June 17, 2014. The member enterprises of ChTPZ Group’s pipe manufacturing and maintenance division are going to take part in the 21st World Petroleum Congress in Moscow on June 16-19; their aim is to present their newest developments in the field of oil production and transportation. According to the company’s press service, ChTPZ Group’s stand will represent both the pipe manufacturing and the O&G maintenance divisions and will be illustrative of the company’s strategy targeted at meeting all the various needs of the O&G sector enterprises. During the exhibition, ChTPZ Group’s member

June 17, 2014. Three Mundial 2014 games will be broadcast in Yekaterinburg’s fan zone this weekend. According to the city council’s press service, the event coordinators also prepared some entertainment for the supporters as well. On Friday, June 20, an extreme activities day will start at 8PM. Spectators will be treated to parkour, free running, and tricking shows. ‘Renowned Russian athletes, winners of many titles, will join the event. Visitors to the shows will be able to take part in all sorts of contests and join the Fat Football match. There are two more things waiting in store for the

June 17, 2014. Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ, a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) shipped four pipes, each with the diameter of 1,420mm and wall width 21.7mm, with inner and outer corrosion-resistant coating, made of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works-made steel sheets with strength grade K60, to Gazprom: the pipes are meant for welding the so-called ‘golden abut’ of the Russian natural gas pipeline project, the Power of Siberia. According to the company’s press service, Gazprom placed the order for a set of large-diameter pipes with ChTPZ Group. ‘We are proud of the fact that our

June 16, 2014. Players from Ogneborets, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s company team, became hockey champions and winners of the Crystal Cup awarded for winning in Rostech-Russian Corporate Games World Corporate League. The championship was held in Moscow. According to the corporation’s press service, this is the first time an ice hockey championship has been organized within the four years of running the competitions. Four teams took part in the event: a team from N.E. Bauman Moscow State Technical University, AvtoLine Group, which took part in the contest for the first time this year, a team

June 16, 2014. President of the Russian Union of Industrialists & Employers Alexander Shokhin signed a certificate which confirmed Russian Copper Company Group joining the organization he leads. ‘We operate in the real sector of economy, we put up ore mining enterprises that remain unmatched on the post-soviet arena, build plants from scratch, and upgrade old production facilities. I am positive that our membership will be very beneficial to the Union – we are truly aware of the sector’s peculiarities, pay great attention to corporate social responsibility projects, and are willing to

June 16, 2014. MegaFon and Kaspersky Lab are launching free antivirus software for Anroid-based mobile devices, the mobile telecommunications provider’s press service reports. ‘All of MegaFon’s customers who prefer Android 2.3 (and up)-based devices can enjoy the benefits of a special version of Kaspersky Internet Security for Android free of charge. This protection comes as a part of the package for all of MegaFon-branded new products,’ the message states. Kaspersky Internet Security for Android was designed by Kaspersky Lab experts specially for MegaFon subscribers; it can check the device

June 16, 2014. The Director-General of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation received a thank-you letter from Deputy Head of Russia’s Federal Service for Military & Technical Cooperation Konstantin Biryulin, who expressed his gratitude to Oleg Sienko and the entire Uralvagonzavod team for taking part in KADEX 2014, the International Arms & Military Assets Exhibition, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The letter dwells on the corporation’s special role in the development of military and technical cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan. For one, the

June 16, 2014. A large screen meant for broadcasting the games of the World Football Championship of 2014 is now being installed at Mayakovsky Park in Yekaterinburg, the city council’s press service reports. The screen is over 60 sq m big. It is to be assembled from 135 60x60 cm modules in the course of a few hours: first, modules have to be put into place one by one, then, the structure needs to be connected to an electric power supply, and finally, the image settings will need to be adjusted. This is a LED screen that will be able to operate in any weather and in virtually any temperature,

June 16, 2014. The World Steel Association came up with its annual rating of the world’s largest steelmakers in 2013. There are 50 companies on the WSA Top Steel-Producing Companies 2013 list. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), with its more than 11.9m tons of steel produced last year, was given the 29th position in the rating, therefore becoming once again one of the world’s top thirty largest steelmakers. There are four Russian enterprises on the list of the top 50 manufacturers all in all, and Russia itself is the world’s fifth largest producer of steel, with output standing at

June 11, 2014. The employees of Uralvagonzavod Corporation's head plant are going to plant some 1,000 trees and flowers in Nizhniy Tagil – this is part of the city's Dzerzhinsky District greenery planting program. 'Dahlias, sage and marigold flowers, petunias, phlox, and other flowers will be planted in six central streets and squares in the area and at 15 sites at Uralvagonzavod. Over 30,000 flowers will be planted on the Memorial Mound by employees from the carriage assembly department and in Glory Square which already looks like a multi-colored flower carpet thanks to the

