June 25, 2014. VUZ-Bank coordinated a large-scale (in terms of the number of visitors) and unique (in terms of format) event for its business customers last weekend. Starting from 2014, the bank has been implementing a new approach to customer service that is based on the customer club principle. Members of VUZ-Bank Club gathered together at an out-of-town resort on June 21 to get acquainted with one another, find new business partners, take part in useful workshops, and talk about the painful issues their businesses are struggling with, the bank’s press service reports. Nearly 200 sole

June 24, 2014. In compliance with the current legislation, Tominsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (a member enterprise of Russian Copper Company) informed the general public of holding public hearings on their preliminary report on the projected environmental impact the enterprise’s production and processing of ore in Tominsky ore deposit will have, Russian Copper Company’s PR Department says. The announcements of the hearings were carried by three types of mass media: on the national level, Rossiyskaya Gazeta published the announcement on June 20, while Yuzhnouralskaya Panorama

June 24, 2014. ChTZ-Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) shipped 61 vehicles to Surgutneftegaz, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘Our customers will receive bulldozers with hydro-mechanical transmission and an engine made at Yaroslavl Engine Plant, including swamp bulldozers and pipe-laying vehicles as well as towing tractors and wheeled loaders. The last vehicle for this shipment – a B10MB bulldozer with an angled blade that is meant for cleaning and maintaining ice roads – is leaving the plant in a day or two,’ the press service says. The agreement to have a

June 24, 2014. The members of Armada Cycling Team paid a visit to the stand Uralvagonzavod Corporation presented at Eurosatory 2014 exhibition, the corporation’s press service reports. Two-time world Paralympics cycling champion Alexei Obydennov and his coach examined the corporation’s stand and took part in a photo shoot. According to these sports players, the company did a very good job of presenting its developments to the visitors to and exponents at the exhibition. ‘Alexei Obydennov is taking part in yet another tour of international road racing competition in France. He is now among the

June 24, 2014. MegaFon’s Olympic pavilion won the grand prix at the Cannes Lions Festival, the largest annual event in the world of advertising. This is the first time in the festival’s 61-year history when the grand prix is heading for Russia, the company’s press service reports. The MegaFaces Project that was designed specially for the Sochi Olympics 2014 proved the marketing sensation of the year. It may absolutely serve as the starting point for the new trend in modern architecture and digital technologies. This interactive, hi tech structure has no counterparts anywhere else in the

June 24, 2014. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) and Sinara Group coordinated an annual open air art festival Arkhyz 2014 for their employees this June. The festival took place at Romantic Tourist Village in Arkhyz, an all-the-year-round mountain resort in Karachay-Cherkessia, TMK press service reports. ‘The main idea behind the festival, which won Russia’s Best Social Projects Contest last year, is to develop corporate culture and support creative efforts of TMK and Sinara Group’s personnel. The festival gathered together workers from the two companies’ sixteen member enterprises, who were

June 23, 2014. Contestants in and visitors to the 38th World Computer Programming Championship ACM-ICPC 2014 are beginning to arrive in Yekaterinburg. The event coordinators expect 1,200 students (representatives of 243 universities from 49 different countries) to come to the championship altogether. The computer programming championship will be held in Yekaterinburg on June 22-26. The first selection stage will take place at Uralochka Sports Center, and the final stage will take place at Cosmos Concert Hall. An entertainment program will also be presented to visitors to Yekaterinburg at

June 23, 2014. Breeze Café was reopened in Nizhniy Tagil’s Dzerzhinskiy District after a renovation; the café is located within company Sportivnaya 2 Hotel (an enterprise run by Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant). In 2014, renovations will also touch upon eleven more cafes and canteen operated by the plant, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. Breeze had to undergo large-scale changes, including not only remodeling of customer areas and cooking rooms but also replacement of equipment. The café has also got a totally new staff team now. ‘Professional designers were invited

June 23, 2014. Students from the Palace of Culture Youth Center operated by ChTZ-Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) are going to make their choreographic performances at Nessebar, Bulgaria, where they are going this summer, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘This is going to be the biggest dancing team to take their show to the far abroad: some fifty children from Poisk (a many-times winner of international and national contest) aged seven to fourteen will go on this ‘business trip’. If you consider the parents, who are accompanying the kids, the total number

June 23, 2014. Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeniy Kuivashev paid a visit to Seversky Pipe Plant (STZ, a member enterprise of Pipe Metallurgical Company/TMK) on June 19, 2014. According to TMK’s press service, the Governor started his tour from examining the suburban residential area called the Birch Tree Grove that had been put up by the plant. STZ Managing Director Mikhail Zuyev put the Governor in the picture of how the company employee housing program was moving on. The first section of the cottages was put up in 2011; it comprises 122 two-storey cottages with the area of 156 sq m each.

