September 10, 2015. The number of Sverdlovsk Region’s residents dropped by 4,797 people as they moved from the constituency to other parts of Russia in the six months of 2015, which was 7.5 times more than a year earlier. Sverdlovskstat reports 60,026 people arrived in the constituency and 64,823 people left between January and June 2015. On the international scale, 1,849 people left Sverdlovsk Region to go abroad, compared with 340 fresh arrivals a year earlier.

September 10, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court declared Central Ural State Unitary Geological Industrial Enterprise insolvent, the court reports. The company was set up in Pervouralsk in 2002 to develop gravel pits and sand quarries and to do geological survey and research. The company’s creditor Quartz Trade submitted a claim to court on January 9, 2014, asking to declare the enterprise bankrupt. It was determined in the course of the hearing that the creditors’ overall claims amounted to 45,355,000 RUR. The trustee in bankruptcy stated that the company couldn’t possibly recover to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 9, 2015. A team of Uralvagonzavod Corporation designers won the third prize in the Innovative Developments Contest in the Railway Cars & Track Machines category. The contest was part of the 5th International Railway Vehicles & Technologies EXPO 1520 in Shcherbinka, Moscow Region. The corporation's press service reports the prize was awarded to petroleum tank car 15-5157-04. 'This tank car was developed by the corporation's head plant in cooperation with Ural Railcar-Building Design Office. The product is meant for transportation of oil,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 9, 2015. A four-star hotel by Park Inn was spectacularly opened in Nizhniy Tagil recently. Uralvagonzavod Corporation's daughter enterprise acted as the investor for the project, the corporation's press service reports. The red-ribbon-cutting ceremony was performed by the corporation's Director-General Oleg Sienko, Carlson Rezidor's Senior Vice President in Russia & CIS Arild Hovland, Sverdlovsk Region's First Vice Premier Alexei Orlov, and Mayor of Nizhniy Tagil Sergei Nosov. 'Nizhniy Tagil is gradually turning into a tourist

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 9, 2015. Works by ChTPZ Group Training Center‘s students will be presented at the 3d Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, the company press service reports. ‘The students‘ graphic works will serve as exhibits during the Art Residences Program at the Biennial. Additionally, a workshop by a Saint Petersburg-based artist Alexander Morozov was held on the premises of the company's Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant,‘ the press service says. Twenty students and faculty members joined the artist to do some bird-watching and put the birds' trajectory down on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 9, 2015. The official unemployment figures came to 139,412 people in Sverdlovsk Region last month, which exceeded the figures for a year earlier by 7,284 people. According to Sverdlovskstat, the unemployment rate thus came to 6.1% against 5.8% in August 2014. 994 more people were out of jobs in late August 2015 than in December 2014.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 9, 2015. Pay parking lots yielded 1.066m RUR to Yekaterinburg budget in August 2015, the city council reports. 'We've got pay parking lots with 2,354 car slots at the moment, including the 854 slots introduced last month. A special mobile app will be launched any day now so that drivers can use their bank cards to pay their parking fees from their smartphones,' the city council says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 8, 2015. The average monthly pay came to 32,600 RUR in Sverdlovsk Region in the first half of 2015, which, as it turns out, is nearly 3,000 RUR below the country's average, Rosstat reports via the agency website. The statistics agency‘s findings indicate that the average monthly pay in Russia stood at 35,400 RUR in the first half of 2015. The figure for Ural Federal District was 41,300 RUR, with the highest salaries and wages paid in Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous Region (79,000 RUR a month on average), Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region (65,000 RUR), and

UrBC, Moscow, September 8, 2015. Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev signed a decree allocating 1.25bn RUR worth of subsidies to twenty federal constituencies, the Russian Government's website states. 'The present decree confirms that 1,250m RUR must be allocated from the federal budget 2015 funds to twenty Russian Federation constituencies for the development of twenty-four innovative clusters,' the document states. Under this decree, Tatarstan will get the biggest bit, 158m RUR. 135 m RUR will go to Samara Region, and 104m RUR will be directed to Novosibirsk Region.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 8, 2015. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) delivered its premium pipe products to Yamal SPG, the company press service reports. The two companies signed a contract for premium pipe supplies in 2014-2020 last year. Yamal SPG needs the pipes for the development of its Yuzhno-Tambeiskoye gas condensate deposit in the northeast of Yamal Peninsula. This year, the oil and gas company received 1,748 tons of cold-resistant pipes, including 1,716 tons of premium pipes: 324mm, 244.48mm and 177.8mm casing pipes with premium threaded joints TMK UP FMC and TMK UP PF, 114mm

