August 20, 2014. Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) coordinated a skills contest among its crane operators called The Best in Profession. According to the corporation’s press service, eight workers who have already proved the best operators within their departments took part in the contest. ‘All of the contestants have at least three years’ experience, they have never violated workplace discipline regulations or the labor safety requirements. The difficulty of the theoretical and practical tasks corresponds to the fourth work category and the qualifications of a

August 20, 2014. MMK Trading House is expanding its share of the Russia & the CIS rolled steel market: the company set up a representation in Kazakhstan in August 2014. In May 2014, a division in Pensa was opened as well. MMK Trading House is responsible for 10% of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works’ (MMK) domestic deliveries of metal products. The company is now gauging the potential demand for metal products on the Russian provincial markets and on the markets of nearby countries and is looking into the possibility of setting up new divisions. This year, MMK Trading House experts

August 19, 2014. Director-General of Uralvagonzavod Scientific and Production Corporation Oleg Sienko congratulated winners and participants of the world tank biathlon championship that took place in Alabino, Moscow Region, the corporation’s press service reports. On behalf of the corporation, which acted as the general sponsor for the event, the executive awarded the members of the strongest crew with special prizes: a top grade UAZ Patriot for every team member. At the end of the team championship, the first prize was given out to the Russian national team: the contestants managed to

August 19, 2014. Uraltransmash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) celebrated the 85th birthday of their designer Yuri Tomashov, the corporation’s press service reports. Chief Designer at Transmash Central Design Office (now known as Uraltransmash’s Transmash Special Vehicles Design Office), engineer, scientist, researcher, author of a number of research papers and inventions, Corresponding Fellow of the Russian Academy of Artillery Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor, and winner of the State and Lenin Prizes was born on August 8. ‘On this festive occasion, Tomashov met with the

August 19, 2014. The Russian Association of Small-Scale Lodging Facilities is going to be set up in Yekaterinburg, Interfax reports. The proposal to establish such an organization was placed with the Russian Hotel Association by the Saint Petersburg Mini-Hotels Association. The decision was taken during the off-site meeting of the Supervisory Board in Yekaterinburg last Friday. There are currently 42 hostels with a total of 180 rooms (1,000 beds) in Yekaterinburg. The leading expert of Yekaterinburg Council Amenity Services Committee Natalia Lunegova also points out that about 22 new hotels

August 19, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region’s large-scale taxpayers were forced to pay 7,632,974.88 RUR to the local division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service, Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Service of Court Officers reports. As of August 18, the local court officers in charge of handling special enforcement proceedings issued 100 provisions on forcing the debtor organizations to pay off their debts.

August 19, 2014. The public prosecution officers of Nizhneserginskiy District destroyed forty gaming machines at 25 Lesnaya St in Nizhniye Sergi, Sverdlovsk Region, the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region’s public prosecution authorities reports. The machines in question were confiscated in the course of inspections conducted by the public prosecution authorities and the police after it had been determined that some illegal gambling had been taking place in Nizhniye Sergi and Mikhailovsk. Following the public prosecution authorities’ demand, the said gaming machines were declared abandoned

August 18, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation took part in the third international forum called Machine-Building Technologies 2014; the forum took off in Zhukovsky, Moscow Region, on August 13, the corporation’s press service reports. The company’s Director-General Oleg Sienko joined the forum’s business program: for one, he attended the plenary session dedicated to cooperation and/or import replacement; the session was chaired by Russian Vice Premier Dmitri Rogozin. The corporation presented a whole range of promising developments by the member enterprises of its

August 18, 2014. As of August 1, 2014, there are 27,200 unemployed in Sverdlovsk Region; this comes to 1.2% of the working-age population, Sverdlovskstat officially reports. According to the findings of recent cluster sampling, there are 2,269,300 working-age residents in Sverdlovsk Region (as of May-July 2014). 2,134,400 people (94.1%) actually have a job and 134,900 people (5.9%) do not have a job but are looking for one (this latter category is classed as the unemployed in accordance with the International Labor Organization’s methodology).

