July 24, 2014. In 2014, 2,397 residents of Sverdlovsk Region are to move from obsolete and emergency-state housing to new homes, his press secretary refers to Sverdlovsk Region Prime Minister Denis Pasler as saying. According to Sverdlovsk Region Energy & Communal Housing Services Minister Nikolai Smirnov, the first stage of the local special-purpose relocation program is in progress now. The program is expected to run in 2013-2017 and involves 18 cities and towns in Sverdlovsk Region. 'This work started in 2013, and the first stage should be completed this year. People from 136

July 24, 2014. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) won in the Best Russian Exporter 2013 Contest. Russia's Industry & Trade Ministry declared MMK the best exporter to the CIS member states among all of the Russian ferrous metallurgical companies. 'The CIS member states' dynamically developing markets have always been considered MMK's priority ones alongside with the Russian one. In 2013, the enterprise supplied more than 1.2m tonnes of metal goods to the CIS, which was nearly 33% more than a year earlier,' MMK reports. The awarding ceremony of the Best

Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is launching an industrial audit system on the basis of big data processing technology. The enterprise reports that the ubiquitous development of IT within today's automated production process results in accumulation of enormous amounts of data. This means that further successful development is only possible if extra-big data volumes, including non-structured data, can be processed efficiently and quickly. This task can be fulfilled with the help of BigData. MMK felt an acute need for big data processing after a set of requirements was created

July 23, 2014. In the first half of the year, Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) shipped 2,056,000,000 kg of steel pipes to customers. The shipments in Q2 were 1.2% higher than in Q1, while the shipments of weldless pipes actually dropped by 1.3% against the first half of 2013 and amounted to 1,227,000,000 kg in the first half of 2014. In the second quarter, the weldless pipe shipments also decreased by 3.9% compared with the first quarter and came to 601,000,000 kg, the company report states. As for welded pipes, shipments declined by 7.6% in the first half of 2014 compared with the first half

July 23, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation awarded the winners of Festival PhotoChronicles Contest within the framework of its Tankopedia project, the corporation's press service says. 'Denis Peredrienko from Asbest proved the most active photo contest participant and was awarded with gifts from UVZSHOP, a clothing outlet. The second winner, Vitaliy Kuzmin from Moscow, will also receive his prizes,' the press service adds. Tankopedia, an electronic encyclopedia, suggested that the site frequenters upload photos and news reports from various festive

July 23, 2014. Deputy Mayor of Yekaterinburg for Capital Construction and Land Use Sergey Myamin spoke on television about the steps Kalininetz Sports Complex takes to become one of the reserve training sites for the World Cup 2018 teams, the city council's press service says. 'Kalininetz gets a lot of local visitors, including families with children, yet the facility itself needs some restoration. In preparation for the world football championship of 2018, the city authorities are planning to coordinate a full-scale restoration of the complex and to put up a number of new

July 23, 2014. The second high-speed electric train Lastochka (ES2G Series) that was produced at Ural Locomotives arrived at VNIIZHT experimental track in Shcherbinka to undergo preliminary tests. At this testing site, the braking system and the electric equipment will be tested. Besides, 5,000 km worth of control rides, with speed gradually rising, will take place, Sinara Group's PR Center reports. The first Lastochka produced by Ural Locomotives on May 30, 2014 was successfully tested (kilometrage: 5,619 km) and is now undergoing dynamic strength and braking tests when fully loaded.

July 23, 2014. Another metal-cutting unit HEC 1250 was recently installed at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ-Uraltrac, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation). The machine is meant for making large body parts of modern diesel engines, and was introduced within the framework of the plant's motor production technical upgrades program. According to Uralvagonzavod Corporation's press service, 34 modern equipment pieces have been launched at the plant's motor production advanced technology sites. The machines were supplied by Chezh, German, and Austrian companies; four

July 23, 2014. The management of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is considering different ways of selling several socially important objects: Metallurgists Health Resort in Yessentuki, Berezki B&B, Assol Health Resort, and Wonder Waterfalls Water Park, the company's Director for Business Development and Efficiency Management Maxim Lapin says. 'MMK actually sees ferrous metallurgy as its core business, this is where we make money, have a reputation, and build up on our competences, this is where we have a name, and this is where we have been, are, and will be. I believe

July 22, 2014. A study of Yekaterinburg shopping malls market in the first half of 2014 proved that quantity started turning into quality, an analytical report drawn up by Ural-Hermes states. For one, developers have already decided to set up a planetarium, a dolphinarium, an oceanarium, a theater stage, a concert stage, and theme park zones in the new and reconstructed shopping malls of Yekaterinburg. In the long term, Dreamworks Entertainment Park is expected to appear as well. Ural-Hermes analysts see the potential for the development of Yekaterinburg shopping malls market in the

