UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development now offers milder lending terms for small and medium enterprises: according to the bank’s press service, the interest rates on Partner Overdraft and Security-Backed Overdraft went down by 1% and 1.9%, respectively. What is more, the loan period can now be extended to up to 730 days (2 years), which is twice as long as the original offer was. The unsecured Partner Overdraft is now available at 17% a year and Security-Backed Overdraft at 14.8%. Additionally, the bank came up with new terms on its Business

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil coordinated an amateur Olympics sports championship for children from foster homes at the company stadium, the plant’s press service reports. The idea to celebrate Children’s Protection Day in this way was proposed by Nizhniy Tagil’s public prosecution authorities and co-organized by the corporation’s head plant. A hundred children from Nizhniy Tagil boarding school for children with disabilities and Nizhniy Tagil Foster Homes 5, 6, and 1 took part in the event.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2016. Two workers from Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant Evgeniy Lozhkin and Vladimir Chugunov were awarded with For Merit to the Fatherland Medal at the Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District’s official residence on May 25, the company press service reports. Evgeniy Lozhkin has worked as a sling operator at the plant’s thermal department for four decades now, while Vladimir Chugunov has been a setup operator for fifty-five years. They were both awarded for their special contribution to the Russian

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 27, 2016. UBT-UralVagonZavod (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) won Russian Railways’ order auction and will now supply 400 freight railcars to Federal Freight Company, the corporation’s press service reports. Federal Freight Company placed an order for the innovative drop-bottom gondola railcars 12-196-02, whose advantage lies in their increased freight and volume capacity (75,000 kg and 94 m3, respectively). As it happens, the Federal Tariff Service ruled on January 29, 2015 that the corporation’s innovative gondolas 12-196-01 and 12-196-02 could

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 27, 2016. Sverdlovsk Reigon-based subscribers of the telecommunications provider MegaFon can now enjoy the mobile Internet connection for as little as 4 RUR per megabyte when roaming. Starting June 6, the new rates will apply automatically whenever you leave Russia, the company press service reports. MegaFon offers traffic packages that will be provided at a very good price every day. When in Europe and the CIS member states, for example, you can buy a 66Mb package for only 260 RUR a day; the Popular Countries package (50 Mb) comes for 350 RUR a day, and the Rest of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 27, 2016. Ural Airlines added the eleventh Airbus 321 liner to its fleet of vehicles, the air carrier’s press service reports. The airplane has 220 economy class seats and is suitable for both international and domestic flights. It was used for the first time for Yekaterinburg-Moscow flight today. All in all, the airline now operates as many as thirty-seven airplanes. Ural Airlines embarked on a fleet renovation program in 2006 and has been buying new planes on a yearly basis. Airbus liners proved very efficient and comfortable for mid-range flights.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 27, 2016. Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works/NTMK (a member enterprise of EVRAZ Holding) completed the first stage of constructing a ball-rolling mill on the premises, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR Department reports. The basic engineering preparations consisted in a number of preliminary jobs, the adoption of a general plan, and building the necessary equipment units. The new ball-rolling mill will be located in the Rail/Beam Department, where all the old equipment has already been removed, the lighting has been replaced, and remodeling has been done. The mill

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 27, 2016. Yurga Machine-Building Plant (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) coordinated large-scale drills for its rescue teams to make sure they are ready for all kinds of emergencies at the company power station, the corporation’s press service reports. The drill consisted in a role play where a 6.6-meter-wide hole appeared in the station’s slurry pond, causing massive waste leakage. ‘Our emergency committee (the plant’s first Deputy Director-General I.G. Chapayev, heads of power departments, and the Senior Engineer’s Department) set to work. They

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 26, 2016. A number of Sverdlovsk Region-based enterprises still haven’t been able to find suppliers of spare parts they need because of the sanctions imposed on the country by the West, President of Ural Chamber of Commerce & Industry Andrei Besedin said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg today. According to Besedin, the companies’ European suppliers are not meeting the terms of the contracts they signed with the Ural businesses earlier. Some of the spare parts could, however, be purchased locally. ‘Some of the companies still need to find

