UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 10, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development has been featured in banki.ru’s People’s Top 30 Rating for the first time this year, the company press service reports. The People’s Rating gets updated daily based on the portal users’ feedback relating to banks’ customer service. The UBRD moved from the 40th position in the rating up to the 30th in March 2016. ‘UBRD customers have left over 1,000 comments on the website so far. Every new entry gets a follow-up comment from the bank within the same or the next working day,’ the bank’s representatives

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 10, 2016. Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant/ChTPZ Board of Directors came up with a list of nine candidates who can be elected on the BOD, the company press service reports. Among the candidates are current BOD Members: Board Member and Rosnano’s Deputy Chair of the Board Oleg Kisselev, ChTPZ BOD Member Andrei Komarov, ChTPZ Chair of the BOD Alexander Fedorov, ChTPZ BOD Member Oleg Seleznev, Rimera’s Director-General Vitaly Sadykov, ChTPZ Deputy DG for Legal & Corporate Issues Sergei Yankovsky, ChTPZ BOD Economic Control & Administration Strategy Director Dina

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 10, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko has recently been awarded for his contribution to the development of the Russian industry and the Russian transport sector and his proactive social and political efforts, the company press service reports. ‘Chair of the Russian Engineering Union and RosTech Corporation’s Director-General Sergei Chemezov awarded Oleg Sienko with an honorary certificate and the Russian State Duma Medal for his proactive social and economic efforts,’ the press service says. Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 9, 2016. Russian Copper Company offered its financial and organizational support in coordination of The Archangel Michael Cup, an international shooting tournament in Yekaterinburg, the company press service reports. For one, the company covers all the catering services for contestants and guests as well as the show on the closing day of the event’s first stage. This first stage of the tournament will be over in November 2016 and will involve over two hundred sports players from twenty-six different parts of Russia as well as Spain, Moldavia, and the Czech Republic.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 9, 2016. SKB-Bank’s Deputy Chair of the Board Margarita Burbik got on Russia’s 40 Most Successful Women Bankers List, according to Sravnivai.ru, the bank’s press service reports. ‘SKB-Bank congratulates Ms Burbik and all the other women on the list on this well-deserved acknowledgement and on International Women’s Day!’ the press service says. The rating was based on the Chairs’ and Deputy Chairs’ official biographical information (available on their respective banks’ websites) and only included executives from banks which made profit last year (according to the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 9, 2016. The amount of wages and salaries Sverdlovsk Region’s employers delayed paying to their workers reached 14.914m RUR on February 1, 2015, Rosstat reports. One year earlier (in February 2014) the arrears of wages were estimated at 3.771m RUR, four times less than the 2015 figure.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 9, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development came first in the rating of Sverdlovsk Region’s most profitable banks, their press service refers to the analytical agency Expert as stating. The bank’s profit amounted to 2.67bn RUR on January 1, 2016, which was 656m RUR more than one year earlier. The company’s assets stood at 360.5bn RUR at the start of the year, which was 32% more than in the preceding year, while its own funds reached 29.09bn RUR (+9% on a year earlier).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 9, 2016. Kamensk Uralsky Foundry Plant/KULZ (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) held a trade union conference recently, the company press service reports. Chair of the plant’s trade union Alexandra Vinogradova presented her report. She stressed that the organization’s main focus was on the protection of the workers’ social and labor rights, control over timely payment of wages and salaries, inflation adjustment of pay and other pay raises, the application of labor legislation, labor protection, healthcare, and coordination of cultural, sports, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 9, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant is launching the automated production planning system Omega, the company press service reports. The system, developed by Minsk-based Omega Production, is called to replace the plant’s current planning system that was customized specifically for mass production. Omega is based on up-to-date methods, approaches, and production planning and management mechanisms as well as a unified database of legal and reference information. The system already controls and keeps track of the way parts and components get transferred

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 4, 2016. 1,360 people were made redundant in Sverdlovsk Region since the start of 2016, and 1,244 more people working for eighteen different organizations are going to be let go soon, the Legislative Assembly deputy Andrei Alshevskikh refers to the Labor & Employment Department as stating. As of March 2, Yekaterinburg Champagne Factory reported 121 out of 127 workers were made redundant and Giprospetsgaz Ural made 109 out of 109 people redundant. According to the Labor & Employment Department, 770 workers out of jobs have already managed to find new

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 4, 2016. Winners of the annual Compliance 2015 Prize were awarded at the 5th annual International Compliance Association (ICA) Conference. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) won the Compliance Leadership Prize. TMK Compliance & Foreign Economic Activity Director Vladimir Pribylovsky received the award on his company’s behalf. Compliance consists in meeting the legal, state, and regulatory bodies’ requirements as well as various standards (from quality standards to environmental to accounting ones). Compliance is also understood, in broader terms, as an

