July 22, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region division of the Federal Public Property Management Agency (Rosimushchestvo) is holding a public auction aimed at selling shares of Metrological Equipment Pilot Production Plant (OZ MERA) based in Sredneuralsk, the agency's official website states. Offered for sale are 317,840 ordinary paperless shares, which comes to 100% of the plant's authorized capital. The total face value of all the shares stands at 3,178,400 RUR; the opening bid was set at 6,861,000 RUR. These are non-encumbered shares. Applications can be submitted between July 18 and August

July 21, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor (the national consumer rights watchdog) considered a complaint placed by a bank customer and detected a case of consumer rights infringement: the customer was made to sign as many as six insurance contracts at one and the same time, the division's press service reports. It was determined that Credit Europe Bank issued an automobile loan to its customer at a motor show. Six insurance contracts with different companies were signed right there at the motor show for comprehensive insurance, VTPL, MTPL, life and health insurance,

July 21, 2014. The football team of Uralvagonzavod Corporation's head plant beat the team of Nizhniy Tagil Council 2:0, the corporation's press service reports. The games were played in the football pitch of School 77 and were actually the first contests coordinated after the commissioning of the school's sports facility. This was Uralvagonzavod Corporation's Executive Director Vladimir Roschupkin who put forth the initiative on the organization of the match. Mayor Sergey Nosov supported the proposal, so the head plant of the corporation and the city council celebrated

July 21, 2014. A football street art gallery opened in Yekaterinburg during the Stenograffia Festival that is currently held there, the city council's press service says. 'As soon as today, residents and guests of the Urals can take a look at these out-of-the-ordinary street art dedicated to football themes. Instead of canvases, objects like supporting walls, construction fences, and facades of buildings were used. The right to create these football-themed objects of art was granted to artists from Moscow, Samara, and Asbest. Sketches were selected from sixty applications submitted

July 21, 2014. The Director-General of Ural Locomotives (a joint venture operated by Sinara Group and Siemens AG) Alexander Saltayev took part in a round table discussion on import replacement and the new opportunities of the Russian industry within the framework of the industrial exhibition Innoprom 2014 business agenda. According to Sinara Group's press service, Russia's Deputy Industry & Trade Minister Sergey Tsyb and heads of leading Russian and foreign companies and holdings took part in this discussion as well. In his report, Saltayev spoke about Ural Locomotives'

July 21, 2014. UBT-Ecologia started supplying furnace charge to ChTZ-Uraltrac. This means that Uralvagonzavod Corporation's daughter enterprise is now delivering some 2,000,000 kg of raw material to another daughter enteprise and thus fully meets the latter's needs, the corporation's press service reports. According to Deputy Director of UBT-Ecologia's Chelyabinsk subsidiary Vladislav Galunchikov, this brings the companies to a closed production cycle. The drop-hammer plant first receives the plant's byproducts such as chips and clippings and then makes them fit for

July 18, 2014. On the eve of Metallurgist's Day, the best employees of Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant ( a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) were awarded with state, local government, industrial sector, and departmental awards. All in all, 267 workers were awarded, the enterprise's press service reports. Five of the plant's workers were given the title of Honored Metallurgist. Four people received honorary certificates issued by the Russian Federation Industry & Trade Ministry, and three employees were awarded with Governor of Sverdlovsk Region's honorary certificate. All

July 18, 2014. Ural Airlines are offering their customers special rates on south-bound flights during the off-peak season, the airline's press officer reports. Ural Airlines' customers can already book flights to Sochi, Anapa, Gelendzhik, Simferopol, Rostov-on-Don, and Mineralnye Vody via Moscow (the prices quoted are for one-way tickets and do not include any fees and charges). The appealing prices for flights bound for the Black Sea resorts and holiday destinations in Krasnodar Territory and the Caucasus will come into effect on September 1, 2014: flights from Nizhnevartovsk start

July 18, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region will receive about 601m RUR from the federal budget this year to raise the salaries of civil sector workers, RIA Novosti reports. The civil sector workers pay rise program for 2012-2018 was adopted by the Government in late 2012 in compliance with the President's May decrees. The aim of the program is to convert the civil sector to an 'efficiency contract' system, which means their salaries will depend on the complexity and quality of the government services they offer. Prior to this, Putin asked the government to assess the federal

July 18, 2014. Deputy Head of Yekaterinburg Council for Consumer Market and Services Vladimir Bolikov held a meeting with heads of local hostels on Wednesday, July 16. According to the council's press service, the meeting was dedicated to the possibility of hosting supporters during the World Cup 2018. The hostel managers were given out instructions that will have to be considered to ensure good quality service and a comfortable stay for visitors to Yekaterinburg. There are currently 42 hostels operating in Yekaterinburg, with a total of 180 rooms (over 1,000 beds). The city authorities

