UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 13, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region State Labor Inspectorate carried out 3,025 scheduled inspections of companies in the nine months of 2015 to detect over 9,000 instances of labor law violation, their press service reports. 3,230 legal entities and officials had to face administrative liability as a result and pay a total of 75m RUR in fines (59m RUR in administrative fines have been paid so far). 6,500 complaints were placed with the inspectorate by private individuals; this exceeds the figures for a year earlier (5,124 complaints) by 25%. Most of these have to do with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 13, 2015. Vityaz Machine-building Company and Armored Vehicle Repair Plant 81 (both member enterprises of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) reported to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on meeting the procurement order of the third quarter of 2015, the corporation’s press service reports. Plant 81, for example, keeps working on repairing its armored carriers BTR 80 and upgrading them to BTR 82AM. A new set of carriers received the MoD’s approval and is ready to be shipped. This year’s target figures have already been met by 78%. The upgrades given to the carriers

UrBC, Omsk, October 13, 2015. Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) presented its produce at VTTA Omsk 2015, an international exhibition dedicated to hi technologies and equipment for the Arctic, Siberia, and the Far East, the corporation’s press service reports. Omsktransmash Chief Designer Igor Shumakov made a presentation on the plant’s most promising vehicles on the opening day of the exhibition. The audience included Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Siberian Federal District Nikolai Rogozhkin, Governor of Omsk Region Viktor

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 13, 2015. The powers station at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant turns eighty this year, so the company intends to celebrate in a number of solemn ceremonies, the plant’s press service reports. In fact, the entire year 2016 will be dedicated to the eighty years since the plant’s launch. Ural Vagon Zavod’s power station is a strategically important facility which supplies electric power not only to the production site but also to Nizhniy Tagil’s Dzerzhinsky District, a home to more than 120,000 people. The station keeps launching advanced technologies and

UrBC, Moscow, October 12, 2015. 53% of Russians do not have enough savings to be able to afford a large purchase (the sum in question is their month’s pay), the National Financial Research Agency (NAFI) reports. Both people living in rural parts of the country and those from bigger cities agree on the scale of their financial flexibility. Younger people in the 18-19 age group find it the most difficult to find the money they need, while those in the 30-39 age group find it the easiest, with 41% of them having no trouble finding the required amount. Buying a house or an apartment or investing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2015. Koltsovo Airport Customs officers confiscated a nineteenth-century violin worth €200,000 from a Czech musician, Ural Customs Administration reports. The musician arrived in Yekaterinburg at the invitation of Sverdlovsk Academic Philharmonic. ‘Koltsovo Customs officers found a black case with a violin and a bow in the man’s luggage; the violin is believed to be a valuable piece,’ the Administration says. It turned out the musician had not declared the instrument in his customs declaration. The customs officers had to subject the violin to an expert

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2015. The number of psychiatrists’ patients kept rising in Sverdlovsk Region between January and September 2015 because of the area’s deteriorating economy, Dean of Sosnovy Bor Sverdlovsk Region Neurosis Clinic Mikhail Pertzel says. ‘People complain about their interpersonal communication problems as usual, but increasingly more men are coming in who feel they are failing as breadwinners and family security providers. This points to economic problems,’ he says. Pertzel believes the number of neurosis cases will keep rising in the area. Doctors also report on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2015. ChTPZ Group presented its ceramic flux production capacities at the 15th Weldex/Rossvarka Fair. The exhibition, dedicated to welding materials, equipment, and technology, was held in Sokolniki, Moscow on October 6-9, the Group’s press service reports. ChTPZ Group started making ceramic flux in 2004 within the framework of its import replacement program. The range of available varieties now comprises six different brands, all certified by the National Welding Control Agency. The produce also meets the European TÜV standards, which proves its great quality

UrBC, Omsk, October 12, 2015. Bridge-layers MTU 90M and TMM6, engineering vehicles manufactured by Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) were featured in Russian Defense Ministry Zvezda Channel’s military show dedicated to the ways engineering vehicles are used in the Russian Armed Forces, the corporation’s press service reports. Most of the camera work took place at the plant, on the specially prepared test site, and on a country pond. Author and presenter Alexei Yegorov, cameramen Ivan Yelovykh and Dmitri Bukharov, and producer Maria Stremina tried to present

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 9, 2015. The vegetables harvested in Sverdlovsk Region after the first low temperatures won’t last long, Deputy DG of Belorechensky Irina Nadezhdina told UrBC. Based on the weather forecast, the first cold nights are to be expected on October 9-10. In the meantime, some potatoes, vegetables, and crops are still in the ground. The over-moist soil makes it impossible to proceed with the harvesting process, so the remaining yield will have to face the frost. ‘Whatever has been affected by the frost won’t get preserved well. These vegetables will have to be sold

