UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 23, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s member enterprises took part in the special events to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the day the Great Patriotic War began, the company press service reports. With the support from Nizhniy Tagil Council, the company helped historically reenact the march organized by the plant on June 23, 1941. Actors from I.V. Okunev Palace of Culture and the city Youth Theater, members of Ural Vagon Zavod’s youth organization and workers from other local enterprises all took part in the reenactment. ‘The script was based on an article in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 22, 2016. Officers from Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state-run consumer rights watchdog) had over 12,000 kg of apples and nearly 5,000 kg of pears destroyed, the agency’s press service reports. The fruit boxes were seized on Yekaterinburg-Perm highway; it turned out the foods came from a sanctioned source. ‘As it happens, the van had12,438 kg (1,194 boxes) of Polish apples and 4,608 kg (256 boxes) of pears of unclear origin. The apples were packed into cardboard boxes with no identification marks on them except for Poland’s Standard 15 stamps on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 22, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development recently introduced yet another new branch in Moscow, the bank’s press service reports. The branch opened in June to offer its services exclusively to small and medium enterprises. Customers can now open a settlement account with the bank, sign an acquiring contract, place some money onto a deposit, and apply for a loan/overdraft. The bank’s new branch is located at 26 Leninskaya Sloboda (Avtozavodskaya Underground Station), office 533.2. The opening hours are from 9AM to 6 PM on weekdays. ‘We’ve felt the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 22, 2016. Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise/KGOK (part of EVRAZ Holding) directed over 8.5m RUR to repairs and remodeling of children’s schools and sports and arts and crafts clubs in Kachkanar, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. The local art school bought the needed supplies and equipment and had the primary engineering infrastructures and sanitary facilities replaced. A kindergarten and a school will soon undergo capital repairs. Also, money will be directed to equip science labs in a school in the small settlement of Is. Additionally, EVRAZ

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 22, 2016. Ural Railcar Building Design Office (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) had three of its railcar repair depots certified, the company press service reports. The depots are located in Magnitogorsk, Inskaya, and Leninsk-Kuznetsky. These are the special divisions of Russia’s largest depot network Railcar Repair Company 1, whose output comes to 100,000 fixed railcars a year. The certification means the depots can now deal in repairs of Ural Vagon Zavod’s innovative 12-196-01 and 18-194-1 makes (freight capacity increased to 25,000 kg, time

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 22, 2016. Representatives of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s fifteen member enterprises took part in a two-day corporate workshop on the Federal Act FZ 223 regulating businesses’ purchasing policies, the company press service reports. The workshop, held at Razvitiey Training Center in Yekaterinburg, was attended by professionals from Kamensk-Uralsky, Chelyabinsk, Nizhniy Tagil, Saint Petersburg, Amur Region, Krasnodar Territory, and Trans-Baikal Territory. The goal is to enhance the participants’ purchasing skills and competences. The workshop gathered together people

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 21, 2016. Customers of the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) have been using the bank-to-bank MasterCard/MoneySend/Visa Direct transfer options increasingly more often, the bank’s press service reports. The number of such transactions rose by 20% in May 2016 against one year earlier; the amount of money transferred also rose by 28% and reached some 100m RUR a month. According to UBRD Card Management Director Alexei Piskunov, the increase is mainly brought about by the fact that customers can see the benefits of convenient and very fast

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 21, 2016. Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise/KGOK (part of EVRAZ Holding) directed over 8.5m RUR to repairs and remodeling of children’s schools and sports and arts and crafts clubs in Kachkanar, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. The local art school bought the needed supplies and equipment and had the primary engineering infrastructures and sanitary facilities replaced. A kindergarten and a school will soon undergo capital repairs. Also, money will be directed to equip science labs in a school in the small settlement of Is. Additionally, EVRAZ

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 21, 2016. Sinara Group’s Sinara Development, the contractor-general in charge of reconstructing Yekaterinburg Arena Stadium in time for the World Cup 2018, is now working on the special support structures for the roof, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. The structures are to be mounted onto all the eight pylons holding the roof. For one, the pylon supporting the northern stands is already fitted with Maurer, a rounded metal joint with the diameter of 1.5 meters. The concave part is mounted onto the pylon, while the convex one supports the roof. Such joints will secure

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 21, 2016. West-Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (a member enterprise of EVRAZ Holding) supplied around 3,000,000 kg of rolled metal goods to the Far East’s largest shipyard Zvezda in Bolshoi Kamen, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s press office reports. The plant intends to have another 1,000,000 kg delivered by the end of 2016. EVRAZ is currently the primary metal goods supplier for Maritime Territory’s shipbuilders. Zvezda relies heavily on the holding’s produce, particularly on its AIII fittings made of 26G2S steel. The fittings are used for making parts and frames

