UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 26, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Electromachine now needs 5.5% less time to get its electric motors assembled, and this at the same cost, the corporation’s press service refers to head of Lean Production Group Denis Akmedyanov as saying. The enterprise introduced a lean production committee, chaired by Electromachine Director-General Igor Afanasiev, in February 2016. Meetings are held directly on production sites, including Building 16 in March, Building 4 in April, and Building 6 in May. The agenda of these meetings covered the launch of the 5S system,

UrBC, Saint Petersburg, July 25, 2016. United Shipbuilding Corporation’s Baltic Shipyard in Saint Petersburg started working on the Ural, Russia’s second serial Project 22220 nuclear-powered icebreaker. The body of the vessel will be made entirely out of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) ship steel. MMK is going to supply some 15,000,000 kg of ship steel for the Ural altogether, their press service explains. As it happens, MMK steel was also used for the first icebreaker Arktika and the first serial ship Sibir. In fact, the plant is responsible for over 50% of all the metal goods sold

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 25, 2016. 685,660 people flew with Ural Airlines this June, which exceeds the figures for one year earlier by 20%, the company press service says. The air carrier operated 4,887 flights all in all, including 3,122 domestic flights, 1,042 international flights, and 723 flights around the CIS member states. This is 14% more than one year earlier. The company’s passenger turnover came to 1,661,397,000 passenger-kilometers in June 2016 (up 21% one June 2015). As for the entire year so far, Ural Airlines have offered their services to 2,659,801,000 passengers in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 25, 2016. Small and medium enterprises are switching to cloud telephony increasingly more often these days; the number of MegaFon subscribers using this service has tripled since the start of the year, the telecommunications provider reports. The company is confident that the demand has been rising due to obvious economic benefits and the possibility of easily setting up a contact number with a smart call-distributing system. In response to this new trend, MegaFon is offering its business customers a new option: a company can now subscribe to Hosted Telephony, get an

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 25, 2016. SKB-Bank recently came up with a new version of an m-banking app, the bank’s press service reports. The application is now available to iOS and Android smartphone users at App Store or Google Play. ‘The app offers users detailed account/deposit/loan information, allows them to make a money order or pay their bills. An m-bank user can also apply for a loan or a deposit online as well as contact our loan officers via a mobile chat. There is also card2card, a service that ensures instantaneous card-to-card cash transfer; all you need is the receiver’s card

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 25, 2016. ChTPZ Group shareholder and co-chair of Foundation for Development of Tube Industry Andrei Komarov was recently awarded the title of Russia’s Honored Metallurgist, the company press service reports. This was a way to acknowledge Komarov’s immense contribution to metallurgical industry’s development and many years of tireless work. The awarding decree was signed by Russia’s Industry & Trade Minister, while the honorary badge and the certificate were presented to Komarov by ChTPZ Chair of the BOD Alexander Fedorov. ‘Andrei Komarov is the primary

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 25, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation coordinated the company stage of the blue-collar jobs championship WorldSkills in Welding Technologies, the company press service reports. The first prize went to welder from the corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil Ilya Repin. Silver went to Dmitri Velikiy, also a head plant employee, and welder Ivan Osipovitch from the corporation’s member enterprise Uraltransmash won bronze. The winners are going to represent Ural Vagon Zavod at WorldSkills Hi Tech in Yekaterinburg this November. The corporation’s Deputy Director-General

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 22, 2016. Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev signed a decree to allocate funds to businesses in Chechnya, Dagestan, Ulyanov Region, and Sverdlovsk Region to help them keep their workers employed, the Cabinet’s website states. The decision was taken as part of the Russian Government’s crisis management plan. 313m RUR will be provided for the purpose, of which 46.449m RUR will be directed to Sverdlovsk Region. The money will be given to local businesses to help them keep locals employed. This includes workers who otherwise risk being made redundant. Additionally,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 22, 2016. Yekaterinburg’s industrial production index rose by 40.3% in January-May 2016 compared with one year earlier. For one, the IPI went up by as much as 53.6% in the processing industry, the city council’s press service reports. Large and medium enterprises in the processing sector sold their customers 130.1bn RUR worth of goods in the first five months of 2016, which exceeds the figures for one year earlier by 25.9%. ‘The increase in output was mainly due to machine-building businesses, whose sales rose by 33.8% in January-May 2016; also, vehicle and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 22, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s customers carried out over 90,000 transactions involving sale or purchase of U.S. dollars, euros, and pounds sterling in the first half of the year; the transactions amounted to more than 7.7bn RUR altogether, twice as much as one year earlier, the bank’s press service reports. The amount of foreign currency bought rose by three times, that of foreign currency sold rose by 1.5 times. The UBRD Financial Markets Director Vladimir Zotov says the increase in the number of transactions has to do with great