June 11, 2014. MegaFon, a major telecommunications provider, announced the completion of a tender to do with the delivery of telecommunications equipment; several suppliers were decided upon, including the world's leader in the field of ICT solutions, Huawei, the company's press service reports. The contract between MegaFon and Huawei is valid for seven years. This is a new approach on the Russian telecommunications market. The contract is worth several billion rubles and covers the delivery of equipment for the construction and upgrades of 2G/3G/LTE networks as well as software

June 11, 2014. Omsk Transport Machine-Building Design Bureau (KBTM, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) keeps working on the launch of new information technologies. According to the corporation's press service, the company ran a test launch of a computer-aided contract confirmation system, and all the work on the data processing center was completed in June. Pre-launch preparations, from designing and upgrading the premises for the data processing center to delivery and assembly to start-up and commissioning of all the equipment of both the engineering and the computing

June 11, 2014. The team of Burevestnik Central Scientific Research Insitute (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) won the Nizhniy Novgorod 2014 Prize in the Industry category with its naval gun A190-01. The badges and diplomas were given to the laureates by Mayor Oleg Sorokin during the awarding ceremony in Nizhniy Novgorod Kremlin, the corporation's press service says. 'This city thinks very highly of Burevestnik's achievements: the company managed to run full-scale production upgrades and launch serial production of an improved naval gun for its government

June 11, 2014. Passenger turnover at Yekaterinburg-based Koltsovo Airport amounted to 380,000 people in May 2014. All in all, 1.548m people traveled through the airport in the first five months of 2014, which was 7.5% more than in the first five months of 2013, the airport's website states. The international passenger turnover only increased by 1.5% and reached 718,000 people, including 196,700 people who flew in May. The domestic passenger turnover has gone up by 13.2% since the beginning of the year and came to 829,200 people. In May 2014, the domestic passenger turnover went up by

June 10, 2014. Ural Airlines is launching a new, scheduled Moscow-Munich flight in the winter season of 2014-2015, the airline's press service reports. Passengers can fly to Bavaria's capital starting from December 27, 2014, every Monday. Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday on comfortable Airbus liners that have both economy and business class sections. The timetable is designed in such a way as to be suitable for passengers who are flying to Munich from other parts of Russia; the air carrier operates daily Moscow-bound flights from Chelyabinsk, Ufa, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhnevartovsk,

June 10, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region-based agricultural enterprises completed their summer crop sowing campaign, the local Agriculture & Food Ministry's press service reports. All the jobs were completed in time and in full. This year's summer crop cultivation area was 489,000 hectares (compared with 535,000 hectares a year earlier), including 377,000 hectares of grain crops, 18,000 hectares of corn, over 17,000 hectares of rape, and 17,000 hectares of potatoes and other vegetables. The rest was used for sowing annual grass and perennials. 'Despite the challenging weather

June 10, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region remained among the mid-range sustainability federal constituencies in May 2014. The Mid-Urals were given 6,0 points all in all, which is the same figure it was awarded last month, Petersburg Policy Fund's rating states. Among the factors that made a positive impact on Sverdlovsk Region's rating was a presentation of the constituency's potential to representatives of ninety different countries at the Russian Federation Foreign Affairs Ministry and a business forum that was coordinated jointly with Uzbekistan in Ashkhabad. The news relating to the

June 10, 2014. Some 600 companies from 70 different countries are going to present their developments, materials, and solutions at the 5th International Industrial Exhibition Innoprom 2014 in Yekaterinburg Expo Exhibition Center on July 9-12, 2014, Sverdlovsk Region Ministry for International and Foreign Economic Relations' press service reports. This year's event is dedicated to smart industries, production automation, robotic science, and new materials. On July 9, 2014, the opening day of Innoprom, Russian Minister for Industry & Science Denis Manturov is going to give out the

June 10, 2014. Inspectors from Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor prevented illegal import of 11kg of unidentified unripe honey at Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg on May 30, 2014, the agency's press service reports. 'The passenger who had this honey arrived from Uzbekistan and had no veterinary documentation to prove the quality and safety of the product in veterinary and sanitary terms,' the press service says. The honey in question was confiscated and handed over to a special organization so that it could be done away with, the agency explains.

June 9, 2014. In 2013, the volume of direct investments in Ural Federal District was reduced by over 4 times compared with 2013 and amounted to $1,407m. At the same time, the amount of money transferred by Ural Federal District-based entities and individuals abroad increased by nearly two times and came to $9,525m, the Central Bank's report on direct investments abroad from federal constituencies in 2011-2013 states. When working on this report, the Central Bank's experts took into account such parameters as equity participation, profit reinvestment, and debt instruments. In the