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 9, 2015. The number of vacancies available on Yekaterinburg job market shrank by 20% in the last year, E1. Rabota and Zarplata.ru report. The market is gradually recovering, however: the number of job openings rose by 8% in the third quarter of the year compared with the second quarter. ‘There are currently two candidates per job opening in Yekaterinburg, with the number of CVs in the system up by15%,’ says Zarplata.ru’s PR Manager Olga Pavlyuchenko. In the third quarter of 2015, most vacancies advertised were in such sectors as transport, car industry,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 9, 2015. The international passenger traffic at Yekaterinburg Koltsovo Airport dropped by 26.8% between January and September 2015 and thus came to 1.24m people, the airport press service reports. The overall traffic to Antalya, Hurghada, Sharm El Sheikh, Larnaka, Barcelona, Rimini, and destinations in Greece declined by 20% in the three quarters of the year. Domestic passenger traffic came to 2.9m people, up 14% on a year earlier. The number of passengers travelling to the Black Sea rose by 4.8 times for Simferopol, 80% for Sochi, 10.6% for Krasnodar, and 1.2%

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 9, 2015. Central Stadium will be renamed Yekaterinburg Arena in time for the world football championship of 2018, Interfax refers to Russia 2018 Committee as saying. 12 stadiums in different parts of Russia will host the World Cup games; eight of them will be renamed after the cities they are located in. The new names of the remaining four stadiums will have to do with important local cultural or football events. Russia’s Sports Ministry suggested earlier that Central Stadium should be called the Urals. However, the championship committee decided against this

UrBC, Nizhniy Tagil, October 9, 2015. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation keeps introducing a risk management and internal control system within its member enterprises. The launch process is now at its third stage, where the results of key risks assessment must be looked at and discussed. The company’s top-tier managers gathered together at the corporation’s head plant to join in the discussion, the company press service reports. First, a workshop on risk management and internal control was conducted for heads of Corporate Governance Center in Nizhniy Tagil. Then, a group of risk managers from a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 8, 2015. The average monthly pay came to 32,300 RUR in Sverdlovsk Region-based companies with over 15 people of staff in August; this was 5.4% less than in the previous month, Sverdlovskstat reports. The average pay went down by 7.3% (down to 34,900 RUR) in the processing sector, by 5.2% (down to 34,500 RUR) in the construction sector, by 5.2% (down to 36,300 RUR) in the oil and gas sector, by 13.5% (down to 23,000 RUR) in the culture sector, by 10% (down to 17,100 RUR) in the education sector, and by 6.1% (down to 28,500 RUR) in the health care sector. At the

UrBC, Saint Petersburg, October 8, 2015. Pipe Metallurgical Comapny/ TMK and Gazprom signed a memorandum of cooperation at the 5th Saint Petersburg International Natural Gas Forum; the document, signed by Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexei Miller and TMK BOD Chairman Dmitri Pumpyanski, sets out the two parties’ policy on use of natural gas as motor fuel, TMK press service reports. The two parties’ main goals are switching TMK fleet of vehicles and its Russia-based enterprises to natural gas, renovating its fleet of vehicles so that it could rely on natural gas more, and creating better

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 8, 2015. Three employees of Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant/PNTZ (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) received certificates of acknowledgment from Sverdlovsk Region Government for their hard work. The Group’s press service reports the certificates were awarded to Head of Technical Diagnostics Department Vladimir Zubov, Forewoman of Iron Ozone 32 Steel-Smelting Department Irina Pavlova, and etcher from the Pipe-Drawing Department Ilya Ismagilov for their many years of conscientious hard work and great production performance as well as in celebration of the company trade

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 8, 2015. ChTPZ Group and Gazprom signed a cooperation agreement at the 5th Saint Petersburg International Natural Gas Forum. The document was signed by Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexei Miller and ChTPZ Director-General Alexander Grubman. The two companies agreed to gradually switch ChTPZ fleet of automobiles to natural gas, of which Gazprom is a major supplier. The former is to help ChTPZ fit its vehicles with the necessary equipment, ChTPZ Group’s press service reports. ‘The Group usually contributes to all of Gazprom’s pipeline construction projects with its

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 8, 2015. Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) signed agreements with colleges to cover tuition fees of fifty-one students who will then come to work at the enterprise. Next year, company scholarships will be offered to fifty-three new students, the corporation’s press service says. There are currently 186 students on company scholarships majoring in ten different fields at Omsk State Technical University and B.N. Yeltsin Ural Federal University. Their fields are Design Engineering in Machine-Building Industry, Machine-Building,

UrBC, Moscow, October 7, 2015. Russian banks issued their customers 1.514m loans amounting to 181bn RUR altogether in August; this was 9% less than in the previous month, United Credit Bureau’s press service reports. ‘1.514m loans worth 181bn RUR were issued in August and 1.558m loans worth over 199bn RUR were issued in July,’ the bureau reports. For one, 131bn RUR worth of cash loans were issued to private customers in July and only 117bn RUR worth of those were issued to customers in August. The number of car loans also went down from 19,000 to 17,000, even thought the overall amounts