UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 9, 2015. The official unemployment figures came to 139,412 people in Sverdlovsk Region last month, which exceeded the figures for a year earlier by 7,284 people. According to Sverdlovskstat, the unemployment rate thus came to 6.1% against 5.8% in August 2014. 994 more people were out of jobs in late August 2015 than in December 2014.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 9, 2015. Pay parking lots yielded 1.066m RUR to Yekaterinburg budget in August 2015, the city council reports. 'We've got pay parking lots with 2,354 car slots at the moment, including the 854 slots introduced last month. A special mobile app will be launched any day now so that drivers can use their bank cards to pay their parking fees from their smartphones,' the city council says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 8, 2015. The average monthly pay came to 32,600 RUR in Sverdlovsk Region in the first half of 2015, which, as it turns out, is nearly 3,000 RUR below the country's average, Rosstat reports via the agency website. The statistics agency‘s findings indicate that the average monthly pay in Russia stood at 35,400 RUR in the first half of 2015. The figure for Ural Federal District was 41,300 RUR, with the highest salaries and wages paid in Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region (79,000 RUR a month on average), Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region (65,000 RUR), and

UrBC, Moscow, September 8, 2015. Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev signed a decree allocating 1.25bn RUR worth of subsidies to twenty federal constituencies, the Russian Government's website states. 'The present decree confirms that 1,250m RUR must be allocated from the federal budget 2015 funds to twenty Russian Federation constituencies for the development of twenty-four innovative clusters,' the document states. Under this decree, Tatarstan will get the biggest bit, 158m RUR. 135 m RUR will go to Samara Region, and 104m RUR will be directed to Novosibirsk Region.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 8, 2015. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) delivered its premium pipe products to Yamal SPG, the company press service reports. The two companies signed a contract for premium pipe supplies in 2014-2020 last year. Yamal SPG needs the pipes for the development of its Yuzhno-Tambeiskoye gas condensate deposit in the northeast of Yamal Peninsula. This year, the oil and gas company received 1,748 tons of cold-resistant pipes, including 1,716 tons of premium pipes: 324mm, 244.48mm and 177.8mm casing pipes with premium threaded joints TMK UP FMC and TMK UP PF, 114mm

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 8, 2015. The 10th International RAE 2015 Exhibition is likely to become the most large-scale exhibition of this kind so far in terms of both the grandeur of the military vehicles shows and in terms of the number of international delegations signing up for the event, Director-General of Business Dialogue Anatoly Kitsura said in his interview to Komsomolskaya Pravda Radio Station. The military vehicle show is going to be something quite extraordinary this year. 'The idea is to reproduce a rebuff of an invasion in a real-time mode. Also, any exhibition is a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 8, 2015. 34 young employees of Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant/PNTZ (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) are going to get their college tuition fees covered by the company. This is part of the Group‘s cooperation program with B.N. Yeltsin Ural Federal University. Students will get their degrees in Pipe Production Technologies and Equipment at UFU‘s off-site department that is located right on the plant‘s premises, ChTPZ Group‘s press service reports. Students will specialize in either metal treatment under pressure or industrial units automation. They will be

UrBC, Moscow, September 7, 2015. The number of Russian international travelers went down by 24% in the first half of 2015, with 16.43m Russians traveling abroad in the six months of the year, Rostourism refers to Rosstat as stating. The number of travelers who went abroad as tourists rather than on business decreased by 33.8%, down to 5.49m people. Finland proved the most popular destination in absolute numbers, with 1.7m people (-30% on a year earlier) going there in the first half of the year. However, only 118,992 of them were tourists, which was 35.9% less than a year earlier. As for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2015. A virtual countdown timer will be activated on Yekaterinburg's official website 1,000 days before the start of the World Football Championship 2018, the city council's press service reports Deputy head of council Sergey Tushin said at his meeting with the council officials that the timer will start 'ticking' on September 18, 2015. Tushin says an actual clock will also appear in Yekaterinburg a bit later, 500 days before the championship kicks off. The exact spot for the device is to become a matter of public discussion.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2015. Despite the current economic crisis, 59% of Yekaterinburg residents are not ready to work more unless their salary goes up accordingly, E1.Rabota's PR Service refers to the findings of their survey (carried out jointly with Zarplata.ru) as indicating. 50% of those respondents who said they were unwilling to take on a greater workload are already dissatisfied with their pay, so they would rather start looking for a new job. 35% of those surveyed admitted they wouldn't like to work harder, while 11% complained their workload was already

