Svyaz-Bank’s Yekaterinburg subsidiary is going to offer Ural Rubber Goods Plant a credit line with the top limit of 150m RUR. According to the bank, the money will be offered for a period of two years so that the plant can get additional working assets. Now according to the latest data available, the plant owed about 20m RUR to its long-term debtors and over 700m RUR to the short-term ones by the first quarter of 2011.

Ural Airlines is now offering special prices on tickets from Chelyabinsk to destinations in Europe. Tickets to Munich, Prague, Milan, Rome, Hannover, Dusseldorf, Sofia, Paris, Istanbul and back are now available for only ?249 (plus the fees). The flights will be operated with a connection in Vienna with Ural Airlines’ interline partner Austrian Airlines.

The representatives of the Japanese metallurgical company Mitsui visited Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (a member of ChTPZ Group). The visit was mainly aimed at sharing the two parties’ experience in the field of kaizen practices – the philosophy of continuous improvement, the Group’s press service reports. The Pervouralsk Plant and the Mitsui representatives held a meeting on the kaizen launching technology and methods, they also visited the site of the Iron Ozone 32 electric steel-smelting facility and the finishing center for the OCTG production and processing. The finishing center, launched

RBC.Rating came up with a ranking of banks with the most extensive ATM network, and it appears that 79 banks out of 100 that took part in the rating have increased the number of their ATMs since the last rating was compiled. SKB-Bank was featured among the country’s top 25 banks in terms of the number of ATMs it runs and was given the 25th position. As of July 1, 2011, the bank ran 493 automatic teller machines in Russia. Throughout the year, SKB-Bank invested in both the installation of new ATMs and the replacement of the obsolete machines with the more updated versions.

A Japanese stone garden can now be seen at Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant’s Vysota 239 department. The new ornamental addition is located on the unoccupied premises of the corrosion-resistant tube coating section, the plant’s press officer reports. The stone garden is a flat surface filled with sand, with picturesquely located stones and pink Japanese cherry trees. The position of the stones corresponds with the certain rules Zen Buddhist rules: for one, there is an odd number of them, most of the stones are horizontal and half-sunk in the sand, and they create triangular shapes together.

Sverdlovsk Region Government refuses to provide a list of residents for the special economic zone Titanium Valley. The construction will begin in 2012, so then we will have specific data regarding the Titanium Valley residents. Most of the companies will be foreign ones,’ the Economics Minister Evgeny Sofrygin announced at a press conference in Yekaterinburg today. Now the Director-General of Titanium Valley Management Company Artemy Kyzlasov said earlier that the valley would house VSMPO New Technologies and two more Russian companies whose names were not disclosed. The companies in question

VUZ-Bank and UNIStream international money order system now offer their customers the opportunity to send money orders where the money can be received in any point of service in the addressee’s country of residence. The money orders can be processed in rubles, U.S. dollars, and euros. The money orders not tied to a particular addressee location are now available in 180 outlets in Ural Federal District, which comes to 55% of all such outlets in the region. Besides, over 60% of money orders handled in this district are processed through a customer’s unified card.

The Investigative Department of Ural Federal District division of Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry completed the investigation of an infamous criminal case involving Alexei Kalinichenko, who, the investigative authorities believe, deceived about 4,000 citizens of Russia, Kazakhstan, Germany, Byelorussia, Ukraine, and Latvia with the help of a pyramid scheme; the damage was estimated at over 1bn RUR altogether. The victims’ representatives now started looking into the files of the case. Alexei Kalinichenko was first heard of in 2003 when, according to the inquiry team, he and his accomplices

A visiting meeting of Gazprom took place in Chelyabinsk today; the gas company executives met the representatives of Russia’s leading metallurgical enterprises and pipe manufacturers. The Director-General of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Boris Dubrovsky attended the meeting as well. Those present at the discussion spoke about the cooperation of the strip and pipe manufacturers with Gazprom within the framework of Russia’s natural gas transportation system development program. For one, these Russian companies are expected to join Gazprom’s international projects like the

The stockholders of Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg decided in the course of an extraordinary general meeting to terminate the authority of the current Board of Directors before the end of the term and to re-elect the new BOD. The company reports nine BOD members were elected: Evgeny Olkhovik, Alexander Polikarpov, Nikolai Ulyanov, Evgeny Chudnovsky, Andrei Shtorkh, Vitaly Nedelsky, Gennady Marenkov, A. Yeganyan, and Yu. Surkov. The candidates Mikhail Shilimanov and Sergey Filippov did not get enough votes to be elected on the Board.

