April 12, 2013. Ural Diesel Engine Plant (UDMZ) got a license that allows it to design and manufacture machinery for the nuclear units, Sinara Group’s PR Department reports. UDMZ (a member of Sinara Transport Machines Holding) obtained the licenses from Rostechnadzor’s Sverdlovsk Region division of the Nuclear & Radiation Safety Surveillance Division. The licenses will be valid for the next five years. These licenses will mean the plant will be able to produce diesel power plants in accordance with all the requirements that the customers set out for the design and production of this type

April 12, 2013. Ural Airlines presented its services at the company stand at TurSib/SITT-2013 exhibition that opened at Novosibirsk ExpoCenter in Novosibirsk today. The company stand features its new campaigns and special offers, and one can also consult the airline employees, the air carrier’s press service reports. Ural Airlines is now presenting offers on popular tourist season destinations and new, appealing options for passengers as well as bonus schemes. TurSib/SITT-2013 is the 23th international tourist exhibition that is an important event in the tourist industry community’s

April 12, 2013. ChTPZ Group coordinated a company contest at the Club of the Cheerful and the Inventive, with the Crystal Helmet given out as the first prize. This year, five teams competed in the super league: Badminton (from Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant’s Vysota 239 Department), Caravan (comprising players from all the departments at Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant), a select team from Pipeline Bend Plant, Yin-Yang (a select team from Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant), and Whipped to Cream (students of the Future of White Metallurgy Project), the company’s press service reports. The performance

April 12, 2013. Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Mikhail Yurevitch paid a business visit to Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ). He looked into the state of affairs at the enterprise and checked some new vehicles. He was accompanied by the enterprise’s head Sergey Golygin, Deputy Director-General Andrei Sentyabov, and Director for Design Development & Technologies Valeriy Kostyuchenko, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. Yurevitch was shown all the promising projects the plant undertook in the year of its 80th anniversary. An ad hoc exhibition featured the B-11 bulldozer – the

April 12, 2013. Rhineland-Palatinate Federal State's Minister of Economy Eveline Lemke said in the course of her meeting with Sverdlovsk Region Government Vice Premier Alexei Orlov at Hannover Messe 2013, an international industrial fair, that the Rhineland-Palatinate-based enterprises would take part in the international exhibition Innoprom in 2014, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Press Service & Information Department reports. Ms Lemke also asked for more detailed information on the Titanium Valley special economic zone so that these data could be advertized among the German

April 11, 2013. Sverdlovsk Region’s investment potential was presented to foreign industrial enterprises in the course of Hannover Messe 2013, the international industrial fair, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Press Service & Information Department reports. The region’s Vice Premier Alexei Orlov made a report on the area’s impressive socioeconomic development and on the regional authorities’ interest in attracting foreign investors and in providing all kinds of support to the foreign companies that are willing to set up their production facilities on the Urals’ sites. ‘Sverdlovsk Region’s

April 11, 2013. A young families contest was held at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) for the first time this year; the contest was dubbed ‘A Tight-Knit Family’, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The judges ruled that Mr. and Mrs. Zaitsev and their daughter Victoria were the most unanimous family. Natalia Zaitseva, an auditor at the plant’s Quality Directorate, and her husband Sergey, who works as a fork truck driver at the Technological Vehicles Department, were ahead of five finalist couples. Under the terms of this all-plant contest, applicants had to be under 35 years

April 11, 2013. Ural’s sales department was opened in Raduga-Park Shopping Mall at 94 Repin St on Friday, April 5. This means that every holder of METCOMBANK and Ural Football Club’s co-branded card can now use one more outlet where they will be offered a discount on the club accessories and souvenirs as well as on tickets to the club’s home games, the bank’s press officer explains. If you get your bank card issued within the framework of this co-branding project, you not only get access to first-rate banking service and discounts but also support your favorite club, as the service fee for

April 11, 2013. ‘We are launching a hotline session with the Managing Director of MegaFon’s MegaLabs Innovations Laboratory Anton Vedernikov. What novelties is MegaFon expected to think up for the Ural locals in the nearest future? What innovations enjoy the greatest demand among the subscribers?’ MegaFon explains these and other burning questions can be put forth via PR@megafon.ru, on Facebook or VKontakte through Arpil 15. One’s improvement proposals or ideas on the launch of new services that could expand a mobile phone’s capacity can also be presented via e-mail or social networks. The

April 11, 2013. The plant’s first young electricians’ contest was held at Seversky Pipe Plant (STZ, a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company). 25 electricians who won in the department contest as well as representatives of Polevskoy Technical Service took part in the event. In addition, three students of V.I. Nazarov Polevskoy Vocational School participated in the program but did not compete for the prizes, the company’s press service reports. The contest was two-fold and comprised a theoretical and a practical part. First, it took the contestants one hour to do a test on electrical equipment

