May 31, 2013. Yekaterinburg was given the 26th position on the list of Russia’s best cities for doing business, according to a rating carried by the Forbes magazine. The Urals’ capital actually got a worse rating than earlier, which analysts say has to do with the lack of qualified workers and tax administration. Kaliningrad was given the first position in the rating, the magazine website says. Yekaterinburg used to be at the top of this list. ‘However, it is precisely this capital city status that is starting to affect Yekaterinburg badly,’ the rating comments state. Developers are fighting

May 30, 2013. A high-precision Zeiss check station will be installed at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant’s cutting-edge technologies production site, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s press service reports (ChTZ is a member of the corporation). It is reported that this modern piece of equipment was produced in Germany at the famous Zeiss enterprise that is well-known for the great quality of the tools it makes. The measuring accuracy of the machine is estimated at 3.7 microns: no other check tool that the plant’s metrologists are using at the moment is as precise as that.

May 30, 2013. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s head plant drew up a list of its investment priorities. This year, the company intends to direct 11.4bn RUR to the development of Uralvagonzavod, the corporation’s press service reports. Uralvagonzavod is currently implementing over 35 different projects and programs, and about 15 are being elaborated at the moment. Last year, the Nizhniy Tagil-based plant’s development budget amounted to nearly 4.5bn RUR, which is about 20% more than the record-setting figure for 2011 – 3.7bn RUR. The better part of this money (3.9bn RUR)

May 30, 2013. Ural Diesel-Motor Plant (a member of Sinara Transport Machines) started the erection supervision work at the testing stand for the single-cylinder unit of a diesel engine. All the jobs are done within the framework of Dieselstroy, a state-funded special purpose program, the enterprise’s press service reports. The plant already has all the basic equipment for the stand: a system for treatment and delivery of coolants, diesel fuel, and oil and a frequency converter, which was the most labor-intensive piece of machinery to install. The plant workers and experts from the German

May 30, 2013. The construction of Russian Copper Company’s largest facility – Mikheyevsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise in Chelyabinsk Region – started one year ago today. On May 29, 2013, the foundation of the enterprise was laid in the course of a solemn ceremony attended by Governor Mikhail Yurevitch; the facility’s capacity is estimated at 18m RUR of green ore a year; the ready produce output is estimated at 270,000 tons a year, the company’s press officer reports. Mikeyevskoye porphyry copper ore deposit is one of Russia’s largest copper deposits. CRU, an independent

May 30, 2013. A high-speed railway link that is supposed to connect Moscow, Kazan, and Yekaterinburg will go through Ufa. This decision was made after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with President of Bashkortostan Rustem Khamitov, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. A group of experts is expected to arrive in Bashkortostan very soon in order to discuss the technicalities relating to building the link. A special bifurcation leading to Ufa will be constructed, which will connect the capital of Bashkortostan with the country’s largest cities through a modern railway link.

Asbest branch of JSC «SeverskiyGranitnyKarier», recreated in 2005 at the place of Asbest stone crushing plant has just been hit on the investorsfocus again. The plant, a manufacturer of crushed stone and sand and gravel mixtures of high quality, historically had geography of deliveries from Moscow to Omsk and periodically experienced both rapid growth and hard times. At this point, we can say about the resumption of funding and productionrestart. Multi-million dollar investment in technological upgrading, namely the acquisition of crushing and screening plant and all necessary for the

May 29, 2013. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s head plant drew up a list of its investment priorities. This year, the company intends to direct 11.4bn RUR to the development of Uralvagonzavod, the corporation’s press service reports. Uralvagonzavod is currently implementing over 35 different projects and programs, and about 15 are being elaborated at the moment. Last year, the Nizhniy Tagil-based plant’s development budget amounted to nearly 4.5bn RUR, which is about 20% more than the record-setting figure for 2011 – 3.7bn RUR. The better part of this money (3.9bn RUR)

May 29, 2013. A high-precision Zeiss check station will be installed at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant’s cutting-edge technologies production site, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s press service reports (ChTZ is a member of the corporation). It is reported that this modern piece of equipment was produced in Germany at the famous Zeiss enterprise that is well-known for the great quality of the tools it makes. The measuring accuracy of the machine is estimated at 3.7 microns: no other check tool that the plant’s metrologists are using at the moment is as precise as that.

