May 19, 2014. ChTZ-Uraltrac (ChTZ, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) started shipping its B10M bulldozers to Russian Railways. According to the corporation’s press service, Russian Railways won a tender for the delivery of 25 B10M bulldozers to the Central Railway Repair Directorate. This is actually more than last year, when 10 such bulldozers were ordered. ‘The vehicles will be used for repair and maintenance of railways all over the country. The bulldozers will be shipped to locations ranging from the Northern Caucasus to the Jewish Autonomous

May 16, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities detected over 130 violations of the immigration law in the three months of 2014; these offenses were committed by administrative office holders and legal entities, Senior Public Prosecutor of Sverdlovsk Region Department for Surveillance over Compliance with the Federal Legislation & Citizens’ Rights & Freedoms Natalya Pelevina said at a recent press conference. To eliminate these violations, 18 protests and 24 administrative reports were submitted, with 20 people facing administrative liability and ten cases placed with

May 16, 2014. Yekaterinburg Customs revealed a series of instances when foreign cars were imported temporarily in Sverdlovsk Region and sold illegally, the spokesperson for Ural Customs Administration reports. ‘Automobiles get transferred here from the Baltic States or from the CIS by the citizens of the said states and are then sold illegally to Russian Federation subjects without any customs duty payments or without an official certificate of title. The purchasers of such cars got pulled over in Yekaterinburg and in Sverdlovsk Region by road police officers and were only able to produce a

May 16, 2014. More than 299m RUR will be invested in repair jobs at Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil this year. According to the corporation’s press service, the repairs have already started and will comprise reconstruction of roofs at production departments, medical units, and canteens and replacement of window panes. This year, a total of 48,000 sq m of roofs will be repaired at a number of metallurgical, mechanical assembly, and carriage assembly departments. A total of 770 sq m of window panes will be replaced, and five chimneystacks

May 16, 2014. Ural Airlines offered their services to 1,269,007 passengers between January 1, 2014 and April 30, 2014. This was 23% more than a year earlier, the airline’s press service says. 10,884 flights have been operated since the beginning of the year, including 3,217 international flights, 4,820 domestic flights, and 2,847 flights around the CIS. The air carrier’s passenger traffic rose by 22% in January through April compared with the first four months of 2013 and amounted to 3,397,161,000 passenger-kilometers). In April 2014, Ural Airlines operated 2,979 flights, including 928

May 16, 2014. The telecommunications provider MegaFon is offering its subscribers a chance to benefit from the new SMS Control service which allows every phone user to protect themselves against unwanted texts. The service makes it possible for a user to unsubscribe from spam messages by blacklisting the senders, the company’s press service reports. This service is 100% free of charge and is extremely easy to manage. One needs to dial *903# to get access to the last ten phone numbers from which text messages were sent. It only takes two clicks to blacklist any of these numbers. The black list

May 15, 2014. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works was the 5th in the 'anniversary' 10th rating of the largest exporters in the Urals and Western Siberia. The rating was carried by Expert-Ural Magazine based on the data for 2013. The annual rating of one hundred largest exporters is based on the data relating to the export activity of companies based in Sverdlovsk Region, Chelyabinsk Region, Orenburg Region, Kurgan Region, Tyumen Region (including its autonomous districts), Perm Territory, Bashkortostan, and Udmurtia. The rating features businesses not only from the production sector

May 15, 2014. ChTPZ Group is about to complete the delivery of large-diameter pipes (LDPs) for the construction of a conduit at Russky Island; the conduit will stretch along the bottom of the Sea of Japan. The company's press service reports that the shipment comes to more than 1,000,0000 kg, the delivery is to be completed in March-May 2014. The Maritime Territory Administration acted as the customer for the order. 'The 720-mm pipes with wall width 12mm are made from high quality low-alloyed steels with fortified outer corrosion-resistant coating and inner corrosion-resistant

May 15, 2014. Ural Airlines' fleet of vehicles now comprises 19th mid-haul airliner Airbus A320 which arrived in Yekaterinburg from the Philippines, the airline's press service reports. This means that the air carrier now operates 33 aircraft (19 A320 ones, 10 A321 ones, and 4 A319 ones). An aircraft can fit 160 people (there are 144 seats in the economy class section and 12 seats in the business class one). The new plane will be used for both international and domestic flights. The air carrier is planning to purchase 3 more Airbus A320 liners this year. Ural Airlines launched its

May 15, 2014. Members of Armada, the Russian Paralympic cycling team sponsored by Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation, took part in the first stage of the UCI World Cup in Paralympic cycling as part of the Russian national team. The contest took place in Tuscany, Italy, on May 9-11. 318 sports players from 36 different countries took part in the championship. According to the corporation's press service, Alexei Obydennov became the World Cup champion on the first day of the event after winning the first prize in the individual 30-km race in Class C3. Another one of

