UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 26, 2015. Four employees of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation were awarded Sverdlovsk Region Government's honorary certificates for their work performance, the corporation's press service reports. The awardees made great contribution to the Russian tank-making sector's and defense industry's development. They are: Head of Ural Vagon Zavod Tool-Making Office Evgeniy Kochergin, leading engineer from the Welding Department Mikhail Rozin, combat and special-purpose vehicles operator/tester Pavel Semenov, and leading engineer from Production

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 26, 2015. ChTPZ Group held a presentation for representatives of Russia's leading oil and gas companies and the Group's key customers: Gazprom, Transneft, LUKoil, Surgutneftegas, Bashneft, Slavneft, Irkutsk Oil Company, and SIBUR, the company press service reports. The Group made a presentation on its development strategy for 2015-2020. Within the next five years, the company intends to keep growing more financially healthy and gradually reduce its debt burden, which will make it possible to invest in technological advancement to suit the market's

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 26, 2015. Ural Airlines is offering special rates on its domestic flights on October 23-26, the company press service reports. The offer is valid for bookings made between October 23 and 26 only for flights to be operated between October 26, 2015 and April 22, 2016. Special rates are offered on all domestic flights operated from Moscow as well as on Novosibirsk-Khabarovsk-Novosibirsk and Irkutsk-Vladivostok-Irkutsk. Tickets can be booked on the airline website, with the help of Uralairlines App or the company's call center as well as at any booking office.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 26, 2015. MegaFon Ural looked into its subscriber data to find out residents of which cities seem more interested in numerical effects in the mobile communications sphere, the company press service reports. It follows from the analysis of the telecommunications provider's database that most of its 'good-looking' numbers belong to subscribers based in Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, and Surgut. These cities currently host the greatest number of people with the so-called 'gold', 'silver', and 'platinum' digit combinations that

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 26, 2015. The prices of consumer goods and services went up by 11.4% in September 2015 compared with December 2014; a year earlier, the increase stood at 6.1% (September 2014 against December 2013), Sverdlovskstat reports. The overall increase in food prices (including strong drinks) was above that of last year (11.7% against 8.9%). Food items (excluding strong drinks) grew 12.3% more expensive ( against 8.7% a year earlier). Fish and seafood, meat, bread and pastry, milk and dairy products grew 19.2%, 9.4%, 9.2%, and 9.1% more expensive, respectively. The price

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 23, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region-based companies are planning to make 5,109 people redundant (as of October 21,2015), Sverdlovsk Region Labor & Employment Department’s report states. These companies are: Rostelecom (320 people), Litoy Element VSMZ in Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha (226 people), Verkhniy Tagil Power Station (262 people). So far, 10,000 locals have already lost their jobs, and only 3,865 people have been able to find a new one. The largest-scale layoffs were registered in ESK Energomost in Yekaterinburg (444 people), Novaya Lyalya Pulp Plant (749 people),

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 23, 2015. Yekaterinburg existing home prices dropped by 5.6% compared with the start of the year and by 6.2% compared with February, Ural Real Estate Chamber reports. As of October 19, 2015, the average asking price of a square meter of an existing home in Yekaterinburg came to 71,957 RUR. The market supply is still at its peak: potential customers can choose from 11,600 apartments and 1,900 rooms in communal apartments in the chamber’s database. The supply of two-bedroom apartments has gone by 22% since the start of the year, that of one-bedrooms ones by 37%, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 23, 2015. Seversky Pipe Plant (a member enterprise of OAO TMK) is hosting a show by the U.S.-based Eli Yamin Blues Band, TMK press service reports. The band comprises four virtuoso musicians whose blues took away the breath of listeners in America, China, Mali, Japan, and Europe’s best concert halls. The CC Machine Blues Show is dedicated to the one year since the launch of the company’s new FQM mill, commissioned by Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev in October 2014. The machine reached its projected capacity and made 37,000,000 kg of pipes in the course of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 23, 2015. LEPSE (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) got its metrological lab certified for ensuring the uniformity of measurements; the approval certificates are not limited in time, the company press service reports. Following the submission of all the papers (a certification application, the lab’s quality control manual, certificates for standards of units, and data relating to the measuring rooms and the lab workers who do the measurements), LEPSE was visited by Rosakkreditatsiya committee in September. The committee found the lab’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 23, 2015. Uraltransmash hosted a meeting of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s member enterprises on launch of lean production. According to the corporation’s press service, experts from Yekaterinburg, Rubtsovsk, Nizhniy Tagil, Tomsk, Chelyabinsk, and Kamensk Uralsky who supervise the introduction of the 5S system to their respective plants shared their experience and action plans. The principles of lean production have been integrated into the corporation’s member enterprises for a few years now, so there is certain experience to share, some results to look at, and