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 26, 2016. Yekaterinburg-based dealers sold 10,185 new automobiles between January and April 2016, which was 25% less than one year earlier, Auto-Dealer-Yekaterinburg reports. In fact, the April sales dropped by 20% on last April, even though this proved the mildest decrease this year so far: in the previous months, the contrast was estimated at 22% to 37% against last year’s respective ones. The agency reports sales of KIA, Nissan, and Hyundai plummeted most drastically, by 28%, 45%, and 58% in January-April 2016, respectively, and by 36%, 46%, and 32% in the month of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 26, 2016. EVRAZ NTMK supplied its customer with over 3,000,000 kg of rolled metal products necessary for the construction of Park Legend, a set of premium apartment buildings in Moscow, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR Department reports. The Nizhniy Tagil-based plant has been supplying its double T-rail for the building since 2015 and intends to go on with the shipments this year as well. The rails are known for their excellent property and strength parameters, thus proving indispensable in today’s building industry. The plant now makes over two hundred different kinds of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 26, 2016. ChTPZ Group was recently granted the status of WorldSkills Russia’s official associate partner, the company press service reports. The agreement to this extent was signed by the organization’s head Robert Urazov and the Group’s Director-General Alexander Grubman during the WorldSkills Russia championship in Krokus Expo, Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, on May 23-27. This partnership means ChTPZ Group can now independently coordinate its own corporate championships that will qualify as WorldSkills International competitions, and send its teams to participate in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 26, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant is going to spend 350m RUR on capital repairs this year, the company press service reports. Repairing and fortifying the bearing structures of the plant’s production site and making the arrangements necessary to meet the authorities’ regulations are the most important tasks to work on in this respect. Slightly under a third of the overall amount will be directed to all the jobs supervised by RosTechNadzor and to meeting the Emergency Ministry’s and Rospotrebnadzor’s requirements. The plant will also invest in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 25, 2016. EVRAZ Holding held its second annual company relay race in Nizhniy Tagil last Sunday, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR Department reports. Around four thousand people from Yekaterinburg, Nizhniy Tagil, Kachkanar, and other Sverdlovsk Region cities and towns took part in the sports event. Around a thousand runners joined in the five-kilometer relay race, while the children’s race (one kilometer long) attracted over 250 very young sportsmen and women. The race went along Nizhniy Tagil’s primary streets, with every runner getting a personal identification number for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 25, 2016. SKB-Bank is planning to restore Verkh-Isetsky Plant hospital building in Yekaterinburg, a structure on the constituency’s cultural heritage list. The building was purchased in an auction for 1 RUR (although its actual worth, together with the patch of land around, was estimated at 23m RUR), the bank’s press service reports. The hospital building at 15 Verkh-Isetsky Boulevard dates back to the first half of the 19th century and is a classicist piece put up by the architect M.P. Malakhov in 1824-1826. It is currently on Sverdlovsk Region’s cultural heritage

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 25, 2016. Students on ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy corporate training program participated in the opening ceremony of the 4th WorldSkills Russia Championship, the company press service reports. Russia’s Vice Premier Olga Golodets, Governor of Moscow Region Andrei Vorobiev, and President of WorldSkills International Simon Bartley were also present at the ceremony as guests of honor. ’This is in many ways due to Russian contestants’ involvement in WorldSkills championship over the last four years that we see an increase in the prestige of blue-collar jobs in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 25, 2016. The metrology lab run by Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) proved the best in Omsk Region, the company press service reports. The contest was coordinated by Omsk Region State Standardization, Metrology, and Testing Center. Omsktransmash lab experts outstripped by far last year’s winners from Avtomatika-Service as well as contestants from Omskvodokanal and a dozen of other local organizations. ‘This is the first competition our lab has taken part in over the last nine years. We’ve coped with the hard times together with our

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 25, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation is going to take part in the 4th International KAZAKHSTAN DEFENCE EXPO 2016 Exhibition in Astana on June 2-5. The company’s products will make part of Russia’s united stand, the corporation’s press service reports. The corporation’s Nizhniy Tagil-based head plant will present its upgraded tank T72 with a fire control system and a thermal pointer in Kazakhstan for the first time. The vehicle, meant for urban terrain combat, will be displayed statically. Ural Vagon Zavod’s member enterprise Burevestnik, a scientific research

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 24, 2016. Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System has introduced more control over its energy facilities in the time of the year when thunderstorms and forest fires are more likely to occur, the company press service reports. In all of the company’s divisions, rescue and maintenance teams underwent special drills and training to make sure they can stay alert and concentrated in an emergency. The power facilities have been inspected, the teams also made sure all the firefighting implements were there and in perfect working order. Higher-risk territories are now

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 24, 2016. Heads of Russia’s major pipe-manufacturing enterprises Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant/ChTPZ, United Metallurgical Company/OMK, Pipe Metallurgical Company/TMK, and Severstal met with Gazprom Chair of the Board Alexei Miller at ChTPZ site on Friday to talk about their scientific and technological cooperation prospects. According to ChTPZ press service, the meeting was attended by Chair of the Pipe Manufacturers’ Association Coordination Council Ivan Shabalov, ChTPZ Member of the BOD Andrei Komarov, TMK Chair of the Board Dmitri Pumpyanski, OMK Chair of the