The mechanical-repair department of Vysokogorskiy Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise (part of Evraz Group) is now capable of producing very long parts of agglomeration equipment. The parts of this sort used to be outsource components, but now that the shop has been fitted with the new screw-cutting lathe (which has already been tested), the company’s mechanics have for the first time made five-meter-long shafts for Lebyazhinskiy agglomeration shop and screws for the jawbreaker located in Vysokogorskiy processing plant. The preliminary testing has shown that the new equipment operates rather

All the personnel of Koltsovo Airport stopped servicing the flight of Ural Airlines (the 8.15 AM Yekaterinburg-Moscow one hosting 254 passengers) for over one hour on November 13, 2006. ‘Koltsovo airport did not coordinate the slots for this flight thus violating the Russian Federation law (in particular, the order DV-50 issued by Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service on May 6, 1996 concerning the obligatory confirmation of the so-called ‘historic slots’ to Moscow). What the airport does contradicts not only the Russian law but also the direct recommendations of the federal air authorities

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of deposits opened by non-profit NGOs in UralTransBank for a term of 1 to 3 years has gone down by 73% (from 66,370,000 RUR to 17,994,000 RUR) throughout January to October 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

The mechanical-repair department of Vysokogorskiy Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise (part of Evraz Group) is now capable of producing very long parts of agglomeration equipment. The parts of this sort used to be outsource components, but now that the shop has been fitted with the new screw-cutting lathe (which has already been tested), the company’s mechanics have for the first time made five-meter-long shafts for Lebyazhinskiy agglomeration shop and screws for the jawbreaker located in Vysokogorskiy processing plant. The preliminary testing has shown that the new equipment operates rather

All the personnel of Koltsovo Airport stopped servicing the flight of Ural Airlines (the 8.15 AM Yekaterinburg-Moscow one hosting 254 passengers) for over one hour on November 13, 2006. ‘Koltsovo airport did not coordinate the slots for this flight thus violating the Russian Federation law (in particular, the order DV-50 issued by Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service on May 6, 1996 concerning the obligatory confirmation of the so-called ‘historic slots’ to Moscow). What the airport does contradicts not only the Russian law but also the direct recommendations of the federal air authorities

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of deposits opened by non-profit NGOs in UralTransBank for a term of 1 to 3 years has gone down by 73% (from 66,370,000 RUR to 17,994,000 RUR) throughout January to October 2006.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of loans given to natural persons by UralTransBank for a term of 31 to 90 days has gone down by 79% (from 3.596m RUR to 752,000 RUR) throughout January to October 2006.

Motive, one of the mobile operators of Sverdlovsk Region, announced yesterday that it had been given a personal Mobile Network Code by the Russian Federation Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies. This code can be used to identify the company within international and long-distance GSM networks. Prior to receiving the code, Motive had to use the services of Tele2, the coordinating operator. ‘Now that we have our own MNC code, we can expand the list of our roaming partners considerably,’ observes the spokesperson for the company. The MNC is going to be changed throughout

Bank24.ru will celebrate its 14th anniversary on November 19, 2006. To celebrate the event, it has recently announced the Best Success Story contest; the stories have to describe the way services or personnel of the bank helped someone to become a success or find the best way out of a trying situation. All applicants who send in their stories will be presented with a special mug made of bone china with a bank’s logo on it, and the winner (the one whose story will be found the most interesting, unusual and amusing by the assessing panel) will get a birthday cake and some branded souvenirs. The

Chelyabinsk Region Court of Arbitration received a claim against the town council of Zlatoust laid by Mechel Bank Commercial Bank JSC at the end of September. According to the spokesperson for the court, the bank owns two apartments in a building located in Zlatoust that it wanted to convert into non-residential premises. The town council refused to let the bank do so as the proprietors of the flats had had some re-planning done without any legal permission. The conversion of the apartments into non-residential premises was also not agreed upon by the dwellers. Mechel Bank now claims that

Magnesite Industrial Complex (part of Magnesite Group Holding) raised its refractory goods and commercial powders production by 6.5% (up to 320,200 tons) and by 12.9% (up to 661,800 tons), respectively, in January-October 2006 (compared to the corresponding months of 2005). The company managed to increase its shipments of commercial powders by 9.1% (up to 661,800 tons) in ten months of 2006 (compared to January-October 2005) and shipped 3.9% more refractory goods (over 307,000 tons) over the same period. The shipments of refractory goods to Russian consumers amounted to almost 250,000 tons in

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of deposits and other investments placed by natural persons with Uglemetbank for a term of 1 to 3 years has gone down by 71.783103% (from 1,213,677,000 RUR to 342,462,000 RUR) over the nine months of 2006.

Federal Financial Market Service registered the report on the results of the additional share issue of First Power Generating Company of Wholesale Electricity Market (aka OGK-1); the shares were offered in the course of conversion during the acquisition of Nizhnevartovskaya power station, Urengoiskaya power station, Iriklinskaya power station, Kashirskaya power station 4, and Permskaya power station. The acquisition of each power station was accompanied by an additional share issue in order to increase the authorized capital of OGK-1 and assist the merger with the joint-stock company that was

A criminal lawsuit involving a charge with illegal obtaining of loan with the help of counterfeited documents was considered by the court in one of Yekaterinburg’s commercial banks on November 8, 2006. The court conducted the hearing in one of the offices of SKB-Bank located on the premises of No. 2 court area of Oktyabrskiy district of Yekaterinburg. This was the trial of Valentina Korotynskaya charged with crimes indicated in Article 327 (part 3) (Use of counterfeited documents) and Article 159 (part 1) (Fraud) of Russian Criminal Code. Unemployed Ms Korotynskaya got an 114,000 RUR consumer

According to the Central Bank of Russia, the volume of loans given by Savings and Investments Bank CJSC to natural persons for a term of 181 days to 1 year has gone down by 53% (from 14.968m RUR to 7.028m RUR) over the nine months of 2006.

New and more precise microprocessor-based weighing facilities were installed at two skip hoistings of Magnetitovaya mine of Vysokogorskiy Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise (part of Evraz Group). These allow for strict control of the volume of ore extracted and provide stable compliance with the target winning figures. The new facility consists of a number of detectors fixed onto the hoistings; depending of the skip motion speed, the rate of current and the voltage, the detectors transfer information on the mass of the load onto the dispatcher’s screen. The machine records the weight of