Russia’s First Vice Premier Igor Shuvalov asked the Economic Development, the Transport, and the Finance Ministries to consider and to forward him some coordinated proposals on the construction of high-speed railway lines in Russia and of Trans-Eurasian Container Railway Line, Prime refers to his letter as stating. According to this letter, the ministries’ proposals must be drawn up on the basis of the earlier requests and ‘as soon as possible’, and a report must also be prepared for the Russian Federation President. Shuvalov issued his requests after receiving a letter from President of

Russia’s Minister for Industry & Trade Denis Manturov congratulated the workers of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation and the corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko on Trooper’s Day. The governmental wire gives thanks for the people’s performance, contains some heart-felt good wishes, and praises the workers’ contribution to the development of the world tank-manufacturing industry, Uralvagonzavod’s press service reports. ‘On behalf of the Ministry for Industry & Trade of the Russian Federation, I congratulate you on your professional special event: Trooper’s

The pubic prosecution authorities of Yekaterinburg’s Chkalovsky District monitored the overall activity of the companies in the communal housing services sector and inspected, among others, Ural Energy Service Company, located in Gotvald St in Yekaterinburg; it was detected that as of April 1, 2012, the company owed Uralsevergaz Independent Gas Company 39.283m RUR, the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities reports. With balance at deficit and the lack of own working assets, the debtor company’s management still spent at least 1m RUR on things the business could

Switzerland’s visa center will start operating in Yekaterinburg on September 21. The address is 22 Karl Liebknecht St Off. 313. Up to now, Switzerland only used to process the applications directly and did not resort to any intermediaries for preliminary processing tasks. In addition to Yekaterinburg, visa centers will open in fourteen more Russian cities: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Krasnoyarsk, Rostov-on-Don, Novosibirsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Kazan, Sochi, Kaliningrad, Irkutsk, Ufa, Khabarovsk, and Vladivostok.

The technical design documentation for the direct current electric train ES2G, based on Desiro RUS (Lastochka) modification, was presented at a meeting at All-Russian Scientific Research Railway Transport Institute (VNIIZHT) dedicated to the coordination of electric trains manufacturing at Ural Locomotives (a joint venture belonging to Sinara Group and Siemens AG), Sinara Group’s press service reports. Ural Locomotives’ designers presented their technical solutions (which give a full idea of the design, application field, assembly and maintenance rules, and repair-ability of the future city

Bank Petrokommerz will soon provide the money needed to pay the wages owed to the former workers of Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha Metallurgical Plant (a subsidiary of OOO Nigmas). Such was an agreement that the bank and Sverdlovsk Region authorities came to. The region’s Prime Minister Denis Pasler held challenging talks with the owner of Nigmas’s Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha subsidiary and Bank Petrocommerz. ‘The arrears in wages to the plant’s employees have been paid in full, and some of the workers have already been compensated for the layoffs. It has been agreed by now that Bank Petrokommerz will

Yekaterinburg winery used to illegally place Sverdlovsk Region’s coat of arms onto the labels for is Yekaterinburg Vodka. Sverdlovsk Region Government took the case to court and made the wine manufacturer pay an administrative fine; the sum (around 1,000 RUR) is insignificant, but the government feels that this will teach every other for-profit company a lesson, Oblastnaya Gazeta reports. Sverdlovsk Region Emblem Committee Chairman Mikhail Zubarev explained that everything started with a query the committee had sent to the plant in order to understand what grounds the wine maker had to use

Despite the lack of stability on the global economic arena, investors feel optimistic about Russia’s long-term investment appeal. The country’s abundant natural resources, its growing consumer market, highly skilled workforce, and the recent entry to the WTO make Russia a promising investment object for the coming decade. Despite a lot of red tape and the underdeveloped infrastructure, which are still two worrying factors, most investors feel that Russia has made a step forward and does not lag behind the other rapidly growing markets as much as it used to. The country’s investment appeal

OOO Ural Locomotives has put up the first framework connecting the two supporting pillars of the would-be department meant for the production of Desiro RUS (Lastochka) electric trains. This means the construction of the main structure for the new production facility has begun, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. Builders will have to put up nearly 9,500 tons of metal frameworks and to assemble the wall panels in the second half of September so as to finish the main structure by the end of the year. A former warehouse is being reconstructed at the same time: it will house the

On the eve of the Trooper’s Day, a memorial plaque dedicated to one of UVZ Corporation’s Ural Design Office of Transport Machine-Building’s most famous designers and the father of the Russian Army’s primary combat tank T-90 Vladimir Potkin was unveiled in Nizhniy Tagil, Uralvagonavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s press service reports. Vladimir I. Potkin is a cult figure not only for the corporation but for the world’s tank industry on the whole. He chaired Ural Design Office of Transport Machine-Building in 1987-1999 and supervised work on the gearing system and the running gear

