June 23, 2014. Students from the Palace of Culture Youth Center operated by ChTZ-Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) are going to make their choreographic performances at Nessebar, Bulgaria, where they are going this summer, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘This is going to be the biggest dancing team to take their show to the far abroad: some fifty children from Poisk (a many-times winner of international and national contest) aged seven to fourteen will go on this ‘business trip’. If you consider the parents, who are accompanying the kids, the total number

June 23, 2014. Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeniy Kuivashev paid a visit to Seversky Pipe Plant (STZ, a member enterprise of Pipe Metallurgical Company/TMK) on June 19, 2014. According to TMK’s press service, the Governor started his tour from examining the suburban residential area called the Birch Tree Grove that had been put up by the plant. STZ Managing Director Mikhail Zuyev put the Governor in the picture of how the company employee housing program was moving on. The first section of the cottages was put up in 2011; it comprises 122 two-storey cottages with the area of 156 sq m each.

June 23, 2014. The number of MegaFon Ural’s subscribers who use roaming to communicate while traveling abroad has risen by 45% since the vacation season took off. The mobile carrier’s experts say July is likely to become the peak month in terms of roaming calls, so the company expects a booming interest in all the options that could help a subscriber save money while on vacation, the company’s press service reports. According to J’son & Partners’ analysts, 80% of Russians who traveled abroad last year actually used roaming services. ‘The summer of 2014 has seen a new trend: locals are

June 20, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Corporation is now organizing summer holiday programs for the youngest residents of Nizhniy Tagil. Last year’s experience has shown that edutainment programs are very popular with children, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘Every Thursday at 6PM throughout the summer months, edutainment shows will be coordinated for Nizhniy Tagil’s young residents at I.V. Okunev Palace of Culture: Uralvagonzavod decided to brighten up the leisure hours of the children who are spending their holidays in town,’ the company’s press release says. Uralvagonzavod started

June 20, 2014. ChTPZ Group’s Training Center coordinated an awarding ceremony for the winners of Work Dynasties Contest. The event was attended by the contest finalists and representatives of Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant, the company’s press service says. Over 300 students from local vocational schools created presentations on their future blue-collar jobs and presented these to students from local secondary schools in the course of career guidance sessions between March 1 and March 31, 2014. The goal of the contest is to enhance the prestige of blue-collar jobs, to inform the youth about

June 20, 2014.One of Jaguar and Land Rover’s two Yekaterinburg-based dealers – Krasnolesye Auto Show - is going to lose its status as the brands’ official representative on June 30, 2014. ‘Starting on June 30, 2014, Jaguar Land Rover Russia stops cooperating with Krasnolesye in Yekaterinburg upon the parties’ mutual agreement; this has to do with differing views on the brand’s market development,’ Jaguar Land Rover’s PR Manager Daria Golovina explained to UrBC. The company representative added that a renovated, up-to-date dealer Britannia had been operating in Yekaterinburg since March 2014.

June 20, 2014. The charity work done by for-profit organizations based in the Urals (as well as by those located in the rest of Russia) has been evolving in an extensive way and needs to be made more efficient, Director of CAF Russia (Moscow) Maria Chertok said at a press conference on charity projects in the Urals. Now according to the findings of a research on corporate charity projects conducted by Expert Ural Analytical Center among for-profit organizations, corporate volunteer work remains the prevalent form of charity. The most wide-spread projects are financial aid to specific families

June 20, 2014. Head of Yekaterinburg Administration Alexander Yakob signed a decree that set out an additional list of roads to be repaired and reconstructed this year. According to the administration’s press service, the appendix to the document contains a list of motorways and roads that have to be repaired in 2014. There are 34 such roads on the list. An additional 700m RUR will be allocated from Sverdlovsk Region budget for the purpose. Among the most important structures are Shevchenko St (from the viaduct to Karl Liebknecht St), Gagarin St (from Blyukher St to Pervomayskaya St),

June 19, 2014. A teaser site for the innovative tram R1 (Russia One) made by Uraltransmash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) is now available at r1.uvz.ru. According to the corporation’s press service, the website gives visitors an idea of some parts of the tram and of what the model will look like. ‘The tram in its entirety will only be presented at the Innoprom 2014 Exhibition in Yekaterinburg on July 9, as well as on the website – r1.uvz.ru will get updated, and specialized accounts within social networks will start operating as well,’ the corporation says. The R1 Project

June 19, 2014. In 2013, Yekaterinburg had the biggest advertising market among all the Russian cities with population over 1m people, Deltaplan Advertising Group’s research findings indicate. ‘Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk, whose ad markets amount to 4.47bn RUR and 4.41bn RUR, respectively (13% and 15% more than in 2012), remained the market leaders in 2013. Kazan, with its 3.05bn RUR, is No.3 on the market, even though its figures are considerably smaller. If it hadn’t been for Kazan market’s impressive growth rate last year (a 25% increase on 2012, the biggest rise among all the cities in

