June 9, 2014. The stand run by ChTZ-Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) was one of the most visited ones at the Construction Vehicles & Technologies 2014 Exhibition in Moscow on June 3-7. According to the corporation's press service, consumers are traditionally most interested in tractors and Class 10 and Class 15 bulldozers as well as in the spare parts for the said vehicle types. 'Yet the museum rarity C-65, Russia's first diesel tractor that is presented in combination with a grader made in the 50s or the 60s, leaves no one unmoved as well,'

June 9, 2014. Sberbank is going to finance the construction of an indoor theme park in Yekaterinburg - a project run by Regions Group. The said company and Sberbank CIB signed an agreement recently that says the amount of investment into the project (and a number of others) will run to over 61bn RUR, Regions Group's press service reports. 'The agreement provides for strategic cooperation between the two companies along a wide spectrum of financial products and services, including financing Regions Group's investment program for 2014-2017. The total amount of investment is

June 9, 2014. Ural Airlines operated new flights from Chelyabinsk to Anapa and Simferopol on June 6, 2014. The Chelyabinsk-Anapa flight took off at 8:40 AM, while the Chelyabinsk-Simferopol one was scheduled for 4:45 PM (departure times quoted are in local time), the air carrier's press service says. The airline's planes will be taking the residents of the South Urals to the coast of the Black Sea in Krasnodar Territory and in the Crimea every Friday through the end of September. Prices of a one-way ticket from Chelyabink to Anapa start from 7,250 RUR (excluding the fees and

June 9, 2014. The amount of direct investment in Russia, a considerable rise in which was observable last year, is going to nearly halve in 2014; this is the forecast quoted in a report by Wiener Institut fuer Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (WIIW) that was published on Thursday, Banki.ru says. According to the database the institute has been keeping on the basis of data supplied by a number of national statistical services, the amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Russia reached €59.667bn in 2013, which was 51.6% more than in the previous year. However, due to the fact that the

June 6, 2014. Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) is going to deliver over 9,000,000 kg of large-diameter pipes to Rosneft for the construction of Suzun-Vankor oil pipeline (this is part of the Yamal Pipeline System). The LDPs are to be shipped in May-July 2014, the company's press service reports. The 530-mm pipes with wall width of 9mm are made from corrosion-resistant 09GBYu steel with urethane-foam coating (the foam width is 100mm, the width of the zinc-coated membrane is more than 1.5mm); the pipe's running pressure is 6.3 Mpa. This

June 6, 2014. The electronic banking system known as eLife underwent numerous upgrades and had new useful and convenient functions added to it over the last year. All this helped customers feel even more comfortable and confident when managing their cash flows remotely. Thanks to these developments, the system proved one of the top three in the e-banking usability rating that was created by Expert Rating Agency. In 2013, Life Group's eLife system was promoted in the rating and got the flattering 3d position, VUZ-Bank's press service says. The e-banking systems were evaluated against

June 6, 2014. A modern building with a parking lot fit for 300 cars and a business center will be put up in Dzerzhinsky District of Nizhniy Tagil by Uralvagonzavod Corporation's daughter enterprise UBT-Uralvagonzavod, the corporation's press service says. The projected total area of the site is 8,700 sq m, the area of the building and the surrounding premises is 7,400 sq m. The construction of a parking lot will make it possible to de-clutter the nearby streets that have cars parked on the sides of the road and therefore to make the traffic much safer and easier. The large-scale

June 6, 2014. Yekaterinburg was promoted from the 6th to the 3d position in the rating of Russian cities that assesses their development. Krasnodar and Tyumen are in the first and the second places, respectively, Expert magazine's research states. According to the magazine, the median monthly pay in Yekaterinburg comes to 37,190 RUR, the total budget spending per capita is 25,456 RUR, 1,075 RUR are spent on culture and sports, 11,768 RUR are spent on education, 4,003 RUR are spent on transportation and roads, and the retail trade turnover is 470,900 RUR.

