UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 20, 2016. Federal Grid Company United Energy System launched a new, 501 MVA-strong autotransformer unit at its Gazovaya Power Substation in Orenburg Region, the company press service reports. This is expected to ensure a more reliable power supply for the area’s gas refinery and helium plant, oil and gas companies, a metallurgical works, and Iriklinskaya Power Plant. Gazovaya Substation now runs on a set of three 500-kilowatt single-phase autotransformers (total capacity: 501 MVA), with new sensors and monitoring appliances to ensure equipment diagnostics online,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 19, 2016. Saint Petersburg-Nizhniy Tagil, an exhibition of art works by Petr Ovchenkov, a Moscow-based artist originally from Nizhniy Tagil, opened at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Museum, the company press service reports. There are thirty-five pieces dedicated to Saint Petersburg and twenty depicting Nizhniy Tagil landscapes on display at the museum. Ovchenkov, member of the International Arts Foundation’s Moscow unit, member of the Professional Artists’ Union, and Associate Member of Saint Petersburg Petrovskaya Academy of Sciences & Arts, presented one

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 19, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (KGOK) keeps replacing and upgrading its tailing pond equipment, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. For one, the company bought a heavy-duty bulldozer that is twice as productive as its earlier versions. ‘The bulldozer is used to put up tailing pond dams. This unique vehicle is fitted with an electronically controlled hydrostatic drive and is specifically customized to work on loose, soft, moist ground (the usual condition at a tailing pond). The bulldozer operator can enjoy the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 19, 2016. Sinara Group’s Sinara Development is about to get two new apartment buildings in Volgograd commissioned: these are Aquarelle and the 10th building in Novy Svet Condominium, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. Sinara Development is now offering its customers a chance to buy new homes at a discount (1,000 RUR off every square meter); the offer is good through the end of the year. ‘Aquarelle is a sixteen-story apartment building in the center of Krasnooktyabrsky District. There are schools, kindergartens, clinics, pharmacies, cafes, gyms, supermarkets, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 19, 2016. RCC Boxing Promotions’ team are going to make sure all the steps are taken to prevent the event attendants from contracting measles during the sports show at Yekaterinburg EXPO on December 17, Russian Copper Company’s press service reports. ‘Based on Sverdlovsk Region Chief State Sanitary Officer’s Decree 01-01-01-04-03/28962 dated December 13, 2016, the organizers of the boxing show in Yekaterinburg EXPO must take all the measures to prevent the recent measles outbreak from spreading further,’ the press service says. 15,000 disposable medical face

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 19, 2016. A winter amusement park opens in Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District on December 17, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. ‘Ural artists and locals worked together to create Dobrye Yelki New Year Arts & Crafts Park. There park features an unusual New Year’s tree themed along Korney Chukovsky’s children’s tales that you can actually ‘flick through’, a seven-meter-high arch-shaped ‘fir tree’ made of decorative lights and season’s ornaments, and a sculpture of the mythical creature Pushmi-pullyu,’ the press service says. All these objets

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 16, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil is working to induce professional standards on the premises, the company press service reports. This is one of the plant’s primary people management goals for 2016 and 2017. ‘Our first professional standard was developed for job safety experts. Following a training session and an exam, 100% of our job safety professionals now meet their qualification and skills requirements. Now workers from the plant’s Weights & Measures Lab are also undergoing professional development training at our

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 16, 2016. A new equipment assembly line is now under way at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ), the company press service reports. The assembly line will be installed in the engineering equipment building in the eastern section of the plant’s premises. This ‘restart’ is part of the plant’s optimization program and is expected to help bring all production facilities onto a single site so that the remaining empty spaces could be used for Technics Industrial Park. The primary assembly line that is currently in use is located in the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 16, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) proved Sverdlovsk Region’s best charity provider among ferrous metallurgical enterprises, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. The awarding ceremony took place in Yekaterinburg on December 14, during the annual Charity Days. This year, NTMK directed over 1bn RUR to CSR and charity projects. ‘The holding has been supporting young infantile cerebral palsy patients for over a decade now. With some support from the company, children with disabilities can go horse-riding, take drawing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 16, 2016. SKB-Bank was featured in sravni.ru’s reliability rating of Russia’s two hundred largest banks as the one in the second most reliable banks group, the bank’s press service reports. The rating is based on the banks’ financial report indicators and a number of other criteria and distributes the country’s two hundred major banks within the reliability range, from the most to the least dependable ones. SKB-Bank is now in the second group that unites banks controlled by federal constituencies’ governments, which means they are more or less state-run but a bit

