July 12, 2013. Yekaterinburg authorities are planning to organize a football supporters festival on July 12-13, 2014, when the World Cup is to unfold in Brazil, Deputy Head of Yekaterinburg Administration Sergey Tushin said at the Innoprom 2013 exhibition. He says Yekaterinburg has proved its ability to host football matches in a very professional way quite a number of times. 'The successful coordination of football championships on the city stadiums was made possible thanks to the developed and modern sports infrastructure and strong sports traditions the city has, as well as thanks to

July 12, 2013. The stand of Yekaterinburg Administration was launched at the Innoprom 2013 exhibition today. This year, it is different from the older versions in that it not only features a mere presentation but also serves a site for the exhibition's key events. The stand operation is divided into several sections. The first one is dedicated to signing agreements, the second one is dedicated to debates and discussions. The third one is to be focused on presentations of events and projects. An agreement between Yekaterinburg Administration and OAO Er-Telecom has already been signed

July 12, 2013. First Deputy Head of Yekaterinburg Administration Sergey Shvindt presented the concept of road and street network development in preparation for the world football championship of 2018 in Yekaterinburg at the Innoprom 2013 exhibition. The city council's press service reports that the concept provides for reconstruction and construction of a few scores of key road infrastructure facilities in Yekaterinburg. First of all, Shvindt explains, the preparation will allow the municipal authorities to expand a few key transport junctions in the Central Stadium area.

July 11, 2013. Canada is going to vote for Yekaterinburg when deciding upon the city that will host the international exhibition EXPO 2020, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Canada to Russia John Sloan told Mayor of Yekaterinburg Evgeny Porunov in the course of their meeting. The city council's press service reports that the Ambassador spoke highly of the up-to-date look the Urals' capital has, and of the city's advanced development. The two parties talked about the prospects of their possible cooperation. For one, the Canadian officials suggested sharing

July 11, 2013. Ural Airlines is going to present its innovative passenger services at its own stand at Innoprom. This year, Ural Airlines keeps on developing its information services and offers new options to its customers; the services are to grow more personal and will provide a tailor-made approach to every passenger. The presentation will take place at Pavilion 1, Stand 1E7, at 11 AM on July 12. The new services will be reported on by the airline's Director for Quality Alexei G. Fomin. For one, an upgraded website with the advanced Amadeus-based online check-in option, new booking

July 11, 2013. A number of bills aimed at supporting investor activity in Sverdlovsk Region have been adopted by the local Legislative Assembly deputies. According to Sverdlovsk Region Government's Press Service & Information Department, there are three laws altogether – On Changes to Sverdlovsk Region Law on State Support to Investors in Sverdlovsk Region, On Changes to Article 2 of Sverdlovsk Region Law on the Income Tax Rate for Certain Sverdlovsk Region-based Taxpayer Categories, and On Changes to Sverdlovsk Region Law on Introducing Corporate Property Tax. The said set of laws

July 11, 2013. Siberian Agrarian Group stopped all operations at its Mikom meatpacking plant in Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk Region. The plant was purchased for 152m RUR in 2011, Interfax reports. 'The city administration received an official notification from the owners that the company stopped operating in Kamensk-Uralsky on June 15,' the city administration representative told the news agency. Now the city employment center says that there are currently 23 people working at the meatpacking plant who are busy bringing everything to a close.

July 11, 2013. Over 1,000 automobiles have been stolen by hijackers since the beginning of the year. 817 out of about 1,000 stolen cars were Russian makes and only 252 were foreign vehicles, Sverdlovsk Region division of the State Road Safety Inspection reports. VAZ-2106 and VAZ-21065 were the most popular cars with hijackers: 123 such makes were stolen, followed by 117 VAZ-2109, VAZ-21093, and VAZ-2114. VAZ-2105, VAZ-21074, with 70 stolen units, were in the third place. VAZ-1111, GAZ, and Chevrolet were stolen least often. As for foreign cars, the ones that were hijacked most often were

July 10, 2013. Ural Airlines keeps offering very good prices on trips to Montenegro. The airline is now launching a special price for Moscow-Tivat-Moscow flights: starting July 11, 2013, tickets will be available for ?250 (round trip) and ?175 (one-way), excluding the fees, the air carrier reports. Ural Airlines’ flights from Moscow to Tivat and back are operated on Wednesdays and Saturdays on the comfortable Airbus liners that have both the economy and the business class sections. You can also benefit from the appealing prices offered on Ural Airlines’ Moscow-Podgorice flight. The tickets

July 10, 2013. Sinara-Transport Machines presented the produce of its Ural Diesel Engine Plant (UDMZ, Sinara-Transport Machines’ daughter enterprise) at the International Maritime Defence Show 2013 in Saint Petersburg. The company’s press service reports that a conference on STM’s advanced developments in the field of diesel engine manufacturing for the Russian Navy and the civilian shipbuilding industry was held for both the partners and the potential customers of the holding. The conference was attended by the leading Russian and foreign shipbuilding companies and shipbuilding industry

