UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 5, 2016. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) shipped a set of seamless pipes to Saransk, where they will be used to put up Mordovia Arena Stadium in time for the world football championship of 2018. According to the company’s PR Department, the contractor has received 210,000 kg of seamless pipes (diameter: 219mm and 426mm) made of 440C steel this year so far. This is not the first time TMK delivers pipes for Saransk stadium: the company also supplied 1,600,000 kg of pipes for the stadium’s metal frames last year. TMK has been supplying its produce for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 5, 2016. Some 1,500 employees of EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) took part in civil defense and emergency drills recently, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. The drills took two days to complete and involved several of EVRAZ NTMK departments. On the first day, the trainees had to deal with a simulated emergency at a power station’s boiler plant: the roof ‘got partially destroyed’ and a natural gas pipeline ‘had a gap in it’. On the second day, the task was to handle emergencies at the blast-furnace department and test

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 5, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s member enterprise Vityaz is now working on two-section full-track carriers DT-30PM that are meant for carrying weapons and military and special-purpose equipment, the company press service reports. ‘The vehicles will be used in the military units currently stationed in the Arctic, so we specifically focused on cabin insulation, speedy engine start-up, and so on. The tractor is fitted with a modern APZH30 heater and an improved engine cooling system,’ the press service says. The carrier is designed to pass through any kind of

UrBC, Moscow, October 4, 2016. The number of Russians officially registered as jobless came to 869,848 people last month, Prime refers to the Russian Labor Ministry representatives as stating. ‘The number of job-seekers registered with the state-run employment agencies dropped by 1.4% between September 21 and September 28, 2016 and reached 869,848 people (against 881,980 people on September 21),’ the ministry says. It is also reported that the number of jobless rose in twelve federal constituencies, among them Ingushetia, Yakutia, Sevastopol, Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region, and Murmansk

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 4, 2016. Sinara Group’s charity fund ran its annual Give Their Smiles Back to Kids blood donation campaign for the last two weeks in order to help children patients from Yekaterinburg cancer clinic, the company press service reports. As usual, employees of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK), Sinara Group, SKB-Bank, Sinara Transport Machines, STM-Service, TMK-Chermet, TMK-Neftegazservis, Sinara Development, Seversky Pipe Plant, Ural Diesel Motor Plant, and Ural Locomotives came to donate their blood. All in all, some 90-plus workers from Sinara Charity Fund’s sponsor

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 4, 2016. A movie dedicated to the Great Patriotic War veterans born in the South Urals that was created by Ural1 and Russian Copper Company won the Best Internet Project Prize at Motherland in My Heart, an online media and television festival focused on patriotically inclined media products, Russian Copper Company’s press service reports. Around a hundred projects from all over the country got submitted for the contest. Some ten projects made it to the final selection round, including this film by Ural 1 financed by Russian Copper Company. The judges, Russia’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 4, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation took part in the 9th International Conference on Rail Machine-Building during the Innoarans 2016 Exhibition in Berlin, the corporation’s press service reports. During the conference, winners of Russian Railways’ 7th annual rolling stock and technical systems quality contest received their awards. Russian Railways coordinate the contest in order to help bring the produce they use in compliance with the modern technical requirements, cut maintenance costs throughout a product’s lifespan, improve the goods’ quality and ensure

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 4, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Plant 9 got two new stretching and rolling machines as part of its retooling program, the company press service reports. Once the equipment got delivered, the manufacturer’s representative arrived at the plant to get the mill assembled and to train the mill’s future operators. ‘The stretching and rolling machines are meant for forming and pre-bending of cylinder- and conically shaped shells made of rolled steel sheets. Since we make cylinders and casing coves out of steel sheets, such mills are essential,’ says Boris

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 3, 2016. EVRAZ Holding Ural’s EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) and EVRAZ Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (KGOK) recently held a professional skills contest among its managerial staff, the company press service reports. The contest was coordinated in several stages in the course of three months. The competition rounds aimed to reveal the contestants’ team leadership qualities, purposefulness, and systemic thinking. This was the first time that the two finalist teams - the ones from NTMK and KGOK - were both from EVRAZ

