January 15, 2015. On February, 14, 2015, Russian Classic, a hockey game between Nizhniy Tagil’s Sputnik (sponsored by Uralvagonzavod Corporation) and Orsk’s Yuzhniy Ural will be held in Nizhniy Tagil. ‘The tickets became available for purchase on January 15. The appealing price of 100 RUR will, the coordinators believe, attract not only hockey fans and team supporters, but also all those interested in hockey and even those who have never been to a game before. The event is planned in a way that will amuse adults and children alike,’ Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service says. Tickets can

January 14, 2015. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Mill 2000 has made 5,000,000,000 kg of goods since the moment it was launched, MMK reports. Mill 2000 is located at the company’s Sheet-Rolling Department 11 and is primarily meant for making good quality cold-rolled and zinc-coated rolled sheets for internal and external parts of automobiles, for household appliances, and for building structures. The facility comprises a continuous etching and chlorohydric acid pickling line, a five-stand cold mill with the capacity of 2,100,000,000 kg a year, a continuous hot-dip galvanizing unit

January 14, 2015. The Park Inn by Radisson Ekaterinburg Hotel now has a new manager, Andreea Cheratoiu from Rumania, the hotel’s Marketing & PR Department reports. The new manager’s task will be to find a new niche at the time of an economic crisis and under ever-fiercer competition among the arriving international hotel chains on Yekaterinburg market. Throughout 2012, 2013, and until November 2014 Andreea Cheratoiu was Director of Operations at Radisson Blu Hotel Bucharest.

January 14, 2015. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ Uraltrac, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) shipped a set of bulldozers to Krasnodar Territory, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘A major road maintenance company added a B14 to its fleet of vehicles. The customer received the bulldozer shortly after the deal was signed, and put it to work at once. Other customers in the area are already using three B10M bulldozers: one of the vehicles was bought by Kuban Steamship Company for sand production, another one is now used at a brick plant, and yet another one was shipped to

January 14, 2015. Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ, a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) was declared Appealing Employer 2014 by SuperJob.ru, a recruitment web service. The plant was nominated based on the results of an annual research focused on businesses’ recruitment activity, pay rates, and the candidates’ interest in the job, the enterprise’s press service reports. ‘People are the main driving force behind the quest for perfection: this is how the Group’s White Metallurgy principle goes, which is why we make efforts to retain staff, pay their wages with no delays, and offer them benefits

January 14, 2015. Ural Airlines makes buying bonuses easier for its Wings Club members: they can now purchase the extra bonuses using their online membership account and their bank card, the airline’s press service says. The option will be particularly useful for the Wings Club members who are trying to get a free flight using their bonus miles: in case they fall short of a certain number of miles, they can opt for a 1,000-, 3,000-, or 5,000-bonus package and add these to their total bonus mileage. 1 bonus comes at a price of 1 ruble. These bonuses used to be only available for purchase at

January 14, 2015. Head of Yekaterinburg Council Architecture, Urban Planning, & Land Use Department Alexei Belyshev appointed Timur Abdullayev the city’s chief architect, the city council’s press service reports. Timur N. Abdullayev was born in Yekaterinburg on July 20, 1978. He graduated from Ural State Architecture & Arts Academy with a degree in Architecture and did some postgraduate studies as well. Abdullayev embarked on his career as a designer and an architect in October 1998. Prior to this new appointment, he was employed with In.Form Architectural Group.

January 13, 2015. UTair Airlines won’t be operating any flight from Yekaterinburg to Moscow and back before March, Koltsovo Airport’s press service informed UrBC. ‘The airline cancelled these Moscow-bound flights till the end of the winter season. There used to be one daily flight on offer,’ the press service explained. The company says the flights are no longer offered due to dropping demand. ‘As the demand for Moscow-Yekaterinburg-Moscow flights has been on the decrease, and in order to optimize our costs, the flight was made unavailable starting from December 22 and until the end of the

January 13, 2015. Gasoline production went up by 0.6% in Russia on December 22-28, 2014 and amounted to 845,100,000 liters, while diesel fuel output dropped by 0.2% and amounted to 1,550,800,000 liters, Rosstat reports. Over the given period, consumer prices decreased by 0.4%; the price of A76 remained the same, while the prices of AI 92, AI95 and higher grades of gasoline became 0.4% less expensive; the price of diesel fuel remained the same. The average consumer price stood at 33.24 RUR per liter (30.29 RUR for A76, 32.26 RUR for AI 92, and 35.04 RUR for AI 95 and higher grades). Diesel

January 13, 2015. Seventeen schoolchildren from Karabash spent a fortnight at Russkoye Pole, a health resort near Chekhov, Moscow Region. The children were treated to a full range of healthcare services, including hydrotherapy, exercise therapy, and medical/social rehabilitation, Russian Copper Company’s PR & Social Policy Department reports. The kids took therapeutic baths, swam in the pool, went inside a speleotherapy chamber, spent plenty of time outside on a daily basis as well as traveled to Moscow and Moscow Region. According to Prof. Yelena Zhukovskaya of Dmitri Rogachev Federal

