September 11, 2014. A sportsman from Sputnik Club and world class master of sports Yegor Klimonov won in the Russian Federation President Cup International Weightlifting Tournament, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The tournament was held in Noyabrsk, Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region, on September 6-7. This year, the championship was given the status of a qualification-based selection of sports players for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics 2016. Teams from fifteen different countries took part in the tournament. The sportsman from Nizhniy Tagil competed as part of the Russian

September 11, 2014. Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant/PNTZ (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) set up a special boxing gym for the students of ChTPZ Group’s Training Center who are currently studying on the Future of White Metallurgy program. ‘The gym is fitted with all the necessary modern equipment. All the workouts are free of charge. The new boxing section of the gym was opened in the course of a solemn ceremony at Water Sports Palace,’ the plant’s press service says. According to ChTPZ Group’s Social Infrastructure Facilities Management Director Tatiana Darenskikh, most of the future so-called

September 11, 2014. A monument to Chelyabinsk tractors was erected next to the new Tractor Sports Palace that was recently commissioned in Chelyabinsk. The local tractor industry was actually the reason Tractor hockey school was set up to raise renowned Russian, world, and Olympic champions. According to Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service, Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, its member enterprise now known as ChTZ Uraltrac, became home to an amateur team of South Urals’ hockey players in the forties. This was also the place to host the first puck games clubs. ‘The plant’s Director-General

September 11, 2014. Ural Airlines is offering special rates on flights operated from non-capital Russian cities to the Black Sea resorts, the air carrier’s press service reports. Special prices are offered on one-way tickets from Yekaterinburg to Anapa (6,500 RUR), from Yekaterinburg to Gelendzhik (6,500 RUR), from Chelyabinsk to Anapa (6,500 RUR), and from Nizhniy Novgorod (5,500 RUR). ‘These rates are valid for flights to be operated through October 2014. Fees and charges are not included,’ the company says. The flights from Yekaterinburg to Anapa are operated daily, those bound for

September 10, 2014. The member enterprises of Uralvagonzavod Corporation are going to present their produce at Unknown Tankprom, a tank industry exhibition, the corporation’s press service reports. Six makes of tractors by ChTZ Uraltrac and a model of one of the world’s first combine machine meant for coal mining as well as the parts of a special beater/coal pulverizing mill made by Omsktransmash have already been handed over to the workers of Uralvagonzavod Corporation Exhibition Center. ‘These exhibits, as well as many other ones manufactured by the corporation member enterprises, will be

September 10, 2014. SKB-Bank carried its semiannual consolidated financial report for the first half of 2014 that was drawn up in accordance with the IAS. Based on the report data, the bank’s assets amounted to more than 108bn RUR as of June 30, 2014, the bank’s press service announces. SKB-Bank’s interest earnings exceeded 10.7bn RUR, while its interest costs came to 4.1bn RUR. Thus the bank’s net interest income stood at over 6.6bn RUR. ‘We consider the amount of profit to be the most significant performance indicator in the IAS-based report for the first half of 2014. Not only is our bank

September 10, 2014. About 3,500 employees of ChTPZ Group and their family members benefited from the company’s Corporate Vacation program, the company’s press service reports. ‘ChTPZ Group operates its own social infrastructure facilities: Forest Fairy Tale and Pine Woods (vacation resorts), Elanchik and Gagarinsky (children’s camps), and Emerald (a sanatorium), which makes it possible to offer comfortable and affordable vacations to plant’s employees and their children as well as the former, long-service workers. Quite a few of the plant’s workers and their families prefer to spend their

September 10, 2014. Yekaterinburg authorities are about to complete all the certification procedures necessary to ensure the city is ready for the upcoming heating season of 2014/2015, the city council’s press service reports. ‘A number of Sverdlovsk Region towns are under-prepared for the winter at the moment. Yekaterinburg, on the contrary, looks like one of the most responsible cities in this respect: the authorities have been getting ready for winter for a few months now, and this has been done in accordance with a previously adopted plan and under ongoing supervision by authorities. A

September 10, 2014. A draft provision on the minimum living wage for the fourth quarter of 2014 was adopted at Sverdlovsk Region Government meeting on September 9, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. Sverdlovsk Region’s per capita living wage for the fourth quarter of 2014 was estimated at 8,370 RUR a month, which is 6.3% more than in the previous quarter. The figure for working-age population was set at 8,370 RUR a month, that for retirees was set at 6,888 RUR a month, and that for children was set at 8,483 RUR a month. ‘The living wage, determined through

September 9, 2014. VUZ Bank is conducting a financial literacy campaign in all of its branches. In Yekaterinburg, workshops can be attended at any of the eleven branches the bank operates in the city on any Thursday. The lecture starts at 6:30 PM, the bank’s press service says. In addition to obtaining valuable theoretical knowledge, the workshop attendants can also get practical advice on savings, personal financial planning, and the best banking solutions from the bank’s experts. ‘You don’t have to be the bank’s customer in order to attend our School for Financial Literacy. Anyone can spend

September 9, 2014. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) raised the limits it sets on cash deposits transferred via the ATMs of Alfa Bank, the UBRD’s press service reports. Starting from September 3, 2014, VISA and MasterCard cardholders can deposit some cash onto their account using the ATMs of UBRD and Alfa Bank united network under new terms: up to 85,000 RUR can be deposited through a single transaction, and the total of 180,000 RUR (no more than eight transactions all in all) can be deposited within every twenty-four hours; the monthly limit is set at 720,000 RUR.