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 3, 2016. Workers of Russian Copper Company’s Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant received state awards at the Governor of Chelyabinsk Region’s office on September 26, the company press service reports. Based on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decree, Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky presented the For Merit to the Fatherland Medals (Class II) to smelter from the plant’s Copper-Smelting Department Alexander Kuklev and a long-service employee and former electrolysis operator at the Electrolysis Department Ivan Masyo for their work achievements,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 3, 2016. Russian Copper Company’s charity fund coordinated a special event for children and employees at Alenushka, a kindergarten for visually impaired children in Kyshtym, the company press service reports. The company helped coordinate two performances of a play called Khnyka & Gyka at the kindergarten. ‘This is a spectacular and unusual piece by Live Theater, a traveling musical theater run by the composer, playwright, and legendary ‘Grandfather of Ural Rock’ Alexander Pantykin. The play is special in that it presents live sound, live musical instruments,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 3, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry Plant (KULZ) started putting up a new boiler plant, the corporation’s press service reports. Just like the one currently in use, the future boiler plant will provide electric power for KULZ facilities, at a new level of technological excellence. ‘The new boiler plant only uses hot water rather than hot water and steam, which is much more energy efficient. This will result in considerable natural gas and electric power savings for the plant,’ says KULZ Senior Power Engineer Sergey Selishchev. According

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 3, 2016. Metcombank’s Akademichesky branch in Yekaterinburg turns six on September 30, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Metcombank is working closely with the locals and was the first bank to open a branch in this new district. Also, the bank has been offering a special loyalty card for Akademichesky residents for four years now,’ the press service says. Akademichesky Loyalty Card is a bank card that allows its holder to receive bonuses when paying their housing and phone bills, pay kindergarten fees and for school lunches commission-free, and get quite a few

UrBC, Moscow, September 30, 2016. The International Ski Federation (FIS) announced on its website that their Ski Jumping World Cup championship 2016/2017 won’t be held in Nizhniy Tagil, Sport Express reports. The city of Nizhniy Tagil was supposed to host women’s and men’s competition rounds on December 11-13. The federation, however, was unhappy with the organization of the event: the city appears to lack the necessary infrastructure and, besides, the previous championship’s prize money was not paid to the winners in time.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 30, 2016. Demand for ready-made businesses dropped by 17% on Yekaterinburg market in August 2016 compared with one year earlier (the country’s average decrease was 7%), the website Avito’s press service informs UrBC. Businesses in the tertiary sector sell best: such deals made up 30.5% of all market sales in August 2016 (-6.6% on a year earlier). Companies dealing in trade are the second most popular choice (their market share came to 22.7% (+2.1% on a year earlier), followed by catering (15.7%, up 2.4% on a year earlier), online sales (8.3%, up 2.1%),

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 30, 2016. Thirty-nine criminal lawsuits involving debt collectors allegedly applying illegitimate persuasion methods were instituted in Yekaterinburg by local public prosecution authorities, their press service reports. Following Sverdlovsk Region’s Public Prosecutor’s order, 362 pre-investigation check dossiers filed at Yekaterinburg police stations were looked into and inspected in September 2016. The checks all started after local citizens submitted their complaints regarding the illegitimate actions of micro-financing organizations’ and collection agencies’

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 30, 2016. Obshchestvo Malysheva 73, one of the Urals’ largest developers, reports they adopted a new brand name for some of their construction projects, the company press service reports. The company’s new housing projects will now be branded as Greenwich-Zhilaya Nedvizhimost. ‘Everyone knows about Greenwich Shopping Mall in Yekaterinburg, where it is located, and how to get there. Customers need to trust their developer and to understand clearly what they invest in. So an association with a well-known building is crucial. A developer which owns an asset as big

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 30, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation took part in the 12th annual RAEX-600 Forum in Moscow, the company press service reports. The forum was attended by high-profile President Administration officials, national ministries’ representatives, and Russia’s leading businesses’ owners and top managers. RAEX-600 Rating featuring the country’s largest companies was presented in the course of the forum’s plenary session. The ranking helps to look into performance and prospects of all the key economic sectors in the country. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation both made it to

UrBC, Moscow, September 29, 2016. Despite the inflation rate slowing down a bit in August, people’s factual pay kept going down for the second month in a row both in annual and month-by-month comparison terms, Finmarket refers to the Central Bank’s August reports as stating. Pay rise practices are growing increasingly more heterogeneous: for one, the difference in how salaries and wages get adjusted in the private and public sectors is now greater than ever. The public sector employees’ pay goes up most slowly and least noticeably. The unemployment rate declined from 5.6% in May and June down

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 29, 2016. The share of non-performing loans in the overall amount of consumer loans issued in Sverdlovsk Region now comes to 20.84%, National Credit History Bureau reports. All in all, the area’s consumer loan market rose by 36.75% in the course of this year. ‘Micro-financing policies vary from one federal constituency to another, depending on the specific risks that matter both to market players and to their customers. Micro-financing organizations operating in high-risk territories need to pay special attention to their risk procedures when considering