June 19, 2014. Ural division of the Federal Environmental, Technological, and Nuclear Surveillance Service detected 391 violations of industrial security requirements at EVRAZ NTMK. The violations were all related to operation of hazardous industrial objects, the Service’s press officer reports. The violations were detected during a scheduled on-site inspection of 18 hazardous objects located at 1 Metallurgov St, Nizhniy Tagil and 1 Engels St, Nizhnyaya Salda. For one, the enterprise did not have a provision on the industrial safety management system; nor did it design an action plan for

June 19, 2014. Yekaterinburg-based football supporters will be able to enjoy a live broadcast of the Russia-Belgium game on June 22: the game will be broadcast in the fan zone in Mayakovsky Park, Yekaterinburg Council’s press service reports. The FIFA International Supporters Festival 2014 Yekaterinburg coordinators are planning on improving the fan zone navigation by installing additional information signs that will help visitors find the fan zone and by expanding the range of food items available for purchase in the food court. On the day of the match, Soviet Sport Show will begin on the

June 19, 2014. Sberbank is currently trying to sell the building of Corteo Fashion Mall in Yekaterinburg. There are several potential customers for the asset, yet the purchase and sale agreement or any other binding document has not been signed by any party so far, which is why the bank is willing to negotiate with other potential buyers, Sberbank of Russia’s Ural branch’s press service informed UrBC. It was announced in late September 2013 that WEDA Fashion Group had to put its shopping center up to auction because of the money it owed to Sberbank of Russia. The creditor’s claims amounted to

June 18, 2014. A filtering exhaust device made by the Czech company Messer Enviro Tec is now being installed at Thermal Department 3 of Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant. The capacity of the device is estimated at 20,000 m3 an hour. According to the corporation’s press service, another device is now being prepared for assembly and will be launched before the end of the year. The department uses German fume-cutting machines to make spare parts for railway carriages and special vehicles; these machines can cut alloyed steels and special steels. One side effect of fume-cutting is harmful

June 18, 2014. According to the data provided by the federal statistics agencies, 329 hotels and similar types of accommodation operated in Yekaterinburg in late 2013, Sverdlovskstat’s press service reports. This number included 267 hotels (81.2% of all accommodation types), 43 furnished apartments (13.1%), 16 hostels (4.8%), 2 boarding houses (0.6%), and 1 other type of accommodation (0.3%). Small enterprises ran 170 hotels and similar types of accommodation (51.7%), enterprises other than small ones ran 91 hotels (27.6%), and sole traders ran 68 hotels (20.7%). By the end of 2013, 41 hotels

June 18, 2014. The ongoing economic crisis forced most large enterprises to cut their investment programs by 1.5 to 2 times. This, in its turn, will result in slower construction speed and dropping profits, the Economic Events Bureau claims. The Director-General of GEN STROYURAL Construction Company Evgeniy Golubenko pointed out that small and medium enterprises might turn out to be the ones that will get hit the hardest, since these are the SMEs that are least resistant to shocks. The current state of affairs is made even worse by the fact that the competition on the construction market is

June 18, 2014. ChTZ-Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corproration) shipped this year’s second batch of spare parts for B10M, T-170, and DET-250 tractors to its Ukrainian dealer Assol. The first shipment of parts and joints for the caterpillar track vehicles was made to Zaporozhe in the spring, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘The van loaded with 10,000 kg of goods, headed off to Vassilyevka across the Ukrainian state frontier. The dealer runs a spare parts warehouse and a repair depot for servicing ChTZ-Uraltrac’s vehicles in this town. The B10M bulldozers also get

June 18, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Corporation is one of the 28 Russian companies that are taking part in Eurosatory 2014, the international arms, security technologies, and protection devices exhibition in Paris, the corporation’s press service reports. In Paris, the holding presented the military vehicles made at two of its member enterprises, Nizhniy Tagil-based Uralvagonzavod and Omsk-based KBTM. The stand features TOS-1A combat vehicle, TMM-6 mechanized bridge, a bridge-laying vehicle, IMR-3M counterobstacle vehicle, and BREM-3M armored recovery vehicle made by KBTM. ‘Visitors and exponents

June 17, 2014. Ural Airlines flew 1,697,205 passengers between January 1, 2014 and May 31, 2014, which was 21% more than a year earlier, the company’s press service reports. 14,310 flights have been operated since the beginning of the year, including 4,463 international flights, 6,265 domestic flights, and 3,582 flights around the CIS. The airline’s passenger turnover rose by 21% in January-May 2014 compared with January-May 2013 and came to 4,492,816,000 passenger-kilometers. In May 2014, the air carrier operated 3,426 flights, including 1,246 international flights, 1,445 domestic flights,

June 17, 2014. UMMC Holding and Hyatt Hotels Corporation are going to set up an apartment hotel in Yekaterinburg. This was discussed at the meeting the corporation’s heads Thomas Pritzker and Mark Hoplamazian had with the Russian company’s President Iskandar Makhmudov and Director-General Andrei Kozitsyn, UMMC press service reports. The joint project is expected to make use of the multi-purpose Iset Tower set that is currently being put up by OOO Yekaterinburg City (a member enterprise of UMMC construction division). ‘We hope to be able jointly to go through with this apartment hotel project