UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 17, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region-based employers owed their workers 9.437m RUR in terms of delayed wages and salaries as of October 1, 2016; this was 16.3 times more than one year earlier. According to Sverdlovskstat, the overall amount of wage arrears rose by 1.8% by October 1, 2016 compared with September 1, 2016.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 14, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Yurginsky Machine-Building Plant in Kemerovo is now making powered support units for Gramoteinskaya Mine, the company press service reports. A pilot unit was tried out in accordance with a specially developed procedure at the plant’s testing stand in early September. The unit was then presented to the customer once the tests had been completed. The power support unit designers pointed out the new product’s key advantages: ‘For one, the unit relies on hydraulic props where the working fluid pressure remains the same in both

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 14, 2016. Sinara Development came up with a performance report on the first year of its Yekaterinburg Arena Construction Project, Sinara Group’s press service reports. The general contractor for re-building Yekaterinburg Central Stadium in time for the world football championship of 2018 by now had the roof pylons and supports completed, the inner roof ring assembled, and all the concrete frames for the northern and southern spectator stands installed. Builders are currently working on the outer roof ring, putting up the western and the eastern spectator stands,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 14, 2016. Metcombank offers its customers Round customs card free of charge until the end of November. According to the bank’s press service, the offer is valid for corporates and sole traders. Round customs card is meant for paying customs duties right at the customs point anywhere throughout the country; the card conveniently eliminates the need for pre-payment. ‘A Round cardholder can transfer money into their card account online. The payment goes through in a matter of minutes, with the amount showing in the customs officer’s Customer Accounts system,’ the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 14, 2016. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems got certified for compliance with the winter/fall preparation standards in the upcoming heating season of 2016/2017, the company press service reports. The certificate proves that the company took all the measures necessary to ensure reliable power supply in winter in time and in full. ‘All the maintenance and repair jobs were carried out in accordance with the year’s schedule. 2,000 new insulators, 262 vent fingers, 283 supports, and 1,400 support foundations got replaced or reinforced in the mains

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 14, 2016. The price of beef went up by 11.5% on Yekaterinburg market in September 2016 compared with September 2015, Rosstat reports. A kilo of beef could be had for 347.97 RUR on average last month, compared with 312.01 RUR a year earlier. As for Sverdlovsk Region on the whole, beef prices went up by 7.9%, from 320.14 RUR in September 2015 up to 345.47 RUR last month. The country’s average dropped by 0.25%, from 313.63 RUR down to 312.86 RUR per 1 kg of meat.

UrBC, Moscow, October 13, 2016. Only 20% of Sverdlovsk Region-based families can afford to buy a car that costs 470,000 RUR on credit, RIA Rating reports. Also, only 5.6% of the agency’s research subjects can afford to buy a car that costs 1.2m RUR on credit. A car that costs 5m RUR is only affordable for 0.5% of Ural families. As for the country on the whole, over a third of households based in seven different constituencies can afford to buy and operate a new car that costs 470,000 RUR, while an average family can afford to buy a used car, at least. The share of such families is as high as

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 13, 2016. Prices on Yekaterinburg existing home market dropped by 0.5% (down to 68,243 RUR per m2 on average) in the last four weeks, Ural Real Estate Chamber reports. It is reported that the price decrease stopped for a while in July and August, but the downward trend was there again in mid-September. Average asking price dropped by 0.4% for centrally located apartments in September and thus came to 96,618 RUR per m2. The next priciest apartments near the centrally located ones grew 0.2% less expensive (down to 73,081 RUR per m2). Prices in the city’s third and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 13, 2016. Pipe Metallurgical Company’s Sinara Pipe Plant made and delivered to Surgutneftegaz 788,700 kg of GOST R 53366-2009 Type Q cold-proof casing pipes (diameter: 146.1mm, strength grade: N80) with TMK UP FMC threaded joints, Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) reports. The casing pipes with TMK UP FMC threaded joints are meant to be used at oil and natural gas deposits and gas condensate fields in the Polar North (operation temperature down to sixty degrees centigrade below zero). The pipes get installed at vertical and inclined wells (drift angle build-up 3.3

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 13, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s 4th Youth Conference closed in Nizhniy Tagil, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. Scientifically-minded representatives of the holding’s eight member enterprises based in the Urals, Siberia, and Ukraine took part in the event. The four days of the conference were spent handling the contest challenges and drafting improvement proposals for the holding’s technological and repair divisions. ‘It makes me happy to see that our younger workers come up with bold ideas and have the confidence to defend their point. EVRAZ keeps introducing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 13, 2016. Over sixty employees of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s machine-building member enterprise Vityaz in Bashkortostan received honorary certificates for their outstanding performance, the company press service reports. NC machine operator Nikolai Skornyakov, who has worked at Vityaz for thirty-four years now, and electric welder Radik Nabiullin, who has been with the plant for three decades, received Russia’s Industry & Trade Ministry’s certificates. Turner from the company’s Assembly Department Iskandar Sitdikov was given the Republic of Bashkortostan’s