July 18, 2014. Head of Yekaterinburg Council Alexander Yakob signed a decree on adopting an action plan targeted at enhancing the investment appeal of the Urals' capital and at creating propitious conditions for business development, the council's press service reports. The action plan was adopted for 2014-2016 and covers a set of actions relating to creation and modernization of highly productive jobs and improvements in labor productivity, in the labor market situation, in the training and retraining of skilled workers, in th quality and accessibility of production and transport

July 18, 2014. In the first half of 2014, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) remained the leading flat rolled products supplier and was also the top supplier of deep-level processing goods on the home market. These are the data provided by Metallosnabzhenie I Sbyt magazine that carried a rating of leading ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgical products suppliers in the first half of 2014. MMK is No.1 in the FRP Supplies rating as usual. Besides, this year the company moved from the second to the first place in the Deep-Level Processing Goods category. The improvements in the

July 17, 2014. Gazprombank became yet another one of Sputnik Hockey Club's sponsors - in addition to Uralvagonzavod, the hockey team's general sponsor, Chairman of Sputnik board of trustees Alexei Zharich said at a press conference. According to Zharich, the last season's primary focus was on the changes in the club's oranizational structure. In March, Sputnik left the sports club of the same name and was founded as an independent legal entity and a non-commercial partnership. As Zharich pointed out, this opens up new and impressive horizons for Sputnik and will let the

July 17, 2014. Under the company's technical conversion program for 2014, the obsolete forming machine Azovpressmash IG 1430 was replaced with the new TruBend-5320 with numerical program control made by the German firm TRUMPF at PTK 870, the third production site of Uraltransmash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation), the corporation's press service reports. The installation of this modern equipment will reduce labor intensity of the start-up and commissioning process by 50% to 70% and will considerably improve the quality of spare parts as

July 17, 2014. A press conference dedicated to Sputnik Hockey Club's development prospects and training for the new season was held at Uralvagonzavod Ice Sports Palace in Nizhniy Tagil. Uralvagonzavod Corporation is the club's general sponsor. During this conference, special attention was paid to changes in the club's organizational structure: in March, Sputnik left the sports club of the same name and was founded as an independent legal entity and a non-commercial partnership, the corporation's press service reports. In his welcoming address, Chairman of Sputnik board of

July 17, 2014. Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) won a diploma in the Trade Union of Defense Industry Workers contest as the Best CSR Enterprise. According to the corporation's press service, the third-prize diploma was given to the company by Chairman of the All-Russian Oboronprof Trade Union Andrei Chekmenev. 'Chekmenev congratulated the company team on this victory in the presence of division managers and trade union administration members. He pointed out that Omsktransmash actually joined the competition, dedicated to

July 17, 2014. A modern cleaning machine made by the German firm DURR was recently launched at the motor division of ChTZ-Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation). According to the corporation's press service, the cleaning machine is fitted with a Siemens sensor screen that allows the operator to program various washing and vacuum drying modes for connecting rods from different engine types. 'This is one of the final procedures in the technological chain of making engine connecting rods. Once the cleaning machine has been launched, the company acquired a full

July 16, 2014. The team of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation took part in a sports event Ready for Work and Defense in Magnitogorsk on July 12, 2014. According to the corporation's press service, 40 representatives of the corporation's member enterprises who won in-company sports contests were on the team. 'In addition to the corporation's workers, teams from Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works, Chelyabinsk Electrical & Metallurgical Works, and Dynamo Sports Club took part in the competition. Ural Military & Sports Fund acted as the coordinator

July 16, 2014. Omsk-based Transport Machine-Building Design Bureau (KBTM, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) changed its name to Omsk Transport Machine-Building Plant (Omsktransmash). According to the corporation's press service, the decision was made at the BOD meeting. The changes were registered with the fiscal authorities on July 8, 2014. 'Omsktransmash, the tank plant, the October Revolution plant – all of these are the different names given to one of the Russian economy's most important enterprises. It was there where the first

July 16, 2014. 96.4% of Sverdlovsk Region's economically active population – 2,141,800 people – are (self-) employed, while 5.4%, or 121,900 people, do not have a job but are actively looking for one (this population segment is classed as the unemployed by the International Labor Organization, Sverdlovskstat's press service reports. As for state-run organizations, these classed 27,100 people, or 1.2% of the economically active local population, as the unemployed as of late May 2014.