In the first quarter of 2014, Bank Koltso Urala was 121st on the list of Russia’s largest banks in terms of net asset volume. The bank’s net assets exceeded 34.2bn RUR on April 1, 2014. This makes the bank one of Russia’s Top150 and one of Yekaterinburg’s Top 3 in this respect, the bank’s press officer reports. What is more, according to the quarterly ranking carried by Interfax 100 recently, Koltso Urala is 158th in terms of own funds volume (nearly 2.9bn RUR as of the balance sheet date). 853 Russian banks were featured in this rating altogether, 15 of which are based in Sverdlovsk Region.

Ural Airlines announced they are now selling tickets at subsidized prices for Moscow-Kaliningrad flights. The offer is available for Russian citizens between May 15, 2014 and October 15, 2014. The price of a one-way ticket will come to 3,800 RUR, the air carrier’s press service says. ‘Tickets can be booked via Ural Airlines’ authorized agents and booking offices all over Russia. For more information on this special offer terms and conditions, please call 8 800 2000 262 (toll-free within the Russian Federation),’ the company explains. ‘Ural Airlines are among Russia’s top five air carriers in

Under the current Federal Act 44 FZ, an organization that is taking part in state-run and local government-run tenders must place a deposit within the e-trading floor amounting to 5% of the contract amount, SKB-Bank’s press service says. ‘On the face of it, 5% does not look like a very significant sum, yet this could be quite a burden for a business, especially if the company is applying for several tenders simultaneously. The funds directed to securing the application will be unavailable for about two months – this is how ling it takes to move from submitting an application to signing a

Ural Airlines offer special prices on Montenegro-bound flights from Moscow and back. If you fly before May 31, 2014, a ticket for Moscow-Podgorica-Moscow flight will cost €202 (if you fly there and back within one week), the air carrier's press service says. 'For travelers going back from Podgorica and Tivat to Moscow, a special price (€108) is offered on flights operated on May 31 and June 4, 2014. You can book now at www.uralairlines.com,' the company says. 'Montenegro is a true paradise washed by the Adriatic Sea. In May, the tourist season begins at all of its resorts,

MegaFon is now offering landline international and long-distance call services to subscribers of any local landline operators. According to the carrier's press service, regardless of what local operator one is subscribed to, it is possible to use MegaFon's international and long-distance call service to call other cities and countries. The Russian Federation Mass Communications Ministry's Order 420 dated December 18, 2013, MegaFon was given the status of Telecom Network End Cap 7. Thanks to this, MegaFon can now connect subscribers directly to international and long-distance

The Director-General of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation Oleg Sienko met coaches and sports players from Armada Para-Cycling Club; the corporation is the club's primary partner. 'Three sports players were awarded corporation prizes; one of them was Alexei Obydennov, prize-winner at World Championship 2013 in Canada, two-time world champion Mexico 2014, and bronze prize winner in team sprint. Obydennov was Russia's first world champion in para-cycling; he actually set the world record as well. Prizes were also given to Sergey Ustinov, bronze prize winner in

Children from five Sverdlovsk Region-based orphanages are going to take part in Back to USSR, an amateur sports championship coordinated by the volunteer group Dorogami Dobra and Bank Koltso Urala. For three days (April 25-27), children will play Red Rover, dodgeball, Cowboys and Indians, Chinese jump rope, hopscotch, hide-and-seek, and other nearly-forgotten children's games. More than 80 children will come to the event; they won't be allowed to use the Internet, mobile phones, tablet computers, and other gadgets, the bank's press service reports. Children from orphanages of

A creative session with writer Alexei Ivanov will take place at Titanic Cinema at Greenwich Shopping Mall at 7PM on April 28. The writer's producer Yulia Zaitseva told UrBC that the event was dedicated to the release of his new book Yeburg; the work has already received a number of very different reviews and proved quite popular. 'The book was originally printed in 15,000 copies, yet 10,000 more copies are being urgently printed now, as the book sells very quickly,' Zaitseva said. On April 28, all those willing to do so can talk to Alexei Ivanov about the book and voice their

April 24, 2014. Russian car dealers are going to go bust, while the home market on the whole is going to consolidate due to a drop in sales, RBC refers to Avtostat's research findings as claiming. Last year's decrease in sales resulted in 502 companies losing their franchises or giving up on their dealer status, yet 508 new dealers emerged at the same time, the research states. According to the data published by the European Business Association in early April, some 602,500 automobiles were sold in Russia in the first quarter of 2014, which was 2% less than in the first quarter of

April 24, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region Government signed a cooperation agreement with Deutsche Messe RUS and RTE Group in order to work together on coordination of the International Industrial Technologies for Metal Treatment, Machine-Building, and Mining Forum WIN RUSSIA URAL. This decision to organize the forum together was voiced by President of Ural Chamber of Commerce and Industry Andrei Besedin, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region's Information Policies Department reports. Exhibitions are a kind of business in themselves. By inviting such a powerful operator as Deutsche Messe, we both get

