December 12, 2012. 5 workers from Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation were awarded as laureates of Sverdlovsk Region contest for the best young workers employed in the Russian defense industry sector, the corporation’s press service reports. The diploma-awarding ceremony was coordinated by Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev. In addition to workers employed at the corporation’s head plant, the employees from the corporation’s other member enterprises (Plant 9, Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry, and Uralcryomash) received their awards as well. The contest was initiated by

December 12, 2012. The introduction of new generation railway carriages with improved technical and operation characteristics will help relieve the railway infrastructure workload; this announcement was made at the international conference on the transportation services market in Moscow, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s press service reports. The representatives of Russian Railways as well as those of freight forwarders and leasing companies presented their expert opinion on the carriages. Uralvagonzavod’s Deputy DG for Railway Vehicles Andrei Shlensky spoke on behalf

December 12, 2012. Ural Airlines came up with a performance report for November 2012. The company transferred 266,681 passengers last month, which is 34% more than in November 2011. All in all, 3,272,534 passengers have flown with this air carrier since the beginning of the year. On November 16, Ural Airlines checked in their 3,000,000th passenger of the year for the first time in the airline’s history. In November 2012, Ural Airlines operated 2,241 flights (this is 32% more compared with November 2011). This figure included 675 international flights, 999 domestic flights, and 567 flights

December 12, 2012. The experience of holding the arms exhibition EUROSATORY in France might come in handy when it comes to coordinating RUSSIAN EXPO АRMS in Nizhniy Tagil. EUROSATORY Director-General General Patrick Colas des Francs arrived in Sverdlovsk Region upon Governor Evgeny Kuivashev’s request, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s PR Department reports. ‘The Mid-Urals are actually a more suitable place than any other for demonstrating both the performance and the combat characteristics of military-purpose vehicles. The French experts’ opinion of the Nizhniy Tagil demonstration center is

December 12, 2012. The auction aimed at selling NORD cold storage facility that was coordinated by Sverdlovsk Region division of Rosimushchestvo fell through because no applications had been submitted by the bidders. The auction was held on December 4, and the opening bid was set at 49.32m RUR. Offered for sale was a 49% shareholding in the business. This is actually not the first time the authorities have tried selling the facility’s shares. Early in 2011, a similar auction was also declared invalid, and for the same reason. The opening bid for the shareholding was then set at a slightly

December 11, 2012. The solemn unveiling ceremony of a memorial dedicated to the prominent creator of tanks and Uralvagonzavod’s Chief Designer in the 50s and the 60s, Major-General Engineer Leonid Kartsev took place in Skomovo, Ivanovo Region. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation (UVZ) helped to build and install the memorial, which is a sample of the T-62 tank – one of Kartsev’s most important creations, UVZ press service reports. The solemn opening ceremony next to Kartsev’s home was attended by Governor of Ivanovo Region Mikhail Men, head of the Russian Defense Ministry

December 11, 2012. Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant Palace of Culture’s stage was used as the main venue for ChTPZ Group’s 10th Children’s Festival Snezhnost on December 8-10, 2012. Moscow-based theater Satirikon was the first to present its story called ‘Once upon a time in a village’. The theater actually took its first night to the Urals to present the play at the festival. The event’s honorary guest and the theater’s head Konstantin Raikin said that he thought very highly of the company’s initiative to hold a charity New Year event for the children living in Pervouralsk, Chelyabinsk, and

December 11, 2012. Thanks to the joint efforts of Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) security staff and officers from the Russian Internal Affairs Ministry’s Saint Petersburg division, illegal sales of counterfeited items bearing ChTZ logo were detected and stopped, the press service of Uralvagonzavod Corporation reports. Criminal action was taken against the Chelyabinsk-based firms that dealt in the sales of these items. The accused sold some bulldozers that had gone through a garage overhaul as if they were new ChTZ ones and actually sold one and the same set of bulldozers to a number of

December 11, 2012. In January-December 2012, Ural Customs Administration collected 173m RUR worth of fines and imposed 161m RUR worth of fines. Following their 321 inspections, 192 administrative lawsuits and 3 criminal lawsuits were instituted, the Administration’s press service reports. According to the files transferred to the law-enforcement and surveillance authorities, 744,000 RUR more were assessed additionally, and 730 units of counterfeit items were confiscated.