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 4, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon started selling MegaFon Login 4G, a new tablet computer, MegaFon Ural’s press service reports. The device is now available at all of the provider’s local outlets as well as online. The new tablet comes for 4,990 RUR if you subscribe to Internet services. This is an Android 5.1-based gadget, with a quad-core chip to ensure smooth operation of all the apps, 1Gb worth of random access memory and 8Gb worth of internal memory (plus a 32Gb microSD slot), and a 1024*600 screen to ensure best viewing of HD videos. The tablet

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 4, 2016. D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak Nizhniy Tagil Drama Theater is now working on the production of We, the Undersigned, a play by Alexander Gelman, and getting ready for the Bulat Okudzhava Theater Festival. Both events, scheduled for April 22-24, 2016, are meant to celebrate Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s 80th anniversary. According to the company press service, the first night of We, the Undersigned is expected to become the three-day festival’s key feature. These are not only the Nizhniy Tagil Drama Theater actors who are starring in the play but also the nationally

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 4, 2016. Electromachine (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) declassified an order on the creation of new production facilities issued by the USSR Industry Minister P. Finogenov on June 20, 1985. The company press service explains this document has some historic value and will be directed to Chelyabinsk Region State Archive. The order touches upon the foundation of Electromachine: ‘Given Chelyabinsk Electromachine Plant, SKB Rotor, and SKB Turbine’s instrumentality in the production and maintenance of electrical equipment, fire- and tank-control

UrBC, Moscow, March 3, 2016. 500,000 people risk losing their jobs in Russia, while 301,000 more are currently working part-time, Finmarket refers to Labor & Social Welfare Minister Maxim Topilin as saying. Topilin says as many as 1.7m people were working part-time in the crisis of 2009. ‘We are worried about these 300,000 working part-time: despite all the state support to struggling businesses, car factories first and foremost, 20% of these workers (some 70,000 people) are the ones employed precisely in the automobile industry,’ the minister says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 3, 2016. The Russian Federation Government intends to distribute 3.47bn RUR among family farms in seventy-four different constituencies, the Cabinet’s website states. Under the government’s decree, Sverdlovsk Region’s private farmers are going to get 23m RUR, while those based in Kurgan Region will be allocated 28.985m RUR. The Government also recently decided to support the Mid-Urals’ farmers with 17.409m RUR. Starting-up farmers complained last year that they found it impossible to get state subsidies. For example, one has to be officially out of job to be

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 3, 2016. Ormet, an Orenburg Region-based member enterprise of Russian Copper Company dealing in production and processing of copper and copper-zinc ores, has recently completed yet another round of retooling successfully, the company press service reports. The company’s processing plant had an automated analytical control system based on AR-35-O (X-ray wavelength dispersive flowstream pulp analyzer) installed at the end of last year. The equipment was delivered and launched by Bourevestnik, the biggest X-ray industrial and scientific equipment designer and producer

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 3, 2016. ChTPZ Group’s company newspaper (Trubnik. Lyudi. Sobytiya, Kommentarii) won Chelyabinsk Region Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs’ Contest as the Best Company Media, the company press service reports. The judges’ panel comprised reporters, businesspeople, and the Union officials, who looked at the objectivity, relevance, and professionalism of contesting newspapers’ content. ‘We keep a close eye on Chelyabinsk Region’s economic and social life and pay plenty of attention to company’s partners and suppliers. Since many of these are also based in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 3, 2016. Burevestnik Central Scientific Research Institute (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) hosted a meeting of quality control managers/members of the Nizhniy Novgorod Association of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the corporation’s press service reports. The meeting was attended by top officials from Nizhniy Novgorod Ministry for Industry, Trade, & Entrepreneurial Activity, Nizhniy Novgorod Association of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Weights & Measures Academy, and quality control managers from other thirty local enterprises,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 2, 2016. Pipe Metallurgical Company’s TMK NGS-Buzuluk (Buzuluk, Orenburg Region) won a tender for engineering and technological support of run-in-hole operations for Gazprom Geologorazvedka, TMK press service reports. The company experts will be present during the RIH operations at two wells on the shelf of Sakhalin Island in the Sea of Okhotsk. TMK’s casing pipes with TMK UP CWB and TMK UP PF threaded joints will be used for the RIH operations there. The engineering supervisors are in charge of giving professional advice to the customer’s staff members, overseeing