October 16, 2014. Director-General of ChTZ Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) Viktor Voropayev was elected Chairman of Russian Engineering Union’s Chelyabinsk branch. He succeeded the former head of Ural Car Factory Viktor Korman in this position, the corporation’s press service says. Deputy Chairman of the Russian Defense Industry Board Oleg Bochkarev spoke at the branch meeting. He said that the program adopted by the government means 70% of the armament systems used by the Russian Armed Forces must be up-to-date by 2020. 23 trillion RUR will be directed for the

October 16, 2014. The number of apartments available for purchase in Yekaterinburg keeps growing. According to the Ural Chamber of Real Estate’s calculations, the supply has been increasing by 1% a week since early April. The overall increase reached 35% (2,600 more apartments) in April-mid-October. At the moment, there are over 10,000 apartments and 1,770 rooms in communal apartments advertised for sale through estate agents. The number of rooms for sale rose by 28% in five and a half months. Analysts indicate that the existing homes market supply has reached its six-year maximum. In

October 15, 2014. Uraltransmash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) was visited by Assistant to Governor of Volgograd Region Vasiliy Galushkin and Director-General of Metroelectrotrans Nikolai Zhukov. The visitors had a chance to look at the enterprise’s tram-making facility, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. During their meeting with Uraltransmash DG Alexei Nosov, the officials talked about modernization of urban public transport and inter-industrial cooperation in the field of light-rail vehicle development as well as about preparation for the World Cup

October 15, 2014. ChTPZ Group has mastered the production of new, highly profitable kind of produce: first-generation H2S-proof OCTGs with Premium ChT-Vt threads of the company’s own design. This is actually part of the company’s import replacement program. These OCTGs can be used for development of oil wells within highly corrosive environments, that is, with increased H2S and CO2 content, ChTPZ Group’s press service says. These OCTGs have the diameter of 73mm and wall witdth 5.5mm. Providing these pipes with special ducts with VAGT-ChT-Vt threaded joints for connecting a pipe column to the

October 15, 2014. The foreign trade turnover in Ural Federal District came to $28.8bn in January-August 2014, the press service of Ural Customs Administration reports. 92.8% of all the traded goods were imported to or exported from the countries of the far abroad, while 7.2% were imported to or exported from the CIS member states. Imports came to 16.5% of the total foreign trade turnover, 83.5% of all the goods were exported. At the same time, the district’s trade turnover dropped by 41.8% in the eight months of 2014 compared with a year earlier; the freight turnover decreased by 49.3% and

October 15, 2014. Yekaterinburg’s profits came to 15.069bn RUR in the first half of 2014, which comes to 52.7% of the target figures, Head of Yekaterinburg Council Finance Department Andrei Koryukov said at Yekaterinburg Municipal Duma meeting. According to Koryukov, the city’s fiscal and non-fiscal profits amounted to 8.635bn RUR; 38% of this sum stems from personal income tax. More than 6.5bn RUR were directed to Yekaterinburg Treasury from federal and Sverdlovsk Region budget funds. The city council spent 13.494bn RUR as of July 1, 2014, which came to 44.4% of the target figures. Most of

October 15, 2014. It became known during the 19th scheduled meeting of the heads of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China’s Governments that China was going to act as the official partner of the 6th International Industrial Fair Innoprom 2015 in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s Ministry for Industry & Trade reports. The memorandum of intent was signed by the Russian Minister for Industry & Trade and the Chinese Minister for Commerce in the presence of Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev and Li Keqiang, the Premier of the People's Republic of China and party

October 14, 2014. WorldSkills Hi Tech Russia, the national blue-collar jobs championship, will be held at Yekaterinburg EXPO in Yekaterinburg on October 30-November 4, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. The Department says Yekaterinburg EXPO is one of Ural Federal District’s few sites that are capable of hosting the event thanks to their experience and technical capacities. The exhibition center is already busy preparing for the upcoming championship. The All-Russian blue-collar jobs championship puts forth quite strict requirements that the hosting site

October 14, 2014. ZAO Regional Construction Group Akademicheskoye topped the rating of developers based in the Urals and Western Siberia; the rating was created by Expert Rating Agency based on data for the year 2013. According to the agency’s research findings, the company’s output grew by 15.1% last year, while its revenues increased by 1.4bn RUR and reached 10.6bn RUR. Tyumen Housing Construction Company came second in the rating, while Atomstroycomplex Corporation was the last of the big three. Now ZAO Regional Construction Group Akademicheskoye is the developer behind Yekaterinburg’s new

October 14, 2014. On October 10, 2014, the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense coordinated its Military Produce Acceptance Day, and Uraltransmash DG Alexei Nosov apprised the Russian Defense Minister General Sergei Shoigu of the fact that the enterprise’s three-year contract for the production and delivery of 152-mm self-propelled howitzers 2S19M2 had been fulfilled, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. ‘Our 2S19M2 152-mm self-propelled howitzer was a result of designer improvements of self-propelled howitzer Msta. The 2S19M2 model is a highly mobile, full-track combat

October 14, 2014. As of October 5, 2014, gasoline prices stood at 32.74 RUR per liter, which was 0.4% more than a week earlier (32.61 RUR), Rosstat reports. A liter of AI 92 costs 31.5 RUR (+0.45% on last week’s 31.36 RUR), AI 95 now comes for 34.03 RUR per liter against last week’s 33.9 RUR (+ 0.39%). The price of diesel fuel remained the same as last week and comes to 33.1 RUR per liter.