December 11, 2012. Yekaterinburg proved No.1 city among those with population over 1m for doing business. This year, Yekaterinburg was ahead of 18 cities with population over 1m, including Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan, and Chelyabinsk. Sverdlovsk Region was in the middle of a similar rating for Russian Federation constituencies and ahead of both Moscow and Saint Petersburg. The index of how easy it is to do business in the Russian constituencies was compiled by Opora Rossiyi, the All-Russian SME organization. The rating was based on the findings of the annual research on the conditions and

December 10, 2012 Sinara Pipe Plant (a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company/TMK) held a professional skills contest among its pipe-cutters for the first time this year. This competition was part of the corporate youth program and involved eight contestants from the under-30 age group, TMK’s press service reports. The board of jurors comprised employees from Sinara Pipe Plant’s subdivisions and members of the company’s trade union committee; for a week, they evaluated the contestants’ theoretical expertise and practical skills. As for the theoretical part, the workers had to answer questions

December 10, 2012 Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation and Bombardier presented their joint vision of the public transport of the future at the international exhibition and forum Russia’s Transport 2012, the corporation’s press service reports. The forum, held under the auspices of the Russian Transport Ministry, gathered the representatives of all transport enterprises, government officials, expert and scientific communities, and members of transport NGOs. This year, delegates from 20 different companies visited the exhibition, and over 100 companies took part in the event.

December 10, 2012 Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court declared OOO Ural Trade & Industrial Enterprise insolvent (bankrupt), the court’s website states. Denis Kolchurin of the Regional Self-Regulatory Organization of Professional Trustees in Bankruptcy Non-Profit Partnership was appointed the company’s trustee in bankruptcy.

December 10, 2012 A special session initiated by Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation was coordinated within the framework of Russia’s Transport 2012 Forum. During the session, both Russian and foreign manufacturers, government officials, and forwarding companies representatives talked about the advantages of railway vehicles and about their future, the Corporation’s press service reports. Bombardier Transportation Senior Director for New Business Development Flavio Canetti gave a speech on the innovational and efficient solutions for the Moscow Underground. A lot of the

December 10, 2012 Sverdlovsk Region’s Vice Premier Sergey Zyranov and Deputy Director-General of the Housing Construction Development Fund Denis Filippov held a round table discussion on the multi-faceted development of over 20 hectares of land in the Village of Cherdantsevo; these land patches have been allocated by the authorities for housing construction, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Press Service & Information Administration reports. Under the Fund’s requirements, the land allotment is to be used for putting up low-rise economy class apartment buildings up to three storeys high;

December 7, 2012 An international conference called ‘Foundry Council 6’ is held in Yekaterinburg on December 6-7, 2012. The agenda of the conference covers coming up with some recommendations for the foundry industry, looking into its development potential, methods of quality control, equipment upgrades, and getting acquainted with the most advanced coating, thermal treatment, and mechanical treatment technologies, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Press Service & Information Administration reports. Over 200 experts from Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Slovenia, Croatia,

December 7, 2012 Oblkommunenergo is setting up a logistics center on the premises of Artemovsky power station for the delivery of fuel, machinery, and materials onto its divisions in 43 local towns, the enterprise’s PR Department reports. Experts say the location of both Artemovsky and the power station warehouses meets all the necessary conditions for creating such a center: there are railways there, as well as specialized equipment; what is more, cranes and loaders will be introduced soon. These warehouses are already being used to store the fuel for the company’s divisions and other

December 7, 2012 A group of delegates from the Economy Facilitation Department of Saxony, Germany, arrived in Sverdlovsk Region in order to look at the cooperation options relating to the use of resource-efficient production technologies, scientific research findings, and R&D achievements in machine-building, Sverdlovsk Region Press Service & Information Administration reports. ‘These delegates are representatives of machine-building plants and enterprises with experience in welding, sheet-metalworking, and metal treatment that are quite interested in doing business with us. We have

December 7, 2012 Sverdlovsk Region authorities reconsidered their spending on the special economic zone Titanium Valley. At the moment, this spending amounts to 16.8bn RUR, a half of which is to be allocated from the regional budget, while the other half is to be provided for from the federal funds, Governor Evgeny Kuivashev announced at a briefing today. ‘Out of the 8bn RUR we spend, some 4bn RUR will pay off: these are investments in things like electric mains and heating and power stations. In 13 to 18 years, this will pay off through end user rates. The money for these projects will be

December 7, 2012 In the third quarter of 2012, the retail deposits volume in Ural Federal District-based banks rose by 5.8bn RUR and came to 344.2bn RUR (against 1.3bn RUR increase in Q3’11). In relative terms, the growth in Q3’12 was 1.7% — the same as in Russia on the whole (compared with 0.4% in the third quarter of 2011), The Deposit Insurance Agency State Corporation reports. All in all, the local banks’ deposits volume rose by 28.5bn RUR in the nine months of 2012 (compared with 18.6bn RUR in January-September 2011). The daily increase went down to 62.7m RUR in Q3 against 227m RUR a day