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

October 7, 2014. In January-September 2014, the amount of building cargo shipped via Sverdlovsk Railways declined by 5.9% and came to 15.9m tons, the press service of Russian Railways reports. The volume of iron and manganese ore shipments went down by 0.5% as well and amounted to 9.5m tons, that of ferrous metals decreased by 4.2% and stood at 7.9m tons, that of chemicals and soda dropped by10.2% and came to 2.7m tons, that of timber goods decreased by 1.1% and reached 1.5m tons, and that of coal went down by 14.7% and came to 0.5m tons. In the nine months of the year, 11.2% more oil and

October 7, 2014. ChTZ Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) and its Far Eastern dealer Ural Brand presented their B14 bulldozer at Transport/Special Vehicles/Automobiles/Freight Forwarding in the Far East Exhibition that was part of the Amur River Basin Trade Fair. ‘The exhibition was held at the track-and-field hall of Khabarovsk’s largest stadium. The Chelyabinsk bulldozer, decorated with a ChTZ-branded flag post, was placed next to the main entrance. This was actually the only Russian track-laying vehicle there,’ the corporation’s press service says. The B14

October 7, 2014. ChTPZ Group’s warehouse facility (Uraltrubostal Trading House) is introducing the WMS, Warehouse Management System, in order to speed up the shipment process and enhance the efficiency of managing the stock balance through special data collection terminals that are used for product identification, the company’s press service reports. The WMS will help the company avoid the entry of stock changes under the wrong heading as well as to track the produce logistics from the moment it leaves the plant premises to the moment it arrives to the end user. There could be over 1,200 pipe

October 7, 2014. The Chinese car manufacturer Hawtai Motor is planning to put up a $1.1bn car assembly factory in Russia. Sverdlovsk Region is considered among the possible sites, RBC reports. Hawtai Motor Corporation is currently looking for a construction site for a factory with production capacity of at least 100,000 automobiles, which means the area required for the project stands at a hundred hectares. Sverdlovsk Region, Tatarstan, Samara Region, and Karachay-Cherkessia have all applied as candidate hosting areas. ‘Sverdlovsk Region could be one of the options, but we need to understand

October 6, 2014. Uralcryomash (Nizhniy Tagil-based member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) is celebrating its 60th anniversary, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘Today, Uralcryomash is a multi-industry, dynamically developing enterprise and one of the leaders on the Russian specialized cryogenic equipment market. The company makes goods for all kinds of industries: for the rail carriers and oil and gas companies, for Roscosmos, and for the Russian defense industry. For one, the company designs and makes special systems for storage, transportation, and filling of spaceships.

October 6, 2014. 49.2% of Yekaterinburg residents who applied to Sverdlovsk Region Labor Department in January-September 2014 looking for a suitable job found a position, the agency’s website states. 18,598 people tried to find a suitable position through the employment center over these nine months, and 66,483 people requested some information on the labor market situation. As of October 1, 2014, the number of the unemployed stood at 3,398 (0.47% of the city’s working-age population).

October 6, 2014. Inflation rate has reached 6.1% in Sverdlovsk Region since the beginning of the year and stood at 0.8% in September 2014, Sverdlovskstat officially reports. Food items have grown 8.7% more expensive since the start of 2014 (+1% in September 2014), strong drinks have grown 10.9% more expensive (+0.9% in September 2014). Non-food items prices went up by 4% in January-September (+0.6% in September 2014) and prices of various services rose by 5.8% (+0.8% in September 2014).

October 6, 2014. More than 2,000 people from thirty different countries are going to take part in the European Hair Styling Championship in Yekaterinburg on November 16-17, 2014, Chairman of Yekaterinburg Council Consumer Services Committee Maxim Afanasiev said at a press conference. He also said that hairdressers from countries located outside the European Continent – the U.S., China, and South Korea – would like to join the competition as well. The event is going to be unique in that any Russian beauty sector enterprise can take part in it free of charge. The final round of the championship

October 6, 2014. Denis Litvinov, an arc welder from Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant, won in the prestigious local professional skills contest called Glory to the Man of Labor; the contest was held within the machine-building sector, and Litvinov won in the Best Manual Arc Welder category. According to the corporation’s press service, the winner works at the thermal power station, underwent certification by Rostechnadzor, has job class 6 and twelve-years’ work experience. ‘For one month, Denis Litvinov practiced welding in accordance with the technological map and under the guidance of

October 3, 2014. Russia Today recently broadcast a documentary called Tanks: Made in Russia that was filmed on the premises of Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant in late 2013. ‘The seven-member film crew spent a month filming 24/7 to capture the real-life story of how the legendary T72 tank ties together the lives of two young plant workers. In addition to English, the film will be dubbed into Arabic and Spanish,’ the corporation’s press service says. Throughout the film’s 12 episodes, Kirill Zhalilov and Vladimir Danilov compete for a position in the prestigious tank department where

October 3, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region is Russia’s fifth largest market for SUVs based on the sales in the eight months of 2014. Still, these figures are 1.5% down on last year (sales declined from 18,700 to 18,400 units), Avtostat Analytical Agency reports. According to Avtostat, the top ten local markets (296,700 units) made up over a half of SUV market in Russia in the eight months of 2014 (nearly 556,000 vehicles were sold in the country all in all). The SUV segment dropped by 5.9% in January-August 2014 compared with January-August 2013, yet on the whole, this figure is higher than the

October 3, 2014. Kamensk Uralsky Foundry Plant (KULZ, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) increased its product output by 15% in August 2014 compared with a year earlier and by 17.5% compared with the target figures for the month. This came to 125m RUR worth of goods. According to the corporation’s press service, the revenues stemming from sales of products for the machine-building sector (wheels for aircraft and special-purpose vehicles, braking equipment, and castings) rose by nearly 70m RUR. ‘Labor productivity is one of the factors affecting a company’s economic

October 3, 2014. Alexander An was appointed the new Director-General of Pnevmostroymachine by the Board of Directors’ decision, the issuer’s official announcement says. The company’s BOD agreed to resignation of the former DG Vladimir Anisimov earlier. Now on July 31, 2014, Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court received an insolvency application from Pnevmostroymachine. However, the company withdrew its claim as soon as in August, so the court stopped any hearings relating to this bankruptcy case.