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 8, 2015. The 10th International RAE 2015 Exhibition is likely to become the most large-scale exhibition of this kind so far in terms of both the grandeur of the military vehicles shows and in terms of the number of international delegations signing up for the event, Director-General of Business Dialogue Anatoly Kitsura said in his interview to Komsomolskaya Pravda Radio Station. The military vehicle show is going to be something quite extraordinary this year. 'The idea is to reproduce a rebuff of an invasion in a real-time mode. Also, any exhibition is a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 8, 2015. 34 young employees of Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant/PNTZ (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) are going to get their college tuition fees covered by the company. This is part of the Group‘s cooperation program with B.N. Yeltsin Ural Federal University. Students will get their degrees in Pipe Production Technologies and Equipment at UFU‘s off-site department that is located right on the plant‘s premises, ChTPZ Group‘s press service reports. Students will specialize in either metal treatment under pressure or industrial units automation. They will be

UrBC, Moscow, September 7, 2015. The number of Russian international travelers went down by 24% in the first half of 2015, with 16.43m Russians traveling abroad in the six months of the year, Rostourism refers to Rosstat as stating. The number of travelers who went abroad as tourists rather than on business decreased by 33.8%, down to 5.49m people. Finland proved the most popular destination in absolute numbers, with 1.7m people (-30% on a year earlier) going there in the first half of the year. However, only 118,992 of them were tourists, which was 35.9% less than a year earlier. As for

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2015. A virtual countdown timer will be activated on Yekaterinburg's official website 1,000 days before the start of the World Football Championship 2018, the city council's press service reports Deputy head of council Sergey Tushin said at his meeting with the council officials that the timer will start 'ticking' on September 18, 2015. Tushin says an actual clock will also appear in Yekaterinburg a bit later, 500 days before the championship kicks off. The exact spot for the device is to become a matter of public discussion.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2015. Despite the current economic crisis, 59% of Yekaterinburg residents are not ready to work more unless their salary goes up accordingly, E1.Rabota's PR Service refers to the findings of their survey (carried out jointly with Zarplata.ru) as indicating. 50% of those respondents who said they were unwilling to take on a greater workload are already dissatisfied with their pay, so they would rather start looking for a new job. 35% of those surveyed admitted they wouldn't like to work harder, while 11% complained their workload was already

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2015. The amount of building materials transported via Sverdlovsk Railways decreased by 19.2% compared with a year earlier, the company press service reports. The carrier also handled 1.8% less of chemical and mineral fertilizers, 9.4% less of scrap ferrous metals, 3.2% less of cement, and 11.9% less of coke. On the other hand, the amount of oil and petroleum products cargo, industrial raw stuffs, chemicals and soda, timber, and grains increased by 16.2%, 7%, 6.1%, 11.5%, and 22.1%, respectively. The company's overall freight turnover came to 132.2bn

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 7, 2015. The average price of gasoline went up from 34.59 RUR to 34.79 RUR in Yekaterinburg in the course of one week, Rosstat reports. As of August 17, AI 92 could be bought for 33.8 RUR per liter on average, AI 95 and diesel fuel were sold for 36.11 RUR and 34.65 RUR per liter, respectively. In fact, car fuel grew more expensive in sixty-three constituency capitals last week.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, September 7, 2015. MMK Group invested 5.1bn RUR in the production development of its member enterprises, including 4.6bn RUR directed to Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works, the company reports. A big part of the money (1.2bn RUR) was spent on retooling Blast Furnace 8. 800,000m RUR more will be required to complete the renovation. MMK Group keeps investing in reconstruction of its environmental protection facilities and in trying to reduce the company’s negative impact on the air quality. The tasks currently at hand are the reconstruction of Sulfur

UrBC, Moscow, September 4, 2015. 149 banks are now under the Russian Central Bank’s special supervision, Banki.ru reports. ‘We keep an eye on 149 banks, our local divisions are in close daily contact with their management and proprietors. 68 of these banks are currently faced with serious enough limitations,’ says the Central Bank’s Deputy Chair Mikhail Sukhov. Sukhov says all the 149 banks submit daily reports to the Central Bank.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 4, 2015. 16,956 people are found to be working in Sverdlovsk Region with no employment contracts, the Economics Ministry refers to Director of Sverdlovsk Region Labor & Employment Department Dmitri Antonov as reporting. ‘As of August 20, 2015, 16,956 people working in Sverdlovsk Region did not have any employment contracts; as a result of our inspections, these were signed with 14,137 workers, 14,092 of whom are currently still employed; this comes to 17% of our target figures,’ Antonov said at a government meeting on issues relating to pay and labor