UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 2, 2017. ChTPZ Group representatives took part in a recent off-site meeting coordinated by Gazprom Chair of the Board Alexei Miller, the Group’s press service reports. The meeting, held on the premises of Silovye Machiny, covered issues relating to Gazprom’s cooperation with Russian metallurgical and machine-building enterprises. The event was attended by heads of Gazprom’s core departments and daughter enterprises, top managers of the leading national pipe manufacturers and metallurgical businesses such ChTPZ Group, Pipe Metallurgical Company, United Metallurgical

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 2, 2017. The telecommunications provider MegaFon and Huawei set the absolute record of mobile Internet connection speed for Russia with their 5G network speed of 35 Gb/sec on the first day of Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, MegaFon Ural’s press service reports. ‘Exactly one year ago we were able to perform at just above 1 Gb/sec. It is symbolic that now we are back to Saint Petersburg Communications Museum with our new developments and an even greater 5G network speed. We can now state with confidence that the fifth-generation network is about to hit

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 2, 2017. Sinara Charity Foundation and SKB-Bank are coordinating a family event in Pavlik Morozov Park in Yekaterinburg on Saturday, June 3. This is a charity do dedicated to the International Children’s Day, the bank’s press service reports. The event’s agenda covers sports games and family entertainment, a grown-ups’ and a children’s race, professional performances, master classes, refreshments, prizes, and gifts. A charity marathon to promote everyday good-doing is expected to become the day’s key feature. The children’s marathon is 300 m long and the grown-ups’

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 2, 2017. ChTPZ Group’s Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) got its quality management system certified for compliance with STO Gazprom 9001-2012 standards and was one of the first to also get certified within INTERGASCERT, a voluntary certification system, the Group’s press service reports. The compliance certificate was given to the company representatives by Gazprom Chair of the Board Alexei Miller following a meeting on Gazprom’s cooperation with Russia’s metallurgical and machine-building enterprises. ‘INTERGASCERT is a system that will enhance business

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 2, 2017. The 8th EVRAZ Stars children’s talent show was recently held in Nizhniy Tagil, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press center reports. Children of the workers from the holding’s member enterprises such as EVRAZ NTMK and EVRAZ KGOK, daughter companies, and children from sponsored foster homes took part in the contest. The grand-prix went to Olesia Fedotova from EVRAZ NTMK Arts & Culture Center’s Anshlag Circus and her Moon Dream performance. Olesia Fedotova has won quite a number of international competitions in the past; she was the silver winner of the World Contest

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 1, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant gave out the Managing Director Vladimir Roschupkin Awards to winners of Physics School Championship and the best students of Ural Federal University’s Nizhniy Tagil subsidiary. The solemn awarding ceremony took place at the plant’s I.V. Okunev Culture Palace, the company press service reports. ‘Ural Vagon Zavod’s Senior Engineer Yuri Shannon congratulated the school contest winners and presented them with tablet computers. The winners are Denis Baranov, a ninth-grade student of Lyceum 39, Gleb Bannykh, an

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 1, 2017. A wheel-mounted, single-scoop, full-shovel excavator EO 33222A made at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant premiered at the construction vehicles and technologies exhibition STT 2017 in Moscow, the corporation’s press service reports. The plant’s newest development was featured among the company’s other promising designs at the corporation’s stand. EO 33222A is fitted with the 135-kilowatt strong YMZ 532 engine and an up-to-date hydro-system which ensures smooth and comfortable operation and allows for performing up to three different actions at once.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 1, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Board of Directors voted unanimously for the financial support of Sputnik Hockey Club in 2017 and 2018, the company press service reports. Sputnik’s team, sponsored by Ural Vagon Zavod, is going to represent Nizhniy Tagil and Sverdlovsk Region in Supreme Hockey League championship this season. The juniors’ team will play in the League’s competition rounds. ‘The corporation’s Director-General Alexander Potapov stressed that special attention will be paid to Sputnik Specialized Children and Youth Sports School of the Olympic

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 1, 2017. Sinara Transport Machines’ Lyudinovsky Locomotive Plant held a solemn handing-over ceremony for the first TGM8KM loco that was made within the framework of the plant’s contract with Cuban Railways, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. The event was attended by Cuban Deputy Transportation Minister Eduardo Rodriguez Davila. ‘The project took off at Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum 2016, when Cuban Railway Union, EXIAR, and Sinara Group’s Sinara Transport Machines signed a trilateral agreement on supplying locos, rail buses, and the equipment needed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 1, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region-based towns where nuclear facilities are operated will receive 900m RUR in subsidies, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. A provision to this effect was adopted at Sverdlovsk Region Government’s meeting chaired by Governor Evgeny Kuivashev on May 31. The provision sets out the terms and conditions for this year relating to money transfers from the constituency’s budget to municipalities where nuclear industrial facilities are based. The funds are to be directed to socioeconomic and infrastructure

