UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 25, 2016. EVRAZ Holding held its second annual company relay race in Nizhniy Tagil last Sunday, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR Department reports. Around four thousand people from Yekaterinburg, Nizhniy Tagil, Kachkanar, and other Sverdlovsk Region cities and towns took part in the sports event. Around a thousand runners joined in the five-kilometer relay race, while the children’s race (one kilometer long) attracted over 250 very young sportsmen and women. The race went along Nizhniy Tagil’s primary streets, with every runner getting a personal identification number for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 25, 2016. SKB-Bank is planning to restore Verkh-Isetsky Plant hospital building in Yekaterinburg, a structure on the constituency’s cultural heritage list. The building was purchased in an auction for 1 RUR (although its actual worth, together with the patch of land around, was estimated at 23m RUR), the bank’s press service reports. The hospital building at 15 Verkh-Isetsky Boulevard dates back to the first half of the 19th century and is a classicist piece put up by the architect M.P. Malakhov in 1824-1826. It is currently on Sverdlovsk Region’s cultural heritage

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 25, 2016. Students on ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy corporate training program participated in the opening ceremony of the 4th WorldSkills Russia Championship, the company press service reports. Russia’s Vice Premier Olga Golodets, Governor of Moscow Region Andrei Vorobiev, and President of WorldSkills International Simon Bartley were also present at the ceremony as guests of honor. ’This is in many ways due to Russian contestants’ involvement in WorldSkills championship over the last four years that we see an increase in the prestige of blue-collar jobs in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 25, 2016. The metrology lab run by Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) proved the best in Omsk Region, the company press service reports. The contest was coordinated by Omsk Region State Standardization, Metrology, and Testing Center. Omsktransmash lab experts outstripped by far last year’s winners from Avtomatika-Service as well as contestants from Omskvodokanal and a dozen of other local organizations. ‘This is the first competition our lab has taken part in over the last nine years. We’ve coped with the hard times together with our

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 25, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation is going to take part in the 4th International KAZAKHSTAN DEFENCE EXPO 2016 Exhibition in Astana on June 2-5. The company’s products will make part of Russia’s united stand, the corporation’s press service reports. The corporation’s Nizhniy Tagil-based head plant will present its upgraded tank T72 with a fire control system and a thermal pointer in Kazakhstan for the first time. The vehicle, meant for urban terrain combat, will be displayed statically. Ural Vagon Zavod’s member enterprise Burevestnik, a scientific research

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 24, 2016. Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System has introduced more control over its energy facilities in the time of the year when thunderstorms and forest fires are more likely to occur, the company press service reports. In all of the company’s divisions, rescue and maintenance teams underwent special drills and training to make sure they can stay alert and concentrated in an emergency. The power facilities have been inspected, the teams also made sure all the firefighting implements were there and in perfect working order. Higher-risk territories are now

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 24, 2016. Heads of Russia’s major pipe-manufacturing enterprises Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant/ChTPZ, United Metallurgical Company/OMK, Pipe Metallurgical Company/TMK, and Severstal met with Gazprom Chair of the Board Alexei Miller at ChTPZ site on Friday to talk about their scientific and technological cooperation prospects. According to ChTPZ press service, the meeting was attended by Chair of the Pipe Manufacturers’ Association Coordination Council Ivan Shabalov, ChTPZ Member of the BOD Andrei Komarov, TMK Chair of the Board Dmitri Pumpyanski, OMK Chair of the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 24, 2016. Miners from Mezhegeiugol Mine (a part of EVRAZ Holding) in Tyva switched to chamber-and-pillar mining, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s PR Department reports. The new technology means that the coal bed is worked by sections, that is, chambers separated from one another with pillars supporting the roof. It takes three teams, each of them working in two sections at a time, to do the preparation work. While a combine machine is hewing coal in extraction chamber 1, miners do the walling in extraction chamber 2. This means that no equipment has to wait idle and labor

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 24, 2016. Workers from LEPSE (Kirov-based machine-building plant and a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod) won prizes at the national skills contest for millers, turners, and mechanics, the company press service reports. The contest was coordinated by the Russian Engineering Union, Russia’s Trade & Industry Ministry, and Profavia, the national trade union for aviation industry employees. LEPSE’s miller Mikhail Lazarev and turner Alexander Chernyadyev won first prizes in their respective categories, while Dmitri Garanin won bronze in Machine Assembling. All in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 24, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Scientific & Production Corporation sponsored the heavyweight (under 90.71 kg) boxing match between the 36-year-old Russian, WBA boxing champion Denis Lebedev and the 32-year-old Argentinean, IBF champion Victor Ramirez. The fight took place in Moscow’s Megasport Palace on May 21. Lebedev, the winner, unified both the WBA and the IBF champion belts through a knockout as soon as the second round. This is the fourth time in a row Lebedev has won a champion’s belt, and the first time for the boxer to win two champion titles at once. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 23, 2016. Students and trainers on ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program are going to present their company and Chelyabinsk Region in the final round of the 4th WorldSkills Russia Championship, the company press service reports. The championship will be held at Krokus Expo in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, on May 23-27. ChTPZ Group’s team (already many-time winners of earlier WorldSkills contests) will compete in five different categories: Alexander Pauls and Ilya Ivanov in Mechatronics, Dmitri Shmarlovsky in NC Turning, Maxim Soloviev in NC