A dweller of Yekaterinburg won the case against MediaMarkt-Saturn, Central Yekaterinburg Division of Sverdlovsk Region Hygiene & Epidemiology Center informed UrBC. The problem consisted in a 999-ruble printer cartridge. On May 21, 2011, a Yekaterinburg dweller bought a 999-ruble HP 940 OfficeJet cartridge at MediaMarkt-Saturn in Alatyr Shopping Center at 5 Malyshev St. Even though nothing was said on the packaging about which printer types the cartridge was suitable for, the sales person assured the customer that the cartridge would fit his particular printer. This only turned out to be

The order of Russia’s Federal Financial Markets Service Ural Federal District Division No. 62-11-1195/pz-i dated September 16, 2011 allowed Sverdlovsk Region-based Linde Uraltechgaz (Primary State Registration Number 1026602949647, registered at the United State Register of Legal Entities as a securities issuer) not to reveal confidential data in accordance with Article 30 of the Federal Securities Market Act.

According to the data provided by RBC. Rating for the first half of 2011, Visa is currently the top payment system in Russia. The total number of Visa cards used in Russia comes to about 54m at the moment (the number of MasterCard holders comes to 45m). The other payment systems such as Union Card, STB, NCC, and others are considerably less popular, RBC.Rating reports.

Ural Airlines now offers special rates to business class passengers traveling from Yekaterinburg to Moscow and back, the company’s press office reports. A round trip from Yekaterinburg to Moscow and back can be available for only 15,000 RUR for business class passengers if booked in advance. A round trip ticket from Moscow to Yekaterinburg and back will be available for 28,000 RUR at the cheapest.

VUZ-Bank handled over 73,000 money order transactions that do not require the opening of a bank account in the eight months of 2011. The amount of money handled reached over 1bn RUR. In 2010, the bank only processed 40,500 transactions, with the amount of money coming to 700m RUR. We can by now say that the bank’s forecasts made early on in the year regarding the doubling of the instant money order transactions volume are coming true, VUZ-Bank reports. The bank currently works with Western Union, Quick Mail, Migom, Unistream, and Golden Crown systems, all of which allow a customer to transfer

Analysts of the Delovoy Kvartal magazine came up with a top list of Yekaterinburg’s leading banks for the first half of 2011. The credit institutions were rated on the basis of several criteria, with SKB-Bank topping all the ratings. The main criterion behind the rating was the private individuals lending portfolio in Yekaterinburg and Sverdlovsk Region. SKB-Bank, with its portfolio of 14,35bn RUR, proved No. 1 among the Yekaterinburg-based banks. It was also the bank with the largest volume of loans offered to private individuals between July 1, 2010 and July 1, 2011 (the figure for the

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court supported the ruling pronounced by Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor: the consumer rights agency imposed an administrative fine upon Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg for violating the sanitary and epidemiological requirements in the field of food and catering, Rospotrebnadzor’s press service reports. After a scheduled field inspection of the airport had been carried out, it was detected that the airport’s catering service did not meet the existing sanitary and epidemiological regulations. For on, the baking department’s knives did not have a

On October 18, 2011, the assets of Avto Land will be sold by auction in Yekaterinburg. The announcement to this extent was carried by Oblastnaya Gazeta. The auction is coordinated by the company’s trustee in bankruptcy Vladimir Sivoplyasov. The debtor’s assets will be sold by auction in Lot No.1. The debtor’s assets are all located at 50 Blukher St in Yekaterinburg. The objects offered for sale are the tires and automobile spare parts for Jaguar, Ford, Mazda, and Volvo, as well as tools, supplies, and equipment for car repairs. Avto Land was declared bankrupt in November 2010. The company had

Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin informed Head of Russian Government Vladimir Putin of preparations for the world fair EXPO 2020 application in Yekaterinburg. The exhibition will probably be dedicated to Global Mind and the Humanity in a Universal Dialogue. This theme reflects the uniqueness of the Urals and of Russia on the whole as a country of educated people contributing to the scientific and cultural development of society,’ Alexander Misharin said. The Head of Government asked the Governor to complete all the application preparation activities and said he was positive

Ural Airlines took part in the Chinese-Russian business meetings once a numerous delegation of Harbin officials headed by Vice Mayor arrived in the Mid-Urals. The visit to Yekaterinburg is meant to celebrate the 20th anniversary of signing a sister city agreement between Sverdlovsk Region and Harbin, the airline’s press service reports. The two parties can keep building up on their mutually beneficial cooperation thanks to the convenient transport link to China that Ural Airlines has been providing for several years now. For one, the carrier operates flights from Yekaterinburg to Harbin with