UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 16, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry Plant (KULZ) is going to have a warplane from the eighties installed at the plant entrance, the company press service reports. ‘A SU-17 will be mounted on a pedestal to become both the plant’s and the city’s landmark. The plane parts that are currently lying around waiting to be put together are already getting lots of attention from passers-by and neighboring plants’ workers,’ the press service says. The plane parts, delivered in several installments from a military unit in Orenburg Region, are

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 16, 2016. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company got fourteen of its 110-kilowatt and 220-kilowatt voltage transformer sets replaced with new ones at Urengoy, a 220-kilowatt substation in Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region. Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems Western Siberia’s PR & Media Center reports the replacement resulted in more reliable power supply to the largest oil and gas companies in the area and to the town of Novy Urengoy (population over 110,000 people). ‘Transformer sets got replaced within the framework of the company’s investment program. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 16, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation is currently taking part in the international military exhibition Africa Aerospace & Defence at Watercloof military base in Pretoria, SAR (open since September 14). The company press service reports the corporation’s stand features models of products by three of its member enterprises: Ural Vagon Zavod (Nizhniy Tagil), Omsktransmash (Omsk), and Uraltransmash (Yekaterinburg). The corporation is demonstrating its fire support vehicle Terminator, the tanks T-90S and T-72, and the heavy rocket propelled flame thrower

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 15, 2016. Farmers based in Sverdlovsk Region’s Irbit, Sysert, and Shalya Districts are by now fully done with harvesting of grains and pulses, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s website states. All in all, 90% of this year’s grain yield have already been harvested in the area, with 580,000 kg of grains collected for the winter. Also, 85,000,000 kg of potatoes have been harvested off nearly 6,000 hectares of land and stored for the winter. A year earlier, only 15% of all local potatoes had got harvested by September 13, 2015. Farmers keep working on collecting this

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 15, 2016. The international fast food chain McDonald’s reports it will have to lay off 729 employees in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Region Labor & Employment Department’s press secretary Olga Ruleva informed UrBC. ‘A McDonald’s representative said 729 people would be let go on October 31. It is not clear as of yet just which and how many of Yekaterinburg-based restaurants will close down,’ she said. According to Ruleva, a new employer called Regional Catering Network is willing to take on most of McDonald’s former workers provided they want this new job. Now

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 15, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation presented its produce at the 2nd International Import Substitution Exhibition at Moscow’s Crocus City Center on September 13-15. According to the company press service, the exhibition features stands by Russian businesses operating in nearly all economic sectors there are, including machine-building, healthcare, construction, transport, agribusiness, consumer goods, computer developments, hi tech solutiosn for the oil and gas industry, and so on. Ural Vagon Zavod presented five life-size samples at its stand: these were

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 15, 2016. Ural Airlines are now offering their customers a new scheduled flight from Nizhniy Novgorod to Myneralnye Vody and back, the air carrier’s press service reports. Starting from October 4, 2016, tickets will be available for as little as 5,640 RUR (including all fees and charges). The flight will be operated every Tuesday, giving its passengers an opportunity to plan their trips easily and inexpensively and lose no time airport waits. ‘Ural Airlines offer both fast and safe as well as comfortable air transfer. All of the airline’s flights are operated on

UrBC, Moscow, September 15, 2016. ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) launched an additional magnetic particle testing unit to ensure better quality control of OCTG pipes, the company press service reports. The new equipment is meant for testing pipe couplings for defects: these are detected with the help of ferromagnetic particle indicators which point to stray magnetic fields over a defect. The additional testing unit increased the plant’s overall production capacity and cut down on the quality control testing time. The unit cost 50m RUR to buy. Magnetic particle testing is an

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 14, 2016. The oxygen compressor department at EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhiy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (EVRAZ NTMK) was built seventy-five years ago this month, the company press service reports. To celebrate the occasion, a special ceremony was held at the plant’s Culture & Arts Center to award the best workers and long-service employees. More than sixty people received thank-you letters and honorary certificates. ‘The department’s function is to ensure uninterrupted supply of air, oxygen, nitrogen, argon, and industrial gases to the plant’s production

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 14, 2016. SKB-Bank is now offering its customers debt refinancing loans that will allow them to merge several loans and credit cards into a single loan, the bank’s press service reports. ‘You can apply for a loan amount that will exceed the debt amount if necessary, and spend the remaining sum at will. The interest rate is fixed for the entire loan period and comes to 22.9% a year, which actually cuts down on the monthly payments,’ the press service says. Example: a customer currently has two consumer loans (500,000 RUR altogether) and has to pay back 10,000 RUR

