The passenger traffic at Yekaterinburg-based Koltsovo International Airport rose by 19.3% in January 2012 in comparison with the first month of 2011. In fact, the number of passengers went up as far as flights in all directions were concerned: the number of travelers on domestic flights increased by 25% (against January 2011), that on international flights increased by 0.9%, and that on flights around the CIS increased by 80.5%. ‘The rise in passenger traffic has to do with the increased demand for air travel and, consequently, the emergence of new air carriers and the introduction of more

The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development recently launched the new applications for Androids and iPhones that provide the bank’s customers with instant access to the necessary information on ATMs and offices, exchange rates, the bank’s news and its special offers. The apps make the use of the bank’s remote access Telebank Light system very convenient and make it possible for the user to benefit from the services offered via the UBRD’s website, the bank reports. The applications also allow the users to look for the ATMs and bank offices nearest to them, as well as for outlets where

Koltsovo Airport placed a claim against Czech Connect Airlines a.s. with Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court. The plaintiff insists on being paid $66,400. The preliminary court hearing has been set for April 5, 2012. Now the airline’s Board of Directors submitted its insolvency application to the territorial court of Ostrava on January 18, 2012. Czech Connect Airlines a.s. then promised to do their best to minimize the damage done to the company’s business partners. The airline, which used to operate a flight from Yekaterinburg to Karlsbad, stopped its business activity until March 24, 2012.

The shipment of the Finnish company Kumera’s machinery from Nizhnekamsk to Karabash-based Karabashmed has begun. The goods arrived from Finland to Nizhnekamsk by sea. The shipment comprises three horizontal 150-ton converters, a holding furnace for the separation of matte and slag melts, and an anode baking furnace, all of which will be used for the production of crude copper. The total weight of the shipment comes to 600 tons. The uniqueness of this machinery lies in that all the technical solutions employed are the best ones available. In fact, nearly all of today’s Western and Asian

The online stores logo.ru and Nord are not operating for the time being. The stores’ official websites explain that orders cannot be processed at the moment due to technical problems. ‘We’ll try to resume operation in the nearest future,’ the companies report. Meanwhile, a message regarding a fire at a white goods warehouse at 19 Ogneuporschikov St. in Verkhnyaya Pyshma was received by Russia’s DOE 01 Service at 12:30 PM (Moscow time) on February 11. The fire broke out in the area of 5,000 sq m. No one was injured or hurt. 30 vehicles and 142 people (including the cadets from Russia’s

OGK-5’s subsidiary Reftinskaya Power Station dumped 387,800 tons of pollutants in the air in 2010. This discharge figure was the largest among all of Sverdlovsk Region-based enterprises in 2010. These data are available from the public report on the state of and protection of the environment in the Russian Federation in 2010. The public report on the state of and protection of the environment in the Russian Federation in 2010 was prepared by Russia’s Ministry for Natural Resources & the Environment in cooperation with the NGO International Projects Center, the interested ministries,

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court is to consider the claim laid by Rosprirodnadzor’s division in Ural Federal District against Serov Ferrous Alloys Works on February 17, 2012. The plaintiff wants the defendant to pay 18.32m RUR. According to the files of the case, Rosprirodnadzor’s division insists on the compensation of the damage done to the local soils (an environmentally protected asset) through chemical contamination, unauthorized waste dumping, and cover-up of the soil surface without a permit. Serov Ferrous Alloys Works reports that the environmental agency inspected the plant for

United Company RUSAL reports they are testing out the new technology aimed at recycling alumina production waste, that is, red mud. Once the testing has been completed, a pilot production unit will be designed and built at Ural smelter. The capacity of the unit will come to up to 200,000 tons of red mud a year; the launch has been scheduled for October 2014. Apart from UC RUSAL’s Ural smelter, Bogoslovsky smelter, Nikolayevsky alumina works, and UC RUSAL’s foreign alumina plants in Ireland, Guinea, Australia, and Jamaica will also be able to use the innovational machinery and alumina waste

The stockholder of cosmetics manufacturer Concern Kalina Igor Platonov insists that 2,844 shares of the company were written off his personal bank account illegally. Platonov took the case to Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court, placing the claim against VTB Registrator and demanding that the entry made in the register of registered shares owners that stated that 2,844 ordinary registered shares of Concern Kalina (5th share issue, serial number 1-05-30-306-D, face value 70 RUR apiece) had been written off his personal account No. 6838, registered in the name of Igor Ivanovitch Platonov, be