May 15, 2014. The share of private individuals' overdue bank payments in the total amount of debts rose by 0.8% in March 2014 and came to 13.3% of all issued loans by the end of the month, Banki.ru reports. According to the Central Bank of Russia, banks had issued a total of 271.03bn RUR to private individuals by April 1, 2014, which was 9% more than at the beginning of the year. The amount of overdue loans rose by 15.3% and came t o 36.1bn RUR. In March, the share of non-performing loans (payments that were over 90 days overdue) went up as well. The share of NPLs came to 6.4% of the

The Russian Academy of Sciences' Ural Branch had to reduce the number of staff considerably. Only 59 people are now employed with the institution instead of the 180 they had before, the Branch's Learned Secretary Evgeniy Popov told UrBC. This shrinkage has to do with the adoption of Federal Act 253 relating to reorganization of the Russian Academy of Sciences; under this bill, the scientific organizations that used to report to the Academy will now be supervised by the Federal Agency of Russian Scientific Organizations. This means the Russian Academy of Sciences is delivered of some

May 14, 2014. Uraltransmash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) is going to deliver a set of low-floor trams to Yekaterinburg in preparation for the World Football Championship of 2018, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policies Department reports. Preliminarily, the order is expected to come to 50 new tramways. ‘We are planning to work on this project together to get ready for the World Cup. Under the FIFA requirements, passengers have to be transported in low-floor trams, which is crucial for mobility-impaired people. Uraltransmash and

May 14, 2014. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK), one of the leading suppliers of pipes for the oil and gas industry, signed a long-term agreement with Yamal SPG.. According to the company’s press service, the agreement between TMK and Yamal SPG will be valid in 2014-2020. ‘Yamal SPG is estimated to need some 48,000,000 kg of premium pipe products in the indicated period. The first pipe shipments within the agreement were shipped from Taganrog Metallurgical Plant (TAGMET) and Seversky Pipe Plant (STZ) in April 2014. All in all, TMK is planning to deliver about 12,000,000 kg of casing and

May 14, 2014. Ukraine International Airlines (MAU) will stop operating its direct Yekaterinburg-Kyiv flight on May 14, 2014. ‘The direct flight from Yekaterinburg to Kyiv has been available until today. Starting tomorrow, the flight will only be operated with a stopover in Moscow, it won’t be a direct flight any longer. A number of seats will be reserved for these passengers by a partner air carrier. This is done for commercial reasons, the airline told UrBC. MAU is also closing down direct scheduled flights from Novosibirsk to Kyiv. Ukraine International Airlines launched direct flights from

May 14, 2014. UVZSHOP.ru launched its first POS in Yekaterinburg at Koltsovo Airport‘s Terminal A (domestic flights). Travelers and visitors to the city can buy the famous T-shirts with the images of modern Russian armored vehicles made at Uralvagonzavod Corporation, comfortable vests and military boots, sports bags, and comforters prior to their departure. According to the corporation’s press service, model armored vehicles and other souvenirs will soon be offered for sale in this outlet as well.

May 14, 2014. Yurginsky Machine Plant (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod based in Kemerov Region) is now kitting up and assembling antenna posts for MIK-MKS satcom-on-the-move systems. According to the corporation’s press service, the systems were developed by Mikran, a Tomsk-based scientific and production company, in partnership with Yurginsky Machine Plant. ‘This special-purpose machine can operate under any weather conditions and get fully set up within minutes, offering reliable connection through digital radio relay systems and wireless broad-band access. The systems went into mass

May 13, 2014. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) can now make reinforcing bars from At800 steel. 'This thermally treated reinforcing bars are highly durable and flexible, possess a great degree of viscosity; they are used in the construction industry for reinforcing metal and concrete structures, including those complex ones that are meant to withstand ongoing dynamic loads. For one, this flat stock is used for making prefabricated concrete structures such as post-tensioned slabs and wall columns and for making 'grid concrete' – towers for high-voltage power lines. The

May 13, 2014. The first open-entry cycling championship took place in Nizhniy Tagil on May 10-11, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Scientific and Production Corporation acted as the sponsor of the event. According to the corporation’s press service, the solemn opening ceremony was attended by the company’s Executive Director Vladimir Roshchupkin and President of FVS SO Nikolai Sudakov, who thanked the corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko for the help in the coordination of the cycling race. 210 cyclists from Nizhniy Tagil, Pervouralsk, Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sysert, Yekaterinburg, Asbest, Sinegorsk,

May 13, 2014. In the first quarter of 2014, 75 criminal lawsuits were instituted in Ural Federal District relating to embezzlement in the communal housing services department. According to the spokesperson for General Prosecutor’s Office in Ural Federal District, out of 765 criminal cases relating to embezzlement in this sector, the verdict of ‘guilty’ was pronounced or other non-rehabilitating rulings were pronounced on 112 the accused in 106 cases. ‘In April 2014, the Russian Federation’s Prosecutor-General’s provisional receiving office was reopened, and 52 applications have already been