The construction of a high-speed railway link between Moscow and Yekaterinburg is an uncertain project. The Russian Rail cannot decide yet whether there will be passengers willing to use the road, Vedomosti reports. The Director of Russian Railways’ daughter enterprise High-Speed Railways Denis Muratov promises in the fall of 2011 that the tender aimed at choosing the contractor for the project would be held in December 2012. According to his estimates, the construction of a 1,595-km road from Moscow through Nizhniy Novgorod and Kazan to Yekaterinburg would cost 1.5 trillion RUR. The trip

One of the world’s largest OCTG producers Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) is now shipping longitudinally welded large-diameter pipes meant for transporting natural gas from Turkmenistan’s largest deposit Southern Yolotan to the country, TMK press service reports. To meet the customer’s requirements, the production of longitudinally welded LDPs with special properties was mastered at TMK’s Volzhsky Pipe Plant (VTZ); for one, these pipes have more rigid geometric parameters and a special angle of chamfer as well as enhanced anti-corrosion coating. 12,000 tons of TMK’s longitudinally welded

Maria Maksimova insists that the twenty-two agreements signed by Novolipetsk Iron & Steel Works (NLMK) and Nizhneserginsky Metal Goods Plant over various months of 2010 and worth over 19bn RUR altogether be declared invalid. According to the materials available via Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court’s website, the plant placed a petition with the court, asking to involve Maxi Group as a third party without its own claims in the case, as the company owns a 35.5% voting shareholding in the plant. NLMK supported this petition, and the court sustained it. The preliminary court hearing will

The Republic of Turkey accepted Sverdlovsk Region’s invitation to take part in the 3d International Industry & Innovations Exhibition/Forum Innoprom 2012. According to Turkey’s Embassy in Russia, the Turkish business mission will join Innoprom this year. The delegation will be headed by the Turkish Economics Minister Zafer Chaglayan. The invitation was presented to the Turkish party during the fourth meeting of a Russian-Turkish Economic Interaction Intergovernmental Committee’s work team in Istanbul in October 2011. The meeting was attended by Sverdlovsk Region’s Deputy Minister for

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court began looking into the claim laid by Kazakhstan-based Kaztemirtrans against Nizhniy Tagil Iron & Steel Works (NTMK); the plaintiff insists on being paid 5.96m RUR. The money in question is the sum of the damage caused by a broken wheel rim and a broken portion of the all-rolled disc of the left wheel set in the carriage of freight train No. 2212 that was traveling from Zharly to Razyezd 202 at Kazakhstan Temir Zholy National Company’s Shubarkudyk-Sagiz section of Aktyubinsk Railways. The accident resulted in the derailing of the said carriage and eight

One more (the 23d) Airbus A320 was added to Ural Airlines’ fleet of vehicles recently. This time, the aircraft was purchased in Japan, where the plane had been used by a local air carrier for four years, or 4,000 hours. Just like the previously acquired planes, this one was bought on operational lease terms. The airplane has both the business and the economy class sections and will be used for operating scheduled flights. In fact, the new aircraft will already be used to operate a Yekaterinburg-Moscow flight today, the airline’s press service reports. Ural Airlines launched in fleet upgrade