April 10, 2013. A major railway vehicles manufacturer Bombardier Transportation and Russia’s leading railway vehicles producer Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation (UVZ) are now presenting their joint proposals for Russia at Germany’s largest fair Hannover Messe, UVZ press officer reports. This year, Russia is a partner country for the forum that is dedicated to the global industry. The opening of the fair was actually attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel. UVZ and Bombardier Transportation presented a new stage of their program

April 10, 2013. Sinara Development (a member of Sinara Group) came up with a financial and production performance report for 2012. The sub-holding’s accumulated net profit amounted to 180.3m RUR, which exceeds the figures for 2011 by two times, Sinara Group’s PR Center says. A multi-faceted approach to project implementation is one of the key characteristics of Sinara-Development’s performance. Therefore the process covers not only investment, design, construction and maintenance, but also setting up the social infrastructure buildings in the area. According to Sinara Development’s

April 10, 2013. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation took part in the International Industrial Fair Hannover Messe-2013 that opened in Hannover, Germany, on April 8. Uralvagonzavod displayed its stands in two pavilions: one stand is a joint project with Bombardier, the other one is part of the Russian Federation’s central exhibition. Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the corporation’s stands on the day the prestigious fair was opened, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The heads of the two states took a great

April 10, 2013. Ural Airlines won in the all-Russian aviation contest called Russian Wings-2012, in the Airline of The Year-Group II (1-3bn passenger-km) Domestic Flights Air Carrier category. What is more, Ural Airlines was also awarded a diploma in the Airline of The Year-International Flights Air Carrier category, the airline’s press service reports. Now the Russian Wings Prize was set up in 1997 by the Russian Association of Aircraft Operators and the aviation industry magazine Aviatransportnoe Obozreniye; for over ten years, this has been the only aviation sector prize given out to

April 10, 2013. Russia’s Economic Development Minister Andrei Beloussov visited Sverdlovsk Region’s stand while taking a tour of Hannover Messe’s most important exhibitors. He was welcomed at the stand by Sverdlovsk Region’s Vice Premier Alexei Orlov and the Titanium Valley Special Economic Zone’s Director-General Artemy Kyzlasov, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s press service and information department reports. During their meeting, the said parties talked about the region’s developmental prospects. For one, Orlov presented the plans for the development of Bogoslovsky industrial park. The

April 9, 2013. Two of Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s member enterprises – Plant 9 and Yekaterinburg-based Uraltransmash signed an agreement on network partnership; this was done within the framework of creating and developing a multi-functional educational center with a focus on machine-building, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. In addition to the plants’ representatives, the agreement was also signed by Director of Sverdlovsk Region Union of Machine-Building Enterprises A. Bukhmastov, Director-General of Sverdlovsk Region Union of Defense Industry Enterprises V. Schelokov,

April 9, 2013. An All-Russian conference dedicated to the 20th century tank-building industry, its history, historiography, museums, and books on the subject that was held at Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant closed down. At the end of the conference, a summary was made, and a special resolution was voted on, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The plenary session resulted in the statement that the topics on the agenda of the conference were quite relevant and interesting for further research. The conference coordinators – Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production

April 9, 2013. Uralvagonzavod’s amateur folk circus troupe called Friends’ Smiles won a second-degree diploma in Novokuznetsk. The group from Nizhniy Tagil demonstrated all the richness and variety of its talents at the 7th All-Russian amateur circus performance contest known as Under the Old Chapiteau’s Dome in late March, Uralvagonzavod’s press service reports. Over 350 young circus performers from 29 troupes from Chelyabinsk, Nizhniy Tagil, Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, and other cities of Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, Novosibirsk, and Kemerov Regions and from Perm and Krasnoyarsk Territories showed an

April 9, 2013. The assembly of a new, multi-purpose non-destructive control line for hot-rolled pipes was completed at SinTZ’s OCTG department known as T-4. Now Sinara Pipe Plant (SinTZ) is a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK), and the news was reported by TMK press service. The non-destructive control units meant for checking the ends of weldless pipes were assembled with help from the engineers employed with the Swedish company MAC. The installation supervision of the mechanical units meant for delivering the pipes onto the line was completed by the representatives of the Swedish

April 9, 2013. Ural Airlines keeps on expanding its destinations network and increasing the number of flights it offers. Starting May 26, a scheduled flight from Moscow to Ulan-Ude and back will become available. The flight will be operated at 8:30 AM every day except for Sunday, and the return flight’s departure time is 8:15 PM, which means trips to the capital won’t cost you anything in terms of time loss. The tickets for the flight are already available for sale. Now Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport is a sort of hub for Ural Airlines, so, once in the capital, you’ll be able to use the company’s