May 21, 2014. A two-day research-to-practice conference held on the premises of Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant was dedicated to training competitive blue-collar workers as part of the corporate training strategy. According to the corporation’s press service, heads of HR departments from all over the holding, representatives of Sverdlovsk Region-based defense enterprises, and founders and representatives of Uralvagonzavod Corporate University came to discuss the issue. The conference comprised three round table discussions: 1) Dual Education. German Experience and Dual Education

May 20, 2014. ChTPZ Group started mass production of large-diameter pipes with a three-layer, corrosion-resistant polyethylene coating based on nano-modified materials made by Rosnano Metaclay. These unique materials are expected to replace their foreign counterparts on the domestic market, the enterprise’s press service says. Russian high-density polyethylene is modified with the help of nanosilicates and has the properties necessary for making pipes that are resistant to heat, wear, and cracking and stay flexible in low temperatures. The first industrial-scale shipments of nano-coated pipes

May 20, 2014. Yurginsky Machine-Building Plant (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) adopted a policy of and set targets for quality, environmental protection, labor protection, and industrial safety for 2014. ‘Yurginsky Plant is trying to enhance its long-term competitiveness and to increase its customers’ trust. Making hi tech, science-intensive, competitive produce as well as ensuring safe working conditions for staff and minimizing their environmental impact are the company’s top priorities in this. This is why an intergraded management system was

May 20, 2014. Representatives of some 600 companies from 70 different countries will take part in the international industrial exhibition Innoprom 2014 that will take part in Yekaterinburg on July 9-12. This is comparable with last year’s figures, the exhibition’s press service told UrBC. These 600 companies comprise exponents, participants, and the business forum speakers, it is explained. According to the press service, they expect at least as many visitors to the event as last year, that is, 53,000 people. The industrial exhibition Innoprom will take place in Yekaterinburg for the 5th time

May 20, 2014. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK), one of the world’s leading OCTG manufacturers, and Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd, the operator of one of the world’s largest multi-faceted oil and gas projects Sakhalin 2, signed a memorandum of understanding, TMK’s press service reports. The memorandum provides for the development of effective cooperation in terms of getting TMK’s pipe products qualified and certified as to whether they can be used by Sakhalin Energy. The memorandum provides for an audit and technical qualification of Volzhsky Pipe Plant and Taganrog Metallurgical

May 20, 2014. Museum Night, an international multicultural project that unfolded in Yekaterinburg on the night between May 17 and May 18 with some support from the city council, was attended by approximately 100,000 people. According to the spokesperson for Yekaterinburg Council, data on the number of locals and visitors who checked out the 73 exhibition points in Yekaterinburg keep going up. ‘This is the 8th time this multicultural project has been taking place in Yekaterinburg, and it undoubtedly attracts increasingly more residents and visitors with every round,’ Yekaterinburg Council’s

May 19, 2014. 25 years ago, on May 17, 1989, the USSR Defense Ministry’s Order 0127 put the self-propelled howitzer Msta-S into service. ‘The howitzer was developed by Transmash Design Office of Uraltransmash (currently a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod) under the guidance of Chief Designer Yuri Tomashov. Msta-S outstripped both its predecessor 2S3M Akatsia and its foreign counterparts at the time in terms of every single parameter,’ the corporation’s press service says. 2S19 Msta-S has an increased maximum fire range and yet can still use the ‘old’ ammunition from Akatsia set. Thanks to

May 19, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region was declared the best Russian Federation constituency for small and medium enterprises’ development and in terms of creating a growth-inducing environment at the All-Russian SME Days Forum in Moscow on May 13-15, 2014, the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region Entrepreneurship Support Fund reports. 11 Russian Federation constituencies and over 300 small and medium enterprises took part in the forum. Sverdlovsk Region was represented by Sverdlovsk Region Entrepreneurship Support Fund, whose stand featured presentations of seven innovative enterprises. Six companies

May 19, 2014. Unemployment rate in Sverdlovsk Region in February-April 2014 was estimated at 5.6% by the International Labour Organization, Sverdlovskstat’s press service says. The number of working residents came to an average of 2,261,200 people in these three months (February-April 2014), including 2,134,300 people with a job (94.4%) and 126,900 people (5.6%) without a job but one the lookout for one (the ILO classification defines them as the unemployed). 28,700 people (1.2% of the local work force) were registered as unemployed with the state-run employment agencies by the end of April

May 19, 2014. Ural Locomotives (a joint venture run by Sinara Group and Siemens AG) came up with a report on their first compliance audit aimed at checking how the company meets the IRIS International Railway Industry Standard. According to Sinara Group’s press service, a group of independent auditors from DGS, Austria, confirmed the company has been successfully improving its business management system in accordance with the requirements set out in the railway industry’s primary standard. The IRIS compliance audit comprised looking into the changes taking place last year in the way the

