May 21, 2013. The quality of 12-132 high-sided wagons produced at Uralvagonzavod meets the highest standards set by the Russian Quality program. This has been confirmed by the All-Russian Quality Organization’s diploma issued to Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant. Under this program, the quality of goods is assessed on the basis of qualitative, measurable data that are obtained in accordance with a pre-determined procedure and are put down in a report. Not only the quality of a product or a service is assessed, but also the conditions in which it was produced and sold, as this affects

May 21, 2013. The employees of Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (a member of ChTPZ Group) took part in the international Clean Shores program. The Clean Shores days are organized two times a year at the initiative of EnviroChemie, a German company. On these days, everybody takes part in a large clean-up; this year, the event took place in several parts of Russia as well as Lithuania, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. On May 18, Pervouralsk’s Nizhniy Pond and one of the world’s most beautiful lakes the Issyk-Kul were cleaned from all the waste, ChTPZ Group’s press service reports. About 60 m3 of waste was

May 21, 2013. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) proved Russia’s banking market first player to use the ruble as the VISA international payments currency. According to the UBRD Bank Card Management Director Alexei Piskunov, this will bring the costs down for ruble-card holders when they use their cards abroad, the bank’s press service reports. ‘We used to recommend our customers to open euro accounts before using their UBRD-issued VISA cards in countries that have their own currency, such as Turkey, Egypt, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and some others. The thing is, our

May 21, 2013. On May 17, on the third day of the SITDEF-2013 exhibition’s opening, a delegation headed by Commanding General of the Peruvian Army General Ricardo Moncada Novoa visited Uralvagonzavod’s stand again, the corporation’s press service reports. The Commander-in-Chief personally examined a life-size working model of the T-90C tank and got acquainted with the specific design features of this armored vehicle. Later on, negotiations were held between Peru’s Commanding General of the Peruvian Army and Rosoboronexport and Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation; it was

May 20, 2013. Ural Airlines is launching as many as two new scheduled flights this month: the Yekaterinburg-Khanty-Mansiysk flight and the Moscow-Blagoveshchensk one, with a stopover in Yekaterinburg, the airline’s press service reports. The flights from Yekaterinburg to Khanty-Mansiysk will be operated from June 17, every Monday and Thursday; the flights to Blagoveshchensk will be launched on June 18 and will be operated on Mondays (the return flight to Yekaterinburg will be available on Tuesdays). All of Ural Airlines’ flights are operated using the modern Airbus 320 liners that have both

May 20, 2013. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ, a member of Uralvagonzavod Corporation), shipped 2 electromechanical transmission bulldozers to one of the mining companies in the Polar North that deals in mineral deposit development, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The company needed the vehicles in the high drawbar category for uncovering solid soils and producing the minerals. The miners were choosing out of the Chinese and Russian products and decided on the ChTZ bulldozers. They say their choice was influenced by the fact that Chelyabinsk-produced vehicles are reliable,

May 20, 2013. Peru’s Deputy Defense Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Army Forces gave a very high estimate of the T-90C tank in the course of their visit to Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s stand at SITDEF 2013 arms exhibition in Lima. The T-90C tank was given a central place in the Russian exposition; it was presented at an indoor site and aroused a lot of interest from both the experts and simple visitors to the exhibition, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. Commanding General of the Peruvian Army General Ricardo Moncada Novoa looked very

May 20, 2013. Deputy Mayor of Yekaterinburg for National Events Coordination Sergey Tushin said Yekaterinburg Red Line might acquire its own infrastructure in the nearest future. The Red Line is more than just a red line on painted on the asphalt. This is an important project that is starting to acquire its own infrastructure. For one, all of Yekaterinburg’s information kiosks are supposed to be linked to the Red Line system. A number of local maps also display the Red Line on them, and this year, a municipal program on ‘coding’ the buildings began. The idea is to assign a QR code to all the

May 20, 2013. OAO Kamenskoye (one of the Mid-Urals’ largest agricultural enterprises and a member of Sinara Group) keeps up with its sowing campaign. This spring, the overall planted acreage is expected to rise by 1,000 hectares and to come to more than 14,000 hectares. Most of the land will be used to plant crops: over 2,000 tons of wheat, barley, and oat seeds have been prepared for the sowing. Barley, a popular animal forage grain, is expected to make up a large share of all the planted crops. More than 3,000 hectares of arable land has been allocated for this. To ensure good harvest,

May 17, 2013. 5 employees of Uralvagonzavod Corporation's head plant were given high-profile state awards for their outstanding work achievements. They took part in the solemn awarding ceremony that took place in Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District's Yekaterinburg residence. The awards were given out by Plenipotentiary Repesentative Igor Kholmanskikh, Uralvagonzavod Corporation's press officer reports. The orders and decorations were awarded in accordance with the Russian President Vladimir Putin's Decree 249 On Giving