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation got its APE 120 UVZ /T3 elastomeric unit certified for compliance with the TR TS 001/2011 Railway Rolling Stock Safety Requirements with support from its member enterprise Ural Railcar Building Design Office, the corporation’s head plant’s press service reports. Units in the T3 category are meant for freight railcars that are used to transport particularly hazardous substances. The units, developed at Ural Railcar Building Design Office, must be used, for reasons of safety, in Ural Vagon Zavod’s 15-5181 tank cars (meant for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2017. The team of EVRAZ Holding’s West-Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK) won in the 2nd corporate WorldSkills championship, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Relations Center reports. The company coordinated its second blue-collar job skills contest at EVRAZ ZSMK training site. This year, there were more categories than before; also, the number of both the championship participants and eligible age groups went up. Sixty-eight workers from the holding’s various member enterprises competed in WorldSkills all in all, and over a thousand locals,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Karabashmed in Karabash, Chelyabinsk Region is now working on the assembly of a new, fully automated copper-casting line and three new 150,000-kg converters, the company press service reports. The equipment upgrade will mean the plant’s production capacity will rise 50% compared with the year 2014, that is, up to 150,000,000 kg of crude copper a year (including up to 130,000,000 kg of crude copper obtained from mineral stock. In order to keep up with the increased production capacity, the plant is planning to also invest more in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2017. An environmental event coordinated by Trassa and Gazprom Transgaz Yekaterinburg’s trade union will take place in Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District on May 31, 2017, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The tree-planting is part of Gazprom’s Year of the Environment and is scheduled around International Children’s Day. Trassa reporters and Gazprom employees will be planting a rowan-tree alley together with their children. ‘This is the second stage of the project Akademicheskiy embarked on four years ago. In May 2013, twenty rowan-trees got planted

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 31, 2017. Ural Airlines are now offering additional discounts to their loyalty scheme Wings Club members, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘All you need to do is sign up for our Wings program on the company website. Every newcomer gets a welcome bonus (up to 1,000 RUR) upon registration; the bonus points can be immediately used as a ticket price discount, even if you have never flown with Ural Airlines before. You can later use your bonus points to partially or fully cover the cost of your plane tickets,’ the press service says. Every Wings Club member gets up

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2017. Over 1,200 people took part in Ural Vagon Zavod’s 75th track-and-field relay race, with prizes sponsored and given out by the company newspaper Mashinostroitel. This year, the race is dedicated to the newspaper’s 85th anniversary, as the very first issue came out on March 3, 1932, the company press service reports. The first relay race with prizes by Kominternovets (as the newspaper was then called) took place in 1942; in the decades that followed, the event has come to be one of the largest-scale and most popular sports occasions in town. At the start of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2017. Sinara Group and Siemens’s joint venture Ural Locomotives’ Granit 2ES10, an electric freight locomotive with an a-synchronic drive, got certified for compliance with the Customs Union’s technical requirements, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. ‘The certification tests of Granit’s three-section version were carried out at the All-Russian Railway Transport Scientific Research Institute’s experimental railway ring in Scherbinka and at Sverdlovsk Railways. The loco was subject to pull and energy efficiency tests, electromagnetic compatibility tests, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2017. The fifth railway wheel treatment line will soon get launched at EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK), EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. The contract for the delivery of all the needed equipment was signed by NTMK Managing Director Alexei Kushnarev and Niles-Simmons-Hegenscheneidt Managing Director Gero Martel. ‘We signed an agreement that is expected to result in a much greater wheel treatment output and thus to help us fully cover the home and international markets’ needs. Our partner

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) keeps improving its electronic and mobile banking services. Starting from May 25, iPhone owners who use UBRD’s m-banking services can get authenticated on the app through Touch ID, that is, with their fingerprint. According to the bank’s press service, the option was designed and launched following the many requests of UBRD online bank users. ‘Virtually every one in two pieces of our customer feedback has to do with the missing Touch ID option. This is why we tried to meet our customers’ needs by

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 30, 2017. An industrial business incubator will soon be put up in Bogoslovsky Tech Park, Sverdlovsk Region. The project design documentation has already been approved of by a state board of experts, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. Governor Evgeniy Kuivashev says Bogoslovsky is one of the area’s important growth points. ‘Our top priority is to provide the park’s residents with all the conditions they need for their business. This is a key project for this constituency,’ he says. The first 1,500-m2 section of the incubator will