November 25, 2013. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) decided on the first students to receive the A.D. Deineko Scholarship that was established by the company in the summer of 2013. According to the company’s press service, three students of MISiS National Research Technological University were awarded the scholarship for their scientific and academic achievements in the metallurgical field. TMK’s A.D. Deineko Scholarship was set up to support, encourage, and invite to the company’s member enterprises the most gifted students. The scholarship was named in the honor of Alexander D. Deineko

November 25, 2013. A group of delegates from Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation took part in the 4th international conference on armored vehicles in New Delhi, India, on November 19-20, 2013, the corporation’s press service says. The conference was dedicated to the current condition and development prospects of India’s armed forces’ fleet of tanks; it was coordinated by the country’s Defense Ministry. Representatives of the world’s leading producers of armaments and military vehicles for ground forces attended the conference, including such companies as OTO Melara and

November 25, 2013. The development of Yekaterinburg will speed up by 30 years in the course of EXPO 2020 preparations, Soviet of the Federation member and head of the EXPO 2020 Application Committee’s Supervisory Council Arkady Chernetsky said in his interview to Kommersant. ‘Over the six months preceding the EXPO event, Yekaterinburg is to receive a number of visitors that is dozens of times bigger than the city’s population. So the city needs to make every effort to make sure that the transportation and the road network are a supporting factor and not an obstacle to getting around the city

November 25, 2013. MegaFon implemented its multi-faceted program on improving the customer service for its corporates: this project required over 70m RUR in terms of investments. In addition to upgrading the traditional service channels, the mobile communication carrier built the Federal Corporate Customer Service Center, with one main function of processing the subscribers’ written queries, the company’s press service reports. The construction of the Center was yet another stage of the multi-faceted corporate customer service improvement program. The Center’s sites in Bryansk and Samara are

November 25, 2013. Both foreign and Russian subway experts pointed out that Yekaterinburg subway was highly developed technically and had good development potential. They believe it is exactly the subway that can best solve the city’s traffic problems. Yekaterinburg Administration’s press service reports this meeting of Metro International Association Council took place in Yekaterinburg on Thursday, November 21. Heads of Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Nizhniy Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Tashkent, Kyiv, Kharkov, and Minsk subways talked about the performance and safety of subways

November 22, 2013. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ, a member of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation), is about to fulfill its contract for the delivery of 43 swamp tractors and bulldozers to Geotech Holding, the corporation's press service reports. The 11 vehicles that still have to be delivered will be shipped in November; four of them will go to Vorkuta, two of them will go to Tyumen Region, and five of them will go to Tarkosale Station. 'The shipment includes two swamp bulldozers that Geotech decided to buy on top of the previously discussed order. These swamp

November 22, 2013. ChTPZ Group and Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) 13th Coordination Council was held at Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant as part of the two companies' strategic cooperation project in the field of providing the fuel and energy sector enterprises with good quality pipes. Special attention was paid to joining Gazprom's South Stream Project, ChTPZ Group's press service reports. 'South Stream is a project with strict quality requirements and delivery deadlines. To join in, we, the pipe manufacturers, need the support of our partners from the

November 22, 2013. The second line of Yekaterinburg subway will cost some 40bn RUR to build, Deputy Head of Yekaterinburg Administration Alexander Vysokinsky told reporters. 'About 80% of funding for the first line was supplied by the municipal authorities, and the remaining 20% were provided by Sverdlovsk Region and national authorities. At the moment, we cannot afford to start building the second line on our own, which is why we are currently negotiating on co-financing,' Vysokinsky said. He pointed out that the same team of contractors that worked on the first line would be

November 22, 2013. The representatives of three of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation's enterprises attended the first All-Russian Blue-Collar Youth Forum in Chelyabinsk. The event was held on November 18-20 and gathered together over 400 young people from 56 enterprises located in 18 parts of Russia. The forum was sponsored by the Federal Youth Policies Agency, the Federation of Russia's Independent Trade Unions, and Chelyabinsk Region Government, the spokesperson for Uralvagonzavod reports. Uralvagonzavod Corporation was represented by a group of young workers

November 22, 2013. Sverdlovsk Region Prime Minster Denis Pasler took part in the opening of Belgium's Lhoist Group's first office in Russia; the Belgian company set up a joint venture with Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) to put up and launch the first section of a limestone producing and processing facility in Sverdlovsk Region by 2016, Sverdlovsk Region Government's Press Service & Information Department reports. The project is being worked on on the premises of Yuzhno-Mikhailovskoye deposit and is expected to result in 250 new jobs. The first two out of four sections of