June 23, 2014. The number of MegaFon Ural’s subscribers who use roaming to communicate while traveling abroad has risen by 45% since the vacation season took off. The mobile carrier’s experts say July is likely to become the peak month in terms of roaming calls, so the company expects a booming interest in all the options that could help a subscriber save money while on vacation, the company’s press service reports. According to J’son & Partners’ analysts, 80% of Russians who traveled abroad last year actually used roaming services. ‘The summer of 2014 has seen a new trend: locals are

June 20, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Corporation is now organizing summer holiday programs for the youngest residents of Nizhniy Tagil. Last year’s experience has shown that edutainment programs are very popular with children, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘Every Thursday at 6PM throughout the summer months, edutainment shows will be coordinated for Nizhniy Tagil’s young residents at I.V. Okunev Palace of Culture: Uralvagonzavod decided to brighten up the leisure hours of the children who are spending their holidays in town,’ the company’s press release says. Uralvagonzavod started

June 20, 2014. ChTPZ Group’s Training Center coordinated an awarding ceremony for the winners of Work Dynasties Contest. The event was attended by the contest finalists and representatives of Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant, the company’s press service says. Over 300 students from local vocational schools created presentations on their future blue-collar jobs and presented these to students from local secondary schools in the course of career guidance sessions between March 1 and March 31, 2014. The goal of the contest is to enhance the prestige of blue-collar jobs, to inform the youth about

June 20, 2014.One of Jaguar and Land Rover’s two Yekaterinburg-based dealers – Krasnolesye Auto Show - is going to lose its status as the brands’ official representative on June 30, 2014. ‘Starting on June 30, 2014, Jaguar Land Rover Russia stops cooperating with Krasnolesye in Yekaterinburg upon the parties’ mutual agreement; this has to do with differing views on the brand’s market development,’ Jaguar Land Rover’s PR Manager Daria Golovina explained to UrBC. The company representative added that a renovated, up-to-date dealer Britannia had been operating in Yekaterinburg since March 2014.

June 20, 2014. The charity work done by for-profit organizations based in the Urals (as well as by those located in the rest of Russia) has been evolving in an extensive way and needs to be made more efficient, Director of CAF Russia (Moscow) Maria Chertok said at a press conference on charity projects in the Urals. Now according to the findings of a research on corporate charity projects conducted by Expert Ural Analytical Center among for-profit organizations, corporate volunteer work remains the prevalent form of charity. The most wide-spread projects are financial aid to specific families

June 20, 2014. Head of Yekaterinburg Administration Alexander Yakob signed a decree that set out an additional list of roads to be repaired and reconstructed this year. According to the administration’s press service, the appendix to the document contains a list of motorways and roads that have to be repaired in 2014. There are 34 such roads on the list. An additional 700m RUR will be allocated from Sverdlovsk Region budget for the purpose. Among the most important structures are Shevchenko St (from the viaduct to Karl Liebknecht St), Gagarin St (from Blyukher St to Pervomayskaya St),

June 19, 2014. A teaser site for the innovative tram R1 (Russia One) made by Uraltransmash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) is now available at r1.uvz.ru. According to the corporation’s press service, the website gives visitors an idea of some parts of the tram and of what the model will look like. ‘The tram in its entirety will only be presented at the Innoprom 2014 Exhibition in Yekaterinburg on July 9, as well as on the website – r1.uvz.ru will get updated, and specialized accounts within social networks will start operating as well,’ the corporation says. The R1 Project

June 19, 2014. In 2013, Yekaterinburg had the biggest advertising market among all the Russian cities with population over 1m people, Deltaplan Advertising Group’s research findings indicate. ‘Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk, whose ad markets amount to 4.47bn RUR and 4.41bn RUR, respectively (13% and 15% more than in 2012), remained the market leaders in 2013. Kazan, with its 3.05bn RUR, is No.3 on the market, even though its figures are considerably smaller. If it hadn’t been for Kazan market’s impressive growth rate last year (a 25% increase on 2012, the biggest rise among all the cities in

June 19, 2014. Ural division of the Federal Environmental, Technological, and Nuclear Surveillance Service detected 391 violations of industrial security requirements at EVRAZ NTMK. The violations were all related to operation of hazardous industrial objects, the Service’s press officer reports. The violations were detected during a scheduled on-site inspection of 18 hazardous objects located at 1 Metallurgov St, Nizhniy Tagil and 1 Engels St, Nizhnyaya Salda. For one, the enterprise did not have a provision on the industrial safety management system; nor did it design an action plan for

June 19, 2014. Yekaterinburg-based football supporters will be able to enjoy a live broadcast of the Russia-Belgium game on June 22: the game will be broadcast in the fan zone in Mayakovsky Park, Yekaterinburg Council’s press service reports. The FIFA International Supporters Festival 2014 Yekaterinburg coordinators are planning on improving the fan zone navigation by installing additional information signs that will help visitors find the fan zone and by expanding the range of food items available for purchase in the food court. On the day of the match, Soviet Sport Show will begin on the