25 October 201614:55

New Building Commissioned in Akademichesky

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 25, 2016. Yet another apartment building at 9 Pavel Shamanov St was recently commissioned in Yekaterinburg’s Akademichesky District, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The building is situated in the district’s first quarter along Pavel Shamanov St and consists of four 12- to 18-story sections and underground parking lots. There is a sports and a children’s playground in the yard and a kindergarten, a pedestrian area, and a workout spot next to the building. A children’s clinic, two schools, and a stadium are located across the street. ‘Because of its
25 October 201614:55

SKB-Bank, SME Corporation to Offer Reduced-Rate Loans

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 25, 2016. SKB-Bank and SME Corporation signed an agreement to offer small and medium enterprises loans at a reduced interest rate, the bank’s press service reports. The bank representatives explain the agreement was signed during a round table discussion on the development of SMEs in the Urals; the discussion was coordinated by the Expert-Ural magazine and Expert Analytical Center. ‘The bank’s customers from among medium enterprises can now apply for funding at 9.6% a year, and those from among small enterprises can apply for a loan at a 10.6% annual interest
25 October 201614:54

Ural Vagon Zavod Celebrates 80th Anniversary in Nizhniy Tagil

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 25, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant celebrated its 80th anniversary at I.V. Okunev Palace of Culture in Nizhniy Tagil, the company press service reports. Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Igor Kholmanskikh, acting Sverdlovsk Region Prime Minister Alexei Orlov, Chair of All-Russian Defense Industry Workers’ Union Andrei Chekmenev, and directors of the corporation’s member enterprises all came to take part in the celebrations. Igor Kholmanskikh, acting on behalf of the Russian Federation
24 October 201613:49

Ural Vagon Zavod Gets Quality Management Certificate

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 24, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s member enterprises in Nizhniy Tagil, Rubtsovsk, Chelyabinsk, and Volchansk were issued quality management system, environmental management system, and safety and healthcare management system certificates, the company press service reports. The SovAsk certificates were issued by Monolit-Cert and are valid for the next three years. This audit was one of the steps taken to improve the corporation’s management system. ‘A unified management system covers all the inter-connect systems and subsystems, including strategic,
24 October 201613:49

Ural Airlines to Fly Tigress Lola To Crimea

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 24, 2016. Ural Airlines is taking the rescued tigress Lola from Yekaterinburg to Simferopol on its U6 2931 flight today; the animal was supposed to have been put to sleep due to illness but was cured by Chelyabinsk animal rights activists, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘The airline provided a special plane with a heated and ventilated luggage section to ensure a safe and comfortable flight. It took us several days to get all things in order, as the consignor had to make a new cage that could fit into the luggage section,’ the press service says. This
24 October 201613:48

UEKhK Proves Taxpayer of The Year

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 24, 2016. Rosatom’s Ural Electrochemical Works (UEKhK) in Novouralsk won the local Taxpayer of the Year Contest, the company press service reports. The awarding ceremony took place during the reading of the budget message at Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly; Governor Evgeny Kuivashev presented the awards and a thank-you letter to the company Director-General Alexander Beloussov. Beloussov said the award was an acknowledgement of the plant’s noticeable contribution to Sverdlovsk Region’s socioeconomic development and of UEKhK’s financial stability. The
24 October 201613:48

SKB-Bank Joins SME Lending Program

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 24, 2016. Federal SME Development Corporation and SKB-Bank signed an agreement to work together on lending programs for small and medium enterprises, the bank’s press service reports. The bank’s customers from among medium enterprises can now apply for funding at the interest rate of 9.6% a year; those from among small enterprises can apply for loans at a 10.6% annual interest rate. Businesses can spend this funding on fixed assets, production upgrades, new projects, and daily performance needs as long as the company operates in important sectors of economy such
24 October 201613:48

Russians’ Income At Its Lowest Since 1999

UrBC, Moscow, October 24, 2016. Russians’ incomes dropped by 6.1% in the third quarter of the year compared with one year earlier; this is the lowest drop in the July-September period since 1999, lenta.ru refers to Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration’s research findings as indicating. ‘Even in the crisis year of 2009, people’s factual disposal incomes shrank somewhat less than this year,’ the Academy analysts say. Incomes declined by 3.3% against the year 2008 then. It is believed the ongoing downfall has to do with the pensions’ diminishing buying
21 October 201615:07

Ural Vagon Zavod to Compete in WorldSkills Hi Tech

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 21, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s representatives are taking part in the 3d National WorldSkills Championship in Yekaterinburg EXPO on October 30-November 3, the company press service reports. Workers from the holding’s member enterprises are to compete in two categories: Welding and NC Milling; they will also be involved as experts. ‘Our team comprises prize-winners and contestants from WorldSkills championships of all levels, from company contests to All-Russian ones; these are our best production experts,’ the press service says. Ural Vagon Zavod will
21 October 201615:06