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 21, 2016. More than seventy employees of Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry Plant/KULZ (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) are going on paid vacations in the Crimea; their stay will be funded by the company trade union, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘This is the third time our plant and the trade union are funding employees’ two-week stay at Alushta Health Resort, meals and spa included. Eligible to apply for this are people who have worked at the plant for at least five years (or much less, for those working in health-affecting conditions; these

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 20, 2016. Sinara Transport Machines (part of Sinara Group), Union de Ferrocarriles de Cuba, and the insurance company EXIAR signed a trilateral agreement to supply locomotives, buses, and railway equipment to Cuba, Sinara Group’s press service reports. The agreement was signed by the Union’s head Miguel Antonio Acuña Fernández, EXIAR Director-General Alexei Tyupanov, and STM Director-General Evgeniy Gritsenko. The ceremony was also attended by the Vice President of the Council of Ministers Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz of Cuba, Russia’s Industry & Trade Minister Denis

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 20, 2016. 40% of all the transactions performed by the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s customers in the two weeks of June were carried out online, the bank’s press service reports. This is an all-time peak, with the previous record set in May 2016, when the share of online payments came to 35%. 80% of all the online transactions are phone and Internet bill payments. ‘Our customers increasingly tend to transfer their money to service providers without actually visiting our branches. The overall share of remote payments (ATMs, POS terminals, e-banking)

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 20, 2016. 3,300 employees and their children will go on a company-paid vacation this summer, with ChTPZ Group directing 42.3m RUR to fund this campaign. According to the company press service, Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant’s current and former employees will travel to the company health resorts, while their children and grandchildren will stay at the company’s two summer camps. As it happens, the edutainment programs offered by these summer camps (Yelanchik and Gagarinsky) in 2015 won in the children’s summer edutainment program

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 20, 2016. Yurmash (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) recently signed a contract with Micran to produce mast elevators mounted on the KamAZ 63501 chassis by order of Russia’s Defense Ministry, the corporation’s press service reports. The plant will soon start working on a set of mast elevators for MIK-MKS mobile communication systems; the pilot sample was made as early as 2009, while serial-scale production began in 2012. Hundreds of units have been supplied to the Russian Armed Forces since then. ‘This unique equipment is produced in cooperation

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 20, 2016. Omsk Transport Machine-Building Works (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) recently took part in the 23d International Russian Coal & Mining Exhibition in Novokuznetsk, the corporation’s press service reports. This is the first time the plant has presented its underground mining equipment at a major international event. ‘Visitors to the fair were quite interested in the spare parts for quarry machinery and coal-pulverizing equipment. We’ve held talks with more than ten large businesses based in Moscow, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 17, 2016. According to Sverdlovskstat, local hotels made 8.9% less money in 2015 compared with the year 2014. The hotels’ revenue was estimated at 4.3bn RUR, or 2,049.7 RUR per night, last year on average. The average duration of stay was 2.5 days. All in all, there were 304 hotels, 35 furnished apartments (11.5% of all accommodation types), 18 halls of residence (5.9%), 4 resorts (1.3%), 3 motels (1%), and 4 other businesses (1.3%) operating in Sverdlovsk Region last year. The number of hotel rooms went up by 1,169 in 2015 compared with one year earlier and came to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 17, 2016. Karabashmed (a member enterprise of Russian Copper Company) stopped using its Ausmelt furnace on June 1 in order to give it a scheduled overhaul, the company press service reports. The goal is to have the furnace gas condenser completely retooled and upgraded, which will require over 650,000 kg of new metal frames. Ausmelt furnace was launched in 2006, replacing the obsolete and outdated shaft furnaces. This was a major stage in the company’s overall retooling process, with Russian Copper Company spending some 16bn RUR on upgrades, renovations, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 17, 2016. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) held a Board of Directors meeting on June 14, 2016, the company press service reports. The BOD members voted to re-elect Dmitri Pumpyanski as their Chair and Alexander Shiryaev as the company Director-General. A new Supervisory Board was also elected: Chair of the Board A. Shiryayev, A.Klachkov, A. Lyalkov, V. Oborsky, T. Petrosyan, V. Shmatovich, and A. Zimin.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 17, 2016. Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry Plant/KULZ (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) bought a new ambulance car on the eve of Medical Worker’s Day, the company press service reports. ‘Our doctors need this car to arrive at production departments in cases of emergency and take a heavily injured patient to hospital, first-aid station, or clinic. The importance of an ambulance at a production site just cannot be overestimated. We also purchased some other new bits of equipment, for example, a new breathalyzer that prints the test results onto paper. This