September 9, 2014. Uraltransmash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) summed up the results of its Company’s Best Turner Contest, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘The contest took place at two of Uraltransmash production sites and consisted of two stages: the first one was purely theoretical, and contestants had to answer twenty-two multiple choice questions. During the second, practical, stage, they had to make an adaptor plug on a turning lathe. Winners were determined based on the points scored at both stages of the contest. Alexander Semenov from the centralized

September 9, 2014. METCOMBANK acted as the partner of Fabergé Museum-St Petersburg, the bank’s press service reports. Russia’s first private museum of national importance, the Fabergé Museum was opened at the Shuvalov Palace in Saint Petersburg in late 2013. The museum exhibits one of the world’s best collections of Russian applied arts and jewellery dating back to the late 19th and early 20th century. ‘Nine famous Fabergé eggs created by orders of the last two Russian emperors are the most valuable pieces of the collection. What also makes the museum’s Fabergé collection unique is that it

September 9, 2014. Ural Airlines is reminding its customers at the start of the fall/winter season 2014 that special rates are offered on Europe-bound flights, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Planning your fall or winter trips just got even more convenient. Appealing prices are offered on popular destinations from Yekaterinburg to Rome, Munich, Barcelona, Prague, Karlovy Vary, and Tel Aviv and from Nizhniy Novgorod to Prague as well as from Krasnodar to Munich. The price of the ticket depends on the date you book on,’ the company explains. If you book more than sixty days before the

August 8, 2014. The amount of overdue loans rose by 468m RUR at Sverdlovsk Region-based banks in August, the local division of Central Bank reports. Debt arrears on loans, deposits, and other funds offered to non-financial organizations went up by 197.36m RUR, while the amount of outstanding debt reached 5.97bn RUR in August compared with 5.77bn RUR a month earlier. The picture looked the same in the private individuals’ funds segment. By the end of August, the amount of debt arrears on loans and deposits increased by 271.08m RUR up to 8.13bn RUR against 7.85bn RUR in July. Debt arrears in

August 8, 2014. Ural Federal University was given the 11th position in the rating of best Russian colleges to get a degree in Economics. The rating was created by Expert Rating Agency. The top three positions were awarded to Moscow-based colleges: Moscow State University, N.E. Bauman Moscow State Technical University, and Moscow Physicotechnical Institute. UFU was also given the 10th position in the rating of fifty Russian colleges that offer degrees in engineering disciplines, natural sciences, and precise sciences. ‘These impressive positions in the ratings prove that we are moving in the

August 8, 2014. Plant 9 (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) bought a cleaning vehicle for its production premises recently According to the corporation’s press service, this modern machine will be used at Department 23. ‘Despite the fact that this department was set up in early 2013 and has the newest equipment possible, it is impossible to avoid some spillage of oil which has to be used in the production process. For one, members of the third-stage control committee voiced numerous complaints regarding oily floors during their inspection of the department; they insisted that

August 8, 2014. The Russian Federation constituencies that comprise Ural Federal District will receive additional 1.3bn RUR to support their agricultural businesses, Russian Minister for Agriculture Nikolai Fedorov said at a briefing in Yekaterinburg in the course of Ural Federal District 5th Interregional Agricultural & Industrial Fair. ‘The district was allocated 6.5bn RUR from the national budget. We hope to be able to provide 1.3bn RUR before the end of the year, which is an adjustment on the country’s budget for 2014. These tranches will give our agricultural investors more

August 8, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation, the general partner of the event, presented the latest developments by its member enterprises at Ural Transport Show Magistral 2014. According to the corporation’s press service, the Director-General Oleg Sienko took part in the plenary session on transport machine-building and the impact this segment feels of the new institutional mechanisms. ‘In his report, Oleg Sienko spoke about the corporation’s innovative developments, including, for example, production of rolling stock and of modern low-floor trams. Besides, he

September 5, 2014. Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog) closed down McDonald’s second restaurant at 106 Chelyuskintsev St in Yekaterinburg following a recent inspection. ‘One restaurant in Yekaterinburg still awaits court decision. We are closely studying the content of the agency documents to determine what should be done to re-open the restaurant as soon as possible.,’ McDonald’s official website states. No reasons are given for why the restaurant was forced to close down. Now on August 28, 2014, Yekaterinburg Leninsky District Court imposed an 85-day stoppage on McDonald’s