UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 13, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant directed 24.6m RUR to support local schools as part of its corporate social responsibility program, the company press service reports. Most of the money will be spent on remodeling and repairs, including 4m RUR for local kindergartens’ remodeling; also, Nizhniy Tagil Metal Treatment School and Nizhniy Tagil subsidiary of Ural Federal University will receive 3m RUR each. Some 10m RUR will be distributed among twenty secondary schools in Nizhniy Tagil: Lyceum, Gymnasium 86, School 9, Lyceum 39, and School 39 will

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, May 13, 2016. MMK Trading House proved one of Russia’s 1,000 best e-trading market suppliers which contributed greatly to the development of national market competition. The rating for the year 2015 was created by B2B Center. The Top 1,000 Rating comprises suppliers with the best sales on electronic trading platforms (the highest sale/bidding ratio), selected from among 267,000 different companies registered with B2B Center. All the companies on the list were given certificates and Successful Supplier badges as well as provided with acknowledgements on the center’s and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 12, 2016. The price of a country summerhouse with a patch of land around it came to 1.101m RUR on average in Sverdlovsk Region in late April, which was 6% less than one year earlier and 20% less than in early 2015, N1.ru’s research findings indicate. Prices went down for nearly all key locations, but the drop was most noticeable in places near Revda (-25%) and Pervouralsk (-22%), while the most expensive dachas can be found around Sysert, where a dacha with a land allotment comes for 1,537,500 RUR. Prices first started going down in February 2015, with no traditional

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 12, 2016. The number of newly issued international travel passports decreased by 59.2% in the four months of 2016 compared with one year earlier, Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Migration Service informed UrBC. The Service provided Russian citizens with 43,735 passports in January-April 2015 and with 17,841 passports in the four months of 2016. ‘The demand dropped by 60% against last year, which has to do with the current state of the Russian economy and the international status quo,’ the Service explains.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 12, 2016. The Invincible Ones: World’s Best Soldiers and Chelyabinsk Region’s Natives premiered in Chelyabinsk on May 9. The film was created by the Ural1 Internet channel and Russian Copper Company and is dedicated to sixteen war heroes who made their priceless contribution to the Great Victory, the company press service reports. The movie is reported to be one of the most unusual and truthful war films created in recent years. Sixteen toy soldiers whose faces resemble the actual combatants were cast in the Urals specially for the purpose. Among these war heroes are

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 12, 2016. Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works/NTMK (a member enterprise of EVRAZ Holding) produced over 850,000 kg of double T-rails for RN-Snabzheniye, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR Center reports. The T-rails will be used in the survey operations and development of oil and gas deposits in Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous District, as well as for capital repairs; these will be supplied there throughout the year 2016. NTMK’s double T-rail is meant to relieve and redistribute the structure load, which is why it is a popular component of complicated industrial structures

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 12, 2016. Electromachine (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) got its new invention, an electromagnetic contactor, patented by the Federal Intellectual Property Service, the company press service reports. Electromachine is currently working on the design, development, and market launch of the new product. This contactor type is more technologically advanced than its predecessor the pneumatic contactor, which the company now makes on a serial scale. ‘Pneumatic contactors contain mechanisms that make the whole thing bulkier and more expensive, whereas

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 11, 2016. 115,000 passengers went through Koltsovo Airport during this year’s May break, which was 4.6% less than one year earlier, the airport’s press service reports. ‘The 16.2% increase in the number of domestic flights was thus offset by a drop in the number of international ones. Last year, 24,000 passengers flew to Antalya, Hurghada, and Sharm El Sheikh alone,’ the press service says. Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Larnaca, Sochi, and Simferopol proved the most popular passenger destinations between April 29 and May 9. The airport staff point out that Cyprus proved

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 11, 2016. ChTPZ Group took part in the international Iran Oil Show in Tehran, the company press service reports. The company presented its White Well Project, something that the Group’s pipe-manufacturing and O&G servicing member enterprises are working on together. The goal is to increase production of oil from more complicated wells by ensuring longer time between underground equipment repairs (which, in its turn, is achieved through custom-selected materials and sets of supplied machinery). ‘Our White Well equipment sets have undergone industrial testing at

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 11, 2016. Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant/ChTPZ had its integrated management system audited for compliance with the international standards, the company press service reports. SAI Global’s auditors inspected five weldless pipe production and electric-welded large-diameter pipe production departments as well as a number of ancillary departments. Subject to inspection were all the production aspects to do with environmental impact, industrial and job safety, and product quality. The auditors gave a very high estimate to ChPTZ technological processes and White Metallurgy

