UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant keeps testing EO 41211A, its new crawler-mounted excavator, the company press service reports. The standard tests (500 hours of real-life conditions performance) are meant to help assess the need for structural or manufacturing process adjustments that could improve the product’s technological parameters. ‘Ural Vagon Zavod’s excavator has already passed the first testing stage successfully by excavating clay material from a mine. The vehicle is now used at a construction site in Nizhniy Tagil, extracting some

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2016. Albert Yamaliyev’s team of miners from EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Alardinskaya Mine has produced 2,000,000,000kg of coal at Coal Mining Section 1 (section head: Valeriy Kuznetsov; mechanic: Victor Volodin) since the start of the year, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s press service reports. ‘There is some shortage of met coal on both the national and the global markets at the moment. To make sure the metallurgical industry’s needs are met, we need to maintain stable, productive, and emergency-free work performance. Alardinskaya miners do very well

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2016. Siemens and Sinara Group’s joint venture Ural Locomotives’ Lastochka Premium ES2GP Train went on a demonstration trip from Yekaterinburg to Tyumen and back on November 17-18, 2016, Sinara Group’s press service reports. It takes the train 3 hours and fifteen minutes to get from Yekaterinburg to Tyumen (or back), which is one hour faster than the shortest connection currently on the train schedule, with average speed at 150 km per hour. ‘The new electric train was displayed to Tyumen Region Duma deputies on Sverdlovsk Railways Day. Deputy Chair of Tyumen

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 22, 2016. Sinara Group’s Sinara Development, the general contractor for the reconstruction of Yekaterinburg Central Stadium in time for the World Cup 2018, is now busy connecting the stadium’s internal and external roof rings. Sinara Group’s PR Center reports the first connecting support beam (height: 31m; weight: 10,000kg) has been installed next to the northern stand. ‘In order to make the transportation of such a bulky structure easier, the beam was originally made of two equally large parts that were then assembled and welded together right on the

UrBC, Moscow, November 21, 2016. Yekaterinburg’s Akademichesky District is now No.1 on Russia’s Top20 housing projects list according to Kommersant-Nedvizhimost, RSG Abademicheskoye’s press service reports. The entire quarter was estimated to have required $12bn in investments, which comes to nearly one-fifth of the amount that is expected to be invested in all the projects on the top twenty list altogether. Akademichesky is also almost 1.5 times more expensive than Bolshoye Domodedovo in Moscow Region, which comes next on the list. The plan is to put up 9m m2 worth of housing and over 4m m2

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2016. Ural Airlines celebrated its first ten years of using Airbus liners on November 18, the air carrier’s press service reports. The airline’s first A320 liner in company colors landed in Koltsovo Airport ten years ago on November 18. ‘This was the start of a new era for Ural air travel. We embarked on our fleet renovation program that is still in progress today. Ural Airlines are only using airplanes supplied by Airbus and have bought thirty-seven of them since October 2011. We are going to buy four more next year, which means there’ll be forty-one

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2016. Representatives of the Cuban company Energoimport and Russia’s Inter RAO Export came to Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ Uraltrac) to hold negotiations on future cooperation and take a look at the plant’s produce and potential, ChTZ Uraltrac’s press service reports. The two companies are getting ready to start a large-scale construction project in Cuba that will result in four power-generating units (total capacity 800MW). During their meeting with the plant’s director Vyacheslav Yumatov, the visitors explained the funds

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation and the Russian Defense Ministry’s R&D and Advanced Technologies Department signed a cooperation agreement. According to the corporation’s press service, the paper was signed by the corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko and the department’s head Alexander Mironov. ‘The agreement dwells on the two parties’ scientific research and technological cooperation, namely, exchange of scientific and technological data, joint research projects, and carrying out experiments,’ the press service says. Also, the plan is to keep

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 21, 2016. Russian Copper Company’s Chelyabinsk Region-based assets (Mikheyevsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise, Aleksandrinskaya Ore Mining Company, Karabashmed, and Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant) made 6.257bn RUR in net profit in nine months of 2016. Mikheyevsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise made 13.121bn RUR in revenues and 2.976bn RUR in net profit; Karabashmed made 6.925bn RUR in revenues and 2.094bn RUR in net profit. Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant made 848.7m RUR in net profit and 8.275bn RUR in revenues. Aleksandrinskaya Ore Mining

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 18, 2016. Ural Airlines adopted new luggage and cabin luggage regulations recently, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Passengers tend to use more overhead compartment space in winter because of all the overcoats and other personal belongings. This can be uncomfortable for those traveling with cabin luggage only, so Ural Airlines adopts new rules on November 20: a Promo ticket covers one piece of cabin luggage (under 5kg) and one piece of regular luggage (under 10kg); if you fly Economy or Premium Economy, your ticket covers one cabin luggage item (under