UrBC, Moscow, October 22, 2015. Russia’s TV commercials market is expected to shrink by 17% by the end of the year, Interfax refers to Vi as claiming. ‘We can see the prices have grown stable now, and the situation is predictable on the whole,’ Vi Director-General Sergei Vasilyev said at the Dentsu Aegis Network conference recently. Vi expects the commercials market to sag by 17% this year, even though the forecast made in December 2014 spoke of the less optimistic 25% to 40%. The company feels the market will decrease by another 7% after a 10% fall in September, a 14% fall in August, and a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2015. Yekaterinburg Council intends to purchase fifty more new buses to add to its fleet of public transport vehicles, the city council’s press service reports. This is the second tender the city council is holding this year; the idea is to get 46 to 47 buses on a lease. These buses need to have foreign-made engines and gearboxes, low-floor bodies, and large capacity and to run on natural gas. ‘We expect all the major Russian and the CIS suppliers such as MAZ, LiAZ, NefAZ, and Volzhanin as well as all the other large Russian and CIS bus manufacturers, to make

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2015. Gagarinsky Health Resort run by Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant/PNTZ (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) won the first prize in Sverdlovsk Region’s Best Children’s Camps Contest, the company press service reports. The winner’s certificate was given to the company representative by Sverdlovsk Region’s Vice Premier Vladimir Vlasov at the All-Russian Children’s Recreation Conference. There were seven countryside camps competing for the prize all in all. Gagarinsky was chosen for its innovative approach to the organization of the plant employees’ children’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2015. A new, numerically controlled HPM machining center was launched at Kamensk Uralsky Foundry Plant/KULZ (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation). The machine costs over 15m RUR, the company press service reports. The machining center will be used for making metallic moulds, coreboxes, and presstools. The digitally operated unit can make any kinds of fittings that can be up to 1.6 meters long and up to 2,300 kg heavy. Floors had to be taken off and new foundation had to be laid to mount the new machine, since the digitally controlled machining

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 22, 2015. Designers from Tomsk Electro-technical Plant (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) Alexei Drozd and Daria Stepanova took part in the 2nd All-Russian Top 100 Engineers Contest. The corporation’s press service reports the final round was coordinated by Russia’s Economic Development Ministry and Ulyanovsk Region Cluster Development Center. 181 contestants from 30 Russian constituencies, including employees of major industrial enterprises, students, and young researchers competed for the Best Designer title. The task was to complete one of

UrBC, Moscow, October 21, 2015. The overall number of cars registered in Yekaterinburg went up by 22% and reached 439,000 in the last five years, Avtostat reports. In the country overall, the increase was 21%. The number of automobiles grew the fastest in Kazan and Perm (up 34% on five years ago, 366,000 and 242,000 cars, respectively). The number of cars registered in Ufa rose by 28% and came to 314,000. The increase stood at 27% in Siberia’s major cities Omsk and Novosibirsk (328,000 and 443,000 cars, respectively) and at 26% in Krasnoyarsk and Voronezh (310,000 and 308,000 cars,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 21, 2015. Foreign trade turnover between the Urals and the CIS member states came to $1.2bn in the nine months of 2015, which was 42% less than a year earlier, head of Ural Customs Administration Vyacheslav Goloskokov said at a press conference. The official also said the foreign trade turnover between the Urals and the rest of the world dropped by 4%, down to $10.9bn. The constituency’s overall foreign trade turnover amounted to over $12bn, including $1.2bn (10%) resulting from trading with the CIS member states and $11bn (90%) resulting from trading with the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 21, 2015. The number of job openings on Yekaterinburg labor market went up by 13.9% in the third quarter of the year compared with a year earlier, HeadHunter reports. Still, the CV database has been growing much faster than the vacancy one, with four candidates per position on average. Most job openings are related to Sales (34.9%), Blue-Collar Jobs (13.8%), Banking (13.1%), Production (11.3%), and Marketing (9.4%). As for Sverdlovsk Region on the whole, most candidates look for jobs in Sales (17.3%), Career Start/Student Jobs (16.5%), IT/Telecom (7.5%),

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 21, 2015. Ural Customs Administration have banned over 1,800,000 kg of embargoed foods from entering the country since the start of the year, the administration’s head Vyacheslav Goloskokov said at a press conference. ‘11 administrative lawsuits were instituted in connection with attempts to import sanctioned foods in the Urals,’ he said. Additionally, 170 kg of sanctioned foods were destroyed after the Sanctioned Foods Destruction Act had been adopted on June 29, 2015. This was mainly EU- and US-made produce.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 21, 2015. A new NC processing center was recently launched at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s Assembly Department 1. The new set came to replace a number of obsolete Soviet-made all-purpose machines, the company press service reports. ‘Our new equipment can actually replace an entire production line. Up to now, we used to need several different machines for milling, drilling, and boring, but the new unit means we can do everything with just this center. One advantage of the new center is that tools get replaced automatically, which ensures reliability