August 18, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region industrial production index decreased by 5.2% in January-July 2014 compared with the seven months of 2013, Sverdlovskstat’s official report states. The index actually rose by 2.7% on the previous year in the sector of mineral resource production, yet this is still 5.5% lower than in June 2014. In the processing industry sector, the figure for January-July 2014 was 6.8% lower than in January-July 2013. It was also 5.5% lower than the index for June 2014. As for the production and distribution of electric power, natural gas, and water, the index went up by

August 18, 2014. Chkalovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced the director of several firms Alexander Osminin to three years in prison; the man was found guilty of embezzling 7m RUR that had been allocated from Sverdlovsk Region budget to the development of nanotechnologies, the press officer of Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities reports. It was determined by the court that in 2008-2011, the businessman signed a number of agreements with Sverdlovsk Region Government for Industry & Science relating to reimbursement of money spent on scientific research and development

August 18, 2014. Wireless is now only available at VIP terminals and business lounges of Koltsovo Airport (Yekaterinburg) if you produce your passport to register. Users report the password is given out by airport employees. Wireless Internet connection was switched off on the rest of the airport premises altogether after the Russian Federation Government published its recent decree. Following this decree, the media announced that getting access to the wireless Internet connection was only possible if you produce your passport to register. As a matter of fact, it turned out later that you are

August 15, 2014. In the first half of 2014, the net loss of OAO Uralmashzavod amounted to 854.351m RUR, the issuer’s official report states. The company’s revenues dropped down to 2,513,296,000 RUR in the first half of the year compared with 3,646,333,000 RUR a year earlier. Gross profit decreased to 16.651m RUR, whereas the figure stood at 309.434m RUR in the first quarter of 2013.

August 15, 2014. Several South Urals-based TV companies joined a youth-oriented educational project called They Created Chelyabinsk Region with their stories about lives of the legendary heads of Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) Kazimir Lovin and Isaac Saltzman. The project involves most of local media, museums, libraries, and social organizations. The main idea behind the project is to tell the youth about the people thanks to whom the South Urals could grow and develop and to eliminate the blind spots in the young people’s knowledge of local history. It is nearly impossible to overestimate

August 14, 2014. On August 14, the famous rock band Chaif paid a visit to power generating unit 4 and BN800 reactor of Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Plant. They filmed their new clip there. The musicians also went to the turbine room, where a turbine is currently being assembled, and to the control room of the new energy unit, the plant’s Information & PR Department reports. Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Plant’s employees explained to the musicians how the fast fission reactor works and why it is important in the nuclear fuel cycle. They also gave a little report on the nuclear industry’s

August 15, 2014. Ural Airlines is giving all of its customers a chance to visit Germany’s grandest festival and save money on the flight: in September and October 2014, if you fly from Yekaterinburg or Krasnodar and back, provided you are the member of Wings Club, you get extra bonus miles on your account, the airline’s press service says. What is more, special prices for all the flights to be operated from Yekaterinburg to Munich or vice versa on October 11, 2014 and for all the flights to be operated from Krasnodar to Munich or vice versa start from 4,365 RUR. The price does not include

August 15, 2014. The unemployment rate came to 1.18% in Sverdlovsk Region on August 1, which was 0.12% less than on August 1, 2013, Sverdlovsk Region’s Economics Ministry reports. ‘The number of the unemployed who registered with the local employment agencies comes to 27,194, while the number of job openings advertized by employers through employment agencies is almost twice as big as the number of the unemployed,’ the ministry says. Most of the vacancies (30,176) are available in Yekaterinburg, while employers based in Kamensk-Uralsky, Pervouralsk, Berezovsky, and Verkhnyaya Pyshma listed

August 14, 2014. Nizhniy Novgorod Region Government thanked the team of Burevestnik Scientific Research Institute (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation based in Nizhniy Novgorod) for the organization of events relating to the conference of Nizhniy Novgorod Region Association of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and the visit of Russian Vice Premier and Chairman of the Military Industrial Committee under the Russian Federation Government Dmitri Rogozin on August 7-8, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. In his letter, Nizhniy Novgorod Region Minister for Industry

August 14, 2014. ChTPZ Group is fulfilling an urgent order placed by Transneft; within this order, the Group is to deliver over 22,000,000 kg of large-diameter pipes to the customer for repair and operational needs. Before the end of August, a set of LDPs will be shipped to Transneft, ChTPZ Group’s press officer reports. The diameters of the LDPs come to 820, 1,020, 1,220, and 1,420mm, wall width comes to 9-17mm; the pipes are made from cold-resistant steel (strength grade K56) and have a three-layer corrosion-resistant outer coating. The customer also asked for the shot-blasting treatment of

August 14, 2014. The central heating supply network in the area is being prepared for winter in full accordance with the set programs and schedules, Sverdlovsk Region Deputy Minister for Energy & Utilities Igor Chikrizov says. According to the official, in order to prepare the local facilities for the upcoming heating season, the Mid-Urals’ heat energy producers and their subsidiaries are carrying out repairs and set up material and technical resource reserves. Fuel funds the local electric power stations have formed are already bigger than the target amounts. ‘Wintertime preparations are