the Group’s press service reports. ChTPZ Group is a long-time participant in Russia’s major oil and gas sector projects. This year, the company shipped its pipe produce and main pipeline equipment for such natural gas sector projects as the Southern Corridor, South Stream, Bovanenkovo-Ukhta, and Punginskoye underground natural gas reservoir.

October 8, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region authorities are planning to get 2.16m sq m of housing commissioned here by early 2016, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeniy Kuivashev said when going over the budget figures for 2015 and the plans for 2016-2017. ‘I feel it is necessary to put up more housing, including the homes that will be let to tenants, and to introduce modern resource-saving construction technologies. Our task is to raise the new housing output to 2.16m sq m by 2016,’ Kuivashev said. According to the Governor’s address to the Legislative Assembly, almost 16,000 people are to be

October 8, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region authorities are planning to direct over 12bn RUR to the development of local agricultural sector within the following three years, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeniy Kuivashev said in his budget address to Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly. ‘Speaking of the real sector, I’d like to dwell specifically on the agricultural sector, which grew considerably in 2013. We have already covered our potato, egg, and bread needs by 100%. Now the task is to keep increasing the local meat and dairy products output,’ Kuivashev said. The Governor also said that real

October 8, 2014. Head of Yekaterinburg Council Alexander Yakob and French Ambassador to Russia Jean-Maurice Ripert met to talk about creation of tourist routes in the Urals. ‘Together with the representatives of some French companies, we talked about the usual things relating to the development of joint ventures in the Urals. For one, the French party made an interesting proposal on the creation of tourist routes,’ Yakob said. According to the head of the city council, this proposal stands not only for Yekaterinburg but for the Urals on the whole. One way or another, though, every tourist

Simple Portraits, Maxim Loskutov’s photography exhibition hosted by Yekaterinburg Gallery of Modern Art on September 16-25, has come to an end. According to the photographer himself, he will keep making portraits, but these new works will not necessarily make a homogeneous series. ‘Simple Portraits is over, and so is the series of portraits as such. I am glad to have come to a finale. This does not mean I’m not going to make any such portraits in the future, but this will fall outside a series, I am still planning to do this for certain customers, one option, for example, is to have one’s

October 7, 2014. Yekaterinburg Leninsky District Court rejected the appeal for an earlier reopening of McDonald’s restaurant in Vosmoye Marta St, Sverdlovsk Region Court’s press service told UrBC. ‘The application for an early termination of the administrative penalty was turned down because the company had not managed to eliminate all the violations detected by Rospotrebnadzor,’ the press service says. It was explained that McDonald’s still had the option of challenging the court’s ruling. Following the orders of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog), Yekaterinburg Leninsky