June 6, 2013. Russia’s Deputy Minister for Industry & Trade Alexei Rakhmanov visited Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s stand on the first day of the Construction Vehicles and Technologies Exhibition (STT-2013) that opened in Moscow on June 4. He took a great interest in the full-scale specimens of the corporation’s produce, including those produced at ChTZ-Uraltrac, Chelyabinsk. These are the B10M.09, B11, B14, DET-400m tracked bulldozers, the PK-55 and PK-65 front loaders, the BKK-2 compactor and the 10M tractor with a selection of attachable implements: a mulcher,

June 6, 2013. Ural Airlines’ fleet of vehicles now has one more Airbus 321 plane fit for 220 passengers, the airline’s press service says. The aircraft arrived from Neapol; this is the 4th plane that the company has leased this year. Given the fact that A320 aircraft will have to be given back to the leasing company, the air carrier currently operates 28 planes (18 A320 ones and 10 A321 ones). Given that some new destinations have been launched and that the passenger turnover is on the increase, the company needs increasingly more planes. Ural Airlines is actually one of Russia’s top 5 air

June 5, 2013. 1,200 employees from 12 member enterprises of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation took part in the 71st track-and-field relay race, with prizes awarded by the company newspaper Machinostroitel. The corporation’s press service reports that all the participants were divided in 104 teams and ran 2,775 meters. In addition to the corporation employees, a number of amateur sports players from the Security Department and Sverdlovsk Region division of Federal Firefighting Service that liaise with Uralvagonzavod took part in the race as well. This year, the race was

June 5, 2013. Head of Yekaterinburg Council Alexander Yakob and Italy’s Honorary Consul in Yekaterinburg Roberto D’Agostino talked about the city’s socioeconomic and historic development today, the council’s press service reports. Yakob spoke in the course of this meeting about a number of international-scale events that Yekaterinburg is going to host in the nearest future, and about the efforts the city is making to develop in order to host these events on a grand scale. At the end of the meeting, Yakob gave his guest a souvenir book and a number of electronic devices with plentiful

June 5, 2013. A reporter employed with the Hong Kong newspaper Wen Hui Bao presented his impressions from visiting Yekaterinburg at the invitation of the World Universal Exhibition EXPO 2020 Application Committee on the pages of the newspaper. He says Yekaterinburg proved to be ‘an industrial center full of life and energy’ whose splendour is available for everyone to see. ‘Unlike Moscow, where all the streets and roads run from the center like the sunrays, Yekaterinburg has a very organized layout: all the streets and buildings are oriented in the cardinal directions,’ Yekaterinburg

June 5, 2013. RSG International Limited (the head company of KORTROS Group, known as Renova-StroyGroup prior to a re-branding campaign) was given the AA- credit rating, National Rating Agency reports. On April 5, 2012, the Agency assigned a rating to Renova-StroyGroup for the first time. Now the rating is given to a legal entity as such, that is, to the Group’s head company RSG International Limited. KORTROS Group is now Russia’s 5th largest developer in terms of the amount of housing commissioned in 2012. The Group coordinates some unique projects that are known as the multi-faceted area

June 5, 2013. The 31st Russia-EU Summit was officially closed in Yekaterinburg. The spokesperson for the Kremlin reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy, and Chairman of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso talked about the pressing issues relating to the two parties’ trade and economic and humanitarian cooperation and about the ways of improving the contractual legal framework of these relations. Special attention was paid to working on a new framework agreement between Russia and the EU that will take into account the

June 4, 2013. The top managers of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation took part in the section dedicated to the ‘broad gage’ problem in the course of Strategic Partnership 1520 Business Forum in Sochi. According to the holding’s press service, the Director-General of the corporation’s daughter company UVZ-Logistic Dmitri Yeremeyev made a report on the railway carriage manufacturers as freight forwarders and therefore on the aspects of a new business strategy. In his introductory speech, he said that the freight forwarding market and its future prospects did not look good.

June 4, 2013. A healthcare campaign targeted at children took off at Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s head plant. The holding’s press service says that 9m RUR were allocated for the purpose in 2013, which will fund the holidays of 1,700 children of the plant’s employees. Some of them will go to municipal camps such as Antonovsky, Zvezdny, Zvonkiye Golosa, Izumrudny, Lesnoy Rucheyek, Severyanka, Solnechny, and Uralsky Ogonek as well as to health resorts such as Sosnovy Bor and Roosh.1,169 trips have been booked for the summer for the plant workers’ children, which is

June 4, 2013. ChTPZ Group Education Center and Pervouralsk Metallurgical College are now enrolling students for their joint cadre training the Future of White Metallurgy program. All school-leavers with complete general secondary or vocational secondary education from all parts of Russia are eligible to apply. Within three years, they will acquire at list four blue-collar qualifications, and the best students will be offered jobs at ChTPZ Group’s innovational production facility, the enterprise’s press service says. This year, students are enrolled for the following qualifications: metal