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 22, 2016. The awarding ceremony of Minute of Tech Fame Contest took place at the International Industrial Exhibition Innoprom in Yekaterinburg. EVRAZ Holding has acted as the innovative ideas contest’s general sponsor for the fifth time this year. According to the company press service, the first prize went to do post-doc students Alexander Ponomarev and Leonid Tabakov. They can now apply for a degree in one of the world’s leading business schools, with their tuition fees fully covered.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 22, 2016. A new website rio.uvz.ru was launched with Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s support fifteen days before the opening of the 21st Olympic Games in Brazil, the company press service reports. The website is dedicated to Sputnik Hockey Club’s sports players, Sverdlovsk Region Cycling & Mountain Bike Federation’s cyclists, and Armada Paralympic Team’s sports men and women competing as part of the Russian national team. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation acts as the general sponsor for all the three organizations. ‘The website features information about our renowned

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 21, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry Plant (KULZ) was awarded an honorary certificate and a trophy flag as the winner in Kamensk-Uralsky’s Best Business 2015 Contest, the company press service reports. The ceremony took place on the eve of Metallurgist’s Day. The plant was awarded in the Industrial Enterprises category along with the city’s other major production enterprises. Representatives of Southern Administrative District, the city council, and Sinara District also congratulated the plant workers on Metallurgist’s Day and presented

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 21, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) recently launched a new compressed-air dehydration unit; the air is needed in the metal-rolling process. The new equipment is expected to cut energy spending by 10m kilowatt-hours a year, the company press service reports. Two highly productive dehydrators got commissioned to remove excess humidity and impurities from the air. The air gets dried and filtered with their help. The unit is fully automated, with all the necessary settings calibrated remotely. The new machines produce an

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 21, 2016. Seversky Pipe Plant (a member enterprise of Pipe Metallurgical Company/TMK) opened a new Vocational Training Center on the eve of Metallurgist’s Day and the company’s 15th anniversary, the company press service reports. The center is a public-private partnership project run by TMK and Sverdlovsk Region Government, with Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s extra support. The opening of the center proved the key feature of Metallurgist’s Day celebrations in Polevskoy. The solemn ceremony was attended by Deputy Head of the Governor of Sverdlovsk Region

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 21, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development issued 21,600 Active bank cards in the five months of 2016 (up 17.2% on one year earlier). The bank’s press service explains the rang of the options this card type provides got updated in December. The changes involved a 3% increase in the cash-back amount when the card is used to pay for one’s shopping at pharmacies and filling stations. As a result, over 40m RUR have been transferred to customers’ accounts as cash-back payments since the start of the year. According to the UBRD Card Management Director

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 21, 2016. Smartphones now make 70% of the telecommunications provider MegaFon’s sales, the company press service reports. Interestingly. most of these are Android-based makes. According to the company’s performance-improving applications rating, Clean Master (cleans old cookies, cache, logs, history, processes and much else besides) proved the most popular product. The app also turns off the running programs that make a phone heat up too much, indicates the disc space other apps and their cache requires, and speeds up games. Antivirus software comes second on the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 20, 2016. Over 1,000 breaches of current legislation have been registered in the course of Sverdlovsk Region Capital Repairs Program implementation since the start of the year, local public prosecution authorities report. The officials in charge of supervising the capital repairs and reconstruction of apartment buildings have been issued more than two hundred warnings, and seventy-six people had to face disciplinary liability. Forty-seven protests have been issued against illegal normative acts, seventy three claims have been placed with courts, and fifteen people

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 20, 2016. According to HeadHunter’s recent research findings, 90% of Yekaterinburg-based students and college graduates are planning to work this summer; three years ago, the figure stood at 80%. ‘Just like three years ago, most of these young people intend to find something based on their qualifications, while every one in ten is going to work as a salesperson. Every one in four doesn’t yet know what kind of job they will be able to find,’ HeadHunter’s press service says. The number of respondents confident of finding a job very easily went down from 15% in 2013 to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 20, 2016. Two workers of ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) have recently been awarded the Order of Friendship after a decree to this effect was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The solemn awarding ceremony was held at Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District’s office, the Group’s press service reports. ‘One order went to head of PNTZ Pipe-Welding Department Evgeny Ilyin, who has worked at the plant for thirty years now. Ilyin is also the chair of our improvement proposal council, so he supervised