Throughout January to June 2006, the company has taken 1401.1 tons of clean coal. The overburden operations at Korkinksiy mine resulted in 2,261,000 cubic meters of ground, which makes up 98.5% of the planned amount. The company’s technicians worked through 4234 meters in terms of development working. Coal Company of Chelyabinsk JSC has shipped 1,260,600 tons of solid fuel in January to June 2006, most of which (733,600 tons) went to South Ural State District Power Plant, the spokesperson for the company’s economic department said to UrBC representative.

‘155 people were taken to municipal clinic # 40 and 15 people to central clinic # 2 from IKEA construction site yesterday. Eight of them had to be immediately transferred to the intensive care unit; their condition was quite severe but by now, things have improved. The condition of 105 people can be characterized as moderately severe; the condition of 57 people is described as not severe. ‘The life of the patients is out of danger now, but they will only be allowed to leave the hospitals after the doctors actually identify the toxico-infectious microbial flora that was at the back of the food

At 9 PM on July 12, 2006, the public prosecution authorities of Verkh-Isetskiy District of Yekaterinburg commenced a criminal lawsuit concerning the alleged violation of sanitary-and-hygienic regulations that led to food poisoning of over 150 builders from IKEA construction site, reports the spokesperson for the Public Prosecutor of Sverdlovsk Region. The preliminary investigation shed some light on the events of July 12: at about 6 PM, over 90 Turkish and Tajik citizens with symptoms of food poisoning were brought into municipal clinic # 40 directly from the construction site. It turned out

Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Nizhniy Tagil JSC (part of Evraz Group) has recently launched the new power substation with the capacity of 13.5 megawatt. The substation will provide electricity for the company’s by-product-coking production, particularly No. 5 cokery–based unit currently under construction. The station is fitted with all the modern control and protection systems and is fully automated into the bargain, the company’s spokesperson reports to UrBC representative.

Regional transport dealer Chelyabspetstrans JSC held the annual general meeting on June 30, 2006. The meeting resulted in approving of the company’s annual report, the accounting report, including the profit and loss statement, and profit distribution. The shareholders also decided to pass a dividend for 2005 and elected five Members of the Board: Oleg Slinkov, Anatoliy Chevardin, Venera Titova, Igor Nesterov, and Sergey Skudnov. The Board of Directors remuneration fund was set at 100,000 RUR. The participants of the meeting agreed on the amendments to the company’s Charter, elected the

Tashragolskiy and Abakanskiy subsidiaries of Evrazruda JSC (Russian ore maker and part of Evraz Group) have been testing the new anchoring technologies consisting in replacing the old organic steel anchorage with the modern polymerous steel kind in the areas where mine working is most intense and there is greater risk of bolting going loose. The greatest advantage of this polymerous steel anchorage consists in being able to take a much greater load than the organic steel one, which allows for much improves safety of mine working in the areas where the rock is less stable than elsewhere.

Ural Airlines JSC outbid its rivals in the bidding coming from Personnel Training and Retraining Department of Government of Yakutia/Sakha; the preferred carrier will service the students studying in colleges and universities of Yekaterinburg. There were ten applicants altogether. ‘The criteria for the final decision included the pricing policy, high quality service, and safety,’ the leading executive of the Department Ivan Neustroev said to UrBC representative. ‘Ural Airlines have transferred students from Yakutia at the instance of our Department in the past, so ours is a long-term

Airbus 350 belonging to S7/Siberia Airlines JSC had to perform emergency landing in Irkutsk at 7 AM Moscow time today. The aircraft was on flight 778 from Moscow to Irkutsk. Suspected aircraft decompression is reported to have become the possible cause of the accident. There were 170 passengers aboard the plane. ‘There are no casualties, and the incident is not being investigated at the moment,’ PR Director of Russian Federation Department of Transportation Timur Hikmatov said to UrBC representative.

Within a period of two and half years, Russian Copper Company has already invested over $120m in multi-layered upgrading of Karabashmed of Chelyabinsk Region, where Russian Copper Company is the controlling shareholder. This resulted in Karabashmed becoming a modern, efficient, and environmentally safe enterprise. According to the spokesperson for Russian Copper Company, the first stage of modernization included restoration of metallurgical production at the half-ruined site. The second stage consisted in putting up some recycling facilities in order to deal with the disastrous environmental

The shareholders of UralAutoPritsep decided to use the company’s profit made in 2005 to make up for the previous losses. This decision was made in the course of the annual general meeting that took place in Moscow on June 23, 2006. The meeting was attended by the shareholders and their authorized representatives who possessed the total of 2,407,567 votes, or 65.8% of the company’s voting stock. The shareholders approved of the company’s annual report, the accounting report, including the P&L statement, and agreed to the recommendation made by the Board of Directors (the Board suggested

