The authorized capital of South Ural Mortgage Lending Agency is expected to go up by 500m RUR, according to the decision made at Chelyabinsk Region Government meeting today. As First Deputy Governor Vladimir Dyatlov explains, the performance of the agency is a crucial factor in stabilizing the real estate market in some cities and areas of the Region. Raising their authorized capital will make it possible to build up the agency’s area of operation up to 31 regional municipal districts, instead of the current 21 districts.

A new container terminal of Euro-Asian Transportation and Logistics Center was introduced in Sverdlovsk Region. This is the first such facility of twenty units owned by the Center, adjacent to Sverdlovsk-Tovarnaya railway station and equipped with Italian hoisting cranes; it can use 2 railways and 17 platforms. A station for empty containers waiting to be loaded with freight will be set up there soon. The terminal is meant to service the north direction of Sverdlovsk Region Railways (to the towns of Nizhniy Tagil, Serov, Khanty-Mansisysk Autonomous Region); it is also expected to cover 30% of

33 employees of Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Nizhniy Tagil (part of Evraz Group) are going to take part in the professional skills competition called The Best Young Worker of Evraz. The competition is held by the company in order to give the personnel a chance for self-expression as well as to make the blue-collar jobs more prestigious. Over 100 young employees of Russian metallurgical and ore mining enterprises that belong to Evraz Group participate in the competition every year. The winners are awarded with special certificates and impressive remunerations. The tour devoted to

MegaFon Ural, the mobile phone operator, reports that due to some technical improvements it has managed to raise the quality of coverage in the town of Sukhoy Log and in some districts of Yekaterinburg, namely, in Yugo-Zapadniy (Togliatti St.-Belorechenskaya St.), VIZ (Zavodskaya St.), and Yunost stadium.

Vanadium Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise (part of Evraz Group) completed the assembling of their new Cavex-Warman hydrocyclone unit made in the UK. The unit was acquired and assembled within the framework of upgrading the ore pretreatment technology program; the emphasis is laid upon the replacement of obsolete equipment. The new machine has been installed at technological station 20 of the processing shop. This is an experimental department of the shop, equipped with the modern separator with increased magnetic induction. The testing of this new hydrocyclone unit is expected to take

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of loans given by UralTransBank to natural persons for a term of 1 to 3 years has gone down by 100% (from 518,893,000 RUR to a zero) over the ten months of 2006.

The regional and federal authorities commented upon the antisocial actions of Koltsovo airport management that led to a delay of Ural Airlines morning flight to Moscow and inconvenienced 250 passengers on November 13, 2006. Sverdlovsk Region Government was quick to respond: it has already issued a provision that classes the actions of the airport management and staff as ‘violating the legislation of the aviation branch’ and ‘contradicting the state policy on mergers of carriers aimed at enhancing the flight safety.’ The regional authorities suggested that Koltsovo airport restore the

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of deposits and other investments placed by natural persons in Uglemetbank for a term of 91 to 180 days has gone down by 3.054955% (from 37.931m RUR to 35.116m RUR) over the nine months of 2006.

Official delegation from the Republic of Hungary is going to visit Chelyabinsk Region on November 16-17, 2006. The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Hungary to Russia Arpad Sekei heads the group. Among the delegates are the mayor of Debrecen, the deputy of the house Kosza Layosz, Envoy Extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, head of Hungarian trade mission in Russia Pal Syuch and some others. The Hungarian officials are going to meet acting Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Andrei Kosilov and Mayor of Chelyabinsk Mikhail Yurevitch as well as visit the South Ural

Estyuninskaya mine of Vysokogorskiy Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise (part of Evraz Group) repaired the major elements of the equipment used for transporting ore from the lower levels of the mine. These repairs should help the miners avoid any breakdowns and reduce the time wasted while the equipment is being fixed. In order to make sure all the ore is crushed regularly and reliably, the company’s workers fixed the jawbreaker located at -253 meters; the employees of the general contractor restored the skip hoist responsible for crushing magnetite and delivering it onto the surface. Most

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of deposits and other investments placed by natural persons in UralTransBank for a term of 31 to 90 days has gone down by 90.6% (from 44.248m RUR to 4.148m RUR) throughout January to October 2006.

Poultry farms of Chelyabinsk Region have produced 863.5m eggs over the ten months of 2006, which exceeds the figures for January-October 2005 by 1.4%, and 57,200 tons of fowl, which exceeds the figures for January-October 2005 by 33%. On average, the ‘egg productivity’ of the hens went up by 1.6% and came to 273.2 eggs per layer; the weight increase comprised 4.3% and amounted to the average of 42.8 grams a day per broiler The regional farmers have already used 1.5bn RUR and are going to use another 1.8bn within the framework of the National Agricultural Development project, reports the

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of loans given by UralTransBank to natural persons for a term of 180 days to 1 year has gone down by 26.6% (from 513,314,000 RUR to 376,293,000 RUR) throughout January to October 2006.

Once the fall has set in, transformers get raided and cables get stolen much more often in Troitsk Electrical Networks. In Plastovskiy District of Chelyabinsk Region, some offenders have numerously robbed the power transformers that deliver electricity to bore holes of some parts; as a result, the population of the neighboring villages has been left without any access to drinking water quite a number of times. Similar offenses were reported in Troitskiy, Uvelskiy, and Oktyabrskiy Districts. To prevent such crimes from happening, the power engineers of ChelyabEnergo, the local electricity and

Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Petr Sumin met President of Renova Stroy Group Veniamin Golubitskiy and the company’s General Director Viktor Maslakov in Chelyabinsk today to discuss the upcoming fulfillment of the construction project known as the Sun Valley in the suburb of Chelyabinsk. According to Mr Golubitskiy, the project provides for putting up a 700-hectare residential area in Sosnovskiy District of Chelyabinsk Region (the village of Noviy Kremekul) within 12 kilometers to the north-west of the center of Chelyabinsk (this is currently the main direction of the town planning). The area

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of deposits and other investments placed by natural persons in Credit Ural Bank for a term of 180 days to 1 year has gone down by 4.465269% (from 1,630,921,000 RUR to 1,558,096,000 RUR) throughout January to September 2006.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of loans given by Uralprivatbank to nongovernmental commercial organizations for a term of 31 to 90 days has gone down by 75.4% (from 32,623,000 RUR to 8,010,000 RUR) throughout January to October 2006.

The opening ceremony of Auchan, the French chain of hypermarkets, took place in Yekaterinburg today, reports the spokesperson for the Governor of Sverdlovsk Region. The area of the store comes to almost 14,000 square meters, with 76 cash desks ready to serve the customers. Auchan has become the third hypermarket to be introduced in Yekaterinburg this year; it was preceded by the arrival of IKEA and OBI.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of loans given by UralTransBank to natural persons for a term of 91 to 180 days has gone down by 66% (from 7,371,000 RUR to 2,516,000 RUR) throughout January to October 2006.

Uniland-Holding Corporation (the proprietor of Dixie, one of Russia’s largest retail chains) sold its wholesale business in Yekaterinburg. According to Dixie’s financial report based on the International Accounting Standards and published on November 8, 2006, the chain sold 100% of its wholesale division known as Uniland Yekaterinburg to an offshore company named Arvilex Corporation in June. Dixie got 10m RUR for a company with a $135m turnover. The experts believe moving out of wholesale business is to be expected of large retailers, yet the scheme of the transaction resembles the severance