April 24, 2014. Tomsk Region Administration, headed by Deputy Governor of Tomsk Region for Agricultural Policies and Nature Management Andrei Knorr paid a visit to Rubtzov subsidiary of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation, the corporation's press service says. Deputy Head of Tomsk Region Forestry Department Vladimir Zabolotsky, Deputy Director of Tomsk Forestry Management Yuri Valuyev, and Head of Tomsk Aviation Forest Protection Base Konstantin Abashev were among the delegates as well. The agenda of the visit included a discussion on how Rubtzov caterpillar track

April 24, 2014. Tverskoy Court of Moscow extended eco-activist Igor Zhitenev's detention until July 22, 2014, In Protection of Khoper, a website, states. Igor Zhitenev is accused of extorting money from Ural Mining & Mountain Company representative (the charge is based on Article 163 of the Russian Federation Criminal Code). The claim against him and Mikhail Bezmensky was laid by UMMC Counselor to Director-General Petr Yamov. Eco-activists pointed out that Zhitenev's lawyer was not actually present at the court hearing where it was decided to extend the detention period.

April 24, 2014. LEPSE (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) came up with a performance report on the efficiency of the company collective agreement in 2013. According to the corporation's press service, 137 different steps relating to reconstruction, and technical and social development of the company were taken last year. The tentative annual economic effect was estimated at 55.5m RUR. 126.3m RUR were spent on buying equipment; ten compliance certificates were issued for 14 types of goods, and inspection control of two products took place. The median paycheck rose by

April 24, 2014. The total economic effect resulting from energy-saving measures implemented by Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) in 2013 is expected to amount to more than 49.5m RUR over a twelve-month period, MMK PR Department reports. The measures implemented in 2013 will result in over 6m kilowatt/hours worth of electric power savings (some 15m RUR). These savings were effected by replacing the energy-intensive equipment with better counterparts, improving the performance of production facilities, and replacing the old-fashioned light bulbs with energy-saving ones. What is more,

April 23, 2014. ChTPZ Group's Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant delivered 410,300,000 kg of steel pipes to consumers in the first quarter of 2014, which was 8% more than a year earlier (381,600,000 kg). According to ChTPZ press service, pipe plants shipped 238,300,000 kg of weldless pipes to consumers in January-March 2014, which was 1% more than the 236,000,000 kg delivered a year earlier. The company sold 172,000 welded pipes to consumers, which was 15% more than in the first three months of 2013 (146,000,000 kg). The increase has to do with bigger

April 23, 2014. Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) used 18 different vehicles to have a clean-up day in Pervouralsk: loaders, KAMAz trucks, and multi-purpose road maintenance vehicles, the company's press service says. To make Pervouralsk look nice and clean, the plant bought the necessary appliances such as brooms, spades, whitewash for the trees, buckets, paint rolls, and 26,000 trash bags. The clean-up day's slogan was, 'Pervouralsk. White. Clean. Mine.' 'We cleaned up 32 hectares of municipal quarters last year, whitewashed 1,170 trees, and took over 2,000 m3 of

April 23, 2014. An awarding ceremony completed the Innovation Nizhniy Novgorod 2013 contest, and Burevestnik, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation, won in the IT Innovation category, the corporation's press service says. 'The contestants presented their videos on innovative projects to the jurors; the videos were accompanied by some comments on the economic and technical parameters of the innovation: the idea, the savings effect, the implementation stage, and the scale of the innovation, that is, whether it is local, national, or world-wide,' the press release

April 23, 2014. An up-to-date Italian concrete plant Piccini, owned by UBT-Service (a daughter company of Uralvagonzavod Corporation), now operates in Nizhniy Tagil. According to the corporation's press service, the maximum capacity of the new facility is estimated at 50 m3 an hour. 'The launch of the new concrete plant is expected fully to cover Nizhniy Tagil and the corporation's demand for readily available good quality concrete that is currently under-supplied because of a greater amount of building jobs going on,' the message says. This is actually the second plant

April 23, 2014. Consumer prices of goods and services rose by 2.2% in March 2014 compared with December 2013. In March 2013, the figure was actually 0.2% lower than in December 2012, Sverdlovskstat reports. Food items grew 4% more expensive, including a 3.9% increase in food prices and a 5.1% increase in the price of strong drinks. The prices of fruit and vegetables increased by 17.8%, including a 46.2% increase in the price of potatoes, a 28% increase in the price of vegetables, and a 9.6% increase in the price of fruit and citrus fruits. The price of cabbage rose the most (it actually

April 22, 2014. Ural Airlines added one more Airbus 319 to its fleet of vehicles on April 19, 2014, the air carrier's press service reports. 'This is the fourth air liner of this particular make the company has bought. The airline is now using 32 Airbus liners. The fourth Airbus A 319 arrived in Yekaterinburg from Turkey. Its capacity is 134 seats, including 126 economy class seats and 8 business class ones,' the company press service says. The new airplane is expected to be used for both international and domestic hauls. Airbus 319 operated its first flight within the company