UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 17, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Kamensk Uralsky Foundry Plant (KULZ) coordinated a professional skills contest among its volunteer firefighting teams. The contest was held at the company’s firefighting unit, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘The teams had to go through two rounds of competition. First, they had to put on their firefighting uniform as quickly as possible. The next task was to unfold the primary and the additional hose lines, take the applicator up to the second floor of a prop tower, and hit a target with the stream. Last year, the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region-based courts sustained 1.773bn RUR worth of claims laid against taxpayers by local fiscal authorities in the first half of the year. All in all, 426 claims (2.86bn RUR in total) were heard in courts in January-June, which means that 62% of the overall claim amount got sustained. Most of these court cases involved legal entities: there were 296 claims laid against them (2.339bn RUR in total), 38 claims laid against sole traders (73.5m RUR in total), and 92 claims laid against private individuals (447.3m RUR in total).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2016. The amount of international shipments Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo International Airport handled this year has been going down since January, the airport’s press service reports. ‘Domestic cargo traffic, on the other hand, has been increasing noticeably. The airport used to have more international cargo earlier, but now domestic consignments prevail. This year so far, we dealt with more than 7,757,000 kg of domestic cargo (up 73% one one year earlier) and 5,514,000 kg of international cargo (up 5.5%)’, the press service says. The airport processed 13,271,000

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region’s construction market amounted to 41.79bn RUR in money terms in the first half of the year, which is 2% less than one year earlier (40.691bn RUR), Rosstat reports. Last year’s overall amount dropped by 15.2% by the end of December (down to 92.366bn RUR), and by 8.9% in the first quarter of 2016 (down to 18.37bn RUR).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 16, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant won in the Best Employer Contest in Nizhniy Tagil, the company press service reports. Mayor of Nizhniy Tagil Sergei Nosov congratulated the plant’s team during a solemn ceremony in celebration of Town Day. Nosov also awarded Chair of Ural Vagon Zavod Veterans’ Council Georgiy Bedrik with For Merit to the City of Nizhniy Tagil Decoration. ‘Ural Vagon Zavod getting the first prize in the contest is an acknowledgement of our head plant’s contribution to urban improvements and social infrastructure development in the

UrBC, Moscow, August 16, 2016. Tank Biathlon 2016, part of an international military championship held at Alabino Range in Moscow Region, rounded up with the Russian team winning the first prize. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko and Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu presented the winners with medals and keys to UAZ Patriot automobiles, their prizes. According to the company press service, eighteen teams from all over the world (Russia, Iran, Kuwait, Angola, and other places) competed in this armored vehicle control contest. The winning team got decided upon

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Plant 9 now has up-to-date ventilation equipment: welding sections at Department 27 got ten new filtering and ventilation units, the company press service reports. Every unit is essential, as these are installed next to a welder’s work area to trap gas and dust and to filter the air the mill operator is breathing. The filters provide the clean air that fully meets all the existing requirements. ‘This is a Russian-made equipment meant for specific welder’s work area that has already been zoned and protected in accordance with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company completed renovating of a processing plant at Kuznetskaya Processing Factory in Novokuznetsk, EVRAZ Siberia’s corporate relations department reports. The renovations resulted in improved coal concentrate quality and increased output (up to 60,000,000 kg a year). ‘In order to improve the coal concentrate quality, the entire processing routine had to be reorganized and a new deep-level processing section had to be added. A set of modern equipment — two hydro-clone units, spiral-coil separators, slurry centrifugal

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2016. ChTPZ Group’s Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant delivered 865,000,000 kg of pipes to their customers in the first half of the year, the company press service reports. This is, in fact, 19%, or 206,000,000 kg less than one year earlier; the decrease has to do with declining demand for large-diameter pipes (one of the Group’s key product). This has been a trend typical of all the Russian manufacturers. The Group shipped 356,000,000 kg of welded pipes to their customers in January-June 2016, including 323,000,000 kg of LDPs. This