Ural Airlines’ Customers Can Use Apple Pay

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 21, 2016. Starting today, Ural Airlines mobile app users can also enjoy the benefits of Apple Pay, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Apple Pay is an easy, safe, and personalized way of payment that completely changes mobile payment standards with its speed and convenience,’ the press service says. Apple Watch and iPhone 6 (or later versions) owners who have Ural Airlines app installed on their devices can now pay for their shopping in just one tap. The airline plans to introduce this technology at other online resources in the future. ‘Apple Pay makes app
21 October 201615:06

EVRAZ NTMK Supplies 1,800 Wheel Bands to Bangladesh

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 21, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) shipped a large batch of small-diameter locomotive wheel bands to Bangladesh, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. The bands will be fitted onto bands of narrow-gauge railroad locos. 1,875 wheel bands got delivered to customer altogether. ‘Their internal diameter comes to 603mm; the plant had to master making B3, a new steel variety, at its converter shop specially for this order. Besides, our technicians developed a new calibration method and a new normalization technology for
21 October 201615:06

Federal Grid Company to Rebuild Mains in Sverdlovsk Region, Perm Territory

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 21, 2016. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems is going to get 8,800 up-to-date insulators installed at high-voltage mains to ensure an emergency- and accident-free fall and winter in Perm Territory, the company press service reports. Additionally, an overhaul is now being given to 220-kilowatt Kachkanar-Cement electric main which connects Sverdlovsk Region’s and Perm Territory’s power supply networks. This is expected to produce a more reliable power supply to Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise and the cement-making plant
20 October 201613:16

Ural Vagon Zavod Makes Overloader for Uvalnaya Mine

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 20, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Yurginsky Machine-Building Plant is about to ship its overloader to Uvalnaya Mine; the equipment was made by order of Siberian Coal Company. The company press service reports they are also getting ready to deliver a conveyor to the same customer. ‘Both equipment units are meant to be used at Uvalnaya Mine’s new long-face. The customer chose Yurginsky Plant’s machines, including the overloader and the conveyor, since these have already proven efficient at other mines,’ the press service says. The plant designers introduced a
20 October 201613:15

ChTPZ Group Students to Study at UFU

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 20, 2016. Twenty-seven employees of ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ), including fourteen alumni of the Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program, enrolled at Pipe Technologies & Equipment Department at Ural Federal University and are now studying for their Bachelor’s degrees. The off-campus department was set up on the plant’s premises. According to the Group’s PR Department, it will take the new students three years and two months to get qualifications in Power Engineering, Metallurgy, and Technological Equipment. This year,
20 October 201613:15

MegaFon, Ural Vagon Zavod Now Partners

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 20, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon improved the connection quality at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s departments and offices, the company press service reports. ‘The head plant was founded eighty years ago this month. MegaFon technicians introduced additional equipment upgrades and network settings in Nizhniy Tagil in time for the celebrations. As the plant buildings date back to the thirties and the forties, their thick walls turned out to be an obstacle. However, the country’s leading railcar and tank manufacturer’s facilities now
20 October 201613:15

Sverdlovsk Region: Foreign Trade Turnover Down 14.5%

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 20, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region’s foreign trade turnover dropped by 14.5% (down to $6.1bn) in January-September 2016 compared with one year previously, Ural Customs inform UrBC. Exports declined by 10.9%, down to $4.9bn (including a 6.3% decrease in exports to countries outside the CIS and a 53.4% decrease in exports to CIS member states). Imports dropped by 26.7%, down to $1.1bn (including a 26.6% drop in imports from the countries outside the CIS and a 30.1% drop in imports from the CIS member states). In volume terms, Sverdlovsk Region’s foreign trade turnover went
20 October 201613:14

Sverdlovsk Region: Coal Stock Down 27.1%

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 20, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region’s coal stock amounted to 1,351,100,000 kg on October 1, 2016; this was 27.1% less than one year earlier, Sverdlovskstat reports. Furnace oil supplies stood at 193,100,000 kg on October 1, down 2.9% on last October. Based on the daily spending figures for September 2016, the current coal and furnace oil stock is expected to last for thirty-six and 848 days, respectively. The electric power, natural gas, and water producers and suppliers in the area now have 544,000,000 kg less coal (-36.9%) and 400,000 kg more furnace oil (+0.3%) than
19 October 201616:38

MMK Cuts Down on Costs

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, October 19, 2016. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) keeps cutting down on energy spending by taking a set of different measures: encouraging improvement proposals, investing in low-budget, quick-payoff projects, and outsourcing power facilities maintenance. ‘MMK considered 251 improvement proposals on energy saving in the first eight months of 2016. This has saved the company 1,1321bn RUR. Also, a special electronic Power Management Platform was launched this year in order to make processing of innovative proposals more efficient. Some business
19 October 201614:40

Ural Vagon Zavod Awards Inventors

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 19, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant recently hosted a round table discussion on their inventors and innovators’ performance. The discussion was held on the eve of Inventor’s Day and was part of celebrating the plant’s special year: Ural Vagon Zavod was founded eighty years ago this month. According to the corporation’s press service, the foresight discussion and the conference participants’ reports were all dedicated to how an employee and their company can work together to enhance their intellectual potential. Some ten Ural Federal District-based