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 18, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation elaborated a development strategy for 2017-2025, the company press service reports. The roadmap can now be found on the company website uvz.ru, which is a separate website apart from the corporation’s head plant’s website; the idea is for the strategy to finish up the long process of building an integrated business with dozens of railcar and wheel-tracked armored vehicle plants, design offices, and research institutes. ‘We can now proudly declare that the Russian President’s decree issued in the year 2007 has been fully

UrBC, Moscow, November 18, 2016. Federal Grid Company United Energy System’s IAS-calculated net profit amounted to 59.2bn RUR, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 1.9 times. The company’s revenues also rose by 30% and thus reached 165.5bn RUR.

UrBC, Moscow, November 18, 2016. 911,000 new passenger vehicles left Russian plants’ assembly lines in the ten months of 2016, which was 10.9% less than one year earlier. 104,000 new cars were made in the country in October, which was 2.9% less than in October 2015, Avtostat reports. The car-making company AvtoVAZ switched to a four-day week till February 19, 2017 in order to avoid layoffs. As for car makes by international brands, Kaliningrad-based Avtotor and Kaluza-Based PSMA Rus started making Hyundai Grand Santa Fe and a new-generation Citroen C4 Sedan, respectively. Also, KIA’s plant in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 18, 2016. Passengers had to evacuate from Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport due to smoke, the airport’s official representative Dmitri Tyukhtin informed UrBC. According to Tyukhtin, passengers (some 100 people altogether) had to transfer from the boarding area back to the airport lounge. ‘Smoke was detected in the switchboard room at the airport domestic flights baggage claim area. All the electric appliances were switched off at once, but some smoke escaped to the domestic flights terminal boarding areas, so passengers had to leave to facilitate airing.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 17, 2016. Ural Airlines are offering reduced-price tickets for their Yekaterinburg-Saint Petersburg flights this winter, the air carrier’s press service reports. Starting November 16, 2016, special prices (from 3,500 RUR for a one-way ticket, all fees included) apply. ‘Saint Petersburg is one Russia’s best-looking cities in winter, and holiday season is also the time for one thousand and one urban adventures at prices much lower than those you face in the summer. You can walk along Nevsky Avenue, where all the major landmarks are right there for you, take a peek

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 17, 2016. Sinara Development came up with a special price offer on apartments in four new buildings in Yekaterinburg in time for the holiday season, the company press service reports. ‘You can get a 350,000-ruble discount on your new home in Svoi Krug, Peremena, Krylov, and Solnechny condos if you buy before New Year. In addition to this discount, you can also go for an interest-free payout plan for as long as the construction is still in progress. What is more, a free parking slot comes with some of the apartments on offer,’ the press service says. Sinara

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 17, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Metallurgical Works (NTMK) recently purchased a new transportable repair depot mounted on GAZ 66 van to ensure timely repair jobs for its oxygen converter shop, the holding’s press service reports. The repair station can be used to transport special-purpose equipment and a team of mechanics (up to six people all in all) and to carry out repairs proper. This is a heated, insulated van with all the lighting fixtures, which makes the repairing process in winter or at night much easier. The van is also fitted with special

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 17, 2016. Inclusive training experts coordinated eight workshops for the visually impaired in the Urals over the last three months. Some 250 people attended the workshops to learn how to deal with everyday issues; they also came up with ideas for seven more inclusive training projects that will be implemented next year. Such were the first outcomes of a special program put forth by the telecommunications provider MegaFon and Belaya Trost (‘White Cane’), a charity foundation for the visually impaired. According to MegaFon’s press service, the workshop comprised

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 17, 2016. The international Russia Arms Expo Forum - an annual event coordinated by Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation - won the first prize as Business Project in the 4th All-Russian Event Tourism Contest. According to the company press service, the contest was part of the 5th All-Russian Russian Open Event Expo and Tourism Week at Yugra Expo in Khanty-Mansiysk. The exhibition and fair were organized by Yugra Government, with Russia’s Culture Ministry’s support. Russian Open Event Expo is held on a yearly basis to present the national travel opportunities for both

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 16, 2016. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) took part in the 22nd International Metal Expo 2016 Exhibition at the All-Russian Exhibition Center in Moscow on November 8-11, the company press service reports. The company stand featured banners with photographs of TMK member enterprises, while conference rooms were industrially themed with the help of works by a Ural artist Ekaterina Poedenschikova. Visitors to the stand could take a look at actual samples of TMK’s pipe produce and learn more about the company’s piping solutions on two touch panels (which featured,