July 22, 2013. Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev paid a visit to the stand of Russian Copper Company at the Innoprom 2013 exhibition that was held in Yekaterinburg on July 11-14. The Governor was shown the exhibition technologies and the augmented reality solutions and was told about the social projects that Russian Copper Company is now implementing in the areas where it operates, the company's press officer says. The innovative technologies the company is using in its large-scale projects (Mikheyevsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise and Tominsky Ore Mining &

July 22, 2013. ChTPZ Group and New Culture Palace are going to coordinate their NCP Picnic in the local park and in Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant's Palace of Culture, the company's press service reports. 'Events are already taking place in New Culture Palace, even before the building is completely finished, our NCP will be working on its own projects and will gradually build a team. During this year, am ambitious program focused on the exploration of the urban environment, a synthesis of science and arts, and getting acquainted with the interdisciplinary aspects of culture will be

July 22, 2013. Yekaterinburg Business Activity Development Fund is now accepting applications for market research and business promotion advice. The spokesperson for Yekaterinburg Administration reports that the fund is offering market research and audit of the existing marketing plans and research findings free of charge. 'Experience has shown that market research and promotion worry the businesspeople much more than the financial support instruments. A business person might often come up with a wonderful project and find out upon entering the market that there are quite a few similar

July 18, 2013. Yekaterinburg is using every opportunity to win the right to host the EXPO 2020 exhibition, the Soviet of the Federation Senator Arkady Chernetsky said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. ‘We naturally want Yekaterinburg to win. But, even if we don’t win, so much has been done already to promote the city as a brand internationally that this is actually more efficient than having the same budget and simply the task of making Yekaterinburg globally recognized,’ Chernetsky said. He said that the quality of speakers at the Global Mind Symposium and at the Ural-Africa forum was

July 18, 2013. Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev summed up the results of the international exhibition Innoprom 2013. About 60,000 people visited the fair over the four days it lasted, and some 40 agreements were signed. The exhibition itself achieved a totally new level of quality, the Governor feels. ‘This year’s Innoprom’s primary achievement is that the exhibition attained a new level of quality. This year, there were fewer elements of a show and more serious scientific debates and forecasts,’ Kuivashev said. This year, 550 companies ran their stands at the exhibition, and

July 18, 2013. Ural Airlines has rendered its services to 2,098,586 passengers since the beginning of the year, the airline’s press service reports. In January-June, 15,101 flights were operated, including 5,303 international flights, 6,295 domestic flights, and 3,503 flights to the CIS member states. Ural Airlines’ passenger traffic rose by 24% in the six months of 2013 compared with the first half of 2012. The company’s total passenger turnover came to 4,983,942,000 passenger-kilometers. As for May-June 2013, the passenger turnover increased by 24% against a year earlier. Ural Airlines

July 18, 2013. Experts from Sverdlovsk Region Hygiene & Epidemiology Center’s Consumer Rights Department report a seasonal increase in the number of consumers’ complaints relating to the quality of tourist service. Most complaints had to do with incomplete and inaccurate information on the service offered (namely, the particulars of accommodation and board) and with the quality of service offered in the host country. The Consumer Rights Department reminds the travelers once again that during a high season, customers need to be particularly attentive when choosing a tourist service.

July 18, 2013. Yekaterinburg received 207m RUR worth of non-tax revenues in June 2013. Yekaterinburg Council’s press service reports that this came from privatization fees (77.45m RUR), advertising (12.74m RUR), rent (98.9m RUR), and dividends (21.55m RUR). All in all, Yekaterinburg budget’s revenues are expected to come to 35.6bn RUR in 2013.

July 16, 2013. The Nevyansk Tower Museum is now joining a multimedia contest Russia 10: the contest is aimed at selecting Russia's ten most recognized tourist landmarks. 'At the moment, Nevyansk Tower is in the 58th place, but the voting situation changes every day. We have to make every effort to make sure this symbol of the Urals becomes the symbol of Russia as well,' Tourism Development Center Director Elmira Tukanova said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. According to Sverdlovsk Region's Culture Minister Pavel Krekov, this museum meets all the necessary

July 16, 2013. STM-Service, a daughter company of Sinara-Transport Machines, is going to do operation and maintenance of Russian Railways' locos run by Sverdlovsk-Sortirovochny depot; such a decree was signed by President of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, Sinara Group's PR Center reports. Under this document, STM-Service is now given access to the facilities, buildings, and technological equipment of Sverdlovsk Locomotive Repair Depot and provides full maintenance of its fleet of locos. The depot currently operates over 300 2ES6 and VL11 locos and about 50 TEM18 and TEM7A locos.

