UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 13, 2016. ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) is going to supply over 2,000,000 kg of pipes to Podolski Machine-Building Plant in Kaliningrad Region before the end of October, the company press service reports. The pipes are meant for making equipment to be used at two emerging power stations, Primorskaya and Pregolskaya. The plant is to supply to customer a set of 32mm to 219mm electric-welded and boiler pipes (layer thickness 4mm to 36mm, length p to 16.04m). It was the customer’s proviso that all the pipes should undergo Introtest’s unique

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 13, 2016. Ural Airlines introduced a new, scheduled flight from Saint Petersburg to Tomsk and back, the air carrier’s press service reports. The flight will be available every Tuesday starting from October 4 2016, and every Friday as well starting from November 1, 2016 and until the end of winter. ‘Saint Petersburg is one of Russia’s primary economic and cultural hubs, with many names, including perhaps the most romantic one of Northern Venice: there are almost as many bridges there as there are in Venice, Italy. The Russian city is enormously popular with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 13, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Exhibition Hall opened for visitors at night time for the first time in the head plant’s history. This was a family night modeled on the Long Night of Museums event at Ural Vagon Zavod’s armored vehicle and history museums. According to the company press service, over five hundred people came to the event coordinated in celebration of the corporation’s 80th anniversary. ‘The family night took place on the eve of Tankman’s Day. This is the 70th time it has been celebrated, with a historic reenactment of the very first

UrBC, Moscow, September 13, 2016. The number of Russians traveling abroad in the first half of 2016 dropped by 28% compared with one year earlier, TASS refers to Russian Union of Travel Industry’s press secretary Irina Tyurina as saying. ‘The overall picture looks quite interesting: 3,970,500 trips were made abroad between January and June 2016, which signifies a 28% decline,’ Tyurina said. According to Tyurina, ‘the decrease obviously has to do with the unavailability of last year’s most popular destinations, Egypt and Turkey.’ ‘No other beach holiday locations could make up for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 13, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region division of Rosimushchestvo (the state property control agency) is putting the telecommunications facility developer Uralstroysvyaz up to auction, the agency’s press service reports. Available to bidders are 82,868 ordinary registered paperless shares (100% of the company’s authorized capital). The shares’ total face value is estimated at 82.868m RUR. Uralstroysvyaz owns three pieces of real estate in Kosmonavtov Ave in Yekaterinburg (total area 1,611.7 m2) that are currently rented out to tenants and a non-encumbered land allotment

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2016. The Russian band N.E.V.A. is going to perform in Yekaterinburg’s Akademichesky District on September 11 as part of the national support festival, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. ‘This new band is already well-known on a national scale; they were among the top five performers on the last day of this year’s Novaya Volna Contest in Sochi,’ the press service says. The festival will appeal to adults and children alike and will run in Akademichesky for the entire day. Starting from 1 PM, a number of interactive entertainment locations will open

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation handed over its 10,000th innovative railcar to Russian Railways’ Federal Freight Company (FGK) in the course of a special ceremony in Nizhniy Tagil; the two parties also signed a memorandum of cooperation, with the intention of working together in the design and development of innovative railcars for Russian railways. According to Ural Vagon Zavod’s press service, the ceremony was attended by Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev, Federal Freight Company Director-General Alexei Taicher, and Ural Vagon Zavod

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2016. Sinara Development is about to complete yet another apartment building in Volgograd’s Novy Svet District, with commissioning scheduled for December. There is a 5% discount on all new homes till October 31, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. ‘The new sixteen-storey building has comfortable elevators, improved entrances, a video surveillance room on the first floor, high ceilings, and panorama windows in the lofts. The hallways are all complete in bright colors and unique patterns, which adds to the comfortable living standards of Novy Svet,’ the Center

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 12, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil and the local blood bank coordinated a blood donation day for the first time in the company’s history, the corporation’s press service reports. A portable blood donation station was set up in the square next to Ural Vagon Zavod’s I.V. Okunev Palace of Culture. The idea is to involve as many health-eligible employees in the blood donation movement as possible and possibly persuade them to become regular donors. Head of Nizhniy Tagil Blood Transfusion Station Nelya Petrova thanked the plant’s

UrBC, Moscow, September 12, 2016. Russia’s Labor Ministry is currently working on proposals to further increase the minimum wage amount, Prime refers to Labor Minister Maxim Topilin as saying. ‘As regards the minimum wage, I’d like to point out that the benchmark got raised by 26% this year, and some of the constituencies and employers are already reporting that this is causing a painful increase in their spending. Still, we intend to keep presenting our proposals on further floor wage increase as our team are working on these,’ the Labor Minister said at a meeting dedicated to job safety

