UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2015. ChTPZ Group presented its ceramic flux production capacities at the 15th Weldex/Rossvarka Fair. The exhibition, dedicated to welding materials, equipment, and technology, was held in Sokolniki, Moscow on October 6-9, the Group’s press service reports. ChTPZ Group started making ceramic flux in 2004 within the framework of its import replacement program. The range of available varieties now comprises six different brands, all certified by the National Welding Control Agency. The produce also meets the European TÜV standards, which proves its great quality

UrBC, Omsk, October 12, 2015. Bridge-layers MTU 90M and TMM6, engineering vehicles manufactured by Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) were featured in Russian Defense Ministry Zvezda Channel’s military show dedicated to the ways engineering vehicles are used in the Russian Armed Forces, the corporation’s press service reports. Most of the camera work took place at the plant, on the specially prepared test site, and on a country pond. Author and presenter Alexei Yegorov, cameramen Ivan Yelovykh and Dmitri Bukharov, and producer Maria Stremina tried to present

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 9, 2015. The vegetables harvested in Sverdlovsk Region after the first low temperatures won’t last long, Deputy DG of Belorechensky Irina Nadezhdina told UrBC. Based on the weather forecast, the first cold nights are to be expected on October 9-10. In the meantime, some potatoes, vegetables, and crops are still in the ground. The over-moist soil makes it impossible to proceed with the harvesting process, so the remaining yield will have to face the frost. ‘Whatever has been affected by the frost won’t get preserved well. These vegetables will have to be sold

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 9, 2015. The number of vacancies available on Yekaterinburg job market shrank by 20% in the last year, E1. Rabota and Zarplata.ru report. The market is gradually recovering, however: the number of job openings rose by 8% in the third quarter of the year compared with the second quarter. ‘There are currently two candidates per job opening in Yekaterinburg, with the number of CVs in the system up by15%,’ says Zarplata.ru’s PR Manager Olga Pavlyuchenko. In the third quarter of 2015, most vacancies advertised were in such sectors as transport, car industry,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 9, 2015. The international passenger traffic at Yekaterinburg Koltsovo Airport dropped by 26.8% between January and September 2015 and thus came to 1.24m people, the airport press service reports. The overall traffic to Antalya, Hurghada, Sharm El Sheikh, Larnaka, Barcelona, Rimini, and destinations in Greece declined by 20% in the three quarters of the year. Domestic passenger traffic came to 2.9m people, up 14% on a year earlier. The number of passengers travelling to the Black Sea rose by 4.8 times for Simferopol, 80% for Sochi, 10.6% for Krasnodar, and 1.2%

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 9, 2015. Central Stadium will be renamed Yekaterinburg Arena in time for the world football championship of 2018, Interfax refers to Russia 2018 Committee as saying. 12 stadiums in different parts of Russia will host the World Cup games; eight of them will be renamed after the cities they are located in. The new names of the remaining four stadiums will have to do with important local cultural or football events. Russia’s Sports Ministry suggested earlier that Central Stadium should be called the Urals. However, the championship committee decided against this

UrBC, Nizhniy Tagil, October 9, 2015. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation keeps introducing a risk management and internal control system within its member enterprises. The launch process is now at its third stage, where the results of key risks assessment must be looked at and discussed. The company’s top-tier managers gathered together at the corporation’s head plant to join in the discussion, the company press service reports. First, a workshop on risk management and internal control was conducted for heads of Corporate Governance Center in Nizhniy Tagil. Then, a group of risk managers from a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 8, 2015. The average monthly pay came to 32,300 RUR in Sverdlovsk Region-based companies with over 15 people of staff in August; this was 5.4% less than in the previous month, Sverdlovskstat reports. The average pay went down by 7.3% (down to 34,900 RUR) in the processing sector, by 5.2% (down to 34,500 RUR) in the construction sector, by 5.2% (down to 36,300 RUR) in the oil and gas sector, by 13.5% (down to 23,000 RUR) in the culture sector, by 10% (down to 17,100 RUR) in the education sector, and by 6.1% (down to 28,500 RUR) in the health care sector. At the

UrBC, Saint Petersburg, October 8, 2015. Pipe Metallurgical Comapny/ TMK and Gazprom signed a memorandum of cooperation at the 5th Saint Petersburg International Natural Gas Forum; the document, signed by Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexei Miller and TMK BOD Chairman Dmitri Pumpyanski, sets out the two parties’ policy on use of natural gas as motor fuel, TMK press service reports. The two parties’ main goals are switching TMK fleet of vehicles and its Russia-based enterprises to natural gas, renovating its fleet of vehicles so that it could rely on natural gas more, and creating better

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 8, 2015. Three employees of Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant/PNTZ (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) received certificates of acknowledgment from Sverdlovsk Region Government for their hard work. The Group’s press service reports the certificates were awarded to Head of Technical Diagnostics Department Vladimir Zubov, Forewoman of Iron Ozone 32 Steel-Smelting Department Irina Pavlova, and etcher from the Pipe-Drawing Department Ilya Ismagilov for their many years of conscientious hard work and great production performance as well as in celebration of the company trade