Due to lack of profit, the shareholders of Chelyabinsk Airport JSC decided to pass dividend for 2005 in the course of the annual general meeting on June 21, 2006. The meeting was attended by shareholders possessing 82.1113% of votes. The shareholders approved of the company’s annual report, the accounting report, including the P&L statement, and decided not to distribute the non-existent profit and to declare a zero dividend. The participants of the meeting elected the Members of the Board: Vera Evsyukova, Alexander Merten, Viktor Mironenko, Sergey Solntsev, Alexei Savchenkov, Alexander

Deputy General Director and Technical Director of RosEnergoAtom Nikolai Sorokin visited Beloyarskaya nuclear power station on July 11, 2006 in order to hold a meeting with the station management. Mr Sorokin examined the constriction site of the new BN-800 feeding unit as well as the currently operating BN-600, reports the spokesperson for the station. The meeting was devoted to the current state of the units, the construction process, and the possible solutions to the following problems: safe storage of spend fuel from units 1 and 2 in the cooling ponds, extending the estimated life of BN-600

The shareholders of Electrometallurgical Industrial Complex of Chelyabinsk JSC will receive no dividend for 2005; such was the decision made at the company’s annual general meeting on June 29, 2006. The attendees also approved of the company’s annual report for 2005 and of the accounting report, including the profit and loss statement. They agreed to pass a dividend for 2005 as well. The shareholders elected seven Members of the Board (Yuriy Antipov, Vladimir Karnoukhov, Igor Katsina, Alexander Kretov, Pavel Khodorovskiy, Alexander Sheikin, Sergey Varlamov), and the inspection committee.

‘Since the company has no license at the moment, Sredneuralskiy Winery Ltd. (part of AVS-Group) has to hold up production for the time being. This lack of license is also the reason why we still have not been able to obtain the second batch of excise duty stamps. We have already received the first batch okay, but receiving the second one appears to be more difficult,’ the company’s employee Olga Cherepanova said to UrBC representative. ‘Whether the winery is going to bottle Moldavian wine remains to be seen. All I can say is, we are definitely going to bottle different kinds of port,’ Ms

The net profit of Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Magnitogorsk JSC has come to 15.525 billion RUR in the first six months of 2006, which is 10.8% less than in January to June 2005 (17.410 billion), says the company’s report. The complex has made 72.3bn RUR within the given period, with the prime cost going up by 2.9% (from 49.654bn to 51.110bn); the company’s pre-tax profit has gone down from 23.122bn to 20.600bn RUR.

Ural Airlines JSC won the tender coming from Personnel Training and Retraining Department of Government of Yakutia/Sakha; the winning carrier will service the students studying in colleges and universities of Ural Federal District. There were five applicants altogether, one of them being Yakutia Airlines. Given Yakutia’s geographical position (this part of Russia is quite distanced from major educational and scientific facilities), the Government of the republic puts a lot of effort into holding and supervising the annual campaigns aimed at giving their students a chance to get a degree in

Three new magnetic filters have recently been installed at the processing shop of Vanadium Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise of Kachkanar (part of Evraz Group), which is part of the complex renovation program. The enterprise bought 15 new magnetic filters made by Rudgormash of Voronezh at the beginning of March. In April, the company’s technicians from the repair center installed the first seven filters in the magnetic separation area. This renovation is targeted at increasing the efficiency of ore processing technologies, namely, at making the process less expensive. The upgrading should

The management of Vanadium Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise of Kachkanar JSC (part of Evraz Group) decided to set up a new department that would deal in designing a long-term development strategy for the company. The experts from this department are expected to both thoroughly calculate the potentially fruitful projects and adapt the existing technological advances to the specific conditions of the company’s production process, reports the spokesperson for Evraz Group.

The shareholders of Electrometallurgical Industrial Complex of Chelyabinsk decided to reorganize the company by merging with Manganese Komi JSC of Inta, Komi, and Vladprom and Co. CJSC of Vladivostok. The corresponding agreement was approved of at the AGM by 631,505,117 votes, or 99.996% of the company’s voting stock. 945 votes, or .00015% of the voting stock, voted against the decision. The shares of Electrometallurgical Industrial Complex of Chelyabinsk in the authorized capitals of both companies now come to 100% (compared to the previous 20%); these changes were registered on April 7,

Ferroalloys Works of Kluychevsk, a joint-stock company, produced 808,615 tons of goods in January to June 2006. The ferrochrome output came to 2,509 tons (including the 864 tons to be exported). The output of ferrotitanium went up to 2,620 tons, and the output of metallochrome decreased by 18% and now stands at 2,979 tons. The company has already made 61.669 million RUR of profit in the first six months of 2006, the spokesperson for Ferroalloys Works of Kluychevsk and Russian Chrome 1915 said to UrBC representative.