UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 13, 2017. ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) successfully underwent an audit procedure to prove its compliance with the ISO 14001:2004 environmental management standards, the Group’s PR Department reports. The plant’s environmental management system was found both functional and suitable. TÜV Rheinland Cert GmbH auditors looked into how well the plant met the environmental protection regulations and industrial environmental safety standards for pipe manufacturers. That PNTZ now holds an environmental management compliance certificate means the plant

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 13, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region’s Senior Federal Inspector Andrei Berezovsky made a tour of Russian Copper Company’s Uralgidromed’s production sites, Russian Copper Company’s press service reports. The visit to the plant took place on April 11 as part of the inspector’s business trip to Polevskoy. Uralgidromed’s Director-General Nikolai Azarov told the visitor about the know-hows of hydro-metallurgical production process that the company relies on. A special discussion was held on environmental protection solutions the plant has been implementing. ‘Uralgidromed has been

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 13, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant’s (KMEZ) copper-smelting department made 38,900,000 kg of anodes in the first quarter of 2017, providing anodes and copper powder for all of the plant’s copper electrolysis departments, Russian Copper Company’s press service reports. ‘This is the first time the plant’s copper-smelting department has produced so much in the course of one month,’ the press service says. KMEZ’s copper electrolysis department made 31,915,300 kg of copper cathodes in the first quarter of the year. Thanks to an

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 13, 2017. Ural Airlines offered its service to 1,334,352 passengers in the first quarter of the year, which was 28% more than one year previously, the air carrier’s press service reports. The airline operated 10, 256 flights in the given period, including 6,380 domestic ones, 1,521 international ones, and 2,355 flights around the CIS member states. This was 18% more than in the first quarter of 2016. The company’s passenger turnover amounted to 3,056,765,000 passenger-kilometers, which exceeded the figures for a year earlier by 30%. 467,188 passengers flew with the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 13, 2017. A Ural Federal District resident spent an average of 444 RUR per grocery shopping session last month, which was 1.6% less than in February 2017, Romir Holding’s research findings indicate. The country’s average came to 528 RUR in March 2017, which was 0.6% less than in February. The figure went down for nearly all kinds of shops except for supermarkets, where there actually was a 1.3% increase against February 2017. As for hypermarkets, the average receipt amount dropped by 1.3% last month. This amount also declined by 2.6% and 4.3% for discounters and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 12, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation recently got its all-purpose platform railcar 13-192-01 with a wooden floor and collapsible side panels certified by Federal Railway Transport Register for compliance with the Customs Union Regulations 001/2011. The certificate is valid for the next five years. According to the company press service, the railcar is meant for use in Russia, the CIS member states, the Baltic states, and everywhere throughout the 1,520-mm zone and is suitable for transportation of wheeled and caterpillar-tracked vehicles as well as long and bulky

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 12, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) got its new technology for making coking coal with the help of an upgraded dry-quenching plant patented, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. The patent, titled ‘Ways of Improving Metallurgical Coke Quality’, states that NTMK now holds exclusive rights to the technology and enjoys the legal protection of this right through April 8, 2035. The patent was issued by Russia’s Federal Intellectual Property Service. ‘The new technology allows for less wasted coke during the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 12, 2017. The 1st All-Russian Research-to-Practice Dual Education Conference will be held at Moscow International Education Show on April 12-14, 2017. The event is coordinated by ChTPZ Group in cooperation with the International Corporate Education Association (MAKO) and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI). According to the Group’s press service, the conference will gather together companies that have been successfully implementing their dual education projects, government bodies and NGOs representatives, and vocational school teachers. Leading experts in the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 12, 2017. Russian Copper Company directs considerable funds to working conditions and industrial safety improvements at its member enterprises every year. 759m RUR were allocated for the purpose in 2013-2016, the company press service reports. The better part of the money (42%) gets invested in working conditions improvements, 35% are used to provide uniforms and personal protection for the workers, 13% get directed to nutritional supplements, and 6%, 3%, and 3% get spent on physicals, personnel training, and disinfectants, respectively. Russian Copper Company set

