April 15, 2013. An arts exhibition with works by the local art studio members was opened at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant’s Palace of Culture to celebrate the plant’s 80th anniversary, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The exhibition is two-fold and comprises the retro-graphic works by the studio artists that picture the images of the last century’s tractor-makers and 19 children’s drawings portraying the plant’s daily life; these were created specifically for the anniversary exhibition. The works have been created by the boys and girls aged 6 to 14. The studio teachers Irina

April 15, 2013. A clearly set preparation strategy that would cover both the technical and the socio-psychological issues is needed for the successful organization of EXPO 2020 in Yekaterinburg, Deputy Mayor for National & International Events Coordination Sergey Tushin said at the meeting of the Russian Federation Union of Municipal Representative Bodies’ Coordination Committee. ‘The strategy needs to be elaborated by all of Sverdlovsk Region’s municipalities, which will attract important international events into the area. In fact, this is already happening. There is a certain logic for

April 15, 2013. Three of Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s member enterprises (UKBTM, Uralcryomash, Uralvagonzavod), and two of its daughter companies (UBT-Ekologiya and UBT Service) located in Nizhniy Tagil decided officially to sponsor the kindergartens located in the city’s Dzerzhinsky district. Every kindergarten there is now sponsored by one or several subdivisions of the said enterprises. The first meeting where kindergarten directors and sponsor representatives got together was dedicated to cooperation and tasks for 2103, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. Taking care of

April 15, 2013. Expert Rating Agency’s analysts came up with the rating of Russia’s largest banks in terms of the loan book on sole traders in 2012. The rating featured 30 banks, with average loan book growth at 40% a year, SKB-Bank’s press service reports. Nevertheless, the banks that have proved very successful with lending to sole traders, enjoyed a much faster portfolio growth. As for SKB-Bank, their sole traders loan book rose by 71.7% last year and came to 15.17bn RUR, which secured the bank the 4th position in the national rating: it was only outstripped by Sberbank, Rosselkhozbank,

April 15, 2013. The final tour of Sverdlovsk Region standup comedy student contest known as the Club of the Funny and the Inventive took place at Yekaterinburg Youth Palace on April 10. Timber-Harvesting Lumberjacks from Ural State Forest Engineering University took the first prize, the second prize went to Voices from Ural Federal University, and The Swing from Mining University came third. VUZ-Bank, which sponsored the event, saw to it that all those present had not only a good but also a useful time. The bank offered some discounts and jobs to the students, VUZ-Bank’s press service

April 12, 2013. Ural Diesel Engine Plant (UDMZ) got a license that allows it to design and manufacture machinery for the nuclear units, Sinara Group’s PR Department reports. UDMZ (a member of Sinara Transport Machines Holding) obtained the licenses from Rostechnadzor’s Sverdlovsk Region division of the Nuclear & Radiation Safety Surveillance Division. The licenses will be valid for the next five years. These licenses will mean the plant will be able to produce diesel power plants in accordance with all the requirements that the customers set out for the design and production of this type

April 12, 2013. Ural Airlines presented its services at the company stand at TurSib/SITT-2013 exhibition that opened at Novosibirsk ExpoCenter in Novosibirsk today. The company stand features its new campaigns and special offers, and one can also consult the airline employees, the air carrier’s press service reports. Ural Airlines is now presenting offers on popular tourist season destinations and new, appealing options for passengers as well as bonus schemes. TurSib/SITT-2013 is the 23th international tourist exhibition that is an important event in the tourist industry community’s

April 12, 2013. ChTPZ Group coordinated a company contest at the Club of the Cheerful and the Inventive, with the Crystal Helmet given out as the first prize. This year, five teams competed in the super league: Badminton (from Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant’s Vysota 239 Department), Caravan (comprising players from all the departments at Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant), a select team from Pipeline Bend Plant, Yin-Yang (a select team from Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant), and Whipped to Cream (students of the Future of White Metallurgy Project), the company’s press service reports. The performance

April 12, 2013. Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Mikhail Yurevitch paid a business visit to Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ). He looked into the state of affairs at the enterprise and checked some new vehicles. He was accompanied by the enterprise’s head Sergey Golygin, Deputy Director-General Andrei Sentyabov, and Director for Design Development & Technologies Valeriy Kostyuchenko, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. Yurevitch was shown all the promising projects the plant undertook in the year of its 80th anniversary. An ad hoc exhibition featured the B-11 bulldozer – the

April 12, 2013. Rhineland-Palatinate Federal State's Minister of Economy Eveline Lemke said in the course of her meeting with Sverdlovsk Region Government Vice Premier Alexei Orlov at Hannover Messe 2013, an international industrial fair, that the Rhineland-Palatinate-based enterprises would take part in the international exhibition Innoprom in 2014, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Press Service & Information Department reports. Ms Lemke also asked for more detailed information on the Titanium Valley special economic zone so that these data could be advertized among the German