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 8, 2015. ChTPZ Group and Gazprom signed a cooperation agreement at the 5th Saint Petersburg International Natural Gas Forum. The document was signed by Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexei Miller and ChTPZ Director-General Alexander Grubman. The two companies agreed to gradually switch ChTPZ fleet of automobiles to natural gas, of which Gazprom is a major supplier. The former is to help ChTPZ fit its vehicles with the necessary equipment, ChTPZ Group’s press service reports. ‘The Group usually contributes to all of Gazprom’s pipeline construction projects with its

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 8, 2015. Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) signed agreements with colleges to cover tuition fees of fifty-one students who will then come to work at the enterprise. Next year, company scholarships will be offered to fifty-three new students, the corporation’s press service says. There are currently 186 students on company scholarships majoring in ten different fields at Omsk State Technical University and B.N. Yeltsin Ural Federal University. Their fields are Design Engineering in Machine-Building Industry, Machine-Building,

UrBC, Moscow, October 7, 2015. Russian banks issued their customers 1.514m loans amounting to 181bn RUR altogether in August; this was 9% less than in the previous month, United Credit Bureau’s press service reports. ‘1.514m loans worth 181bn RUR were issued in August and 1.558m loans worth over 199bn RUR were issued in July,’ the bureau reports. For one, 131bn RUR worth of cash loans were issued to private customers in July and only 117bn RUR worth of those were issued to customers in August. The number of car loans also went down from 19,000 to 17,000, even thought the overall amounts

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 7, 2015. New-generation trams are now cruising the streets of Yekaterinburg, the city council reports. There will be two trams on Route 18 (VIZ to Shartash Station through Kirov St, Dolores Ibárruri St, Verkh-Isetsky Boulevard, Kommunarov Square, Lenin Ave, Gagarin St, and Blücher St). The 407 tram is a new make with lowered floor in the middle. The low-floor section makes up 39% of the tram’s premises. So far, the first passengers have complained about the relatively high steps at the front- and back-section entrances and rather steep slopes between the low-floor

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 7, 2015. Not a single forest fire broke out in Yekaterinburg in the summer of 2015, the city council reports. A special fire alert mode was introduced for the summer, which meant locals were not allowed into the potentially dangerous parts of forests and peat bogs. The city council representatives joined rescue rangers to patrol the nearby forests and detect offenders. ‘Ad hoc committees and teams were set up in every city district to prevent and fight forest fires. The potentially dangerous spots are controlled by these; the spots get inspected on a regular

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 7, 2015. The economically priced trips costing under 50,000 RUR will remain the most popular offers on Sverdlovsk Region’s travel market in the winter of 2015/2016, Executive Director of Ural Tourism Association Mikhail Maltsev said at a press conference. ‘We are actually talking about the winter school break rather than New Year trips here. Such package tours in the under-50,000 RUR price range are sure to be popular and get sold out by late or even mid-October. Most of these tours are to Russian resorts, primarily Sochi, to which city a direct flight is

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 7, 2015. Tanks. Spirit of the Urals, a film by Russian Vice Premier Dmitri Rogozin, won the 26th Rossiya Film Festival Award in Yekaterinburg. The film was given a special Patriotism Promotion Prize and Nizhniy Tagil Council Culture Department’s prize as the Best Patriotic Motion Picture, Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s press service reports. The awards were received by the film director and producer Sergei Savushkin and the corporation’s State Secretary and Deputy DG Alexei Zharich. 361 applications from 49 settlements and 14 cities in Russia, Belarus, Armenia,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 6, 2015. 16 private bankruptcy claims were placed with Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court on October 1-2, 2015, the court reports. Seven claims were laid by private individuals, two by legal entities, and seven people pleaded their own bankruptcy. So far, no banks have placed any private bankruptcy claims with courts. The personal bankruptcy legislation came into effect on October 1. Under the new piece of legislature, an arbitration court is allowed to institute bankruptcy proceedings if a private individual’s debt exceeds 500,000 RUR and no debt repayments have

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 6, 2015. Sverdlovsk Railways handled 17.6% less of building cargo in January-September 2015 than in the nine months of 2014, the company press service reports. The amount of ferrous metals forwarded by the company went down by 0.7%, that of non-ferrous metal scrap by 10.5%, that of coke by 11.5%, that of cement by 3.2%, and that of chemical and mineral fertilizers by 0.9%. All in all, Sverdlovsk Railways handled 102.8m tonnes of cargo in 2015 so far, which was 2.7% more than a year earlier.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 6, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region-based employees by now owe their workers 566m RUR in delayed wages and salaries, Head of Sverdlovsk Region State Labor Inspectorate Fedor Kravtsov said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. ‘All in all, 115 companies have delayed or failed to pay a total of 566m RUR in wages and salaries. We took some steps, and 471m RUR were paid to 20,500 employees as a result,’ Kravtsov said. According to the official, the overall amount of wage arrears currently comes to 286m RUR, most of which is the money owed by 15 insolvent companies. Among the