October 14, 2014. Unknown Tankprom: The Industry in the National Economy opened in State Central Museum of Modern Russian History on October 11. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation, Polytechnic Museum, and the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for History of Natural Sciences & Technology acted as the main organizers of the event. The choice of the opening date was by no means a coincidence: October 11 is the official launch date of Uralvagonzavod. According to the corporation’s press service, the company’s Deputy DG for PR and GR Alexei Zharich said at the opening

October 13, 2014. Experts from ChTZ Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) are about to complete their testing of a bulldozer with a plough that is fitted onto the front of the vehicle. ‘In October, the vehicle will become part of the plant’s product range. This means this is going to be a series-produced bulldozer, and customers can already place their orders,’ the corporation’s press service says. The new product is expected to enjoy demand with foresters and firefighters. The bulldozer is meant for laying fire barriers that help prevent ground fire from spreading and

October 13, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Corporation delivered its final batch of fifteen 152-mm self-propelled howitzers 2S19M2 (Msta-S) to the Russian Federation Defense Ministry, Interfax Military News Agency refers to Alexei Nosov, the Director-General of Uraltransmash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) as saying. ‘This batch closes up on our three-year contract for the delivery of 108 self-propelled howitzers. The delivery was completed ahead of schedule,’ Nosov said. According to Alexei Nosov, the Defense Ministry has already received 93 self-propelled howitzers that are

October 13, 2014. Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) renewed its license allowing the company to neutralize and dispose of wastes pertaining to substance hazard categories I to IV, the enterprise’s press service reports. The license was issued by Ural Federal District division of the Federal Surveillance Service for the Use of Natural Resources in accordance with the legal requirements. This is a lifetime license, in fact. The plant underwent an inspection aimed at checking the performance of neutralizing facilities and waste disposal sites and at looking into the

October 13, 2014. The supply on Yekaterinburg existing homes market has reached a seven-year high, Ural Chamber of Real Estate’s Analytical Agency reports. There are currently nearly 10,000 apartments and 1,750 rooms in communal apartments available for sale in the Chamber’s database. At the same time, the new homes market supply is rising noticeably. In fact, the record-setting 2.8m sq m worth of new housing are being put up in apartment buildings this year. As for prices, the median price of a square meter of Yekaterinburg-based housing advertised for sale came to 75,830 RUR on October 6,

October 13, 2014. Experts from South Yekaterinburg division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog) in Sverdlovsk Region inspected OOO Labyrinth Yekaterinburg and found unsafe alcohol produce at Red & White Wine Store at 37 Shcherbakov St in Yekaterinburg in September 2014. The strong drink is no longer sold there, Rospotrebnadzor’s press service reports. A lab test protocol provided by Sverdlovsk Region Hygiene & Epidemiology Center indicates that Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey Liqueur in a 0.7-liter bottle (bottled on June 15, 2013), 1926 Fayetteville Hwy Lynchburg,

October 10, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Corporation is going to take part in an exhibition called The Unknown Tankprom: The Tank Industry in the National Economy & Human Life; the corporation will present its exhibits there, the company’s press service reports. The opening ceremony will take place at the State Central Museum of Modern Russian History in Moscow on October 11. The exhibits will include Uralvagonzavod’s freight carriages that were made in the sixties, the seventies, and the eighties and were featured at the Exhibition of National Economy Achievements (VDNKh) at the time. The

October 10, 2014. Ural Airlines rendered its services to 4,052,074 passengers between January 1 and September 30, 2014, which was 18% more than in the nine months of 2013. In the nine months of 2014, 31,054 flights were operated via Ural Airlines’ aircraft, including 10,265 international flights, 14,809 domestic flights, and 5,980 flights within the CIS. This was 21% more than a year earlier. The company’s passenger traffic has risen by 16% since the start of the year compared with 2013 and reached 10,505,165,000 passenger-kilometers, the airline’s press service says. The company flew 565,003

October 10, 2014. As of October 1, 2014, the amount of overdue debt held by Sverdlovsk Region-based enterprises amounted to 23.642m RUR, Sverdlovskstat reports. This figure is 38.2% higher than in the previous quarter and 4.7 times higher than a year earlier.