May 29, 2013. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is mastering the production of new goods for the major oil and gas projects, MMK Domestic Sales Director Nikolai Anashkov said at the 3d All-Russian conference on the production and sales of steel pipes in 2013 in Volzhskiy. The company representative made a report on the current rolled metal goods market situation and spoke about MMK’s new offers for the pipe industry. According to Anashkov, given the current market situation, metallurgical enterprises should build up on their cooperation with the pipe manufacturers and master new kinds

May 29, 2013. Komsomolskaya Pravda carried a report on the findings of a research carried out by the Economic News Agency on the PR activity of the Russian business community in the first quarter of 2013. BOD Chairman of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Viktor Rashnikov was given the 18th position in the rating of Russia’s leading PR personalities. In fact, the Agency also carried out another research that was focused on how accurately and conscientiously businesses and banks inform the public of their activity. This is the responsibility of their PR Departments, so the rating of

May 29, 2013. The 14th coordination meeting of ChTPZ Group and OAO Severstal took place at Chelyabinsk Tube-Rolling Plant recently. The two parties, working within the framework of their existing cooperation agreement, agreed on the prospects of joined participation in a number of construction and oil and gas projects, ChTPZ Group’s press service reports. The parties also agreed to work together on a cross-functional project known as Setting up the Delivery Process Control System; the launch of this system is believed to reduce the amount of time it takes to ship the goods from metallurgical

May 29, 2013. Mayor of Yekaterinburg and Chairman of Yekaterinburg Duma Evgeny Porunov and Head of Yekaterinburg Council Alexander Yakob met a group of delegates from Zhongshan on Monday, May 27. The foreign party was represented by Deputy Secretary-General of the People’s Government of Zhongshan, Deputy Director-General of the city’s International Relations Bureau, President of Zhongshan Institute for Economic Research, and a number of other officials. In his welcoming speech, Evgeny Porunov said he was very glad to see a delegation from China and the officials who came to Yekaterinburg as

May 28, 2013. Plastmass, a plant that is one of the primary suppliers of shells and free-flight rockets for the Russian Armed Forces, is going to present its produce at the 9th International Arms, Miliatry Vehicles and Ammunition Exhibition Russia Arms EXPO 2013 (RAE 2013). Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation acts as the event’s main coordinator, the corporation’s press service reports. This year, the plant is taking the entire range of its airborne weapons that have already proved efficient in a number of different drills to Nizhniy Tagil. These are the C-8BM free-flight

May 28, 2013. More than 30 of Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ, a member of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) received the gold Ready for Labour and Defence decorations, and 50 more people were given the silver ones that stand for their physical education achievements, the corporation’s press service reports. The awards were given out to the workers by the guests of honor: the three-time winner of Russia’s Strongest Man title and the world vice-champion for power extreme Mikhail Koklyaev and Russia’s power lifting champion and winner of prizes at Russia’s and the world

May 28, 2013. EXPO 2020 Application Committee expects Yekaterinburg to win in the competition for the right to host the international exhibition. The committee’s deputy Director-General Sergey Kolushev can guarantee that the city meets all the requirements set out for the events held on such a scale, RIA Novosti reports. On Friday, Yekaterinburg’s application for hosting the exhibition was presented at Russia’s Embassy in London. The committee presented a project of a facility that is to be built in Yekaterinburg in case the city wins the tender. According to Kolushev, the city will need

May 28, 2013. AVTOVAZ announced that some brake mechanism problems were detected in 30,239 LADA cars produced before April 7, 2013: in some cases, a leakage of hydraulic brake fluid might occur, or the brake mechanisms might work less efficiently. This can happen to LADA Granta (21905) and LADA Kalina (11176 and 11196) that have an ABS and gear shift cables (2181). Any such incidents are impossible with the automobiles produced after April 8, 2013. The car maker’s press service reports that OAO AVTOVAZ is now launching a service campaign free of charge. ‘To protect our customers’ interests,

May 28, 2013. About 3.5bn RUR was paid to Yekaterinburg budget in the first quarter of 2013, which is nearly 1bn RUR more than a year earlier, the city council’s press service refers to the Russian Federation Federal Tax Service as reporting. The city council says that exceeding last year’s figures occurred because of the population’s growing income; also, the city council and tax inspectorate experts put a lot of efforts into reducing the scale of tax evasion. Most of the revenues come from private individuals’ income tax: in fact, this makes up two-thirds of Yekaterinburg budget. About

May 27, 2013. A major Russian company and a supplier of lifting equipment manufactured by foreign producers will present its produce at the 9th International Russia Arms EXPO 2013 (RAE 2013), coordinated by Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation. LTECH offers customers a wide range of winch trucks and other kinds of lifting equipment: there are over 2,000 items in stock and available by order; these can be applied in different fields and under various conditions. The company’s stand at the exhibition will be just as varied and will feature everything from Ruthmann 370 aerial

May 27, 2013. The developers grew more active in this market segment, too, as the economy started to cope with the recession. In 2011-2012, the amount of new warehouse space launched on the market every year became comparable with the pre-recession figures. Over 210,000 sq m worth of warehouse space became available in Yekaterinburg over the last two years. This year will most likely prove less productive. In the first quarter of the year, the market only increased by 0.3%. However, as many as 80,000 sq m worth of up-to-date warehouse space might be commissioned before the end of the year,