UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 4, 2016. Electromachine (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) declassified an order on the creation of new production facilities issued by the USSR Industry Minister P. Finogenov on June 20, 1985. The company press service explains this document has some historic value and will be directed to Chelyabinsk Region State Archive. The order touches upon the foundation of Electromachine: ‘Given Chelyabinsk Electromachine Plant, SKB Rotor, and SKB Turbine’s instrumentality in the production and maintenance of electrical equipment, fire- and tank-control

UrBC, Moscow, March 3, 2016. 500,000 people risk losing their jobs in Russia, while 301,000 more are currently working part-time, Finmarket refers to Labor & Social Welfare Minister Maxim Topilin as saying. Topilin says as many as 1.7m people were working part-time in the crisis of 2009. ‘We are worried about these 300,000 working part-time: despite all the state support to struggling businesses, car factories first and foremost, 20% of these workers (some 70,000 people) are the ones employed precisely in the automobile industry,’ the minister says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 3, 2016. The Russian Federation Government intends to distribute 3.47bn RUR among family farms in seventy-four different constituencies, the Cabinet’s website states. Under the government’s decree, Sverdlovsk Region’s private farmers are going to get 23m RUR, while those based in Kurgan Region will be allocated 28.985m RUR. The Government also recently decided to support the Mid-Urals’ farmers with 17.409m RUR. Starting-up farmers complained last year that they found it impossible to get state subsidies. For example, one has to be officially out of job to be

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 3, 2016. Ormet, an Orenburg Region-based member enterprise of Russian Copper Company dealing in production and processing of copper and copper-zinc ores, has recently completed yet another round of retooling successfully, the company press service reports. The company’s processing plant had an automated analytical control system based on AR-35-O (X-ray wavelength dispersive flowstream pulp analyzer) installed at the end of last year. The equipment was delivered and launched by Bourevestnik, the biggest X-ray industrial and scientific equipment designer and producer

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 3, 2016. ChTPZ Group’s company newspaper (Trubnik. Lyudi. Sobytiya, Kommentarii) won Chelyabinsk Region Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs’ Contest as the Best Company Media, the company press service reports. The judges’ panel comprised reporters, businesspeople, and the Union officials, who looked at the objectivity, relevance, and professionalism of contesting newspapers’ content. ‘We keep a close eye on Chelyabinsk Region’s economic and social life and pay plenty of attention to company’s partners and suppliers. Since many of these are also based in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 3, 2016. Burevestnik Central Scientific Research Institute (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) hosted a meeting of quality control managers/members of the Nizhniy Novgorod Association of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the corporation’s press service reports. The meeting was attended by top officials from Nizhniy Novgorod Ministry for Industry, Trade, & Entrepreneurial Activity, Nizhniy Novgorod Association of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Weights & Measures Academy, and quality control managers from other thirty local enterprises,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 2, 2016. Pipe Metallurgical Company’s TMK NGS-Buzuluk (Buzuluk, Orenburg Region) won a tender for engineering and technological support of run-in-hole operations for Gazprom Geologorazvedka, TMK press service reports. The company experts will be present during the RIH operations at two wells on the shelf of Sakhalin Island in the Sea of Okhotsk. TMK’s casing pipes with TMK UP CWB and TMK UP PF threaded joints will be used for the RIH operations there. The engineering supervisors are in charge of giving professional advice to the customer’s staff members, overseeing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 2, 2016. The All-Russian NOSTROY Conference for the members of the National Builders’ Union is scheduled for the second half of March; this time, there are eight points on the agenda for the directors of self-regulatory organizations to work on, including election of NOSTROY President and membership fee-related decisions. So far, only one well-known businessperson on the Forbes Russia list, head of LSR Group (one of the largest developers in Moscow Region and Saint Petersburg) Andrei Molchanov decided to run for the union’s president. There is little time left

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 2, 2016. The canteen at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant reopened after an overhaul and remodeling, the company press service says. The reconstruction involved all of the food-making departments (the hot- and cold-meal shops, the meat shop, and the vegetable and pastry ones) as well as the storage rooms and washrooms. The food court was also renovated. All the sinks and cookers were replaced, new, modern equipment was installed, and a new service counter was added. The food court now has panoramic windows and fits as many as eighty people at a time. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 2, 2016. SKB-Bank came eighth in the rating of Russia’s best banks in 2015 created by Sravni.ru, the bank’s press service reports. ‘The web portal’s analysts wanted to come up with something like an Oscar Award for the Russian banks. Their rating of the best home banks as of last year was an attempt to do so,’ the press service says. The rating is based on data from the banks’ annual reports available on the Central Bank’s website. Positive changes in the banks’ performance indicators such as net asset volume and that of their loan books, the amount of money

