UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 12, 2017. The 1st All-Russian Research-to-Practice Dual Education Conference will be held at Moscow International Education Show on April 12-14, 2017. The event is coordinated by ChTPZ Group in cooperation with the International Corporate Education Association (MAKO) and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI). According to the Group’s press service, the conference will gather together companies that have been successfully implementing their dual education projects, government bodies and NGOs representatives, and vocational school teachers. Leading experts in the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 12, 2017. Russian Copper Company directs considerable funds to working conditions and industrial safety improvements at its member enterprises every year. 759m RUR were allocated for the purpose in 2013-2016, the company press service reports. The better part of the money (42%) gets invested in working conditions improvements, 35% are used to provide uniforms and personal protection for the workers, 13% get directed to nutritional supplements, and 6%, 3%, and 3% get spent on physicals, personnel training, and disinfectants, respectively. Russian Copper Company set

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 12, 2017. Rusatom Healthcare’s Nuclear Medicine Technologies Snezhinsk recently opened a new atomedics center in Chelyabinsk and is ready to welcome patients in need of a positron emission tomography scan, Rusatom’s Communications Department says. Rusatom Healthcare is Rosatom’s daughter enterprise set up specifically with the goal of integrating businesses and technologies to do with nuclear medicine in Russia; the company relies on its own materials and equipment. Their cyclotron/radiochemical unit is Rosatom’s first integrated atomedics project that comprises the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 11, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s tank T-34-85 got rescued by an Estonian military vehicle collector, the company press service reports. The armored vehicle was made at Ural Tank Plant 183 (as Ural Vagon Zavod was known at the time) in Nizhniy Tagil and sent to the front immediately. ‘The collector contacted Ural Vagon Zavod’s Exhibition Center and informed them that he was in the possession of a T-34-85 made at the plant’s assembly line. The tank was mounted on a pedestal in Myaksa to celebrate the 40th anniversary of assault river crossing of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 11, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant’s Senior Engineer Sergey Linev was awarded the title of Russia’s Professional Engineer, the plant’s press service reports. The award was part of the 17th All-Russian Engineer of The Year Contest. ‘Engineer of The Year, coordinated by the Russian Scientific & Engineering Organizations Union, the International Scientific & Engineering Organizations Union, A.M. Prokhorov Academy of Engineering Sciences, and Interregional Public Fund for Scientific & Technological Progress, is one of the most prestigious

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 11, 2017. On April 3, 2017, STM Holding’s STM-Service’s twenty-six loco repair depots started their inspection of Russian Railways’ locos as they do every spring. According to Sinara Group’s press service, the goal is to make sure the technical safety regulations are met and to ensure good fire safety, technical, and exterior condition of the company’s fleet of locos and its unfailing performance in the summer. The inspection and maintenance will involve 5,650 electric locomotives and 1,700 diesel locos. A special work team comprising members of constituency and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 11, 2017. Public hearings were held in Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District regarding investments in Quarters 3 and 4, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The public hearings were initiated by Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev and attended by Mayor of Yekaterinburg Evgeny Roizman, Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly deputies Valentin Lappo, Elena Treskova, and Mikhail Klimenko, Deputy Head of Sverdlovsk Region Civic Chamber Vladimir Vinnitsky, Deputy Head of Yekaterinburg Duma Viktor Testov, honorary Yekaterinburg resident and honored

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 11, 2017. Ural Airlines are offering a new flight to Sochi starting from May 2, 2017 to ensure safe transfer of Ural Club football team to the final round of their championship to Sochi, the air carrier’s press service reports. The final game will be played at Fisht Stadium on May 2. The direct Yekaterinburg-Sochi flight is scheduled to depart at 8 AM and to arrive in Sochi at 9:20 AM. This is a convenient timetable that gives the club supporters a chance to be with their team at the stadium. Prices start from 8,000 RUR (one way, all fees included). The flight to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 10, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s Personnel Training Center is going to host Total Dictation for the second time this year, the company press service reports. The event will start at 1:00 PM on April 8. The participants will be invited to write down a text written by the Russian writer and Big Book Prize winner Leonid Yuzefovich. ‘The event is coordinated by Ural Vagon Zavod’s youth organization. 150 people are expected to show up at our Personnel Training Center at 28/1 Vostochnoye Rd. The two rooms are fitted with all the necessary equipment to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 10, 2017. The number of point-of-sale terminals that now accept the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s credit/debit cards went up by 15% last year. According to the bank’s press service, the number of terminals thus rose by 3,000 units. ‘Retail businesses no longer wonder whether they actually need an acquiring terminal. Since we can offer speedy service, good prices, and flexible terms and conditions to businesses, our bank is now the acquiring market leader in Ural Federal District,’ says Head of UBRD Remote Services Center Ilya Skvortsov. The Bank

