UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 7, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s museum opened a new exhibition called UVZ: The Country’s Stronghold, the company press service reports. The exhibition is part of the All-Russian Research-to-Practice Tankprom 3 Conference and is dedicated to the special date: Ural Vagon Zavod was founded eighty years ago this month. The exhibition features the plant’s modern developments, technologies, and produce by the corporation’s twenty-four member enterprises. The exhibits will be on display through the end of November and will then be stored at Ural

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 7, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation has been fulfilling all of the defense procurement requirements in time and in full for the last six years, with some items delivered ahead of schedule, the company press service reports. ‘This year, some 1,300 military vehicles and weaponry units will be supplied to Russia’s Defense Ministry, and over a half of these are our latest makes. The company is working on a wide range of tasks relating to design, upgrade, and production of promising weapons and vehicles,’ the press service says. The defense procurement requirements

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 7, 2016. Nevyansk Court upheld a motion by defense lawyers of Sergei Dubinkin, former head of Russian Pension Fund’s Sverdlovsk Region branch, granting him parole. The court ruling was possible as Dubinkin, who got sentenced to ten years in Penal Colony 46 for bribery, has served two-thirds of his prison term by now. The official was detained in Yekaterinburg in November 2009 with charges of bribery (36.5m RUR and $50,000) for transfer of pension fund’s money onto Bank VEFK accounts, and sentenced in December 2011. He spent the two years of trial in Remand Prison

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 7, 2016. Russian Copper Company and Chelyabinsk Uralstrong Federation are coordinating The Strongest Kid, a multiathlon for children, the company press service reports. The first such championship was held for 11- to 12-year-olds in the spring, with over 1,500 children from twenty Chelyabinsk schools taking part in the event. This time, the multiathlon will be held on a wider scale and will involve kids from schools located in seven different city districts: Kalininsky, Kurchatovsky, Leninsky, Metallurgichesky, Sovetsky, Traktorozavodsky, and Tsentralny. Some

UrBC, Moscow, October 7, 2016. Toyota Motor is calling off 219,811 cars (Toyota Auris, Toyota Prius, Toyota Corolla, and Lexus CT 200h) that were sold on the Russian market, Rosstandart was informed recently. These are 7,561 Toyota Auris ones, 210,511 Toyota Corolla ones, 825 Toyota Prius ones, and 914 Lexus CT 200h ones, all sold between February 15, 2009 and September 19, 2015. The said automobile makes are fitted with a carbon vapor recovery filter in the fuel tank. ‘The filter exhaust stack is located in a spot where it is likely to crack. Moreover, this crack could get bigger over time,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 6, 2016. A repair and maintenance depot for foreign-made containers at UEKHK (a member enterprise of Rosatom’s TVEL) got the first batch of 30B containers used for transportation of enriched plutonium to international customers certified, the company press service reports. The certification process involved all the necessary procedures such as hydrostatic testing of containers for strength and airtightness, pneumatic testing, non-destructive tests, inspection of all the joints and connections, and everything else that the depot could do on its own. The containers

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 6, 2016. Siemens and Sinara Group’s joint venture Ural Locomotives introduced new technological solutions at their rolling stock dispatcher unit on October 1, 2016. According to Sinara Group’s press service, the unit has been around for five years now, and dispatchers operate 24/7 to track all the locomotives and Lastochka electric trains currently used by Russian Railways. ‘Now, thanks to UL Service, our custom-made, unique information system, the dispatchers can obtain updated diagnostic data on every bit and system of a loco or train and react promptly to any

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 6, 2016. Russian Copper Company is going to put up a modern, multifunctional sports facility for adults and children in Karabash, Sverdlovsk Region, the company press service reports. The facility will be located between Sinegorye Health Resort and the St. John Chrysostom Church in Karabash. The site is currently being prepared for the construction jobs: workers are busy cutting down trees and removing tree stumps, preparing the engineering infrastructure, putting up fences, and clearing space for layout. The developer is also working on getting the construction

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 6, 2016. Gazprom Chair of the Board Alexei Miller and Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) shareholder and Member of the BOD Andrei Komarov signed a roadmap on a project for making new-generation pipes. According to ChTPZ Group’s press service, the paper was signed at the 6th Saint Petersburg International Gas Forum the other day. Under the terms of the document, the plant is going to develop for Gazprom a number of technological solutions for making longitudinal welded large-diameter pipes from the regular as well as highly durable X80-X120 steels and pipeline

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 6, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s and Alfa-Bank’s representatives reached a settlement on their arbitration proceedings involving the corporation’s daughter enterprises ChTZ-Uraltrac and Uraltransmash; as it happens, the corporation itself borrowed no money from the bank. According to the corporation’s press service, the settlements were reached in Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court and Moscow Arbitration Court on September 28 and September 30, 2016, respectively. Ural Vagon Zavod will be paying off its daughter enterprises’ debt

