UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 29, 2016. The developer RSG-Akademicheskoye put up some 100,000 m2 of new housing in Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District, the company Director-General Viktor Kisselev said at a press conference. ‘We reached this year’s target output figures as early as November and sold 105,000 m2 worth of new housing since the start of the year. This year proved a little better than last one, so the target figures for the year 2017 will go up from 100,000 m2 to 105,000 m2. Sales are also expected to increase,’ Kisselev said. According to Kisselev, the per-square-meter price

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 29, 2016. Ural Airlines now operates direct flights from Saint Petersburg and Moscow’s Zhukovsky Airport to Tel Aviv, Israel, the air carrier’s press service reports. Flights will be operated every Thursday and Sunday starting from March 19. Prices start from 8,000 RUR (one piece of luggage under 10kg included) for Saint Petersburg-Tel Aviv flights and from 8,350 RUR (one piece of luggage under 10kg included) for Moscow-Tel Aviv ones. ‘The departure and arrival times are scheduled conveniently for those wishing to plan their trips by the minute. For one, you can

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 29, 2016. Twenty-six New Year’s Eve parties will be coordinated for children of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s employees and everyone else in Nizhniy Tagil during this holiday season. 17,656 children will be given candy and chocolate as presents, the company press service reports. ‘An ice sculpture park was put up next to I.V. Okunev Culture Palace by order of Ural Vagon Zavod. This year’s theme is reminiscent of a special date for the Soviet film-making company Soyuzmultfilm (which was founded eighty years ago this year), so the thirteen ice sculptures represent

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 29, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) supplied four B10M.600 bulldozers to Chukotka by order of the company Iceberg, the corporation’s press service reports. According to the company’s Far East Sales Director Anton Sokolov, the bulldozers were first sent to Vladivostok by rail and then to a place called Lavrentia by sea. From there, the vehicles traveled to smaller settlements; the bulldozer meant for the remote location Neshkan, inhabited by hunters and reindeer breeders, had to be taken there by helicopter. Neshkan is located

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 28, 2016. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems got the protection relays and automation systems upgraded at its 500-kilowatt Tarko-Sale Power Substation in Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region, the company press service reports. The new equipment will be used on Tarko-Sale-Svetlaya main and was necessary to get connected to Tyumenenergo’s 110-kilowatt Svetlaya Substation. The relays are resistant to outside temperatures and have a self-diagnostics option. Their function is to prevent short-circuit failures. Tarko-Sale Substation has been in use since

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 28, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation recently held a meeting on the introduction and implementation of job standards in the company’s personnel management system. According to the company press service, twenty-one heads of personnel departments from the corporation’s twelve member enterprises (Burevestnik Central Scientific Research Institute, Electromachine, ChTZ-Uraltrac, Omsktransmash, 144 BTRZ, and others) attended the event. The meeting participants mostly talked about how to adjust to the recent legislative changes and how to introduce job standards at

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 28, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon managed to maintain running infrastructure despite the recent anomalously cold weather (forty degrees centigrade below zero) in the Urals, the company’s press service reports. Wednesday, December 21, proved the coldest day of the week, with outside temperature dropping below forty-two degrees centigrade below zero in certain locations in the Greater Urals. Still, MegaFon’s mobile connection quality remained very high, with the connection itself available in 99.9% of cases (which is even better than the 95%

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 28, 2016. Sinara Group’s Sinara Development, the general contractor for the reconstruction of Yekaterinburg Arena Stadium in time for the World Cup 2018, reports the stadium will get commissioned in about twelve months, the company press service says. ‘The perimeter of the would-be stadium is now complete: there are eight pylons to support the roof, metal structures of the roof itself, concrete structures of the northern and southern spectator stands, and almost complete structures of the western and eastern stands (these are now seven levels high). We are

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 28, 2016. Yekaterinburg-based developers are going to get 900,000 m2 of new housing commissioned by the end of the year, head of city council Alexander Yakob said at a press conference. One year earlier, the figure was 1.197m m2. ‘This has been a difficult year for the building industry, due to economic circumstances, among other things. Quite a few developers chose to stick with finishing their older projects and never started any ones,’ Yakob said. Nevertheless, the final figure might still reach 1m m2.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 27, 2016. A solemn end-of-year ceremony took place at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s Culture Palace, the plant’s press service reports. Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Igor Kholmanskikh, Sverdlovsk Region Industry & Science Minister Sergei Perestoronin, and Mayor of Nizhniy Tagil Sergei Nosov all wished the plant workers happy holidays. Kholmanskikh said in his address that ‘a company with a potential like this, with a strong engineering school and a great team will always be needed, even

