UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 19, 2017. Two tanks and a self-propelled artillery unit belonging to Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) are going to head the wheeled and tracked military vehicle parade in Chelyabinsk on May 9, Victory Day. All the three machines date back to the Great Patriotic War times, the corporation’s press service reports. These are the only functioning historic samples of wartime vehicles in the area, which is why they get used by Chelyabinsk Station in the annual V-Day Parade during May break. The procession rehearsals take place well in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 19, 2017. The 1st all-Russian research-to-practice conference on the standards, technologies, and best practices in dual education was held in Moscow during the International Education Show. The conference was coordinated by ChTPZ Group, the International Association for Corporate Education (MAKO), and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI). The Group’s PR Department reports the three days of the conference comprised some twenty discussion sessions, methodology workshops, and master classes. Over six hundred people took part in the event’s business

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 20, 2017. Sinara Group’s Sinara Development is now offering its customers a chance to buy a new home in Yekaterinburg without a down payment and to get a portion of the money back into their settlement account. According to Sinara Group’s PR Center, the offer takes into account the needs of customers willing to buy their own apartment on a mortgage but not having enough savings to start. Under the terms of the new offer, customers can take out a loan at SMP Bank to buy a place in Svoi Krug, Peremena, and Solnechny (currently under construction). The loan is expected

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 20, 2017. The 2nd annual job safety conference was held in Chelyabinsk on April 13-14. The event was part of the all-Russian Work Safety Week and was coordinated by Russian Copper Company’s Environment, Work & Industrial Safety Department and Chelyabinsk-Vostok-Service, the company press service reports. The conference was attended by forty-nine managers and job and industrial safety experts working at Russian Copper Company. This year’s agenda was larger than the previous year’s one and covered mastering new techniques and performance improvement mechanisms.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 20, 2017. Rosatom’s Ural Electrochemical Works (UEKhK) based in Novouralsk completed the upgrades of its monitoring and metering instruments and its process control system used at the solid radioactive waste treatment department, the company press service reports. As a result of these upgrades, the monitoring of SRW treatment and that of equipment and security systems is now fully automated. Additionally, the SRW treatment costs were reduced by fourteen times. The automated process control system allows for efficient monitoring of VIKMAX 400 grinding unit that was

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 18, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Mine has produced 1,000,000,000 kg of coal this year so far, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Relations Center reports. This is 19% better than one year previously, and as much as 25% better in terms of overburden operations. ‘Our mining team has been keeping up with their last year’s production and overburden operations tempo. To make sure everything runs efficiently and safely, the company is now upgrading its mining and transportation equipment on a large scale. Thanks to clever production process planning the mine’s output

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 18, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Omsktransmash manufactured and launched a recirculating water supply/cooling unit for its hot-forming line, the company press service reports. The new unit is meant to prevent overheating of the caterpillar track-making line. The unit consists of a 4-m3 tank, a heat transfer plant, and a number of booster pumps to ensure water recirculation. The plant used to rely on regular tap water for the purpose in the past, which resulted in great financial expenditure and energy costs. ‘According to the plant’s experts, a new unit like

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 18, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (KGOK) recently supplied some pellets to Slovakia, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. The order was placed by the country’s largest metallurgical enterprise U. S. Steel Košice. The shipment amounted to 10,000,000 kg of pellets. ‘The pellets meet the chemical composition and physical property requirements set out by the customer. The iron content comes to over 60%, and its great strength and homogeneity parameters ensure good quality metal output. KGOK pellets got tested

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 18, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems enforced stricter control and surveillance measures for its Urals-based electric mains and substations because of the likely floods, the company press service reports. Should this prove necessary, the company team is fully ready to react to possible emergencies in Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Kirov, Orenburg, and Kurgan Regions as well as in Perm Territory and Udmurtia. There are over 17m people living in the area altogether. The company engineers are currently busy inspecting the main sections that are most