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 2, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon now provides its data storage and backup services to UMMC Telecom, the operator’s press service reports. UMMC decided to rent 3,000 gigabytes of MegaFon’s virtual servers. According to MegaFon representatives, the rental cloud allows for great savings on infrastructure maintenance, with no need for the clients to buy their own equipment. Renting cloud space proves much more economically expedient. ‘What we offer our partners is more than communications services, we offer a set of services integrated into business

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 1, 2016. Eight employees of Omsk Transport Machine-Building Plant (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) received the Russian Federation Defense Ministry Awards, the company press service reports. The plant’s Director-General Igor Lobov was given the For Strengthening Military Cooperation Medal for his great personal contribution to strengthening military cooperation and helping the Russian Armed Forces achieve its goals. Head of the Serial Production Department Alexei Khoroshaylo and engineer/technician Alexander Lizunov received the For Labour Valor

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 1, 2016. Burevestnik Central Scientific Research Institute (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) took part in the annual job fair at R.E. Alekseyev Nizhniy Novgorod State Technical University (NGTU), the company press service reports. The city’s other leading industrial enterprises, plants, and the local branch of Sberbank also presented their job opportunities at the fair. ‘This is the second time Burevestnik has taken part in such a job fair. We sent our HR Department and Engineering Service specialists to represent the company there, so that NGTU

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 1, 2016. Russian Copper Company invested some 13.37bn RUR in upgrades and retooling of its Karabashmed in 2004-2015, with 90% of the money directed to environmental protection and reclamation projects, the company press service reports. ‘Karabash is a town the company management has been paying special attention to, as the city’s environmental condition was for many years the locals’ most serious concern. Today, the most up-to-date and efficient gas filtering, emission-trapping facilities have been installed at Karabashmed, which improved the quality of local air

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 1, 2016. Power Generating Unit 4 with BN 800 reactor at Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station produced 555 megawatts for the Urals’ electric supply system, the station’s PR Department reports. The unit was first brought to 67% of its projected capacity on February 25, 2016. This signified yet another step on the way from the launch to 50% of capacity to the full projected capacity within the unit’s pilot production stage. The power generating unit is working in trial mode for the time being, with the purpose of testing the equipment and checking all of its performance

UrBC, Moscow, March 1, 2016. Russians’ actual wages and salaries might drop by 3% to 4% this year, Banki.ru refers to Labor Minister Maxim Topilin as saying. The minister said earlier that these had already decreased by 9.5% by the end of 2015. ‘No serious increase in unemployment rate is to be expected. I believe we’ll stay within the 6% to 6.3% range this year, which I see as acceptable, that is, not critical,’ Topilin said. He also said the Labor Ministry was working on a draft bill to increase the dole by 70%, yet the criteria for those eligible to receive it should grow stricter. ‘The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 29, 2016. Ural Electrochemical Plant (a member enterprise of Rosatom’s TVEL, Novouralsk) proved No.1 Environmentally Responsible Enterprise in the local Green Owl Contest, the company press service reports. The winners were chosen by Novouralsk City Council, with the figurine of a green owl (which stands for unaffected environment) presented to the company’s Deputy Technical Director for Nuclear, Radiation, & Production Safety & Environmental Protection Evgeniy Skorynin by the city mayor Vladimir Mashkov in the course of a solemn ceremony. The Green Owl

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 29, 2016. Mikheyevsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (a member enterprise of Russian Copper Company) reports on the first benchmark in their development of Mikheyevsky copper-porphyry ore deposit: the mine is now one hundred meters deep, Russian Copper Company’s press service reports. Mikheyevsky was set up in 2013 to become the largest ore mining and processing enterprise to be built from scratch in the post-Soviet zone. The company currently extracts copper ore from 107 meters under the ground. By the time the deposit has been fully exhausted, the mine

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 29, 2016. ChTPZ Group’s students and alumni of the corporate Future of White Metallurgy Education Program are going to represent their company at the 4th Sverdlovsk Region tour of WorldSkills Russia Championship, the company press service reports. The tour will be held in thirteen different locations in Sverdlovsk Region on February 29-March 4, 2016. The Group’s Training Center (and a certified WorldSkills center) in Pervouralsk is going to be one of these sites. The young professionals are going to demonstrate their skills in Mechatronics, Mobile Robotics,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 29, 2016. Kirov-based LEPSE (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) coordinated a trade union conference, the company press service reports. 582 out of 644 elected delegates were present at the conference to hear the trade union’s five-year report presented by Chair Tamara Maltseva. ‘Our three-year Collective Agreement is one of the most important projects where the company management and the trade union work together as partners. The crucial thing is that the management team does not consider the problems the trade union voices superfluous. We