June 6, 2014. A children's coloring pages booklet with samples of vehicles was published in celebration of ChTZ-Uraltrac's (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) 'birthday', 'The idea is to help pre-schoolers and young schoolchildren to get acquainted with the most popular machines that are made at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant. They will be able both to see what a modern bulldozer, pipe-laying vehicle, or loader looks like and to paint the black and white pictures using a colored sample. They can also use their imagination and come up with an original

June 6, 2014.The risk management policies pursued by Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) were estimated very highly by the professional community at the 9th International Best Risk Management 2014 Exhibition. The company was declared a laureate in the Best All-Round Risk Management Program category. ‘Making the company’s risk management system work took a lot of effort. The recent diagnostic checks have shown that the system is working efficiently and meets all the global standards. MMK has a full understanding of the peculiarities of managing business processes both at the enterprise

June 5, 2014. Fifteen engineers from Transport Machine-Building Design Office (KBTM, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) took part in the 3d Siberian Engineers Conference in Omsk Expocenter on May 28-30, 2014. According to the corporation's press service, participants from 18 different parts of Russia arrived at the conference. The motto of the event ran, 'Engineering is the Basis of Russia's Development'. The primary idea behind the conference was to consolidate the expertise and the best practices from different constituencies in the field of industrial

June 5, 2014. Yekaterinburg police officers detained a young man who is suspected of a series of frauds, the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry reports. ‘According to the police data, the alleged offender had been renting flats for one day and then sublet them for a longer period since the beginning of 2012. The man used fake IDs in the names of Gordy, Mittelman, and Khild. He found his victims on the Internet and invited them to have a look at the apartment. In order to sound more convincing, he would show the future tenants documents relating

June 5, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor got a query from customers of the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD), who complained of violations of consumer rights. The bank charged its customers for some additional services without complying with the legal requirement that information should be provided as to the price of these services and as to the customers’ right to turn the offer of these services down. The total commission that one of the customers had to pay throughout his loan period amounted to more than 85,000 RUR, the agency’s press service

June 5, 2014. Electromachine (a Chelyabinsk-based member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) is now commissioning five different units. The jobs will be implemented within the framework of a large-scale technical improvements program the company runs, Uralvagonzavod’s press service reports. An up-to-date milling processing center DAHLIH MCV-1020 is being installed at the mechanical department. It will primarily be used for making pilot batches of new products and will make it possible to considerably increase the existing milling capacity of the enterprise. A selective soldering unit

June 5, 2014. Ural Locomotives (a joint venture operated by Sinara Group and Siemens) was successfully tested by an interregional acceptance committee; the enterprise’s R&D and design efforts in the field of making the AC 2ES7 loco (Project 11201) were assessed. According to Sinara Group’s press service, the committee was comprised of representatives of Russian Railways, railway institutes, railway equipment suppliers, Ural Locomotives, and Siemens and chaired by Russian Railways Chief Engineer and Senior Vice President for Innovative Development Valentin Gapanovitch. In the course of the

June 4, 2014. The employees of ChTZ-Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) received a letter from a machine operator named Jan Hoffman, who lives in Amtsberg, a municipality in Saxony. In this letter, he spoke about how his relationship with the company's dealer F.K.M. Praga was progressing, the corporation's press service says. According to Hoffman, he came to the Czech capital together with his friend, a T-130 tractor owner, to meet the head of the dealer company Gennady Fedchun. The visitors picked up some pre-ordered pare parts there. Jan's friend

June 4, 2014. KBTM (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) got a compliance certificate for its coupler casting. This means the company is now expanding the range of products it makes for Russian Railways, the corporation's press service reports. 'The coupler is an automated hookup mechanism that hitches railway carriages together without (or almost without) human involvement. It is most often used for railway carriages and locos. The coupler casting is meant for sending the draft force impulse onto the draft mechanism and for placing inside the casting a mechanism for

June 4, 2014. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) shipped a 2,000,000 kg-plus set of line pipes with strength grade X60 made at Volzhsky Pipe Plant to a major international oil and gas company Saudi Aramco, the company's press service reports. 'Prior to sending off the order, the goods underwent an inspection audit at VTZ which was conducted by Aramco Overseas Cоmpanу and TVD experts; these specialists represented Saudi Aramco's interests and looked closely into the technological process and the technical requirements set out for the order and the quality of the goods and

June 4, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Corporation member enterprises embarked upon their summer health campaign for the children of their employees, the corporation's press service says. 'Thousands of children from Nizhniy Tagil, Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Yekaterinburg, Yurga and other towns and cities where the corporation operates are going to spend some time in the summer camps and Russian health resorts,' the press service reports. As for the company's head plant, 20 mothers with motion impaired children will go to Mitino, a health resort in Kirov Region. 'The employees'

June 4, 2014. Ural Airlines introduced an additional flight for the popular summertime destination: from Nizhniy Novgorod to Simferopol, the company's press service reports. Starting from June 17, 2014, the flight to the coast of the Black Sea will be operated not only on Sundays but on Tuesdays as well. 'The Crimea peninsula is a favorite vacation place for Russian travelers that makes you fall in love with it at first sight! This spot has everything a holiday maker longing for an unforgettable vacation needs: fresh air, the seaside, intact nature, medieval and ancient artifacts,