June 4, 2013. Sberbank Leasing is handing over to UVZ-Logistic (a member of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) about 7,500 railway carriages. The lease contract was signed by acting Director-General of Sberbank Leasing Kirill Tzarev and Director-General of UVZ-Logistic Dmitri Yeremeyev during the 8th International Railway Business Forum on Strategic Partnership 1520 in Sochi, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press officer reports. It is reported that this is the largest contract on the Russian railway carriage leasing market at the moment. The project is worth about 30bn RUR

June 4, 2013. All of Yekaterinburg Bus Union Municipal Unitary Enterprise’s buses have been fitted with an alarm button for informing dispatchers about emergencies. Yekaterinburg Council’s press service reports that this comes to 525 buses that transport about a half of all the passengers who use the intra-city routes. To make passenger trips safer, all the drivers and bus fare collectors are obliged to undergo special training on how to act in case some explosive or life-threatening substances or unattended bags and packages are found in the cabin. Besides, during their trip along the route

June 3, 2013. An art exhibition called ‘With Chisel and Brush’ was launched at Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s exhibition center. The company’s press service says that the exhibition is dedicated to the works of two members of Russia’s Union of Artists: a monumental sculptor Vitaly Stekanov and a painter and Russia’s Renowned Artist Petr Bortnov. Both of them graduated from Ural Applied Arts College and went to the front during the war; they were the founding fathers of Nizhniy Tagil school of artists. Petr Bortnov passed away on May 24, just a few days before his

June 3, 2013. Director-General of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation Oleg Sienko feels that the way Russian Railways will be developing is going to determine the success of many economic sectors. He voiced his opinion in Sochi, during the 8th International Railway Business Forum on Strategic Partnership 1520. The corporation’s press service reports that on the first day of the forum, Sienko took part in an expert round table discussion dedicated to the public’s benefits of privatization. The discussion mainly had to do with the vital issue of privatizing Russian Railways.

June 3, 2013. The trade and investment relations between Russia and the EU member states can get an injection of new vibes and colors thanks to the negotiations at the upcoming summit in Yekaterinburg, Head of the EU representation in Russia Fernando Valenzuela said in the course of his meeting with Head of Sverdlovsk Region Governor Administration Yakov Silin. According to Sverdlovsk Region Government’s press service, Valenzuela sees the summit as the basis for closer cooperation in all sorts of fields. ‘Getting acquainted with your region is essential for us, for we know how dynamically it

June 3, 2013. In January-April 2013, the foreign trade turnover of enterprises based in Ural Federal District came to $6.7bn, which is 5.9% less than a year earlier. The spokesperson for Ural Customs Administration reports that that the physical volume of traded goods amounted to 4.7m tons, which was10.5% less than in the first four months of 2012. Out of these goods, 84.9% were exported to or imported from the far abroad ($5.7bn) and 15.1% were imported from or exported to the CIS member states ($1bn). In terms of the foreign trade turnover involving the countries of the far abroad, this was

May 31, 2013. The Director-General of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation Oleg Sienko, who is the general coordinator of the Russia Arms EXPO exhibition, spoke about the agenda of the exhibition and on the features RAE 2013 will present to the military community in an interview to Business Guide, the corporation’s press officer reports. ‘The domestic defense sector is now at the stage of dynamic revival: the state has been investing heavily in the purchase of ammunitions and production facilities upgrades; besides, a legislature has been prepared for placing and fulfilling

May 31, 2013. The revenue of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK), one of the world’s leading OCTG manufacturers, amounted to $1,725m in the first quarter of 2013, which exceeded the figures for the last quarter of 2012 by 6%. The increase in revenue has to do with the larger sales volumes and a better sales structure in the weldless pipes segment; currency rate adjustments also resulted in the improvement in the figures. The increase in revenue against the first quarter of 2012 was 4%, and this mainly had to do with better sales of large-diameter pipes and welded line pipes on the Russian

May 31, 2013. Ural Airlines is announcing a price decrease for its Yekaterinburg-Dubai and Dubai-Yekaterinburg flights. If you book tickets for flights to be operated between September 15 and October 22, the round trip tickets are available at an appealing price of 17,800 RUR and up (all fees and charges included). You can book as soon as right now. The eternal summer, the enchanting Arabian nights, and the whisper of the Persian gulf are all in store for you. Dubai is offering the best gifts of the Orient: luxury, abundance, and hospitality. Everything around you will look like a fata

May 31, 2013. The first sample of the new series-produced BKK-2 compactor made by ChTZ-Uraltrac (a member of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) that is meant for solidifying consumption waste at the municipal landfills has started operating in Rustavi, Georgia, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press office reports. The make that the Russian customers haven’t had a chance to get acquainted with yet was exported right away through ChTZ Armenian dealer Galoper. BKK-2 was chosen in the course of a tender where the tractor plant competed with BOMAG, the world’s leading producer of compacting road vehicles.