January 13, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court is going to consider Low Rise Construction Center’s bankruptcy application. The files were submitted to the court on December 30, 2014. Low Rise Construction Center is the Mid-Urals Development Corporation’s (KRSU) daughter enterprise and therefore belongs to Sverdlovsk Region. In 2012, the company took out a 260m RUR loan from Sberbank, guaranteed by the KRSU, in order to put up Yuzhny District in Yekaterinburg. 230m RUR were taken out by the borrowing party in 2012 and 2013, with the money to be paid back by September 25, 2015. However,

January 13, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region hotels will keep getting star categories throughout 2015. The eleven cities that will be hosting the World Cup 2018 games must get all of their hotels starred by July 1, 2016. The requirement applies to all hotels regardless of whether they are planning to offer rooms to the football championship visitors, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Information Policy Department reports. Russian Restaurateurs & Hoteliers Federation believes strongly in the need for the hotels to be ascribed star categories, since this gives guests a clear system. The state, in its

December 29, 2014. Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) won the annual national Golden Idea Prize, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘The Omsk-based company’s team won the third prize in the Successful Production of Military Goods and Introduction of Advanced Technologies and Innovative Solutions category for design, production, and export of heavy-duty flame weaponry. Omsktransmash Director-General Igor Lobov received the well-deserved award from Assistant to the Russian Federation President for Military & Technological Cooperation Vladimir Kozhin and

December 29, 2014. Ural Airlines have offered their services to 5,000,000 passengers within twelve months for the first time this year, the airline’s press service reports. The 5,000,000th passenger checked in for his flight on December 26, 2014. This was Andrei Ostrikov, who took his family to Sochi on the U6 219 flight from Yekaterinburg. The company representatives welcomed the special passenger at Koltsovo Airport and upgraded his entire family to business class as a present. It proved quite symbolic that the 5,000,000th passenger flew with the company on the eve of the year 2015. ‘It has

December 29, 2014. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) held an extraordinary general meeting by absentee voting on December 25, 2014, the company’s press service reports. The shareholders decided on the distribution of profit made in six months of 2014 and on the payment of dividends (393,786,159.48 RUR in six months of 2014). Dividends are paid to shareholders in proportion to the number of ordinary registered shares they own. The list of those entitled to dividend payments stands as of January 12, 2015.

December 29, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region division of the Federal Antimonopoly Service reports they get three to five complaints about food price increases daily, the division head Dmitri Shalobodov announced at a press conference. ‘Customers mainly complain about buckwheat, bread, and vegetables growing more expensive. Every case is looked into. According to the data we have, the price of cabbage has gone up 40% since August, that of buckwheat is up 100%,’ Shalobodov said. He also pointed out some foods became less expensive: for one, pork prices dropped by 6.5% compared with August 2014, butter

December 29, 2014. The amount of taxes and levies owed to Sverdlovsk Region budget (including fines and fiscal sanctions) rose by 2.64bn RUR (9.6%) in the eleven months of 2014 and amounted to 29.984bn RUR, Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service reports. Head of the Debt Settlement & Bankruptcy Proceedings Department A. S. Balyura says 972,000 payment requests were sent out to taxpayers, the total sum being 26.729bn RUR. Around two-thirds of these payment requests have to do with the payment of property tax by private individuals. The debt collection efficiency

December 26, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region Ministry for the Environment & Natural Resources carried out an expert examination of the amount of mineral and fossil resources in 24 deposits. The examination proved positive in all of the cases, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. Thus the amount of stone (the primary material for making macadam) in deposits was estimated at 320m3, which was 16 times more than was extracted throughout the year. The estimated deposits of sand and tile stone were increased by 12m m3, which was 100 times more than was extracted

December 26, 2014. ChTZ Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod) produced its first B11.80000 tractor with a Chinese engine and hydro-mechanical transmission. ‘The launching ceremony was attended by representatives of the Chinese manufacturer, the country’s largest machine-building corporation WeiChai Holding Group. Our Chinese partners were in charge of the assembly and did more than just supervise our local experts’ work, they actually took part in the process themselves,’ the corporation’s press service says. The plant designers managed to fit the units in the serially produced

December 26, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Corporation was declared the top charity supporter of Nizhniy Tagil: the enterprises and organizations which contributed greatly to the city’s development and to socioeconomically important projects were awarded at the Mayor’s end-of-year reception, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘What is more, Mayor Sergey Nosov also gave the plant the highest award introduced this year, the Nizhniy Tagil No.1 Charity Supporter Award. This silver plate is given to organizations and enterprises that have become top charity-doers thrice,’ the press service says. In