The German railway enterprise Deutsche Bahn’s daughter enterprise DB International GmbH is getting ready to purchase the shares of The Industrial Urals-The Polar Urals Corporation, DB International GmbH’s letter to the corporation’s management makes clear. The letter states, for example, that DB International GmbH pays particularly close attention to the flawless reputation of companies it is about to buy, and the corporation and question and its daughter enterprise UST were the object of unflattering rumors in the past. ‘We presume that the corporation has learned from its past mistakes and

The consignors’ total expenses related to the shipment of goods via First Freight Company’s (PGK) open wagons rose by 3% on average, the company’s press service reports. ‘The decision to reconsider our fares was taken due to the need to compensate the current lagging behind of our prices as far as the average market prices are concerned. Prior to February 2012, the price of shipping goods via our open wagons was 20% to 25% lower than the average market price. After the indexation, our prices are 10% lower than the market’s average ones,’ the company’s press release states.

MMM 2011 warned its partner advertising agencies that the authorities might try to exert some pressure on them, UrBC was informed by the agency Open Doors that placed some ads for the pyramid scheme on the front walls of ComsoMALL Shopping Center in Yekaterinburg. Now Sverdlovsk Region’s Minister for Investment & Development Mikhail Maksimov announced that he was going to hold negotiations with the owners of buildings carrying the project’s ads and to insist on having the advertisements dismantled. ‘We received a warning from MMM regarding the possible pressure on the part of the local

The Director-General of Ural Electrochemical Works Alexander Kurkin resigned in order to get transferred to the scientific sector of the O&G company TVEL. The works’ Board of Directors decided that former Director-General of Angarsk-based AEKhK Alexander Belousov should be appointed the new DG of Ural Electrochemical Works. Sverdlovsk Region’s Minister for Industry & Science Alexander Petrov pointed out that the candidacy of the new executive was agreed upon by the region’s government.

Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly’s Infrastructure Development & Housing Policies Committee met to discuss the alleged violation of the principle of guaranteed, non-discriminatory access of manufacturers to wagons belonging to Second Freight Company. Deputy Dmitri Ionin said at the end of the meeting that Sverdlovsk Region Railways was currently distributing the wagons belonging to Second Freight Company (registered in Yekaterinburg at the regional authorities’ initiative) via a number of intermediaries, TransSib-Ural being the largest. ‘The region’s Transport Ministry admits that

The reconstruction of the airfield at Yekaterinburg-based Koltsovo International Airport is expected to start in May 2012 and to be over in 2014. Over 3bn RUR has been allocated from the federal budget to complete the project. Among the jobs that need to be done are the restoration of the drainage facilities, expansion of the airfield apron, building more parking lots, construction of spots where aircraft can be treated with the anti-icing fluid and getting them fitted with all the necessary equipment, and building a patrol road along the inside perimeter of the airfield. Koltsovo Airport

Ural Airlines’ passengers departing from Domodedovo Airport in Moscow can now check in for their Chelyabinsk-bound flights online. Starting February 7, 2012, customers can check in and choose a suitable seat on board via the Internet, the air carrier’s press service reports. To check in online, a passenger has to go to the airline’s website www.uralairlines.com, select the Online Check-In option, and enter his or her personal data. Then, a boarding pass must be printed and presented at the airport’s security check.

Alexei Minakov entered office as the Director-General of the cosmetics manufacturer Concern Kalina. Former DG Alexander Petrov will now be employed in the capacity of the company’s Chief Operating Director. These decisions were made by the concern’s Board of Directors on February 1, 2012.

The authorized representatives of the Bank of Russia will keep on working at Khanty-Mansiysky Bank, the Bank of Russia’s PR Department’s reports lead one to believe. The bank’s authorized representatives will be working in eighteen lending institutions altogether, including UniCreditBank, Alfa-Bank, Sberbank of Russia, and NOMOS Bank.

Judging by the cargo manifests processed at the customs points, 196 legal entities dealt in foreign trade in the Kurgan Customs area in 2011. These companies submitted 3,900 cargo manifests explaining the types and specifications of the movement of goods that have to be accounted for in the customs foreign trade statistics. The following countries proved Kurgan Region’s most active foreign trade partners in 2011: Uzbekistan imported and exported 20.1% of all the goods accounted for in the total goods turnover, followed by Kuwait, with it 19.4% share in the total goods turnover, China, with

The government purchases website carried an announcement regarding an open tender for a construction contract involving some building and assembly jobs at Koltsovo Airport, Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Region. The airport needs to have Section 2 of its airfield pavements restored and repaired. According to the tender documentation, the contract is worth 3bn RUR. All the jobs must be completed within 974 days of signing the construction contract. The results of the tender will be announced on March 19, 2012. The order is placed by Civil Airports Administration Federal State Unitary Enterprise.