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 27, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) introduced an automated ferrous alloy treatment system at the plant, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. ‘We now operate two ferroalloy smelting chambers with an automated tracking system, feed-control sensors, and scales. Each of the two chambers is meant for a particular type of ferrous alloys, so new treatment systems make it easier to get additives ready for smelting,’ the press office says. A steel-smelter’s assistant enters the necessary amount of ferrous alloys needed for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 27, 2016. SKB-Bank made a special New Year’s offer available for corporate customers and sole traders between December 22, 2016 and February 24, 2017, the bank’s press service reports. Customers applying for a settlement account online within the given period will receive a bonus (interest on the amount of money in the account at 5% annual rate) within the following three months. The offer holds for Partner+, StartUp+, and TestDrive+ packages.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 27, 2016. Ural Airlines added yet another A320 plane to their fleet of vehicles, the air carrier’s press service reports. The company currently operates thirty-eight planes all in all, including twenty A320 ones, eleven A321 ones, and seven A319 ones. The new plane arrived in Yekaterinburg last weekend. Mechanics are now busy getting the aircraft ready. The airplane is expected to debut in company colors as soon as December 27. Ural Airlines have been renovating its fleet of vehicles since 2006, adding new aircraft every year. The plan is to purchase three more

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 27, 2016. TÜV Rheinland auditors looked into ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Plant (PNTZ) quality management system and stated it meets the ISO 9001-2008 and GOST ISO 9001-2011 standards, the Group’s press service reports. The company is now officially a dependable and qualified supplier. Auditors inspected the plant’s production departments, including the OCTG finishing center and pipe-rolling, pipe-drawing, and electric smelting shops. They also studied the technical documentation and the state and effectiveness of the produce quality management system. In the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 26, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation plans to sell 14,500 freight railcars of all types next year, the company’s First Deputy Director-General Yuri Bolyayev said at a BOD meeting. According to the company press service, the Board of Directors met in Moscow on December 22 to look into the year’s performance results. The meeting was attended by the corporation’s top management as well as by heads of the company’s member enterprises, including design offices and research institutes. ‘Ural Vagon Zavod remains one of the Russian defense industry’s most viable

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 26, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant fulfilled Russian Railways’ large order for the production and delivery of nine multifunctional TMV2 vehicles. These have been manufactured and sent to customer. The company press service reports this was part of Russian Railways’ investment project on the introduction of resource-saving technologies for railway transport. Russian Railways placed its order for nine TMV2s with Ural Vagon Zavod’s head plant following a tender in late September. The auction procedure was carried out through the corporation’s member

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 26, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) got twenty of its tractors repaired and recycled; the tractors were made at the plant a while ago and grew worn-out by now, the plant’s press service reports. The repair/recycling jobs were done for the customer in charge of maintaining the oil company Bashneft’s facilities. ‘The tractors got de-assembled, washed, cleaned, and inspected inside. All the parts that needed to get repaired or replaced were sent to our production department. The tractors were then re-assembled in accordance with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 26, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon reports its Board of Directors plans a general meeting to get shareholders’ votes to approve the purchase of 11.5m A shares and 21.9m ordinary shares in Mail.Ru Group Limited; this controlling shareholding (63.8% of voting shares) currently belongs to USM Group, MegaFon’s press service reports. Under the terms of the prospective deal, MegaFon is to purchase 11.5m A shares and 21.9m ordinary shares in Mail.Ru Group’s authorized capital (63.8% of the Group’s voting shares) from New Media and Technology Investment

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 26, 2016. ChTPZ Group’s employees are to celebrate the coming New Year’s Eve in Chelyabinsk (on December 22) and Pervouralsk (on December 23) with shows that over 1,000 workers will see, the company press service reports. As usual, the awarding ceremony of the annual Golden Fund Contest is going to be the key feature of the day. Thirty-eight metallurgical workers, including a rolling mill operator, an arc welder, a boilmaker, and a crane operator, got awarded by the company management for their exceptional skills and support of the company values (Reliability,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 23, 2016. 431 automobiles belonging to people with unpaid debts got seized in Sverdlovsk Region this year, the local division of the Federal Court Officers’ Service reports. ‘Court officers regularly go on raids to identify and seize automobiles that belong to people involved in enforcement proceedings. The launch of our Mobile Search app this year helped double the number of debtors’ cars we could find. The idea is quite simple: a court officer walks through a parking lot with a mobile device in their hand and scans all the license plates with an in-built