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2015. The amount of building materials transported via Sverdlovsk Railways decreased by 19.2% compared with a year earlier, the company press service reports. The carrier also handled 1.8% less of chemical and mineral fertilizers, 9.4% less of scrap ferrous metals, 3.2% less of cement, and 11.9% less of coke. On the other hand, the amount of oil and petroleum products cargo, industrial raw stuffs, chemicals and soda, timber, and grains increased by 16.2%, 7%, 6.1%, 11.5%, and 22.1%, respectively. The company's overall freight turnover came to 132.2bn

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2015. The average price of gasoline went up from 34.59 RUR to 34.79 RUR in Yekaterinburg in the course of one week, Rosstat reports. As of August 17, AI 92 could be bought for 33.8 RUR per liter on average, AI 95 and diesel fuel were sold for 36.11 RUR and 34.65 RUR per liter, respectively. In fact, car fuel grew more expensive in sixty-three constituency capitals last week.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, September 7, 2015. MMK Group invested 5.1bn RUR in the production development of its member enterprises, including 4.6bn RUR directed to Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works, the company reports. A big part of the money (1.2bn RUR) was spent on retooling Blast Furnace 8. 800,000m RUR more will be required to complete the renovation. MMK Group keeps investing in reconstruction of its environmental protection facilities and in trying to reduce the company’s negative impact on the air quality. The tasks currently at hand are the reconstruction of Sulfur

UrBC, Moscow, September 4, 2015. 149 banks are now under the Russian Central Bank’s special supervision, Banki.ru reports. ‘We keep an eye on 149 banks, our local divisions are in close daily contact with their management and proprietors. 68 of these banks are currently faced with serious enough limitations,’ says the Central Bank’s Deputy Chair Mikhail Sukhov. Sukhov says all the 149 banks submit daily reports to the Central Bank.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 4, 2015. 16,956 people are found to be working in Sverdlovsk Region with no employment contracts, the Economics Ministry refers to Director of Sverdlovsk Region Labor & Employment Department Dmitri Antonov as reporting. ‘As of August 20, 2015, 16,956 people working in Sverdlovsk Region did not have any employment contracts; as a result of our inspections, these were signed with 14,137 workers, 14,092 of whom are currently still employed; this comes to 17% of our target figures,’ Antonov said at a government meeting on issues relating to pay and labor

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 4, 2015. The average housing prices in Yekaterinburg declined by 4.1% between January and August 2015, Ural Chamber of Real Estate’s Analytical Department reports. ‘Despite a certain upward trend in July, the demand for housing remains low on the whole. Sellers kept on advertising for new apartments in the spring and summer, however. As a result, the current housing supply is up by 46% compared with February. Over 11,400 apartments and 1,800 rooms in communal apartments are now available for purchase through estate agents. It takes an average of five to six

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 4, 2015. Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (member enterprises of ChTPZ Group) produced and delivered 700,000 kg of GL pipes to TEK Mosenergo, the designer and developer of Yakutskaya Power Station 2, the Group’s press service reports. The two plants’ produce will be used for making an elevated pipeline to connect the station’s primary and auxiliary production sites. The pipes in question are 89mm and 108mm ones (wall thickness 4mm) made of 09G2S steel, 219mm ones (wall thickness 7mm) from Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant and 426mm ones

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 4, 2015. Uralvagonzavod Corporation presented its innovative rolling stock at the 5th International EXPO 1520 Railway Exhibition; the event is hosted by Experimental Ring in Shcherbinka, Moscow Region. The corporation’s press service reports visitors to the exhibition could see the 18-555 and 18-194 trucks, the 94 m3 12-196-02 gondola car, and the 15-5157-04 tank car. A multifunctional vehicle TMV2, an alternative to a shunter, was also presented in Shcherbinka, as was a new container car with body made of composite materials. This innovative product is meant

UrBC, Moscow, September 3, 2015. Russian banks issued their borrowers 338,502 mortgage loans in rubles, with the overall amount at 555.3bn RUR, between January 1 and July 31, 2015. This is 40% less than a year earlier, Banki.ru refers to the Russian Central Bank as reporting. The average weighted interest rate has gone down from 14.04% on January 1 to 13.93% on July 1. Additionally, 67 mortgage loans in foreign currency, with the overall amount at 2.15bn RUR, were also issued in the given period. The average weighted interest rate on these mortgages was 10.08%. The overall mortgage debt came

UrBC, Moscow, September 3, 2015. Private individuals' past-due loan payments amounted to 865.1bn RUR on September 1, 2015; this was the largest figure over the last seven years, Banki.ru refers to Sequoia Credit Consolidation, a collecting agency, as stating. The collectors report the scale of lending by Russian banks went down by 5.13% by September 1 compared wit the start of the year, with the overall amount at 10.74bn RUR. The amount of loans issued to private individuals kept going down by 1% to 1.3% every month throughout January to April and by no more than 0.4% in May and June,