November 22, 2013. The 13th coordination council of Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) and Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) took place at the premises of the former as part of the two parties' strategic cooperation on providing the oil and gas enterprises with good quality pipes. Special attention was paid to the two plants' joint participation in Gazprom's largest project, the Southern Stream, the two enterprises' press release says. During the council meeting, the participants looked at ways of reducing the delivery time, increasing the quality of steel

November 21, 2013. The hypermarket Leroy Merlin was No.1 in terms of least safe parking lots in 2013, Deputy Head of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate division in Yekaterinburg, Lieutenant Colonel Vladislav Sergeyev said in the course of a round table discussion today. ‘This year, the greatest number of cars – as far as shopping malls go – were hijacked from the parking lot of Leroy Merlin (4 autos altogether), 3 cars were stolen from Mega’s parking lot, and 2 cars were stolen from the parking lots of Park House and Yekaterininsky Mall each,’ Sergeyev said. He also pointed out that Leroy

November 21, 2013. A round table discussion was coordinated on the premises of Burevestnik Scientific Research Institute in Nizhniy Novgorod. The discussion was dedicated to the quality of arms and military vehicles. Nizhniy Novgorod Industry & Innovations Minister Vladimir Nefedov, as well as heads of enterprises and quality experts from different parts of Russia took part in the discussion, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. This round table discussion was one of the four such events held within the framework of the All-Russian forum called the Best Experience for a

November 21, 2013. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation was awarded a diploma in the Service to the Fatherland category for its active support of the social projects of the Civil Society Institutions Development Fund in Volga Federal District, the corporation’s press service says. One of the main things the Fund does is the practical implementation of the Russian President’s decrees on improvements in the government policy aimed at promoting patriotism. KaDetstvo, a project that is now being implemented in Volga Federal District at the initiative of Plenipotentiary

November 21, 2013. The shopping malls of Yekaterinburg were obliged to get anti-terrorist security passports, Head of the local police Public Security Department Major Mardan Gasanov. ‘The security passports will be developed in cooperation with the police. The passports will be checked and corrected on a recommendatory basis. All shopping malls must get a lifting gate for their parking lots as well as HD CCTV cameras that could store data for a week or longer,’ he said. The malls’ security service employees say that some organizations are already offering to get such a passport issued for

November 21, 2013. The Federal Accreditation Service (FSA) confirmed the professional competence of Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant’s sanitary & environmental lab (PNTZ, a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group), the company’s press service says. The FSA certified the lab to complete all the procedures relating to testing of production environment parameters as well as those of air and industrial emissions and of filtered storm water and natural surface water. ‘During their on-site inspection, experts looked into the methods of measurement and checked PNTZ quality management system; the lab

November 20, 2013. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) took part in the 19th International Industrial Exhibition Metal Expo 2013 held at All-Russian Exhibition Center in Moscow on November 12-15. 714 companies from 37 different countries took part in this largest metallurgical exhibition in Russia and the CIS. Over 30,000 experts visited the participants’ stands today, more than 50 different conferences, presentations, round table discussions, and seminars were held. ‘On the first day of Metal Expo 2013, awards were given to the winners of the Russian Metallurgical Industry’s Event of the Year

November 20, 2013. Uralcryomash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) is going to restore its hydrogen tanks production, the corporation’s press service reports. Now Uralcryomash experts were directly involved in the launch of a universal transportation space and missile system called Energiya-Buran on November 15, 1988. Uralcryomash supplied the machinery needed to deliver liquid hydrogen to Buran. The experts from Nizhniy Tagil were faced with a challenging task of setting up four hydrogen-supplying facilities. Three out of four such facilities were

November 20, 2013. The second session of the City Code Project was finished off with a photo shoot at the Iron Ozone 32, an electric steel-smelting facility. This means that the partnership project of Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ, a member of ChTPZ Group) on the creation of the world’s first cinemap in the web-doc format is now complete, ChTPZ Group’s press service reports. The City Code TV project is now being implemented by PNTZ and Pervouralsk New Culture Palace with some support from the Russian Ministry of Culture. The videos, filmed by ‘stalkers’, are based on the deeply personal

November 20, 2013. In 2014, Uralvagonzavod Corporation is planning to increase the production output of its 12-196-01 gondola cars with 12-194-01 bogies next year, the corporation’s Deputy DG for Railway Vehicles Andrei Shlenski said at the 4th annual Railway Vehicles Market Conference in Moscow. ‘The bogie makes it possible to prolong the between-repairs period up to 500,000 km and to increase freight capacity by 6,000 kg; it was designed specifically for the Russian railways. The gondola car and the bogie were developed by Ural Railway Building Design Office that is a member of