UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2016. Sinara Development is about to complete yet another apartment building in Volgograd’s Novy Svet District, with commissioning scheduled for December. There is a 5% discount on all new homes till October 31, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. ‘The new sixteen-storey building has comfortable elevators, improved entrances, a video surveillance room on the first floor, high ceilings, and panorama windows in the lofts. The hallways are all complete in bright colors and unique patterns, which adds to the comfortable living standards of Novy Svet,’ the Center

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil and the local blood bank coordinated a blood donation day for the first time in the company’s history, the corporation’s press service reports. A portable blood donation station was set up in the square next to Ural Vagon Zavod’s I.V. Okunev Palace of Culture. The idea is to involve as many health-eligible employees in the blood donation movement as possible and possibly persuade them to become regular donors. Head of Nizhniy Tagil Blood Transfusion Station Nelya Petrova thanked the plant’s

UrBC, Moscow, September 12, 2016. Russia’s Labor Ministry is currently working on proposals to further increase the minimum wage amount, Prime refers to Labor Minister Maxim Topilin as saying. ‘As regards the minimum wage, I’d like to point out that the benchmark got raised by 26% this year, and some of the constituencies and employers are already reporting that this is causing a painful increase in their spending. Still, we intend to keep presenting our proposals on further floor wage increase as our team are working on these,’ the Labor Minister said at a meeting dedicated to job safety

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 9, 2016. Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev presented state awards to two employees of ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ). According to the company press service, repair technician Sergei Rykov and Head of Production Support Group at the plant’s Pipe-Drawing Department Raushan Fauzetdinov received the For Merit to the Fatherland Medals. Sergei Rykov has worked at the plant for four decades and is a highly skilled worker with qualifications in three different professions. Raushan Fauzetdinov came to the work at the plant thirty years ago

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 9, 2016. Russian Copper Company’s copper cathode and wire rod manufacturer Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant set a cathode production record recently, the company press service reports. The plant’s Copper Electrolysis Department OEM 1 produced 7,504,414 kg of cathodes and Department OEM 2 produced 3,496,062 kg of cathodes in August 2016 (11,000,476 kg all in all). The company press service reports the dramatic production output increase was brought about by two factors. Firstly, the electrolysis process settings got optimized so that the direct manufacture time

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 9, 2016. Passage Cinema in Yekaterinburg is going to host the First Ural Open Festival of Russian Cinema. Russia’s cult directors and actors Vladimir Menshov, Sergei Solovjev, and Mikhail Efremov are bringing their best ‘invisible films’ to the local audience, Obshchestvo Malysheva 73’s press service reports. ‘Strange as it may seem, the Russian film industry keeps coming up with ‘invisible films’ that just don’t get shown anywhere, not because they are bad, but because the movie theaters need box office hits here and now. So these are the short-lived

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 9, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation signed as many as six important and promising agreements with Russia’s Defense Ministry on the second day of the Army 2016 Forum; these deals amount to over 8bn RUR altogether, the company press service reports. This is the first time contracts got signed during an exhibition after the Defense Minister officially allowed this on August 4, 2016. The agreements were signed by Deputy Minister Yuri Borisov on the Defense Ministry’s behalf. On Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s part, two agreements were signed by Uraltransmash

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 9, 2016. Rosatom Corporation’s SverdNIIkhimmash won a tender for the delivery of an evaporation unit for SIBUR Holding’s Zapsibneftehim, the company press service reports. Some ten different companies competed in the tender, offering, among others, European and American evaporation units. Still, SverdNIIkhimmash’s product was chosen as the best combination of given performance parameters and overall lifecycle-long cost. The unit will be used at a petroleum-processing plant in Tobolsk (currently under construction) starting from early 2018. ‘Getting this order is

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 8, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation took part in the 2nd International Army 2016 Forum in Patriot Park in Moscow Region, the company press service reports. The forum was only open for registered visitors on September 6. The first King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa came to Ural Vagon Zavod’s stand with Russian Vice Premier Dmitri Rogozin and the corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko and was demonstrated the company’s innovative and promising developments. Oleg Sienko pointed to the company head plant’s first flatcar 13-192-01 and the upgraded

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 8, 2016. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) delivered a set of its premium pipe products to Yamal SPG as part of the two companies’ agreement for the year 2016, the company press service reports. TMK has been supplying Yamal SPG with premium pipes since 2012; these are needed for the development of Yuzhno-Tambeyskoye Depost in the north-east of Yamal Peninsula. In 2014, the two parties signed an agreement to work together till 2020. TMK has delivered 4,700,000 kg of pipes to Yamal this year so far, including 178mm, 245mm, and 324mm casings with TMK UP PF and TMK UP