July 16, 2013. Ural Airlines is now offering a special price range on its Dubai-bound flights. Starting July 16, 2013, appealing prices will be offered on round trip tickets from Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Samara, Krasnodar, and Myneralnye Vody to Dubai and back, the air carrier's press service reports. Those who like planning their holidays in advance can benefit from Ural Airlines' special price offers: if you book a round trip ticket to Dubai 61 or more days before the flight, the price will come to 12,340 RUR; if you book 31 to 60 days in advance, the tickets

July 16, 2013. ChTPZ Group is now among Russia's top five pipe manufacturers, according to the Rating of Russia's Leading Metal Goods Producers and Suppliers in the First Half of 2013. This rating was carried by a metallurgical journal Metallosnabzheniye I Sbyt. ChTPZ Group's metal goods trading division, Uraltrubostal Trading House, is among the top ten trading houses set up by the manufacturing companies in order to sell their produce, the Group's press service reports. The rating is based on the findings of a questionnaire completed by metal goods customers, a survey

July 16, 2013. 388,700 sq m of housing was commissioned in Sverdlovsk Region in January-June 2013, which was 7.8% more than in January-June 2012. 3,957 apartments were built (compared with 4,124 apartments in January-June 2012), SverdlovskStat reports. A number of private individuals used their own savings and borrowed funds to put up 240,400 sq m worth of housing, which is 23.1% more than a year earlier. Private houses made up 61.8% of all the housing construction (compared with 54.2% in January-June 2012).

July 16, 2013. The Nevyansk Tower Museum is now joining a multimedia contest Russia 10: the contest is aimed at selecting Russia's ten most recognized tourist landmarks. 'At the moment, Nevyansk Tower is in the 58th place, but the voting situation changes every day. We have to make every effort to make sure this symbol of the Urals becomes the symbol of Russia as well,' Tourism Development Center Director Elmira Tukanova said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. According to Sverdlovsk Region's Culture Minister Pavel Krekov, this museum meets all the necessary

July 16, 2013. STM-Service, a daughter company of Sinara-Transport Machines, is going to do operation and maintenance of Russian Railways' locos run by Sverdlovsk-Sortirovochny depot; such a decree was signed by President of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, Sinara Group's PR Center reports. Under this document, STM-Service is now given access to the facilities, buildings, and technological equipment of Sverdlovsk Locomotive Repair Depot and provides full maintenance of its fleet of locos. The depot currently operates over 300 2ES6 and VL11 locos and about 50 TEM18 and TEM7A locos.

July 16, 2013. Ural Airlines is now offering a special price range on its Dubai-bound flights. Starting July 16, 2013, appealing prices will be offered on round trip tickets from Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Samara, Krasnodar, and Myneralnye Vody to Dubai and back, the air carrier's press service reports. Those who like planning their holidays in advance can benefit from Ural Airlines' special price offers: if you book a round trip ticket to Dubai 61 or more days before the flight, the price will come to 12,340 RUR; if you book 31 to 60 days in advance, the tickets

July 16, 2013. ChTPZ Group is now among Russia's top five pipe manufacturers, according to the Rating of Russia's Leading Metal Goods Producers and Suppliers in the First Half of 2013. This rating was carried by a metallurgical journal Metallosnabzheniye I Sbyt. ChTPZ Group's metal goods trading division, Uraltrubostal Trading House, is among the top ten trading houses set up by the manufacturing companies in order to sell their produce, the Group's press service reports. The rating is based on the findings of a questionnaire completed by metal goods customers, a survey

July 16, 2013. 388,700 sq m of housing was commissioned in Sverdlovsk Region in January-June 2013, which was 7.8% more than in January-June 2012. 3,957 apartments were built (compared with 4,124 apartments in January-June 2012), SverdlovskStat reports. A number of private individuals used their own savings and borrowed funds to put up 240,400 sq m worth of housing, which is 23.1% more than a year earlier. Private houses made up 61.8% of all the housing construction (compared with 54.2% in January-June 2012).

July 15, 2013. President of American Chamber of Commerce in Russia Andrew Somers says that Sverdlovsk Region authorities are available for communicating with the foreign investors; this was the statement he made at the Innoprom 2013 exhibition in the course of a round table discussion on Russia’s investment appeal. Sverdlovsk Region Government Press Service & Information Administration reports that the round table discussion participants pointed out Sverdlovsk Region’s excellent geographic location: this is actually the core of the country. The area’s investment image is now being shaped

July 15, 2013. July 11 was the first day of the Ural International Industry & Innovations Exhibition/Forum Innorpom 2013. Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev attended the business part of this large-scale international event. Following a plenary session on Global Strategies, he welcomed the participants of Ural-Africa, an international economic forum that is taking place in Yekaterinburg simultaneously with Innoprom, Yekaterinburg Administration’s press service reports. ‘The Urals are a unique part of our country where the two parts of the world, Europe and Asia, come together in a