July 22, 2014. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) set up an independent division of TMK Trading House in Surgut, Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous District. According to TMK press service, the division was set up to ensure speedier communication between TMK and the oil and gas companies operating in Western Siberia. The division aims to determine the oil and gas producers' demand for TMK produce (which is widely used at deposits with difficult production conditions), to collect orders and to control the way they are processed and fulfilled. TMK's Surgut division is located at 11

July 22, 2014. Uraltransmash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) upgraded the diagnostic equipment at its medical unit, the corporation's press service reports. 'The company bought some up-to-date equipment and invested in medical staff professional development programs. The measures taken are targeted at improvements in the quality of medical services and, in particular, at enhancing the efficiency of early-stage detection of various diseases,' the press service says. For one, a mobile mammography cubicle is fitted with equipment for

July 22, 2014. As of July 1, 2014, Sverdlovsk Region's official unemployment rate stood at 1.17%, which was 0.12% lower than on July 1, 2013, Sverdlovsk Region's Economics Ministry's press service reports. The number of the unemployed registered with the local employment agencies came to 27,088 people on July 1, 2014, while the number of job openings advertised by employers was 54,291 (which was 6,691 vacancies more than on July 1, 2013). This means the tension coefficient was 0.6 people per vacancy.

July 22, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region division of the Federal Public Property Management Agency (Rosimushchestvo) is holding a public auction aimed at selling shares of Metrological Equipment Pilot Production Plant (OZ MERA) based in Sredneuralsk, the agency's official website states. Offered for sale are 317,840 ordinary paperless shares, which comes to 100% of the plant's authorized capital. The total face value of all the shares stands at 3,178,400 RUR; the opening bid was set at 6,861,000 RUR. These are non-encumbered shares. Applications can be submitted between July 18 and August

July 21, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor (the national consumer rights watchdog) considered a complaint placed by a bank customer and detected a case of consumer rights infringement: the customer was made to sign as many as six insurance contracts at one and the same time, the division's press service reports. It was determined that Credit Europe Bank issued an automobile loan to its customer at a motor show. Six insurance contracts with different companies were signed right there at the motor show for comprehensive insurance, VTPL, MTPL, life and health insurance,

July 21, 2014. The football team of Uralvagonzavod Corporation's head plant beat the team of Nizhniy Tagil Council 2:0, the corporation's press service reports. The games were played in the football pitch of School 77 and were actually the first contests coordinated after the commissioning of the school's sports facility. This was Uralvagonzavod Corporation's Executive Director Vladimir Roschupkin who put forth the initiative on the organization of the match. Mayor Sergey Nosov supported the proposal, so the head plant of the corporation and the city council celebrated

July 21, 2014. A football street art gallery opened in Yekaterinburg during the Stenograffia Festival that is currently held there, the city council's press service says. 'As soon as today, residents and guests of the Urals can take a look at these out-of-the-ordinary street art dedicated to football themes. Instead of canvases, objects like supporting walls, construction fences, and facades of buildings were used. The right to create these football-themed objects of art was granted to artists from Moscow, Samara, and Asbest. Sketches were selected from sixty applications submitted

July 21, 2014. The Director-General of Ural Locomotives (a joint venture operated by Sinara Group and Siemens AG) Alexander Saltayev took part in a round table discussion on import replacement and the new opportunities of the Russian industry within the framework of the industrial exhibition Innoprom 2014 business agenda. According to Sinara Group's press service, Russia's Deputy Industry & Trade Minister Sergey Tsyb and heads of leading Russian and foreign companies and holdings took part in this discussion as well. In his report, Saltayev spoke about Ural Locomotives'

July 21, 2014. UBT-Ecologia started supplying furnace charge to ChTZ-Uraltrac. This means that Uralvagonzavod Corporation's daughter enterprise is now delivering some 2,000,000 kg of raw material to another daughter enteprise and thus fully meets the latter's needs, the corporation's press service reports. According to Deputy Director of UBT-Ecologia's Chelyabinsk subsidiary Vladislav Galunchikov, this brings the companies to a closed production cycle. The drop-hammer plant first receives the plant's byproducts such as chips and clippings and then makes them fit for

July 18, 2014. On the eve of Metallurgist's Day, the best employees of Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant ( a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) were awarded with state, local government, industrial sector, and departmental awards. All in all, 267 workers were awarded, the enterprise's press service reports. Five of the plant's workers were given the title of Honored Metallurgist. Four people received honorary certificates issued by the Russian Federation Industry & Trade Ministry, and three employees were awarded with Governor of Sverdlovsk Region's honorary certificate. All