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 8, 2016. Russian Copper Company is acting as one of the general sponsors for Metroshka Children’s Amateur Football Festival this year; the festival is held in sixteen different towns in Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk Regions, the company press service reports. The competition is coordinated by Chelyabinsk Region-based Metro74 newspaper group, with some support from Governor of Chelyabinsk Region and Chelyabinsk Region PE & Sports Ministry. The festival was first held in the town of Trekhgorny in 2002 and has been organized in late August for fifteen years now,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 8, 2016. Rossiya Segodnya International Media Group and Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation came up with a special magazine that carries a feature on the corporation’s double-section crawler Vityaz, the company press service reports. The idea is to introduce the readers to Ural Vagon Zavod’s promising developments. This is the third time a feature on the company produce appears in Rossiya Segodnya’s editions; the first one was dedicated to the heavy flamethrower system TOS-1A (which has no counterparts anywhere else in the world at the moment) and second one to the T-90MS

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 8, 2016. Yekaterinburg’s Akademichesky District, KORTROS Corporation’s flagship project, is currently Russia’s fourth largest investment project in the building/development sector, INFOLine’s research findings indicate. It is reported the project requires $15bn worth of investments in total, which figure makes Akademichesky unique both on Russia’s civil construction and housing markets. These are only the oil and gas industry and transport infrastructure development projects that actually cost more to implement. Nearly all of the country’s top five largest-scale

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Burevestnik Central Scientific Research Institute set up and launched a new production facility, the corporation’s press service reports. The solemn opening ceremony was attended by Governor of Nizhniy Novgorod Region Valeriy Shantsev, Director-General of Nizhniy Novgorod Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs Valeriy Tsybanev, Ural Vagon Zavod Deputy Director-General Alexei Zharich, and Ural Vagon Zavod Director for Strategic Development & Investment Dmitri Shkolny. Additionally, the symbolic first stone was laid

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2016. Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev presented state awards to three employees of EVRAZ Holding’s Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (EVRAZ KGOK), the company press service reports. Locomotive operator Vladimir Chuplygin and Head of Control/Measuring devices & Automatic Equipment Department Vladimir Shkaradenok received the For the Merit to the Fatherland Medal; locomotive operator Mikhail Beloussov received the title of Honored Transport Worker of the Russian Federation. Vladimir Shkaradenok has worked at the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development introduced new express loans for small and medium enterprises in August; the loans can be backed up with real estate as collateral, the bank’s press service reports. Applications are considered within two work days and both the bank’s current and new customers are eligible to apply provided their business has been on the market for at least twelve months. UBRD customers with good credit history can also benefit from the special terms and conditions the bank is willing to offer them: the loan collateral

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2016. A special event called Museum Family Night will be coordinated by Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation in Nizhniy Tagil on September 9 in celebration of the plant’s 80th anniversary. All residents of and visitors to the city are invited to come either alone or with their families, the company press service reports. There will be something to interest people of all ages, from pre-schoolers to retirees. The event will be held in several venues from 6 to 10 PM. For one, a historic re-enactment for the first celebration of Tankman’s Day at Ural Vagon Zavod on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2016. This year, Russians whose income varies between 50,000 and 100,000 RUR a month started applying for bank loans increasingly more often, United Credit Bureau’s press service reports. This customer segment made up 33% of all the borrowers; a year earlier, the figure stood at as little as 27%. Additionally, the share of loan applicants whose income comes to 100,000 to 200,000 RUR a month also rose from 6% to 8% in the course of one year. The share of applicants with the monthly income of over 200,000 RUR also went up slightly. The share of loan applicants

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, September 6, 2016. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) saved 230.5m RUR due to various improvement proposals and their implementation in the first half of 2016. This was 7.1% more than one year earlier. ‘Around 3,000 proposals got submitted in the first half of the year, with 2m RUR paid out in royalty fees. Over a quarter of proposals considered by our department committees had to do with job and industrial safety. Approximately 11% of proposals were related to cutting costs and resource spending as well as to increases in energy efficiency,’ the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 6, 2016. Six employees of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s 103 Bronetankovyy Remontnyy Zavod, an armored vehicle repair plant in Chita, received Russian Defense Ministry’s awards, the corporation’s press service reports. The decree to this effect was signed by Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. The plant’s Deputy Executive Director Evgeny Lapshakov, who has been with the company for thirty-one years now, miller Sergei Matvienko (twenty-five years’ work experience at the plant), Senior Technician/Engineer Pavel Zhusman (six years), and repair technician