December 16, 2014. Russian Copper Company Group won in the Urals & Siberia’s Achievements 2014 Contest as the Investment Project of the Year for implementation of two major investment projects: Mikheyevsky and Tominsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprises (both based in Chelyabinsk Region), the Group reports. The two projects required about 60bn RUR worth of investments. The launch of the processing enterprises will ensure the company’s raw resource independence for at least thirty years to come; important for the company that is known as one of Ural Federal District’s major taxpayers

December 16, 2014. Governor of Kaluga Region Anatoly Artamonov and Sinara Transport Machines Director-General Evgeniy Gritsenko signed a socioeconomic cooperation agreement. According to Sinara Group’s press service, the document was also signed by Kaluga’s First Deputy Mayor Konstantin Gorobtsov and Mayor of Lyudinovo Daniil Aganitchev. ‘The ceremony took place at Kaluga Philharmonic Concert hall during the solemn celebration of Kaluga Track Machines & Fluid Drive Plant’s 140th anniversary (Kalugaputmash is a member enterprise of Sinara Transport Machines Holding), the press service

December 16, 2014. A delegation of Tatarstan’s officials, headed by Education & Science Minister Engel Fattakhov, paid a visit to ChTPZ Group’s Training Center, the enterprise’s press service reports. The delegates took part in a conference on public-private partnership in the field of training highly skilled industrial workers through dual education principles. The conference was also attended by ChTPZ Group’s Organizational Development Director Tatiana Kozhevnikova, ChTPZ Group’s Training Center’s head Nikolai Desyatov, Tatarstan’s Education & Science Ministry’s Vocational Education

December 15, 2014. 100+ Forum Russia, the second international construction forum, will be held in Yekaterinburg on September 23-25, 2015, Executive Director of the Urals’ Developers’ Guild Vyacheslav Trapeznikov told UrBC. ‘A coordination committee met in Moscow on Wednesday to decide on Yekaterinburg as the regular site for hosting the forum. I’d like to point out that this event is currently unique to Russia both in terms of participants attending and in terms of the issues under discussion. In 2015, the forum will be dedicated not only to skyscrapers, but to all sorts of

December 15, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s Executive Director Vladimir Rochshupkin was elected Chairman of Sverdlovsk Region Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs’ Gornozavodskoy branch; the council members all voted unanimously in his favor, the corporation’s press service reports. The council meeting was attended by heads and members of Sverdlovsk Region Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs’ Gornozavodskoye branch, Sverdlovsk Region Industry & Science Minister Andrei Misyura, directors of major enterprises in the area, and representatives of Nizhniy Tagil Council.

December 15, 2014. The reconstruction of Yekaterinburg Central Stadium began in preparation for the World Cup 2018 games. The city council’s press service says the internal parts of the stadium will get dismantled in December, whereas all the other remaining components will be removed from site by the beginning of summer, upon which the reconstruction per se will start. All in all, it will take twenty-two months to make the football stadium meet all of the FIFA’s requirements. The surrounding area will be improved as well. ‘Yekaterinburg Council has already come up with all the tender files

December 15, 2014. Ural Airlines offered its services to 4,801,504 people between January 1, 2014 and November 30, 2014, which was 17% better than in January-November 2013, the airline’s press service reports. The air carrier expects to fly its first-ever 5,000,000th passenger in the second half of December. The airline has operated 37,362 flights since the beginning of the year altogether, including 11,723 international flights, 18,008 domestic flights, and 7,361 flights within the CIS member states (up 19% on last year). The company’s passenger traffic came to 12,433,388,000

December 15, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation Director-General Oleg Sienko was among the delegates accompanying Russian President on his visit to India. According to the corporation’s press service, Sienko took part in President Vladimir Putin and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with the representatives of Russian and Indian business communities; he also attended the meeting with the President of the Republic of India Pranab Mukherjee. ‘Uralvagonzavod is a well-known name on India’s military vehicles and technologies market; the corporation has

December 12, 2014. Australian model maker Philip Govenlock asked the management of ChTZ Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) for photographs and sketches of T 800, the biggest tractor ever produced at the plant. According to Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service, he says he needs the precise images of this gigantic vehicle under different angles in order to re-create a large-size model of the bulldozer (which will still be 16 times smaller than the original). ‘This T 800 didn’t really enjoy much popularity with Russian small model makers. Yet this is a famous

December 12, 2104. Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s personnel healthcare policy won the first prize in the Corporate Practices Contest during the international forum People Investor 2014. The corporation’s press service explains the prize-winning project has to do with the organization of a multi-purpose clinic and health unit in Nizhniy Tagil. The corporation’s Deputy DG for Human Resources Svetlana Ivanilova said at the awarding ceremony that ‘investing in personnel healthcare is a key feature of a socially responsible business today’. The clinic is expected to be one of the solutions to

December 12, 2014. 1.65m sq m worth of housing got commissioned in Sverdlovsk Region in January-October 2014, which was 1.8 times more than a year earlier, Sverdlovskstat reports. Private developers put up 52.1% of these dwellings (859,100 sq m), which was also 1.8 times more than a year earlier. The overall figure includes 142,600 sq m worth of economy class dwellings, which was 2.1 times more than in January-October 2013.

