UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 3, 2016. Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) is going to offer summer jobs to forty-eight school-goers aged 14-17 in the three following months. This comes to 20% of all the summer jobs available from local employers, the company press service reports. These seasonal workers will come to Omsktransmash departments as assistant inspectors and amenity planting staff and will be paid 6,000 RUR to 10,000 RUR a month as well as around 1,200 RUR that come from the employment center. The first set of young employees came to the plant on June

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 3, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation Director-General and Chair of Association Vagonostroiteley Non-Profit Partnership of Producers and Users of Railway Rolling Stock Oleg Sienko chaired the association’s recent meeting in Sochi, the company press service reports. The meeting was attended by representatives of major railcar-building plants, components and spare parts manufacturers, and research institutes. The agenda of the meeting covered points on the partnership’s further work and the most important tasks for the year 2016. Sienko pointed out that while the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 3, 2016. Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise/KGOK (a member enterprise of EVRAZ Holding) recently commissioned a new iron ore raw stuffs sample-analyzing unit, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR Department reports. The new equipment is necessary to ensure quality control at every stage of production. The multichannel X-ray fluorescence spectrometer is used for an express analysis of both the finished products and the raw materials samples. Every ten minutes, the company chemistry lab needs to look at ore, ore concentrate, agglomerate, and ore pellet samples; since

UrBC,Yekaterinburg, June 2, 2016. Ural Airlines are now selling reduced-price airplane tickets to the Crimean Peninsula; this is part of the government-subsidized program to make air travel to and from Simferopol more affordable, the air carrier’s press service reports. Ural Airlines signed a special agreement with Rosaviation to operate these state-funded flights. Under the terms of the program, eligible to apply for the very inexpensive tickets are passengers under twenty-three, female passengers over fifty-five, male passengers over sixty, passengers with Group 1 disabilities and people

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 2, 2016. EVRAZ Holding was a special partner at Case-in, an international engineering championship recently held at Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg, the holding’s press service reports. The selective rounds of the championship began in different parts of the country in February 2016. In the Urals, the competition attracted students and graduates studying for their BSc, MSc, or PhDs in Ferrous/Non-Ferrous Metallurgy and Materials Science. They were presented with engineering cases based on actual production problems. The contestants’ applications were

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 2, 2016. Workers at Raspadskaya Mine (part of EVRAZ Holding) recently started working on the new longwall 5a-7-30 (over 2,800,000,000 kg of metallurgical coal), EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s PR Department reports. It is estimated that the miners will produce around 250,000,000 kg of coal from the longwall every month. As it happens, the unit 5а-7-30 got commissioned on schedule despite the challenging geological factors. First, a series of dismantling, assembly, and sinking jobs had to be performed, and more than 9,000 meters worth of mine working was needed. Preliminary

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 2, 2016. Uraltransmash (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) was given a year’s worth of defense procurement tasks to meet and will be busy making special-purpose goods, the company’s acting Director-General Pavel Kolesnik said at his meeting with the plant’s trade union members. According to Kolesnik, Uraltransmash has been working stably and meeting its target production figures; the plant has quite a few orders from the Russian Defense Ministry for the production of special-purpose goods and 2S19M2 as well as for the repairs of 2S3M and other

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 2, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko, Deputy DG Viktor Voropayev, and head of Rosavtodor Roman Starovoyt met to talk about the ways to develop the Russian machine-building industry and import substitution of roa-building vehicles, the company press service reports. Ural Vagon Zavod is expected to start making up-to-date road vehicles on its premises. ‘This is one of Russia’s largest scientific and production facilities comprising metallurgical, railcar-assembling, mechanical assembly, repairs, tool-making and other divisions, which

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 1, 2016. SKB-Bank proved Russia’s 9th largest bank located outside of Moscow or Saint Petersburg in the four months of 2016, the bank’s press service refers to Kommersant.Dengi as stating. The bank was also rated 55th in terms of asset volume (over 122bn RUR as of May 1, 2016). Now only fifty-six of the country’s one hundred largest banks made any profit in the first quarter of the year, including SKB-Bank, with its 490m RUR in profits in January-April 2016.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 1, 2016. First Freight Company’s Yekaterinburg subsidiary held a meeting on railway freight forwarding in the Urals given the shrinking fleet of railcars, the company press service reports. The meeting was attended by representatives of freight forwarders, local authorities, Sverdlovsk Railways, and First Freight Company’s Moscow management team. Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly Vice Chair Anatoly Sukhov said meetings like this served as an efficient discussion platform to talk about current problems and try to find solutions to them. Director of First Freight