May 19, 2014. ChTZ-Uraltrac (ChTZ, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) started shipping its B10M bulldozers to Russian Railways. According to the corporation’s press service, Russian Railways won a tender for the delivery of 25 B10M bulldozers to the Central Railway Repair Directorate. This is actually more than last year, when 10 such bulldozers were ordered. ‘The vehicles will be used for repair and maintenance of railways all over the country. The bulldozers will be shipped to locations ranging from the Northern Caucasus to the Jewish Autonomous

May 16, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities detected over 130 violations of the immigration law in the three months of 2014; these offenses were committed by administrative office holders and legal entities, Senior Public Prosecutor of Sverdlovsk Region Department for Surveillance over Compliance with the Federal Legislation & Citizens’ Rights & Freedoms Natalya Pelevina said at a recent press conference. To eliminate these violations, 18 protests and 24 administrative reports were submitted, with 20 people facing administrative liability and ten cases placed with

May 16, 2014. Yekaterinburg Customs revealed a series of instances when foreign cars were imported temporarily in Sverdlovsk Region and sold illegally, the spokesperson for Ural Customs Administration reports. ‘Automobiles get transferred here from the Baltic States or from the CIS by the citizens of the said states and are then sold illegally to Russian Federation subjects without any customs duty payments or without an official certificate of title. The purchasers of such cars got pulled over in Yekaterinburg and in Sverdlovsk Region by road police officers and were only able to produce a

May 16, 2014. More than 299m RUR will be invested in repair jobs at Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil this year. According to the corporation’s press service, the repairs have already started and will comprise reconstruction of roofs at production departments, medical units, and canteens and replacement of window panes. This year, a total of 48,000 sq m of roofs will be repaired at a number of metallurgical, mechanical assembly, and carriage assembly departments. A total of 770 sq m of window panes will be replaced, and five chimneystacks

May 16, 2014. Ural Airlines offered their services to 1,269,007 passengers between January 1, 2014 and April 30, 2014. This was 23% more than a year earlier, the airline’s press service says. 10,884 flights have been operated since the beginning of the year, including 3,217 international flights, 4,820 domestic flights, and 2,847 flights around the CIS. The air carrier’s passenger traffic rose by 22% in January through April compared with the first four months of 2013 and amounted to 3,397,161,000 passenger-kilometers). In April 2014, Ural Airlines operated 2,979 flights, including 928

May 16, 2014. The telecommunications provider MegaFon is offering its subscribers a chance to benefit from the new SMS Control service which allows every phone user to protect themselves against unwanted texts. The service makes it possible for a user to unsubscribe from spam messages by blacklisting the senders, the company’s press service reports. This service is 100% free of charge and is extremely easy to manage. One needs to dial *903# to get access to the last ten phone numbers from which text messages were sent. It only takes two clicks to blacklist any of these numbers. The black list

May 15, 2014. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works was the 5th in the 'anniversary' 10th rating of the largest exporters in the Urals and Western Siberia. The rating was carried by Expert-Ural Magazine based on the data for 2013. The annual rating of one hundred largest exporters is based on the data relating to the export activity of companies based in Sverdlovsk Region, Chelyabinsk Region, Orenburg Region, Kurgan Region, Tyumen Region (including its autonomous districts), Perm Territory, Bashkortostan, and Udmurtia. The rating features businesses not only from the production sector

May 15, 2014. ChTPZ Group is about to complete the delivery of large-diameter pipes (LDPs) for the construction of a conduit at Russky Island; the conduit will stretch along the bottom of the Sea of Japan. The company's press service reports that the shipment comes to more than 1,000,0000 kg, the delivery is to be completed in March-May 2014. The Maritime Territory Administration acted as the customer for the order. 'The 720-mm pipes with wall width 12mm are made from high quality low-alloyed steels with fortified outer corrosion-resistant coating and inner corrosion-resistant

May 15, 2014. Ural Airlines' fleet of vehicles now comprises 19th mid-haul airliner Airbus A320 which arrived in Yekaterinburg from the Philippines, the airline's press service reports. This means that the air carrier now operates 33 aircraft (19 A320 ones, 10 A321 ones, and 4 A319 ones). An aircraft can fit 160 people (there are 144 seats in the economy class section and 12 seats in the business class one). The new plane will be used for both international and domestic flights. The air carrier is planning to purchase 3 more Airbus A320 liners this year. Ural Airlines launched its

May 15, 2014. Members of Armada, the Russian Paralympic cycling team sponsored by Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation, took part in the first stage of the UCI World Cup in Paralympic cycling as part of the Russian national team. The contest took place in Tuscany, Italy, on May 9-11. 318 sports players from 36 different countries took part in the championship. According to the corporation's press service, Alexei Obydennov became the World Cup champion on the first day of the event after winning the first prize in the individual 30-km race in Class C3. Another one of