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 23, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s youth group and the long-service employees’ council planted a tree alley in Nizhiy Tagil in celebration of the plant’s 80th anniversary. Some eighty people planted 120 trees, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘We chose a pedestrian area between a shopping mall and a the new company clinic next to the war memorial. People working at the head plant have been improving the territory for quite a few years now, with clean-up days every spring,’ the press service says. A clean-up day was also coordinated before

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 23, 2016. EVRAZ NTMK completed the construction of its vanadium slag grinding facility, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR Department reports. The project required some 200m RUR in terms of investments and took nine months to build; it now consists of forty-two equipment units located within the plant’s casting department; the site is now under start-up and commissioning. The new grinding facility will be producing metal content-free vanadium slag (grain size under 50mm) and ground slag (grain size under 0.2mm). The company used to make slag with grain size as big as 200mm; now

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 23, 2016. Yurga Machine-Building Plant (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) keeps making support units for SUEK, a major Russian coal producer, the company press service reports. A set of thirty new units was made in April alone, to complement the ten units that were delivered to Uvalnaya Mine in March. The equipment gets made and handed over to customer in strict compliance with the production and delivery schedule. Prior to next delivery, a set of eighteen support units, a part of a conveyor line, a pan line, and a Polis-made KSW-460NE combined

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 23, 2016. Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry Plant/KULZ (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) hired sixty-six new workers under thirty-five last year, the company press service reports. The newcomers were invited to a special solemn ceremony recently, with Director-General Anatoly Barabanov welcoming the new employees to the plant and telling them about the company’s production priorities and short- and long-term plans. He also spoke about what production sections need a fresh start, a creative approach, and some out-of-the-box solutions that the younger

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 20, 2016. Russian Copper Company is now looking for more ways and technological solutions to improve its Tominsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise Project in Chelyabinsk Region. This means that the construction isn’t likely to begin any time before 2017, the company press service reports. ‘This year so far has been dedicated to informing the general public about the actual nature of the project. As we are fully aware of the locals’ concerns relating to the construction of a large-scale industrial facility in the area, the company has carried out a special

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 20, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region’s industrial production index for April 2016 came to 88.4% of the figure for one year earlier, Sverdlovskstat reports. Against April 2015, the IPI dropped down by 9.4% in the fossil production sector, by 13.1% in the processing industry, and by 2.8% in the sector for production and distribution of electric power, natural gas, and water. Compared with March 2016, the figures declined by 11.8%, 5.1%, and 15.9%, respectively. At the same time, Sverdlovsk Region’s IPI was 9.8% higher in January-April 2016 against January-April 2015.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 20, 2016. Ural Airlines are introducing a new, scheduled flight from Saint Petersburg via Yekaterinburg via Irkutsk to Khabarovsk and back, the air carrier’s press service reports. Passengers flying from Saint Petersburg can enjoy this new opportunity on Wednesdays; return flights are operated on Thursdays. A special reduced price is offered to passengers eligible for the government subsidies for air travel to the Far East. Tickets for Khabarovsk-Yekaterinburg flight thus start from 6,200 RUR, those for Khabarovsk-Saint Petersburg flight start from 7,300 RUR, those

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 20, 2016. Pipe Metallurgical Company/TMK and the Italian company SMS MEER S.p.A signed a contract for production and delivery of modern equipment needed for thermal treatment of weldless pipes, TMK PR Department reports. The order is to be fulfilled by Seversky Pipe Plant and Rumania-based TMK-ARTROM. The two plants will have to supply their customer with heating furnaces, tempering furnaces, hardening appliances (inner and outer sprayers and a hardening bath) as well as equipment for pipe sizing and straightening and for closed-cycle water conditioning. Seversky Pipe

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 20, 2016. Omsktransmash (a member of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) congratulated and awarded the winners of Star, a multi-field engineering contest for high school students coordinated by Russian Engineering Union and the League of Assistance for Defense Enterprises, the corporation’s press service reports. The solemn awarding ceremony took place in Omsk State Technical University on May 17. The contest finalists were given winners’ certificates and gifts with Omsktransmash and Russian Engineering Union’s Omsk division logos. ‘162 students from Moscow, Chelyabinsk,