295 citizens who paid their money to dishonest developers for the total of 12,752.93 sq m worth of housing in the future apartment buildings in Sverdlovsk Region in order to get the ownership rights over the apartments have been placed on the register of Sverdlovsk Region-based dishonest developers’ victims in accordance with the Procedure for setting up & keeping this register. These data were carried by Sverdlovsk Region division of the State Construction Surveillance’s press service today. The number of such victims in Yekaterinburg comes to 260, the number of square meters of not

Sverdlovsk Region prosecution authorities sent a letter to Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Prime Minister Denis Pasler, asking him to consider the possibility of facilitating the performance of LPK Ural-Lobva and of settling the company’s wage arrears issues, Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly’s deputy Andrei Alshevskikh writes in his blog. Sverdlovsk Region Deputy Public Prosecutor Vadim Chukreyev sent the deputy a letter informing him of all the problems at the enterprise. The timber business is currently undergoing bankruptcy proceedings. What is more, the company owed its workers 24m

Perm City Planning & Architecture Department granted RENOVA StroyGroup State Corporation a permission to build a new apartment block at 61 Kuibyshev St in Perm, RENOVA’s press service reports. ‘This is going to be a 16-storey comfort-class apartment building in downtown Perm, with all the social and utilities infrastructure already developed. Thanks to this attractive location, the new building will be very close to the city’s main landmarks and shopping centers and will provide all the comforts of living,’ says RENOVA-StroyGroup-Perm’s Director-General Stanislav Kiselev. The new building

Rostelecom was made to stop offering any illegal access to online casino websites in Langepas. Under the law, access to gambling services can only be granted in the special gambling zones, Ural Federal District division of General Public Prosecutor’s Office’s press service reports. The public prosecution authorities of Langepas determined that Rostelecom, the telecommunications provider, did not limit its users’ access to the so-called online casino websites within the town’s territory. These casinos coordinate and deal in gambling. Langepas town court refused to sustain the prosecutor’s

India might set up a consulate in Yekaterinburg, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to the Russian Federation Ajai Malhotra said at a meeting with Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev. ‘India operates two Consulates-General in Saint Petersburg and in Vladivostok for now; distances are great, and Yekaterinburg is a rapidly developing city that is located in a geographically advantageous spot; it can also boast a powerful industry and rich cultural traditions,’ Malhotra said. The Ambassador sees tourism development as something with a lot of potential, as the

Over 26,000 people living in Sverdlovsk Region will be unable to travel abroad because of their debts. This coercive measure (a temporary limitation on leaving the country) has been applied to 26,276 debtors who owe their creditors 15,436,646,000 RUR altogether, Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Court Bailiffs Service’s press office reports. In August, 2,914 people were added to the list of ‘non-travelers’ based in Sverdlovsk Region. It has been reported that 5,191 locals did not pay the alimony (936,809,000 RUR in total), while 35 debtors were coerced into paying off 5.777m RUR worth of

These are the sales experts, the manufacturing sector workers, the IT and telecommunications specialists, and the banking and finance experts who enjoy the greatest demand on Yekaterinburg labor market. This is obvious from the number of vacancies available in these sectors that are advertised via Headhunter portal, Headhunter Ural’s Marketing & PR Manager Anastasia Naidenova said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. For one, the number of jobs available in the sales sector comes to about 27% of all the vacancies. Yet, according to Naidenova, this number is gradually going down. ‘This

SinaraHybrid, Sinara Group’s diesel-locomotive shunter with a hybrid power unit TEM9N, will be featured in a parade dedicated to the 175th anniversary of Russian Railways in Moscow Region-based Scherbinka at the end of this week, on September 7-9, 2012. The entire range of vehicles that are used in the railway industry will be presented at the parade, including the rare trains that were built as early as the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. As for the latest railway vehicles in the parade, one of them is Russia’s first locomotive shunter with smart asynchronous hybrid drive that is now

Uralvagonzavod’s most promising machinery – portable drill units MBR-125 and MBR-160 – have been certified for compliance with the standards, so now they are in the marketable products category and can break into the O&G equipment market, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. These portable drill units were developed within the framework of a large-scale program for the design and launch of new kinds of civil-purpose vehicles. MBR-125 and MBR-160 are meant for the ongoing repairs and capital overhauls of wells and for drilling the wells with wellhead pressure up to 35 MPa as

Chelyabinsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service warned Sverdlovsk Suburban Company (SPK) against canceling ten commuter trains in Chelyabinsk Region, as this will infringe upon the local residents’ interests, the spokesperson for Chelyabinsk Region division of the FAS reports. Canceling these trains, most of which are Kurgan-bound, will lead to a violation of the antimonopoly legislation because this might violate the Competition Protection Act (that is, this will mean unjustified canceling of a service that actually enjoys demand). The reason for canceling the trains is