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 14, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) is now offering its business customers a new short-term loan, the bank’s press service reports. Borrowers who are new to the bank and have no credit history will be offered a special unsecured loan on the first day their settlement account gets opened. According to UBRD Corporates Development Director Elena Sorvina, the bank’s new offer consists in short-term express loan services (loan period ranges between thirty and ninety days) related to a company’s settlement account. The account owner can

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 14, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon is now working together with the ISP Dom.Ru to save its customers up to 500 roubles a month on telecommunications services, MegaFon’s Marketing Director Leonid Syavkov said at a press lunch recently. ‘The two companies are now offering mobile connection and home Internet connection/digital TV broadcasting in a single package, with a customer provided a 20% discount on both MegaFon’s and Dom.Ru’s services,’ Syavkov is referred to as saying. It is reported the offer holds for all the subscribers who are currently

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 14, 2016. Miners from EVRAZ Holding’s Alardinskaya Mine started working on the new long-face 3-39 with an estimated 2,900,000,000 kg of valuable KS coal, the holding’s press service reports. Miners are now working at 325 meters below the ground. To ensure their safety, the site gets ventilated and a gas-suction unit is used to remove the methane-air mixture from the work area. Also, gases get additionally drained from the rock cavity. ‘Some highly productive stoping equipment is used in this mine face, with coal output up to 230,000,000 kg of coal a month. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 13, 2016. ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) is going to supply over 2,000,000 kg of pipes to Podolski Machine-Building Plant in Kaliningrad Region before the end of October, the company press service reports. The pipes are meant for making equipment to be used at two emerging power stations, Primorskaya and Pregolskaya. The plant is to supply to customer a set of 32mm to 219mm electric-welded and boiler pipes (layer thickness 4mm to 36mm, length p to 16.04m). It was the customer’s proviso that all the pipes should undergo Introtest’s unique

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 13, 2016. Ural Airlines introduced a new, scheduled flight from Saint Petersburg to Tomsk and back, the air carrier’s press service reports. The flight will be available every Tuesday starting from October 4 2016, and every Friday as well starting from November 1, 2016 and until the end of winter. ‘Saint Petersburg is one of Russia’s primary economic and cultural hubs, with many names, including perhaps the most romantic one of Northern Venice: there are almost as many bridges there as there are in Venice, Italy. The Russian city is enormously popular with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 13, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Exhibition Hall opened for visitors at night time for the first time in the head plant’s history. This was a family night modeled on the Long Night of Museums event at Ural Vagon Zavod’s armored vehicle and history museums. According to the company press service, over five hundred people came to the event coordinated in celebration of the corporation’s 80th anniversary. ‘The family night took place on the eve of Tankman’s Day. This is the 70th time it has been celebrated, with a historic reenactment of the very first

UrBC, Moscow, September 13, 2016. The number of Russians traveling abroad in the first half of 2016 dropped by 28% compared with one year earlier, TASS refers to Russian Union of Travel Industry’s press secretary Irina Tyurina as saying. ‘The overall picture looks quite interesting: 3,970,500 trips were made abroad between January and June 2016, which signifies a 28% decline,’ Tyurina said. According to Tyurina, ‘the decrease obviously has to do with the unavailability of last year’s most popular destinations, Egypt and Turkey.’ ‘No other beach holiday locations could make up for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 13, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region division of Rosimushchestvo (the state property control agency) is putting the telecommunications facility developer Uralstroysvyaz up to auction, the agency’s press service reports. Available to bidders are 82,868 ordinary registered paperless shares (100% of the company’s authorized capital). The shares’ total face value is estimated at 82.868m RUR. Uralstroysvyaz owns three pieces of real estate in Kosmonavtov Ave in Yekaterinburg (total area 1,611.7 m2) that are currently rented out to tenants and a non-encumbered land allotment

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2016. The Russian band N.E.V.A. is going to perform in Yekaterinburg’s Akademichesky District on September 11 as part of the national support festival, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. ‘This new band is already well-known on a national scale; they were among the top five performers on the last day of this year’s Novaya Volna Contest in Sochi,’ the press service says. The festival will appeal to adults and children alike and will run in Akademichesky for the entire day. Starting from 1 PM, a number of interactive entertainment locations will open

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation handed over its 10,000th innovative railcar to Russian Railways’ Federal Freight Company (FGK) in the course of a special ceremony in Nizhniy Tagil; the two parties also signed a memorandum of cooperation, with the intention of working together in the design and development of innovative railcars for Russian railways. According to Ural Vagon Zavod’s press service, the ceremony was attended by Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev, Federal Freight Company Director-General Alexei Taicher, and Ural Vagon Zavod