May 17, 2013. Sinara Pipe Plant (SinTZ), a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK), held 7th sports tournament for school students at Kamensk-Uralsky-based Olympus Sports Palace, the company's press service reports. The SinTZ Prize Tournament was dedicated to Anatoly Brizhan in 2011; Brizhan was one of the enterprise's legendary directors who inspired a lot of sports events for the pipe plant workers of all ages for more than 25 years. This year, teams from six SinTZ-patronized schools from Sinara District competed for the crystal cup. Over 100 young sportsplayers took part in

May 17, 2013. Inflation rates in Russia are not expected to exceed 6% by the end of the year, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov announced yesterday. At the same time, should this forecast prove wrong, the authorities promise to adjust the pension and other social welfare payments according to a corresponding index, Bank Koltso Urala's press service says. Quotes RBC Daily: 'If inflation rate comes to more than 6%, we must apply the index. However, we feel this limit will not be exceeded during the first six months. And we generally feel that the annual inflation rate will stay

May 17, 2013. Yekaterinburg Council is setting up an ad hoc team that will be in charge of speeding up the coordination of all the road repair schedules and projects, the council's press officer reports. Experts from the council's respective committees, contractors' representatives, and road police officers will be meeting at the town hall through the summer road construction season every Tuesday in order to coordinate the closing and repair of roads. Such an approach to road repairs will ensure a faster decision-making on a whole range of problems that can hardly be resolved

May 17, 2013. The number of people who are not allowed to travel abroad because of their debts is growing every year. In 2009, 900 people were denied exit, in 2012 the figure rose to as many as 40,000 people. So far this year, 12,000 debtors were not allowed to leave Russia; their debts totaled to 7.5bn RUR altogether. The 12,000 figure comprises 2,500 people who don’t pay their children’s alimony; their debts amount to 0.5bn RUR. Also, about 4,000 peoples with unpaid loans were denied exit from the country; their debts come to 5bn RUR, Chief Court Officer of Sverdlovsk Region Sergey

May 16, 2013. Tankograd, a veterans’ club of Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ, a member of Uralvagonzavod Corporation), was declared the best in the Socio-Political Organizations category, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The plant club’s Chairman Eduard Sobolev was given an honorary certificate signed by the city manager of Chelyabinsk Sergey Davydov in the course of a solemn ceremony. In his thank-you speech, the head of Tankograd expressed his gratitude to the city for the high estimate of the veterans’ efforts in the field of the military-patriotic education of young

May 16, 2013. Sverdlovsk Railways’ freight turnover rose by 4.2% in April 2013 against April 2012 and amounted to 15.88bn ton-kilometers. The April shipments amounted to 10.9m tons, which was 0.5% less than in April 2012, Sverdlovsk Railways press service says. In the first ten days of May, a number of continuous production cycle enterprises from the metallurgical and O&G sector exceeded their target figures for shipments. What is more, an ad hoc counter planning team resumed its work on organizing cargo shipments for building socially important assets in the north of Ural Federal

May 16, 2013. A large delegation of Czech businesspeople, headed by Prime Minister Petr Nečas, is going to visit Sverdlovsk Region on May 28-29, 2013, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Press Service & Information Department reports. This visit is done within the framework of the Czech Prime Minister’s business trips to a number of Russian Federation constituencies. The Mid-Urals was placed on the agenda due to its great industrial potential, the existing strong business ties between Russian and Czech enterprises, and also because of Yekaterinburg applying for EXPO 2020. Sverdlovsk Region

May 16, 2013. Sverdlovsk Region Government issued a decree on Tuesday that adopted the changes in the local program on the development of infrastructure, nano-industry, and innovations in Sverdlovsk Region; the program provides some subsidies on the loan interest rate payments for local enterprises this year. The total amount of subsidies for 2013 has been set at 300m RUR, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Press Service & Information Department reports. Sverdlovsk Region Industry & Science Minister Vladislav Pinayev says 47 enterprises, which submitted 60 investment projects, have

May 16, 2013. The net profit of Gazprombank (calculated in accordance with the Russian Accounting Standards) dropped by over 4 times in the first quarter of 2013 and amounted to 4.991bn RUR against 20.485bn RUR a year earlier, the bank’s report states. Gazprombank’s assets reached 3.199 trillion RUR on April 1, 2013, which was 36% more than in the first quarter of 2012. The bank’s own capital rose by 2.6% since the beginning of this year and came to 357.45bn RUR. The private individuals’ deposits rose by 23.4% compared with Q1’12 and reached 312.35bn RUR. The non-finance organizations’

May 15, 2013. 33 graduates are going to work as interns at Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s head plant this year. The one-year internship’s primary goal is professional and social and psychological adjustment of former students and their getting practical and organizational skills as well as understanding their jobs’ specific nature and looking at their departments and the company’s scientific and production performance, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The interns get employed at the technological institute, the large nodes division, the mechanization & automation design