July 10, 2013. The passenger traffic came to 1.86m people at Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport in six months of 2013, which was 10.6% more than a year earlier. The number of passengers on domestic flights rose by 5.4% and reached 924,945 people, the number of passengers on international flights went up by 16.3% and came to 936,975 people, the airport’s press service reports. All in all, 55 air carriers operated 111 kinds of flights at the airport in January-June 2013. Every one in three passengers flew to Moscow; the second most popular destinations were Antalya and Hurghada. Saint Petersburg,

July 10, 2013. The World Student Olympics will be broadcast on Russian TV and on the Internet via MegaFon’s telecommunication channels. The mobile carrier reports that the channels have been offered by order of the primary broadcaster, Sports Broadcasting Non-Profit Organization, and by order of VGTRK, the channel that holds the rights to broadcast the Kazan-based Student Olympics on Russian television. MegaFon offered VGTRK a resource that makes it possible to broadcast seven high-definition television (HDTV) signals. The games will be broadcast on Russia 2, Sport, Sport 1, and Fight Club.

July 10, 2013. Ural Federal University is now among 15 Russian universities that will receive subsidies to make it to the world ratings, RBC reports. All in all, 54 higher educational establishments applied for the subsidies and 36 universities were allowed to compete for them. The selection process was based on such criteria as the strength of the scientific research, appeal of educational programs to college applicants, position in the international college ratings, and some others. In 2013, the winning colleges will be allocated 9bn RUR. Russian President Vladimir Putin said to the Russian

July 9, 2013. Sverdlovsk Region authorities expect about 50,000 people to come to the international industrial exhibition Innoprom 2013 that will be held in Yekaterinburg on July 11-14, Governor Evgeny Kuivashev said at a briefing today. This number of visitors is supposed to let the event fully pay off. 'Well, the exhibition will pay off in any case. From the viewpoint of image investment, this will definitely pay off. On the other hand, if over 50,000 people come and stay for more than just a day, you can multiply this figure by the amounts of money they will spend here,'

July 9, 2013. 10 out of 70 projects on the reconstruction of Yekaterinburg TV tower have made it to the second stage of the contest. The board of jurors' second session will be held on July 10; there are 12 people on the board. The winner will be announced during the Innoprom 2013 exhibition. A board member and Chief Architect of Sverdlovsk Region Vladimir Veniaminov, the jurors' task is to select the project that will make the tower into a symbol of the city. 'At the second stage, we picked out the projects that combine the functional and the ideological components,'

July 9, 2013. The reconstruction of Yekaterinburg Central Stadium will cost 8m RUR. The number of seats will be increased without breaking the historically importan old walls, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev said in his interview to Vedomosti. 'We will deepend the spectator zone by 4.5 meters and locate more armchairs there. Besides, about ten more rows of seats will be installed on the side ends. Nobody is going to pull anything down, it's going to be a reconstruction,' the Governor said. Now Sport Engineering was the company that won the tender to do all these

July 9, 2013. An agreement of intent was signed by Sverdlovsk Region Government and OOO SVEZA-Les regarding the construction of a chipboard-making plant in the region. The agreement is expected to be signed on July 11 during the 4th Ural International Industry & Innovations Exhibition/Forum Innoprom 2013, Sverdlovsk Region Government Press Service & Information Department reports. Sverdlovsk Region Industry & Science Minister Vladimir Pinayev says that the consttruction of the plant will begin in the second half of 2013. The enterprise is expected to produce 500,000 m3 of

July 9, 2013. The trainees studying under ChTPZ Group corporate training program called the Future of White Metallurgy presented themselves very successfully at the WorldSkills International-2013, a blue-collar jobs contest in Leipzig, Germany, on July 7. Students from Pervouralsk Metallurgical Vocational School Alexander Litvinenko and Artur Islamov were among the strongest in the Mechatronics category and got the 19th place out of 33, ChTPZ Group's press service reports. 'This is Russia's breakthrough debut in the most prestigious international blue-collar jobs contests that

July 8, 2013. Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog) inspected TGK-9 in order to check its compliance with the sanitary-epidemiological requirements. The division’s press service reports that the inspection revealed a number of violations in the way the company processed production and consumption waste and other hazardous materials. For one, Novo-Sverdlovskaya Heat & Power Station did not comply with the waste accumulation limits and did not have the contracts and the reports of completion for the waste disposal jobs. So an administrative

July 8, 2013. Sinara Group changed the organizational structure of its daughter enterprise, Sinara-Transport Machines (OOO STM). According to the company’s press service, STM has grand plans on the implementation of transport machine-building projects ahead of it; besides, the market situation is quite favorable for the holding’s development, so on July 1, 2013, two new companies were added to it: OOO STM Management Company (OO UC STM) and OOO STM Trading House (OOO TD STM). The companies were set up by Sinara Group and Sinara-Transport Machines. Sinara-Transport Machines BOD appointed