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2016. Ural Airlines are now offering tickets for international flights operated from Moscow and Yekaterinburg at reduced prices. According to the air carrier’s press service, Russian travelers will be able to book their flights at a 20%. provided these flights are operated between September 1 and October 25 and between November 12 and December 15, 2016. Tickets can be booked at the company website, over the mobile app, or over the phone.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 15, 2016. The share of Sverdlovsk Region-based loss-making businesses rose from 32% to 35% of all companies in the area in January-May 2016 against the start of the year, Rosstat research findings indicate. In Ural Federal District on average, the figure rose from 31% to 35%. Things look their bleakest in Kurgan Region and Chelyabinsk Region, where the figures went up from 35% to 44% and from 30% to 38%, respectively.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 12, 2016. Georgiy Bedrik was elected new Chair of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant’s Veterans’ Council, the company press service reports. Georgiy Bedrik was born in Nizhniy Tagil on November 9, 1948. He came to work at the plant as a measuring equipment technician in August 1966 and graduated from Ural Polytechnic with a degree in Motor Drive & Industrial Plant Automation in 1972. Bedrik went all the way through from blue-collar jobs to managerial positions and worked as the plant’s Senior Power Engineer. Georgiy Bedrik was also involved in social and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 12, 2016. More than 3.46m people have used Ural Airlines’ services this year so far, up 18% on one year earlier, the air carrier’s press service reports. The airline operated 26,170 flights all in all (+13% on last year), including 16,490 domestic ones, 4,670 international ones, and 5,000 flights around the CIS member states. Passenger traffic has amounted to 8.15m passenger-kilometers since January 1, 2016, which exceeds the figures for a year earlier by 15%. More than 801,000 people flew with the carrier in July (up 17% on July 2015); the airline operated 5,000

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 12, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region risks losing up to 20% of possible harvest yield due to abnormally hot weather, Ural farmers informed UrBC. According to Anatoly Zhiganov, a local farmer, insufficient humidity might affect everything: grains, potatoes, and cabbage, and the yield thus might turn out even worse than last year. ‘Things will look worse this year than last summer. We did have some excessive rain, but the harvest yield was good enough after all. This year’s output will probably be around 20% smaller,’ Zhiganov said. Director of Bitimsky Farm Cooperative

UrBC, Moscow, August 12, 2016. The average receipt amount at Ural Federal District-based shops declined by 6% in July 2016 and now comes to 410 RUR, Romir Holding reports. In Russia on the whole, the average receipt amount actually rose by 1.2% in July against one month earlier and came to 510 RUR. This means that this amount has been very low for the last six months, at a level comparable with that of late 2013 and early 2014. Last month’s average receipt amount dropped by 8.8%, or 49 RUR against July 2015. Given the yearly inflation rate of 7.2%, the actual amount shrank by as much as 16%.

UrBC, Moscow, August 12, 2016. Russia’s weekly deflation rate was registered at 0.1% on August 2-8, 2016, just like one week earlier, Rosstat reports. For one, the price of fruit and vegetables dropped by 3.5% last week, including a 10.7% and an 8.2% drop in the price of tomatoes and cucumbers, respectively. Potatoes, carrots, and cabbage grew 4.1% to 4.9% less expensive, respectively, while the price of fish, eggs, rice, and pasta declined by 0.1% to 0.3%. At the same time, the price of sugar went up by 0.6%, that of toffee, buckwheat, and chicken by 0.2% to 0.4%, and that of gasoline and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 11, 2016. A play based on Alexander Gelman’s We, The Undersigned will be presented in A.S. Pushkin theater in Moscow on September 19. This play was originally performed at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in celebration of the company’s 80th anniversary. ‘We are happy to see this play acquire a life of its own,’ says Ural Vagon Zavod Deputy Director-General Alexei Zharich. According to the company press service, the play will be produced by the original cast involved in the Nizhniy Tagil first night performance. Russian actors Andrei Kuzichev, Anna

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 11, 2016. The amount of ferrous metal shipments handled by Sverdlovsk Railways in July 2016 dropped by 8.5%, down to 5.6m tons, against one year earlier, the company press service reports. Also, chemical and mineral fertilizer shipments dropped by 9.7% (down to 7.5m tons), timber shipments by 5.7% (down to 5.7m tons), iron and manganese ore shipments by 4.9% (down to 7.3m tons), chemicals and soda shipments by 4.2% (down to 2.2m tons), scrap ferrous metal shipments by 1.9% (down to 1.4m tons), and cement shipments by 0.9% (down to 1.5m tons). All in all, Sverdlovsk

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 11, 2016. A statistically average Yekaterinburg-based family will have to keep saving up for two years and one month before they can make a down payment on a new one-bedroom apartment, real estate-related website N1.RU claims. The calculations were based on the following: the average monthly pay in the area (40,886 RUR), the minimum living wage (10,638 RUR a month), average monthly per capita spending (17,651 RUR), the average price of a new one-bedroom home (3,829,800 RUR) and its average area (61 m2), and the down payment amount (20% of the total cost). Since new

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 11, 2016. The government might lift the ban on Turkish foods import before the end of the year, Rossiyskaya Gazeta refers to Russia’s Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev as stating. However, Turkish foods must be inspected for safety and compliance with Rosselkhoznadzor standards first, the minister said. The embargo was introduced on January 1, 2016. Among the banned foods were poultry, salt, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, cauliflower, broccoli, fresh and dried citrus fruits, apples, pear,s apricots, peaches, nectarines, plums, grapes, and strawberries.