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 10, 2017. Ural Airlines are opening three new direct flights from Kemerovo to Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Simferopol, the air carrier’s press service says. Starting from April 24, 2017, the airline will be operating its Kemerovo-Moscow-Kemerovo flight at 8:00 AM daily. Starting from April 28, 2017, Kemerovo-Saint Petersburg flights will be available every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Starting from May 25, 2017, Ural Airlines will be operating its Kemerovo-Simferopol flights on Thursday and Sunday mornings.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 10, 2017. Ural Airlines offer their regular customers a 10% discount on flights from Moscow to Chita, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Ulan Ude, Kemerovo, Barnaul, Omsk, Tomsk, and back, the air carrier’s press service says. The offer holds both for passengers traveling from the country’s capital and for those flying from Vladivostok and Irkutsk to Khabarovsk and those flying from Saint Petersburg to Kaliningrad. The special price is only offered to the airline’s Wings Club loyalty scheme members. The flights will be operated between April 10, 2017 and May 20, 2017 and between

UrBC, Moscow, April 10, 2017. Russian banks issued 5.3 trillion RUR worth of loans to small enterprises last year, which was 3% less than one year previously, Kommersant refers to Expert RA as stating. In 2015, however, the drop was much more noticeable and came to as much as 28% against the year 2014, with the loan book plummeting by 9%, down to 4.5 trillion RUR (a three-year low). It is reported that, were it not for the special preferential terms lending programs such as Program 6.5% (the Central Bank lends to other banks at 6.5% a year, the banks then lend to medium and small enterprises

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 7, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Electromachine recently hosted a meeting on the development of a production roadmap for the entire set of the corporation’s member enterprises. According to the holding’s press service, the goal is to optimize the production process and make it more efficient. The meeting was attended by representatives of the corporation’s fourteen member enterprises. Reports were made on the launch of lean production principles on sites, followed by a tour of Electromachine’s primary production departments. Roadmap currently comprises four

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 7, 2017. Alexei Merzlyakov was recently appointed the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s Marketing Director, the bank’s press service reports. Merzlyakov will be in charge of developing the bank’s marketing strategy, promoting its products and services, and shaping the bank’s market position. Prior to this appointment, Merzlyakov worked as Business Analytics Director at the telecommunications provider MegaFon’s head office in 2014-2017. He was responsible for efficiency management, strategic planning, and customer analytics. Merzlyakov was employed in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 7, 2017. Ural Airlines came up with a special offer for Saint Petersburg natives: prices for their Batumi-Saint Petersburg flight start from only 7,000 RUR (one way, all fees included, one piece of luggage under 23 kg included), the air carrier’s press service reports. Tickets can be booked till April 30, the flights will be operated between April 28 and October 27, 2017. The flights will be available every Monday and Friday. The airline says this is a limited offer. ‘Batumi is a very modern Georgian city, with both wonderful beaches and great entertainment venues,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 7, 2017. The average asking price came to 67,272 RUR on Yekaterinburg existing home market on April 3, 2017, Ural Real Estate Chamber’s analytical report states. The figure decreased by 0.4% in the last four weeks and by 2.9% compared with one year earlier. Homes in relatively recent buildings grew 13.7% cheaper, those in buildings dating back to the fifties and the eighties grew 17% and 17.2% cheaper, respectively. Apartments with the so-called improved layout grew 14.7% less expensive, with the average asking price at 63,723 RUR per m2. In the last four weeks,

UrBC, Moscow, April 7, 2017. Russia’s official poverty rate (the number of people with monthly incomes below the cost of living) has gone up from 13.3% in 2015 to 13.5% in 2016, Kommersant refers to Rosstat as stating. The number went up by 300,000, up to 19.8m people, which is the highest it has ever been since the year 2006. This means a decade-long attempt to overcome poverty is no longer a success. This has been brought about by the ongoing decline in people’s incomes in 2015 and 2016. Last year, Russians’ factual disposable incomes were 9.5% lower than in the year 2013, and their actual

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 6, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Director-General Alexander Potapov paid a visit to the corporation’s member enterprise Omsktransmash, the plant’s press service reports. ‘An inspection of the production site started from the assembly departments, where Alexander Potapov was shown every stage of caterpillar track assembly. Omsktransmash is currently Russia’s only plant to make caterpillar tracks for armored vehicles. Two years ago, new, hi tech equipment was installed here, which resulted in an expanded product range and increased production output,’ the press

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 6, 2017. Evrazruda’s Gurievsky branch was set up eighty-five years ago this month, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s press office reports. The company makes limestone for the metallurgical and ore processing enterprises as well as for housing developers and road builders. Its annual output currently amounts to over 1,000,000,000 kg of limestone. The company is a member of EVRAZ Holding and works with EVRAZ West Siberian Metallurgical Works as its key customer. ‘The first shipments of local limestone were sent to Kuznetsk Metallurgical Works in March 1932 to make part of their