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 9, 2016. Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev presented state awards to two employees of ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ). According to the company press service, repair technician Sergei Rykov and Head of Production Support Group at the plant’s Pipe-Drawing Department Raushan Fauzetdinov received the For Merit to the Fatherland Medals. Sergei Rykov has worked at the plant for four decades and is a highly skilled worker with qualifications in three different professions. Raushan Fauzetdinov came to the work at the plant thirty years ago

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 9, 2016. Russian Copper Company’s copper cathode and wire rod manufacturer Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant set a cathode production record recently, the company press service reports. The plant’s Copper Electrolysis Department OEM 1 produced 7,504,414 kg of cathodes and Department OEM 2 produced 3,496,062 kg of cathodes in August 2016 (11,000,476 kg all in all). The company press service reports the dramatic production output increase was brought about by two factors. Firstly, the electrolysis process settings got optimized so that the direct manufacture time

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 9, 2016. Passage Cinema in Yekaterinburg is going to host the First Ural Open Festival of Russian Cinema. Russia’s cult directors and actors Vladimir Menshov, Sergei Solovjev, and Mikhail Efremov are bringing their best ‘invisible films’ to the local audience, Obshchestvo Malysheva 73’s press service reports. ‘Strange as it may seem, the Russian film industry keeps coming up with ‘invisible films’ that just don’t get shown anywhere, not because they are bad, but because the movie theaters need box office hits here and now. So these are the short-lived

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 9, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation signed as many as six important and promising agreements with Russia’s Defense Ministry on the second day of the Army 2016 Forum; these deals amount to over 8bn RUR altogether, the company press service reports. This is the first time contracts got signed during an exhibition after the Defense Minister officially allowed this on August 4, 2016. The agreements were signed by Deputy Minister Yuri Borisov on the Defense Ministry’s behalf. On Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s part, two agreements were signed by Uraltransmash

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 9, 2016. Rosatom Corporation’s SverdNIIkhimmash won a tender for the delivery of an evaporation unit for SIBUR Holding’s Zapsibneftehim, the company press service reports. Some ten different companies competed in the tender, offering, among others, European and American evaporation units. Still, SverdNIIkhimmash’s product was chosen as the best combination of given performance parameters and overall lifecycle-long cost. The unit will be used at a petroleum-processing plant in Tobolsk (currently under construction) starting from early 2018. ‘Getting this order is

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 8, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation took part in the 2nd International Army 2016 Forum in Patriot Park in Moscow Region, the company press service reports. The forum was only open for registered visitors on September 6. The first King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa came to Ural Vagon Zavod’s stand with Russian Vice Premier Dmitri Rogozin and the corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko and was demonstrated the company’s innovative and promising developments. Oleg Sienko pointed to the company head plant’s first flatcar 13-192-01 and the upgraded

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 8, 2016. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) delivered a set of its premium pipe products to Yamal SPG as part of the two companies’ agreement for the year 2016, the company press service reports. TMK has been supplying Yamal SPG with premium pipes since 2012; these are needed for the development of Yuzhno-Tambeyskoye Depost in the north-east of Yamal Peninsula. In 2014, the two parties signed an agreement to work together till 2020. TMK has delivered 4,700,000 kg of pipes to Yamal this year so far, including 178mm, 245mm, and 324mm casings with TMK UP PF and TMK UP

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 8, 2016. Russian Copper Company is acting as one of the general sponsors for Metroshka Children’s Amateur Football Festival this year; the festival is held in sixteen different towns in Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk Regions, the company press service reports. The competition is coordinated by Chelyabinsk Region-based Metro74 newspaper group, with some support from Governor of Chelyabinsk Region and Chelyabinsk Region PE & Sports Ministry. The festival was first held in the town of Trekhgorny in 2002 and has been organized in late August for fifteen years now,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 8, 2016. Rossiya Segodnya International Media Group and Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation came up with a special magazine that carries a feature on the corporation’s double-section crawler Vityaz, the company press service reports. The idea is to introduce the readers to Ural Vagon Zavod’s promising developments. This is the third time a feature on the company produce appears in Rossiya Segodnya’s editions; the first one was dedicated to the heavy flamethrower system TOS-1A (which has no counterparts anywhere else in the world at the moment) and second one to the T-90MS

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 8, 2016. Yekaterinburg’s Akademichesky District, KORTROS Corporation’s flagship project, is currently Russia’s fourth largest investment project in the building/development sector, INFOLine’s research findings indicate. It is reported the project requires $15bn worth of investments in total, which figure makes Akademichesky unique both on Russia’s civil construction and housing markets. These are only the oil and gas industry and transport infrastructure development projects that actually cost more to implement. Nearly all of the country’s top five largest-scale