UrBC, Moscow, October 12, 2016. The cost of an average shopping basket went up by 12% in Ural Federal District in September 2016 and came to 429 RUR, Romir Research Holding reports. According to Romir’s research findings, a Russian shopper spent 528 RUR per supermarket visit on average last month, which was 30 RUR, or 6% more than in August. Prices rose most noticeably in Central Federal District, where the average spend went up by as much as 10.5% in the course of one month and reached 600 RUR. Prices also increased in the country’s north-west, where the figure came to 614 RUR (up 7% on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2016. Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo International Airport offered its services to 3,258,557 people in the nine months of 2016, which was 2.8% less than one year earlier, the airport press service reports. 2,397,712 people were passengers on domestic flights (up 14% on a year earlier), 860,845 people were passengers on international flights (up 31% on a year earlier). Only Russian cities, namely, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Sochi, Simferopol, and Novosibirsk, were among the the five most popular travel destinations. Over ten new flights were made available at Koltsovo

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2016. Sverdlovsk Railways forwarded less cargo in the last three months than the company did in the previous quarter; this holds for all the eight main cargo categories, the company press service reports. The freight forwarder handled 9.8m tons of chemical and mineral fertilizers in the third quarter of 2016 (-8.3% on the previous quarter), 105.4 tons of grains (-7.4%), 7.3m tons of ferrous metals (-6.8%), 1.6m tons of timber (-5.1%), 1.9m tons of cement (-2.7%), 1.8m tons of scrap ferrous metals (-1.4%), 2.8m tons of chemicals and sodium carbonate (-0.4%),

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2016. The asking price on Yekaterinburg new home market came to 69,891 RUR per m2 on average in the third quarter of the year, which was 0.2% more than in the previous quarter, Novosel reports. Centrally located new apartments grew 10.1% less expensive (down to 118,226 RUR per m2), those next to the centrally located ones (in the city’s second costliest districts) grew 1% less expensive (down to 72,577 RUR per m2). Housing prices in Yekaterinburg’s third, fourth, and fifth (the remotest and the least expensive) districts went down by 0.3% (down to 61,566 RUR

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant was founded eighty years ago today. The plant’s very first railcars came off the assembly lines on October 11, 1936, the company press service reports. Russia’s Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy Vladimir Putin signed a decree a few days earlier to award Ural Vagon Zavod with an honorary certificate ‘for helping to strengthen the country’s defense capacity and the development of up-to-date military vehicles and weaponry’. ‘Ural Vagon Zavod is the leading rolling stock manufacturer in the 1,520-mm zone and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 11, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Volchansky subsidiary is working to fulfill an order for twelve scale test railcars VPV-135K. The plant is currently getting the eighth car assembled, the company press service reports. The corporation started making scale test cars in 2013 and has manufactured twenty-seven units since then, including the twenty-four cars that were produced at Volchansky. Twenty-one scale test cars are already in use at railways; Volchansky is planning to make at least ten more such makes next year as well. ‘The scale test car VPV-135K is

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 11, 2016. The All-Russian Research-To-Practice Tankprom 3 Conference closed at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s Culture Palace in Nizhniy Tagil, the company press service reports. ‘The conference served as a springboard for further research and regional studies. We keep working on Tankrpom Museum, and such forums are definitely a good thing,’ says Ural Vagon Zavod Exhibition Center Director Alla Pislegina. ‘A proposal was made for Patriot Park Museum to liaise with Ural Vagon Zavod Exhibition Center. For one, an Ural Vagon Zavod-themed exhibition will

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 11, 2016. The Managing Director of EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) Alexei Kushnarev has also been appointed Managing Director of the holding’s Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (KGOK), EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. ‘Alexei Kusharev will manage both of EVRAZ Holding Ural’s member enterprises, which is expected to enhance cooperation efficiency of KGOK and its major customer NTMK, ensure synergy and unification of the two plants’ business processes, improve their management flow, and result in better

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 11, 2016. Some 5,000 ChTPZ Group’s employees, their children, and long-service employees now in retirement stayed at the company health resorts during the summer months of 2016. The Group directed more than 55m RUR to funding their stays, the company press service reports. Another 20m RUR were spent on health resort and children’s camp infrastructure repairs in time for the season’s takeoff. The Group’s employees went to Lesnaya Skazka and Sosnovy Bor Resorts and benefited from their Anti-Stress and Healthy Spine offers as well as engaged in climbing, rope