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 18, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Director-General Alexander Potapov met with the head plant’s employees, the company press service reports. The meeting was held with the plant’s trade union committee, with the DG focusing on the current business situation and holding a Q&A session for the committee members. ‘We are currently in a moderately stable state. The corporation was founded ten years ago this year, and has grown to be a key business both in Russia and abroad. We are proud to work here and proud of the goods we make. We do face some difficulties,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 18, 2017. ChTPZ Group is going to present its White Well Project at Neftegaz 2017, a major oil and gas exhibition. The project is currently unique to Russia, the Group’s Communications Department reports. ‘The White Well Project involves the Group’s pipe-manufacturing and O&G sector-servicing divisions and touches upon selection, production, and delivery of submersible equipment and further after-sale services. Our White Well equipment sets have been tested successfully and are now being used by Russia and the CIS member states’ largest oil and gas companies.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 18, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s member enterprises are holding their fourth annual Safety Week on the eve of World Work Safety Day, the company press service reports. This year, special events will get hosted by the company production sites to draw attention to transport and gas safety issues. Besides, both EVRAZ workers and local residents will get training in environmental awareness, the benefits of a healthier lifestyle, and household safety rules. Safety Week will also feature work meetings on how to ensure safety in gas-containing locales, on transport safety, and on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 18, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) is now offering reduced mortgage interest rates starting from 10.8% a year, the bank’s press service reports. ‘The decision has been brought about by the current market situation. We’ll deal with this on a case-by-case basis, with the actual interest rate depending on the type of mortgage, the borrower category, and the size of the down payment,’ says UBRD Mortgage Director Lyubov Toropitsina. Toropitsina says the bank is designing its own mortgage schemes without any outsources’ help, so the UBRD

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 18, 2017. Moody‘s Investors Service upgraded Metcombank’s ratings, the bank’s press service reports. The bank’s long-term local currency and foreign currency deposit rating rose from B2 to B3, with the rating outlook adjusted from Positive to Stable; its adjusted credit rating went up from b2 to b3, and its long-term counterparty risk assessment changed from B1(cr) to B2(cr). Metcombank’s short-term local currency and foreign currency deposit ratings have remained the same (at Not Prime), as has its short-term counterparty risk assessment (Not Prime), with rating

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 18, 2017. Ural Airlines are now offering their customers direct flights to the Black Sea, the air carrier’s press service reports. For one, direct flights from Samara to Sochi, Anapa, and Simferopol are available already. ‘The Russian South has plenty of holiday-making options to offer and is well-known for its seaside, the sun, its dolmen stones and antique ruins, its horse-riding tours, off-road jeep adventures, health resorts, and much else besides,’ the press service says. Ticket prices for Samara-Simferopol flight start from 7,300 RUR (from 8,300 RUR in July

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, April 18, 2017. Russia’s General Board of State Expert Review completed its processing of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) project on the construction of a new sintering plant. Having looked into the application provided, the experts ruled the engineering survey results and project documentation bot meet the existing technical requirements and other norms and approved of the project, Magnitogorski Metall reports. MMK intends to put up a department for raw stuffs storage and treatment, a sintering department, a furnace gas desulphurization

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 17, 2017. ChTPZ Group and Pervouralsk Polytechnic School signed an agreement on implementing educational projects together during the 1st Research-to-Practice Dual Education Conference, the Group’s press service reports. The paper was signed by ChTPZ Group’s Director-General Alexander Grubman and the school’s Director Elena Marchenkova. Under the terms of this agreement, Pervouralsk Polytechnic School is now part of the Group’s Future of White Metallurgy corporate training program, a dual education project the Group has been running since 2011. Students on the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 17, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation is taking part in the 22nd International TransRussia 2017 Exhibition in Moscow on April 18-20, the company press service reports. The holding intends to present its new-generation cryogenic tank/cistern railcar that is currently unique to Russia. KTsM 40/0.7 was designed by the corporation’s member enterprise Uralcryomash for transportation and storage of liquefied natural gas and liquid ethylene. Uralcryomash is a well-established cryogenic equipment manufacturer that has contributed to space exploration programs. KTsM 40/0.7

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 17, 2017. Russian Copper Company Chair of the Board of Directors Igor Altushkin is now a member of M.I. Glinka Chelyabinsk State Academic Opera & Ballet House’s board of trustees, the company press service reports. The board’s first meeting took place on April 13, the Patron of the Arts Day. The trustees talked about how the design of the theater workshop/stage props and backdrops storage facility was proceeding and about the necessary capital repair. They could also see a presentation on Dream Kaleidoscope, a family musical featuring Chelyabinsk Region’s most

UrBC, Moscow, April 17, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) paid its eighth coupon yield on BO 5 Series bonds on April 14; the bond investors received 179.51m RUR in coupon yield altogether, the bank’s press service reports. The interest rate comes to 12% a year, which amounts to 59.84 RUR per share with face value of 1,000 RUR. The next coupon yield repayment has been scheduled for October 2017. The bank went through with its two-million BO 5 Series bond issue (total face value: 2bn RUR) in April 2013. In September 2014, the UBRD also had an additional bond issue