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, October 5, 2016. The Association of Russia’s Managers and Kommersant Publishing House presented their 17th annual rating of Top 1000 Russian Managers. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Chair of the BOD Viktor Rashnikov was featured in the Business Leaders rating among the country’s leading business people and heads of strategically important enterprises as usual. MMK Director-General Pavel Shilyayev was among the top three managers in the metallurgical and ore mining industry in the Top 250 Top Managers rating. There are also separate ratings for heads of

UrBC, Moscow, October 5, 2016. The price of a new home in Yekaterinburg rose by 1.9% in the course of nine months of the year and came to 3.912m RUR on average, Mir Kvartir reports. The average asking price of Yekaterinburg homes decreased by 0.9%, down to 68,716 RUR per m2, in the third quarter of the year, but this was still 0.6% more than on January 1, 2016. Yekaterinburg is currently Russia’s 7th most expensive city to buy a place in among locations with population over 1m people. Moscow is predictably the city with the most expensive housing; prices in the capital declined by 18.1% since

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 5, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region’s retail trade turnover amounted to 69.2bn RUR between January and August 2016, which was 5.3% less than one year earlier, Rosstat reports. In August 2016, the turnover figures dropped 4.7% below the level of August 2015 and rose by 1.8% against July 2016.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 5, 2016. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) shipped a set of seamless pipes to Saransk, where they will be used to put up Mordovia Arena Stadium in time for the world football championship of 2018. According to the company’s PR Department, the contractor has received 210,000 kg of seamless pipes (diameter: 219mm and 426mm) made of 440C steel this year so far. This is not the first time TMK delivers pipes for Saransk stadium: the company also supplied 1,600,000 kg of pipes for the stadium’s metal frames last year. TMK has been supplying its produce for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 5, 2016. Some 1,500 employees of EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) took part in civil defense and emergency drills recently, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. The drills took two days to complete and involved several of EVRAZ NTMK departments. On the first day, the trainees had to deal with a simulated emergency at a power station’s boiler plant: the roof ‘got partially destroyed’ and a natural gas pipeline ‘had a gap in it’. On the second day, the task was to handle emergencies at the blast-furnace department and test

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 5, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s member enterprise Vityaz is now working on two-section full-track carriers DT-30PM that are meant for carrying weapons and military and special-purpose equipment, the company press service reports. ‘The vehicles will be used in the military units currently stationed in the Arctic, so we specifically focused on cabin insulation, speedy engine start-up, and so on. The tractor is fitted with a modern APZH30 heater and an improved engine cooling system,’ the press service says. The carrier is designed to pass through any kind of

UrBC, Moscow, October 4, 2016. The number of Russians officially registered as jobless came to 869,848 people last month, Prime refers to the Russian Labor Ministry representatives as stating. ‘The number of job-seekers registered with the state-run employment agencies dropped by 1.4% between September 21 and September 28, 2016 and reached 869,848 people (against 881,980 people on September 21),’ the ministry says. It is also reported that the number of jobless rose in twelve federal constituencies, among them Ingushetia, Yakutia, Sevastopol, Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region, and Murmansk

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 4, 2016. Sinara Group’s charity fund ran its annual Give Their Smiles Back to Kids blood donation campaign for the last two weeks in order to help children patients from Yekaterinburg cancer clinic, the company press service reports. As usual, employees of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK), Sinara Group, SKB-Bank, Sinara Transport Machines, STM-Service, TMK-Chermet, TMK-Neftegazservis, Sinara Development, Seversky Pipe Plant, Ural Diesel Motor Plant, and Ural Locomotives came to donate their blood. All in all, some 90-plus workers from Sinara Charity Fund’s sponsor

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 4, 2016. A movie dedicated to the Great Patriotic War veterans born in the South Urals that was created by Ural1 and Russian Copper Company won the Best Internet Project Prize at Motherland in My Heart, an online media and television festival focused on patriotically inclined media products, Russian Copper Company’s press service reports. Around a hundred projects from all over the country got submitted for the contest. Some ten projects made it to the final selection round, including this film by Ural 1 financed by Russian Copper Company. The judges, Russia’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 4, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation took part in the 9th International Conference on Rail Machine-Building during the Innoarans 2016 Exhibition in Berlin, the corporation’s press service reports. During the conference, winners of Russian Railways’ 7th annual rolling stock and technical systems quality contest received their awards. Russian Railways coordinate the contest in order to help bring the produce they use in compliance with the modern technical requirements, cut maintenance costs throughout a product’s lifespan, improve the goods’ quality and ensure