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 12, 2017. Rusatom Healthcare’s Nuclear Medicine Technologies Snezhinsk recently opened a new atomedics center in Chelyabinsk and is ready to welcome patients in need of a positron emission tomography scan, Rusatom’s Communications Department says. Rusatom Healthcare is Rosatom’s daughter enterprise set up specifically with the goal of integrating businesses and technologies to do with nuclear medicine in Russia; the company relies on its own materials and equipment. Their cyclotron/radiochemical unit is Rosatom’s first integrated atomedics project that comprises the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 11, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s tank T-34-85 got rescued by an Estonian military vehicle collector, the company press service reports. The armored vehicle was made at Ural Tank Plant 183 (as Ural Vagon Zavod was known at the time) in Nizhniy Tagil and sent to the front immediately. ‘The collector contacted Ural Vagon Zavod’s Exhibition Center and informed them that he was in the possession of a T-34-85 made at the plant’s assembly line. The tank was mounted on a pedestal in Myaksa to celebrate the 40th anniversary of assault river crossing of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 11, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant’s Senior Engineer Sergey Linev was awarded the title of Russia’s Professional Engineer, the plant’s press service reports. The award was part of the 17th All-Russian Engineer of The Year Contest. ‘Engineer of The Year, coordinated by the Russian Scientific & Engineering Organizations Union, the International Scientific & Engineering Organizations Union, A.M. Prokhorov Academy of Engineering Sciences, and Interregional Public Fund for Scientific & Technological Progress, is one of the most prestigious

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 11, 2017. On April 3, 2017, STM Holding’s STM-Service’s twenty-six loco repair depots started their inspection of Russian Railways’ locos as they do every spring. According to Sinara Group’s press service, the goal is to make sure the technical safety regulations are met and to ensure good fire safety, technical, and exterior condition of the company’s fleet of locos and its unfailing performance in the summer. The inspection and maintenance will involve 5,650 electric locomotives and 1,700 diesel locos. A special work team comprising members of constituency and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 11, 2017. Public hearings were held in Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District regarding investments in Quarters 3 and 4, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The public hearings were initiated by Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev and attended by Mayor of Yekaterinburg Evgeny Roizman, Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly deputies Valentin Lappo, Elena Treskova, and Mikhail Klimenko, Deputy Head of Sverdlovsk Region Civic Chamber Vladimir Vinnitsky, Deputy Head of Yekaterinburg Duma Viktor Testov, honorary Yekaterinburg resident and honored

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 11, 2017. Ural Airlines are offering a new flight to Sochi starting from May 2, 2017 to ensure safe transfer of Ural Club football team to the final round of their championship to Sochi, the air carrier’s press service reports. The final game will be played at Fisht Stadium on May 2. The direct Yekaterinburg-Sochi flight is scheduled to depart at 8 AM and to arrive in Sochi at 9:20 AM. This is a convenient timetable that gives the club supporters a chance to be with their team at the stadium. Prices start from 8,000 RUR (one way, all fees included). The flight to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 10, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s Personnel Training Center is going to host Total Dictation for the second time this year, the company press service reports. The event will start at 1:00 PM on April 8. The participants will be invited to write down a text written by the Russian writer and Big Book Prize winner Leonid Yuzefovich. ‘The event is coordinated by Ural Vagon Zavod’s youth organization. 150 people are expected to show up at our Personnel Training Center at 28/1 Vostochnoye Rd. The two rooms are fitted with all the necessary equipment to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 10, 2017. The number of point-of-sale terminals that now accept the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s credit/debit cards went up by 15% last year. According to the bank’s press service, the number of terminals thus rose by 3,000 units. ‘Retail businesses no longer wonder whether they actually need an acquiring terminal. Since we can offer speedy service, good prices, and flexible terms and conditions to businesses, our bank is now the acquiring market leader in Ural Federal District,’ says Head of UBRD Remote Services Center Ilya Skvortsov. The Bank

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 10, 2017. Ural Airlines are opening three new direct flights from Kemerovo to Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Simferopol, the air carrier’s press service says. Starting from April 24, 2017, the airline will be operating its Kemerovo-Moscow-Kemerovo flight at 8:00 AM daily. Starting from April 28, 2017, Kemerovo-Saint Petersburg flights will be available every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Starting from May 25, 2017, Ural Airlines will be operating its Kemerovo-Simferopol flights on Thursday and Sunday mornings.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 10, 2017. Ural Airlines offer their regular customers a 10% discount on flights from Moscow to Chita, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Ulan Ude, Kemerovo, Barnaul, Omsk, Tomsk, and back, the air carrier’s press service says. The offer holds both for passengers traveling from the country’s capital and for those flying from Vladivostok and Irkutsk to Khabarovsk and those flying from Saint Petersburg to Kaliningrad. The special price is only offered to the airline’s Wings Club loyalty scheme members. The flights will be operated between April 10, 2017 and May 20, 2017 and between

UrBC, Moscow, April 10, 2017. Russian banks issued 5.3 trillion RUR worth of loans to small enterprises last year, which was 3% less than one year previously, Kommersant refers to Expert RA as stating. In 2015, however, the drop was much more noticeable and came to as much as 28% against the year 2014, with the loan book plummeting by 9%, down to 4.5 trillion RUR (a three-year low). It is reported that, were it not for the special preferential terms lending programs such as Program 6.5% (the Central Bank lends to other banks at 6.5% a year, the banks then lend to medium and small enterprises