Rosatom’s Ural Electrochemical Works (UEKhK) in Novouralsk hosted the 3d Small Group Leaders’ Forum on December 9, 2016, the company press service reports. The forum has been held at the premises every year since 2014 in order to ensure feedback flow between managers and employees and to increase workers’ involvement in the production management process. ‘Fifty of the company’s production managers, moderators, and experts united into one team for the day to look into ways of making their small groups more efficient,’ the press service says. According to the rules of the forum, all

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, December 15, 2016. The metal goods manufacturer MMK METIZ now makes copper-plated welding wire from S2Mo steel (diameter: 4.0 mm) as part of its import substitution program. ‘MMK METIZ is doing this by order of its key partner, Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant’s Vysota 239 Pipe Welding Department. The wire is used for automatic arc-smelting of large-diameter pipes made from alloyed and low-alloyed steels. The LDPs are customized to withstand increased working pressure and harsh climatic conditions. The wire was developed by MMK METIZ R&D department;

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 15, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation opened its UVZSHOP.ru in Moscow recently; the 50-m2 outlet is located on the 5th floor of Univergmag Moskva in Lewinsky Avenue, the company press service reports. The shop was opened within the framework of UVZ Media Service and Invest Capital’s partnership program, with support from the Eurasian Business Cooperation Council Non-Profit Partnership. ‘Fans of UVZ souvenir products have long wanted an outlet in Moscow, but our development strategy only covers franchises for shops outside the Urals. This is the first attempt to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 15, 2016. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) supplied a set of H2S resistant pipes for Gazprom’s Astrakhan oil/gas condensate field as part of the two parties’ import substitution program, TMK press service reports. The 89 mm and 114 mm pumping and compression pipes made of H2S resistant С90SS steel were designed specially for Astrakhan deposit, where H2S and CO2 content is particularly high. The long-term agreement TMK and Gazprom signed in October 2015 provides for design, development, and production of custom-made pipes that meet Gazprom’s technical

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 15, 2016. Russian Copper Company’s Novgorod Metallurgical Plant made 6,000,000 kg of copper cathodes last month. ‘This is the largest monthly output figure the company has reached since its expansion and launch in 2003,’ their press service says. The plant’s Director-General Oleg Chernoshtan said the entire team worked towards this production record and also stressed the importance of stable and sufficient raw stuff supply in the process. ‘Russian Copper Company’s goal is to get 6,200,000 kg of cathodes in December, so November results should be seen as the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 15, 2016. Snezhnost, ChTPZ Group’s 14th children’s festival supported by Russia’s Culture Ministry, Chelyabinsk Region Government, and Sverdlovsk Region Government, came to a close, the Group’s PR Department reports. The charity festival got rounded up with Good Horton, a play by Ozersk Drama Theater, and Our House, a comedy play, staged at Kusinsk Children and Teenagers’ Rehabilitation Center. Additionally, Moscow Puppet Theater’s play called The Scribbles Game, adjusted for special-needs children, was performed for children from Chelyabinsk foster homes and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 15, 2016. Ural Airlines are now offering reduced-price tickets for flights to Sochi, the Crimea, and Myneralnye Vody to all Urals’ residents who enjoy an active lifestyle and extreme sports, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘The Olympic Games 2014 host, Sochi can now boast excellent sports facilities such as Alpika Service, Gornaya Karusel, Gazprom/Laura, and Rosa Hutor. Dombay near Myneralnye Vody is famous for its mountain skiing pistes and a comfortable recreation areas in Teberlinsky National Park. Crimea’s Ai-Petri Plateau is also popular with skiers

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 14, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation presented its Tankprom Museum project at the 10th International Research-to-Practice Vehicle History & Museology Conference in Moscow. According to the company press service, the conference was coordinated by Polytechnic Museum, the Russian Academy of Sciences’ S.I. Vavilov Institute of the History of Natural Science & Technology, and the Association for Science Museum Development (AMNIT). There were four sections to this conference: History of Vehicle Development, Museology, Museum Source Studies, and Today’s Museum

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 14, 2016. Miners from EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Mine have already met this year’s target output figures (5,000,000,000 kg of coal), EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s press office reports. The mine’s management congratulated their team on this achievement, stressing in particular the efforts of Vasily Pasichinsky, Stanislav Kovtunets, and Alexei Ivanov. ‘Raspadskaya was the second Kuzbass-based mine to produce 5,000,000,000 kg of coal this year, despite the problematic increased ash content in the coal material. Now that we are moving to the sixth layer of current

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 14, 2016. Nine alumni of ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program pledged their allegiance to the Russian Armed Forces’ flag in Gorniy Shchit, Sverdlovsk Region. According to the Group’s press service, the solemn ceremony was attended by the military from Central Military District, heads of ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant, and representatives of the Group’s Training Center. ‘You are going to serve your army term at one of the legendary units that is proverbial for its highly professional commanding officers, its disciplinary