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 11, 2016. The management of Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) met with students of Omsk State Technical University in their last year of studies, the company press service reports. ‘The thirty-four young graduates are going to come to our defense enterprise already in the fall. The managers’ goal was to introduce their future co-workers to all the employment technicalities and to tell them about the career and personal development opportunities there are. The graduates were convinced that the plant is more than just a respectable

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 11, 2016. All of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporaiton’s member enterprises coordinated festive events dedicated to the Great Patriotic War Victory Day, the company press service reports. The corporation’s head plant’s veterans council has as its members fifty-six war veterans and 796 home front workers, for whom special events and ceremonies were organized around Victory Day, for example, a checkup at the company’s medical unit and a personalized first-aid box for everyone. Additionally, 6.5m RUR were directed to fund the veterans’ stay at the company Pine Mountains Resort,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 10, 2016. A number of special events dedicated to the 71st Great Patriotic War Victory Day will take place in Akademichesky District of Yekaterinburg, the press service for RSG Akademicheskoye reports. ‘Victory Day will be celebrated as a great people’s holiday. Even though this is one of the city’s newest districts, there are cherished war veterans and home front workers in the history of every family here. It is these heroes’ portraits that the locals are going to carry during the annual Immortal Regiment March on May 7, the Saturday before V-Day,’ the company says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 10, 2016. Russian Copper Company organized a conference for its job safety managers and experts on April 28-29 within the framework of the National Job Safety Day, the company press service reports. ‘Ensuring safe working conditions, keeping our workers safe and sound, and providing industrial safety at all of its member enterprises are among the company’s top priorities. This is what our job, industrial, and environmental safety policy, approved of by the company president, rests on. The company is interested in maintaining our employees’ health and quality of life;

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 10, 2016. Ural Airlines are once again offering their customers its Yekaterinburg-Yakutsk-Yekaterinburg and Saint Petersburg-Yakutsk-Saint Petersburg flights this summer, the air carrier’s press service reports. The scheduled Yakutsk-bound flights will be available every Wednesday starting from June 8, with the return flights operated every Thursday. Certain passengers on these flights are eligible to apply for the state-run reimbursement program for travelers to the Far East, so Yekaterinburg-Yakutsk tickets start from 6,000 RUR and Saint Petersburg-Yakutsk ones from

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 10, 2016. Electromachine (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) has adopted a special-purpose and civilian goods development program for 2016-2025 for the first time, the company press service reports. According to the company’s internal statute, the civilian-/military-purpose goods ratio is expected to reach 50/50 by the time the program has been completed. This long-term program was developed in accordance with Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s requirements, says Electromachine Marketing & PR Director Yana Kipriyanova. The company will keep on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 10, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s UVZSHOP.ru now offers T-shirts featuring the Armata T-14 tank, the company press service reports. ‘The T-shirts are produced in Russia and were designed by a reputed military fashion designer Alexei Maslov. The cotton tees come in white and black, with a silk-screen printed image of Armata on the front. The product’s elegant design and great quality result in a modern, stylish look that is bound to appeal to men and women as well as children. The T-shirts come in twelve different sizes, from children’s sizes 36, 38, and 40 to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 6, 2016. The management of Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise/KGOK (a member enterprise of EVRAZ Holding) directed a draft memorandum on social partnership to the company trade union. EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR Department reports. The paper was drafted in accordance with the recommendations presented by representatives of the Civil Society & Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, who visited the plant in March. The memorandum confirms the basic principles of how the parties should collaborate on conflicting social/labor

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 6, 2016. Ural Airlines is opening this year’s summer high season with a new flight to Georgia (Samara-Batumi), the air carrier’s press service reports. The new international flight will be operated every Monday starting from June. This is the third Georgia-bound flight the company has introduced this year so far. Currently, four flights to Batumi are offered by the air carrier, operated from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and Samara. Last year, Samara-Baku flight was also added to the timetable and will be resumed for this summer as well, starting from June

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 6, 2016. Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant/PNTZ (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) recently launched their new cold-roll Mill KhPT 10-45, a polishing unit, and a flattening machine for making cold-shaped stainless steel pipes. According to the Group’s press service, these upgraded facilities will help increase production output, improve product quality, and cut production costs for goods meant for the nuclear and machine-building industries. The entire project cost nearly 200m RUR to implement. The cold-roll mill’s capacity is estimated at 1.1m meters of pipes of a year,