December 12, 2014. A partnership agreement was signed by Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) and KAZENERGY, Kazakhstan Association of O&G and energy companies, ChTPZ Group’s press service reports. The agreement was signed by ChTPZ Chairman of the BOD Alexander Fedorov and KAZENERGY Director-General Aset Magauov. The agreement is meant to strengthen the two parties business, educational, and scientific research ties. Both ChTPZ and KAZENERGY proved interested in co-training of vocational cadre, designing educational programs and professional development seminars, developing professional

December 12, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region is now again on the list of federal constituencies that will receive no budget subsidies to help with their expenses in 2015: an order to this extent was signed by Russia’s Finance Minister Anton Siluyanov and published on the ministry’s website. There are 14 constituencies on the list altogether, including Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region, Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region, Tatarstan, and some others. All of these were declared donor constituencies not entitled to any subsidies. This is the first time in five years that

December 13, 2014. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Deputy DG Sergey Laskov and MMK Scientific & Technological Center Chief Manager for Steel-Smelting Oleg Nikolayev were awarded the Russian Federation Government Science & Engineering Prize for development and production of high quality, economically efficient automobile body sheets and for enhancing the Russian metal goods’ competitiveness on the global market, MMK reports. The team of automobile body sheet designers also comprised representatives of other metallurgical companies, carmakers, and I.P. Bardin Central

December 11, 2014. Titan, a 110/10 kilowatt power substation, was launched at Titanium Valley, a special economic zone in Verkhnyaya Salda, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. The new power source is going to be the key electric power provider for the future industrial facilities in the zone. The substation was completed by employees of Sverdlovenergo as part of the innovative cluster development program. The launch of Titan means the company has meat all of its obligations relating to connecting the industrial site to power grids in full.

December 11, 2014. There is an average of 110,000 RUR worth of loans per capita in Sverdlovsk Region, the local human rights ombudsperson Tatiana Merzlyakova said at a press conference. ‘The Mid-Urals’ residents have been borrowing on an enormous scale: there is an average of 110,000 RUR worth of loans per resident at the moment. In fact, this figure does even account for some of the micro-financing organizations, which haven’t been reporting to the state. The actual figure is thus even higher,’ she said. According to Merzlyakova, the increase in the amount of loans resulted in a dramatic

December 11, 2014. Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) successfully tested its new 18G1FA steel: this new variety is meant for making hot-worked, cold-resistant oil and natural gas pipes that can meet Rosneft’s standards, the plant’s press service reports. The pipe ingots were cast at the plant’s own electric steel-smelting Iron Ozone 32 unit. ‘This 18G1FA steel pertains to low-alloy steels. The plant uses it to make two kinds of pipes whose strength grade depends on the specific operating conditions they will have to withstand. Following the rolling and the

December 11, 2014. Russia Arms Expo 2013, sponsored by Uralvagonzavod Corporation, won the Event of the Year Prize as B2B Event: the prize is awarded to the best business event for a company’s partners from adjacent sectors of industry. According to the corporation’s press service, the weight of a particular event is assessed against the following criteria: flawless organization, attention to detail, a busy agenda, and the participants’ feedback. The Event of the Year’s judges’ panel comprises representatives of major customer companies, respected cultural and political personalities, media

December 11, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Corporation allocated around 5m RUR to repairing the gym at Volchansk School 23, since the corporation’s head plant’s Volchansk subsidiary has been the school sponsor for some years now. The gym was fully rebuilt in three and a half months: the place now has new floors, new heating, lighting, and ventilation equipment, modern windows, freshly painted walls, remodeled locker rooms, showers, and restrooms. Besides, new sports equipment was bought, including basketball backboards and balls,’ the corporation says. According to Mayor of Volchansk Alexander

December 10, 2014. On behalf of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, head of ASI Young Professionals Dmitri Peskov thanked ChTPZ Group DG Vitaly Sadykov for the enterprise’s active involvement in WorldSkills Hi Tech, a national blue-collar jobs championship, Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant’s press service reports. ‘Let us congratulate the contestants and experts who represented your company at the competition. We are also grateful to the HR Department for joining the event’s business agenda and exhibition,’ the thank-you letter says. Peskov pointed out industrial enterprises would become more