UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 1, 2016. A new-generation, highly productive excavator meant for making bund walls was recently introduced to the ore mining and processing enterprise EVRAZ KGOK’s tailing dump. The bund walls are intended to make sure the facility’s safe. According to the company press service, the new machine is twice as productive as its earlier counterpart. ‘The new excavator is fitted with two arms (10.5 and16.5 meters long) to perform various kinds of operations. The machine is suitable even for harshest climatic conditions and is extremely operator-safe due to its panoramic

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 1, 2016. Ural Airlines will be operating their new Kemerovo-Saint Petersburg flight every Thursday and Sunday starting from April 28, the air carrier’s press service reports. The return flights will be available on Saturdays and Wednesdays. The plane arrives in Saint Petersburg at 9:10 AM, which means passengers can plan their business agenda efficiently and use the convenient connecting flights to other Russian cities as well as destinations abroad. ‘Saint Petersburg is a city where you can combine business and pleasure and do some sightseeing, go to the theater,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 1, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s customers have invested over 1bn RUR in savings certificates so far, the bank’s press service reports. The increase was 22% in February alone (17% above the market’s average as quoted by the Central Bank). The UBRD Debit Operations Director Olga Aksenova says most customers go for certificates with a 180-day period, with the average invested amount at 476,000 RUR (40% more than the average amount placed in savings deposits). Over 60% of savings certificates fall into the 100,000 RUR-1,000,000 RUR range.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 1, 2016. President of Russia’s Chamber of Commerce & Industry Sergei Katyrin congratulated Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko on getting elected onto the chamber’s Board, the corporation’s press service reports. Katyrin directed a special letter to the plant, stressing that getting elected onto the Board is a recognition of Oleg Sienko’s contribution to the development of Russia’s businesses and a sign of the business community’s great trust. ‘I am confident our work together will result in new successes such as a better entrepreneurial

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, April 1, 2016. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) invested around 80m RUR in the development of new technologies and mastering of new, innovative products last year, the company reports. For one, MMK can now make НСТ600Х duplex steel for automobile body sheets and has successfully experimented with the НСТ780Х and НСТ980Х steels, the pilot batches of which have already been supplied to customers. MMK is also working, with good results, on the production of X70 steel plates meant for making special-purpose large-diameter pipes which are used in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 31, 2016. Theater and movie actor Mikhail Boyarsky is going to unveil the sculptures portraying d’Artagnan, Athos, and Aramis at Yekaterinburg’s Passage Shopping Mall, the developer’s press service reports. Fans of the 1978 Soviet film starring Boyarsky as d’Artagnan can meet the actor on the ground floor of the mall; he’ll tell them about the casting and the shooting, give out autographs, and sing a few of his well-known songs. ‘The unveiling of the three sculptures will reunite the four famous friends: actor Valentin Smirnitsky (Porthos of the 1978 film) presented

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 31, 2016. Ural Airlines resumed operating its Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-bound flights in the summertime, the air carrier’s press service reports. Flights are operated from Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, and Vladivostok twice a week (on Tuesdays and Saturdays). Another flight will become available every Thursday starting from the end of May. Tickets can be booked on the company website www.uralairlines.com, through UralAirlines mobile app, over the phone (8-800-7700-262), or at any booking office. Special state-funded discounts are available for Saint

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 31, 2016. Pervorualsk New Pipe Plant/PNTZ (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) underwent a recertification audit for its aviation-purpose goods. According to the company press service, auditors from Material Certification Center and the IAC approved of the entire range of the plant’s products under inspection. The audit involved the plant’s pipe-rolling, cylinder-making, and pipe-drawing departments, its central test lab, all the testing and control departments, and the quality management system department.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 31, 2016. Yurginsky Plant (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) is about to deliver its first batch of ten support units to Uvalnaya Mine, the company press service reports. ‘The first ten out of 137 units ordered by Siberian Coal Company have been assembled at the plant by now. The mining equipment produced at Yurginsky is meant for the development of the mine’s longwall face. The ten support units were manufactured in March 2016 according to customer’s requirements. Another thirty units will be made and delivered in April,’ the press service says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 31, 2016. Burevestnik Central Scientific Research Institute (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) offered a guided tour to fourth-year students of R.E. Alekseev Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University. According to the corporation’s press service, such tours are coordinated for students every year, as the university’s Automation & Mechanics Department and Burevestnik are established and long-time partners. ‘The prospective experts in electronic equipment could take a look at our production departments and machines and learn about the operation