April 11, 2013. Sverdlovsk Region’s investment potential was presented to foreign industrial enterprises in the course of Hannover Messe 2013, the international industrial fair, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Press Service & Information Department reports. The region’s Vice Premier Alexei Orlov made a report on the area’s impressive socioeconomic development and on the regional authorities’ interest in attracting foreign investors and in providing all kinds of support to the foreign companies that are willing to set up their production facilities on the Urals’ sites. ‘Sverdlovsk Region’s

April 11, 2013. A young families contest was held at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) for the first time this year; the contest was dubbed ‘A Tight-Knit Family’, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The judges ruled that Mr. and Mrs. Zaitsev and their daughter Victoria were the most unanimous family. Natalia Zaitseva, an auditor at the plant’s Quality Directorate, and her husband Sergey, who works as a fork truck driver at the Technological Vehicles Department, were ahead of five finalist couples. Under the terms of this all-plant contest, applicants had to be under 35 years

April 11, 2013. Ural’s sales department was opened in Raduga-Park Shopping Mall at 94 Repin St on Friday, April 5. This means that every holder of METCOMBANK and Ural Football Club’s co-branded card can now use one more outlet where they will be offered a discount on the club accessories and souvenirs as well as on tickets to the club’s home games, the bank’s press officer explains. If you get your bank card issued within the framework of this co-branding project, you not only get access to first-rate banking service and discounts but also support your favorite club, as the service fee for

April 11, 2013. ‘We are launching a hotline session with the Managing Director of MegaFon’s MegaLabs Innovations Laboratory Anton Vedernikov. What novelties is MegaFon expected to think up for the Ural locals in the nearest future? What innovations enjoy the greatest demand among the subscribers?’ MegaFon explains these and other burning questions can be put forth via PR@megafon.ru, on Facebook or VKontakte through Arpil 15. One’s improvement proposals or ideas on the launch of new services that could expand a mobile phone’s capacity can also be presented via e-mail or social networks. The

April 11, 2013. The plant’s first young electricians’ contest was held at Seversky Pipe Plant (STZ, a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company). 25 electricians who won in the department contest as well as representatives of Polevskoy Technical Service took part in the event. In addition, three students of V.I. Nazarov Polevskoy Vocational School participated in the program but did not compete for the prizes, the company’s press service reports. The contest was two-fold and comprised a theoretical and a practical part. First, it took the contestants one hour to do a test on electrical equipment

April 10, 2013. A major railway vehicles manufacturer Bombardier Transportation and Russia’s leading railway vehicles producer Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation (UVZ) are now presenting their joint proposals for Russia at Germany’s largest fair Hannover Messe, UVZ press officer reports. This year, Russia is a partner country for the forum that is dedicated to the global industry. The opening of the fair was actually attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel. UVZ and Bombardier Transportation presented a new stage of their program

April 10, 2013. Sinara Development (a member of Sinara Group) came up with a financial and production performance report for 2012. The sub-holding’s accumulated net profit amounted to 180.3m RUR, which exceeds the figures for 2011 by two times, Sinara Group’s PR Center says. A multi-faceted approach to project implementation is one of the key characteristics of Sinara-Development’s performance. Therefore the process covers not only investment, design, construction and maintenance, but also setting up the social infrastructure buildings in the area. According to Sinara Development’s

April 10, 2013. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation took part in the International Industrial Fair Hannover Messe-2013 that opened in Hannover, Germany, on April 8. Uralvagonzavod displayed its stands in two pavilions: one stand is a joint project with Bombardier, the other one is part of the Russian Federation’s central exhibition. Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the corporation’s stands on the day the prestigious fair was opened, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The heads of the two states took a great

April 10, 2013. Ural Airlines won in the all-Russian aviation contest called Russian Wings-2012, in the Airline of The Year-Group II (1-3bn passenger-km) Domestic Flights Air Carrier category. What is more, Ural Airlines was also awarded a diploma in the Airline of The Year-International Flights Air Carrier category, the airline’s press service reports. Now the Russian Wings Prize was set up in 1997 by the Russian Association of Aircraft Operators and the aviation industry magazine Aviatransportnoe Obozreniye; for over ten years, this has been the only aviation sector prize given out to

April 10, 2013. Russia’s Economic Development Minister Andrei Beloussov visited Sverdlovsk Region’s stand while taking a tour of Hannover Messe’s most important exhibitors. He was welcomed at the stand by Sverdlovsk Region’s Vice Premier Alexei Orlov and the Titanium Valley Special Economic Zone’s Director-General Artemy Kyzlasov, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s press service and information department reports. During their meeting, the said parties talked about the region’s developmental prospects. For one, Orlov presented the plans for the development of Bogoslovsky industrial park. The