Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Petr Sumin met President of Renova Stroy Group Veniamin Golubitskiy and the company’s General Director Viktor Maslakov in Chelyabinsk today to discuss the upcoming fulfillment of the construction project known as the Sun Valley in the suburb of Chelyabinsk. According to Mr Golubitskiy, the project provides for putting up a 700-hectare residential area in Sosnovskiy District of Chelyabinsk Region (the village of Noviy Kremekul) within 12 kilometers to the north-west of the center of Chelyabinsk (this is currently the main direction of the town planning). The area

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of deposits and other investments placed by natural persons in Credit Ural Bank for a term of 180 days to 1 year has gone down by 4.465269% (from 1,630,921,000 RUR to 1,558,096,000 RUR) throughout January to September 2006.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of loans given by Uralprivatbank to nongovernmental commercial organizations for a term of 31 to 90 days has gone down by 75.4% (from 32,623,000 RUR to 8,010,000 RUR) throughout January to October 2006.

The opening ceremony of Auchan, the French chain of hypermarkets, took place in Yekaterinburg today, reports the spokesperson for the Governor of Sverdlovsk Region. The area of the store comes to almost 14,000 square meters, with 76 cash desks ready to serve the customers. Auchan has become the third hypermarket to be introduced in Yekaterinburg this year; it was preceded by the arrival of IKEA and OBI.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of loans given by UralTransBank to natural persons for a term of 91 to 180 days has gone down by 66% (from 7,371,000 RUR to 2,516,000 RUR) throughout January to October 2006.

Uniland-Holding Corporation (the proprietor of Dixie, one of Russia’s largest retail chains) sold its wholesale business in Yekaterinburg. According to Dixie’s financial report based on the International Accounting Standards and published on November 8, 2006, the chain sold 100% of its wholesale division known as Uniland Yekaterinburg to an offshore company named Arvilex Corporation in June. Dixie got 10m RUR for a company with a $135m turnover. The experts believe moving out of wholesale business is to be expected of large retailers, yet the scheme of the transaction resembles the severance

The mechanical-repair department of Vysokogorskiy Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise (part of Evraz Group) is now capable of producing very long parts of agglomeration equipment. The parts of this sort used to be outsource components, but now that the shop has been fitted with the new screw-cutting lathe (which has already been tested), the company’s mechanics have for the first time made five-meter-long shafts for Lebyazhinskiy agglomeration shop and screws for the jawbreaker located in Vysokogorskiy processing plant. The preliminary testing has shown that the new equipment operates rather

All the personnel of Koltsovo Airport stopped servicing the flight of Ural Airlines (the 8.15 AM Yekaterinburg-Moscow one hosting 254 passengers) for over one hour on November 13, 2006. ‘Koltsovo airport did not coordinate the slots for this flight thus violating the Russian Federation law (in particular, the order DV-50 issued by Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service on May 6, 1996 concerning the obligatory confirmation of the so-called ‘historic slots’ to Moscow). What the airport does contradicts not only the Russian law but also the direct recommendations of the federal air authorities

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of deposits opened by non-profit NGOs in UralTransBank for a term of 1 to 3 years has gone down by 73% (from 66,370,000 RUR to 17,994,000 RUR) throughout January to October 2006.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of loans given by Uralprivatbank to nongovernmental commercial organizations for a term of 31 to 90 days has gone down by 75.4% (from 32,623,000 RUR to 8,010,000 RUR) throughout January to October 2006.

The opening ceremony of Auchan, the French chain of hypermarkets, took place in Yekaterinburg today, reports the spokesperson for the Governor of Sverdlovsk Region. The area of the store comes to almost 14,000 square meters, with 76 cash desks ready to serve the customers. Auchan has become the third hypermarket to be introduced in Yekaterinburg this year; it was preceded by the arrival of IKEA and OBI.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of loans given by UralTransBank to natural persons for a term of 91 to 180 days has gone down by 66% (from 7,371,000 RUR to 2,516,000 RUR) throughout January to October 2006.

Uniland-Holding Corporation (the proprietor of Dixie, one of Russia’s largest retail chains) sold its wholesale business in Yekaterinburg. According to Dixie’s financial report based on the International Accounting Standards and published on November 8, 2006, the chain sold 100% of its wholesale division known as Uniland Yekaterinburg to an offshore company named Arvilex Corporation in June. Dixie got 10m RUR for a company with a $135m turnover. The experts believe moving out of wholesale business is to be expected of large retailers, yet the scheme of the transaction resembles the severance

The mechanical-repair department of Vysokogorskiy Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise (part of Evraz Group) is now capable of producing very long parts of agglomeration equipment. The parts of this sort used to be outsource components, but now that the shop has been fitted with the new screw-cutting lathe (which has already been tested), the company’s mechanics have for the first time made five-meter-long shafts for Lebyazhinskiy agglomeration shop and screws for the jawbreaker located in Vysokogorskiy processing plant. The preliminary testing has shown that the new equipment operates rather

All the personnel of Koltsovo Airport stopped servicing the flight of Ural Airlines (the 8.15 AM Yekaterinburg-Moscow one hosting 254 passengers) for over one hour on November 13, 2006. ‘Koltsovo airport did not coordinate the slots for this flight thus violating the Russian Federation law (in particular, the order DV-50 issued by Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service on May 6, 1996 concerning the obligatory confirmation of the so-called ‘historic slots’ to Moscow). What the airport does contradicts not only the Russian law but also the direct recommendations of the federal air authorities

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of deposits opened by non-profit NGOs in UralTransBank for a term of 1 to 3 years has gone down by 73% (from 66,370,000 RUR to 17,994,000 RUR) throughout January to October 2006.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of loans given to natural persons by UralTransBank for a term of 31 to 90 days has gone down by 79% (from 3.596m RUR to 752,000 RUR) throughout January to October 2006.

Motive, one of the mobile operators of Sverdlovsk Region, announced yesterday that it had been given a personal Mobile Network Code by the Russian Federation Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies. This code can be used to identify the company within international and long-distance GSM networks. Prior to receiving the code, Motive had to use the services of Tele2, the coordinating operator. ‘Now that we have our own MNC code, we can expand the list of our roaming partners considerably,’ observes the spokesperson for the company. The MNC is going to be changed throughout

Bank24.ru will celebrate its 14th anniversary on November 19, 2006. To celebrate the event, it has recently announced the Best Success Story contest; the stories have to describe the way services or personnel of the bank helped someone to become a success or find the best way out of a trying situation. All applicants who send in their stories will be presented with a special mug made of bone china with a bank’s logo on it, and the winner (the one whose story will be found the most interesting, unusual and amusing by the assessing panel) will get a birthday cake and some branded souvenirs. The

Chelyabinsk Region Court of Arbitration received a claim against the town council of Zlatoust laid by Mechel Bank Commercial Bank JSC at the end of September. According to the spokesperson for the court, the bank owns two apartments in a building located in Zlatoust that it wanted to convert into non-residential premises. The town council refused to let the bank do so as the proprietors of the flats had had some re-planning done without any legal permission. The conversion of the apartments into non-residential premises was also not agreed upon by the dwellers. Mechel Bank now claims that