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 30, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) improved the terms of its Business Privilege loan, making it more affordable, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Loans are now available to any company, regardless of whether it is already our customer or not. All you have to do is submit your application on the bank’s website. The loan amount varies between 1 and 30 million rubles and must be repaid within five years’ time. The bank sets no restrictions on how the money will be spent: funds can be used as operating cash, invested in real estate,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 30, 2016. Ural Airlines introduced a new scheduled flight from Novosibirsk to Shanghai recently, the air carrier’s press service reports. Travelers from Novosibirsk can fly to Shanghai for as little as 12,020 RUR (one way) starting from May 16, 2016. This special price holds for flights departing on May 16 and May 23. The flight will be operated every Monday. ‘Europe of the East’, ‘the Pearl of the Orient’, a major metropolis, a business center – this is what Shanghai is. Waitan, its waterfront area, is a city landmark where architectural styles from all over the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 30, 2016. Aleksandrinskaya Mining & Ore Company, a member enterprise of Russian Copper Company, bought a new front loader to improve its ore transportation process, the company press service reports. ‘To make sure a mining and metallurgical enterprise is economically efficient, copper ore needs to be supplied to the ore-dressing plant continually and with no interruptions, as any idle time at any stage of the process can result in financial loss. This is why we choose carefully our ore transportation vehicles: these must contribute to high productivity and not

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 30, 2016. ChTPZ Group and Surgutneftegaz signed a cooperation agreement valid through 2020. The paper was signed in Surgut last week, the Group’s press service reports. ‘ChTPZ Group and Surgutneftegaz are long-time partners who share the same values: both companies pay special attention to production culture, work on import substitution, and keep improving our produce quality. The agreement is meant to strengthen our ties and to make our relationship a more efficient one, especially in the research and development sector,’ says the Group’s Director-General Alexander

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 30, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation is presenting its high-precision twenty-first-century weaponry at the DEFEXPO 2016 Exhibition in India on March 28-31, 2016, the company press service reports. ‘This is the first time our unique tank unit with a time-fuzed HE fragmentation shell detonation function designed for time-fuzed detonation of 125mm ZVOF128 rounds with fragmentation shells ZOF82 on trajectory has been presented at an international exhibition. This model outstrips all the existing counterparts,’ the press service says. The time-fuzed detonation unit can

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 29, 2016. Residents of Yekaterinburg have failed to pay 4.519 RUR worth of housing bills by March 1, 2016, the city council’s press service reports. In fact, only 89% of all the housing bills got paid in January and February 2016. In the meantime, the figure stood at 95.79% throughout the year 2015. ‘Unpaid housing bills put the entire supply system in jeopardy and might result in operation problems. We are now taking all the available legal steps to encourage the debtors to pay,’ the press service says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 29, 2016. The price of gasoline on Sverdlovsk Region market came to 34.35 RUR per liter on average this February, Rosstat reports. AI-92 and A-95 now cost 33.46 RUR and 35.88 RUR per liter, respectively, while diesel fuel grew slightly less expensive and now comes for 36.22 RUR per liter. On average, gasoline prices rose by 9.7% in February in sixteen federal constituencies (the price increase ranging from 0.2% in Tyumen Region to 18.6% in Omsk Region). In Yakutia, gas prices remained the same as in January, while in Sakhalin Region and in Leningrad Region, prices

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 29, 2016. A new system for metal spending control has been introduced at EVRAZ NTMK converter shop. The goal is to make the steel-smelting process more economically efficient, the company press service reports. ‘To make sure we can control the amount of metal used, electronic weighing equipment remains active throughout the entire production process. The first round of weighing occurs at the mixer stage, where a load of metal is placed onto a scaling platform. The amount of product is then checked again at the converter department and then again in the pouring

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 29, 2016. Ural Airlines operated this year’s first Yekaterinburg-Rome flight the other day, the air carrier’s press service reports. 125 passengers flew from Yekaterinburg to the Italian capital on March 27, 2016. ‘The sky was overcast in Rome, but, according to the weather forecast, the sun will soon come out and travelers will be able to enjoy the city in all its grandeur. The Trevi Fountain, the Coliseum, the Spanish Steps, St. Peter’s Basilica, and other famous landmarks are awaiting their admirers,’ the press service says. Ural Airlines operates scheduled

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 29, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil held an auditors’ meeting, the company press service reports. The workshop was attended by internal auditors from fifteen of the corporation’s member enterprises, including UVZ-Logistik (Moscow), TzNIIM (Saint Petersburg), Electromachines (Chelyabinsk), Plant 9 (Yekaterinburg), and Ural Vagon Zavod (Nizhniy Tagil). This was one of the steps on the way to introducing an internal audit system at Ural Vagon Zavod Scientific & Production Corporation. For two days, the auditors looked into the way