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 1, 2016. The construction of the 230-megawatt Akademicheskaya Power Station is almost complete, T Plus Sverdlovsk division’s press service reports. For one, power supply has already been provided for the power start-up of the 110-kilowatt gas-insulated switch gear and a program has been activated for the start-up of the auxiliary transformer for balance-of-plant needs and voltage supply onto 6-kilowatt sections. The water treatment plant was launched the other day, which means the power station will now have a supply of desalinated water needed for the boiler

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 1, 2016. West Siberian Metallurgical Works/EVRAZ SZMK (a member enterprise of EVRAZ Holding) recently introduced a new, unique ammonia-free treatment for wire products, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s PR Department reports. The up-to-date gas-making units have recently been launched at the plant’s steel-rolling department. This equipment is currently unique to Russia’s metallurgical industry. The gas in used to prevent any dross on the thermally treated wire’s surface. It used to be obtained from ammonia but now the gas will be extracted from natural gas, which means the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 1, 2016. Burevestnik Central Scientific Research Institute (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) hosted an all-Russian Artillery Weapons Development Prospects Conference, the company press service reports. The event was co-organized by the institute together with the Russian Academy of Rocket & Artillery Sciences and the Trade & Industry Ministry’s Weapons, Munitions & Special-Purpose Chemicals Industry Department. The agenda of the conference proved truly vital and attracted representatives of enterprises and organizations researching,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2016. An accident at Chkalovsky Heat and Power Station left over four hundred buildings in the area without any hot water supply since May 27, the district’s communal housing services department informed UrBC. The problem is expected to be fixed by May 30. However, other buildings in Chkalovsky District may still be left without any hot water supply on June 1-5 since the power station is planning to do hydraulic pressure tests. Last year, residents of Vtorchermet and Shinniy actually had to make do without hot water for one and a half months. The supplier simply

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2016. Russian Copper Company’s charity foundation organized a number of events to celebrate Children’s Protection Day in Karabash, Sverdlovsk Region, the company’s press service reports. For one, a special ceremony was coordinated for two hundred children (elementary school students, kindergarten-goers, and children from the less socially adjusted families) next to School 1. ‘This was an interactive event. The boys and girls, as well as their parents, grandparents, and children, were involved in various games by the favorite presenter Uncle Sasha Zaitsev. All the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2016. Ural Airlines and Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport are now working on introducing more connecting flights with a stopover in Yekaterinburg for international transit passengers, the air carrier’s press service reports. For one, scheduled flights from Yekaterinburg to Rome and Paris were launched in late March 2016, timed conveniently with those from Beijing to Yekaterinburg. This means passengers traveling from China can enjoy a new opportunity to fly to Europe through Yekaterinburg. In fact, the share of transit passengers on Yekaterinburg-Beijing flights

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil coordinated its 74th Mashinostroitel Prize Relay Race, the company press service reports. This year’s race was dedicated to the plant’s 80th anniversary, with last year’s winners and sports veterans from Sputnik Hockey Club taking part in the opening parade. ‘Our company has always had strong sports traditions, and every single issue of the company newspaper Mashinostroitel always covered this or that sports event. I hope the race participants set some new records that our newspaper can write about

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2016. Chair of Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry Plant/KULZ (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) trade union Alexandra Vinogradova is going to make part of Sverdlovsk Region Aviation Industry Trade Union’s delegation coming to the17th national trade union’s conference in Moscow, the corporation’s press service reports. The agenda of the conference covers issues related to protection of workers’ rights, job safety, trade union-member enterprises interactions, and other points. Delegates from different parts of the country will also have to elect a new Chair

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2016. Tominsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (Tominsky GOK, a member enterprise of Russian Copper Company) is going to appeal against the ruling pronounced by a court of appeals in regard to the prospective construction of a lime warehouse at the plant, the company press service reports. Now the company applied to Sosnovsky District Council for a construction permit on July 29, 2015, but the application was turned down. Upon this, the company management took the case to Chelyabinsk Region’s public prosecution authorities; having considered their

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2016. Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems (FGC UES) supplied an extra 5.5 megawatts of electric power to Nizhnevartovsk Gas Company, Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous District, the company’s press service in West Siberian division reports. The plant receives its electric power from Meredian, a 110-kilowatt substation powered by FSG UES 500-kilowatt Belozernaya and 220-kilowatt Varyegan facilities. The Nizhnevartovsk company is one of Sibur Holding’s seven primary gas-processing enterprises in Western Siberia. The plant processes associated petroleum gas to make