June 11, 2014. Passenger turnover at Yekaterinburg-based Koltsovo Airport amounted to 380,000 people in May 2014. All in all, 1.548m people traveled through the airport in the first five months of 2014, which was 7.5% more than in the first five months of 2013, the airport's website states. The international passenger turnover only increased by 1.5% and reached 718,000 people, including 196,700 people who flew in May. The domestic passenger turnover has gone up by 13.2% since the beginning of the year and came to 829,200 people. In May 2014, the domestic passenger turnover went up by

June 10, 2014. Ural Airlines is launching a new, scheduled Moscow-Munich flight in the winter season of 2014-2015, the airline's press service reports. Passengers can fly to Bavaria's capital starting from December 27, 2014, every Monday. Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday on comfortable Airbus liners that have both economy and business class sections. The timetable is designed in such a way as to be suitable for passengers who are flying to Munich from other parts of Russia; the air carrier operates daily Moscow-bound flights from Chelyabinsk, Ufa, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhnevartovsk,

June 10, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region-based agricultural enterprises completed their summer crop sowing campaign, the local Agriculture & Food Ministry's press service reports. All the jobs were completed in time and in full. This year's summer crop cultivation area was 489,000 hectares (compared with 535,000 hectares a year earlier), including 377,000 hectares of grain crops, 18,000 hectares of corn, over 17,000 hectares of rape, and 17,000 hectares of potatoes and other vegetables. The rest was used for sowing annual grass and perennials. 'Despite the challenging weather

June 10, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region remained among the mid-range sustainability federal constituencies in May 2014. The Mid-Urals were given 6,0 points all in all, which is the same figure it was awarded last month, Petersburg Policy Fund's rating states. Among the factors that made a positive impact on Sverdlovsk Region's rating was a presentation of the constituency's potential to representatives of ninety different countries at the Russian Federation Foreign Affairs Ministry and a business forum that was coordinated jointly with Uzbekistan in Ashkhabad. The news relating to the

June 10, 2014. Some 600 companies from 70 different countries are going to present their developments, materials, and solutions at the 5th International Industrial Exhibition Innoprom 2014 in Yekaterinburg Expo Exhibition Center on July 9-12, 2014, Sverdlovsk Region Ministry for International and Foreign Economic Relations' press service reports. This year's event is dedicated to smart industries, production automation, robotic science, and new materials. On July 9, 2014, the opening day of Innoprom, Russian Minister for Industry & Science Denis Manturov is going to give out the

June 10, 2014. Inspectors from Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor prevented illegal import of 11kg of unidentified unripe honey at Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg on May 30, 2014, the agency's press service reports. 'The passenger who had this honey arrived from Uzbekistan and had no veterinary documentation to prove the quality and safety of the product in veterinary and sanitary terms,' the press service says. The honey in question was confiscated and handed over to a special organization so that it could be done away with, the agency explains.

June 9, 2014. In 2013, the volume of direct investments in Ural Federal District was reduced by over 4 times compared with 2013 and amounted to $1,407m. At the same time, the amount of money transferred by Ural Federal District-based entities and individuals abroad increased by nearly two times and came to $9,525m, the Central Bank's report on direct investments abroad from federal constituencies in 2011-2013 states. When working on this report, the Central Bank's experts took into account such parameters as equity participation, profit reinvestment, and debt instruments. In the

June 9, 2014. The stand run by ChTZ-Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) was one of the most visited ones at the Construction Vehicles & Technologies 2014 Exhibition in Moscow on June 3-7. According to the corporation's press service, consumers are traditionally most interested in tractors and Class 10 and Class 15 bulldozers as well as in the spare parts for the said vehicle types. 'Yet the museum rarity C-65, Russia's first diesel tractor that is presented in combination with a grader made in the 50s or the 60s, leaves no one unmoved as well,'

June 9, 2014. Sberbank is going to finance the construction of an indoor theme park in Yekaterinburg - a project run by Regions Group. The said company and Sberbank CIB signed an agreement recently that says the amount of investment into the project (and a number of others) will run to over 61bn RUR, Regions Group's press service reports. 'The agreement provides for strategic cooperation between the two companies along a wide spectrum of financial products and services, including financing Regions Group's investment program for 2014-2017. The total amount of investment is

June 9, 2014. Ural Airlines operated new flights from Chelyabinsk to Anapa and Simferopol on June 6, 2014. The Chelyabinsk-Anapa flight took off at 8:40 AM, while the Chelyabinsk-Simferopol one was scheduled for 4:45 PM (departure times quoted are in local time), the air carrier's press service says. The airline's planes will be taking the residents of the South Urals to the coast of the Black Sea in Krasnodar Territory and in the Crimea every Friday through the end of September. Prices of a one-way ticket from Chelyabink to Anapa start from 7,250 RUR (excluding the fees and

June 9, 2014. The amount of direct investment in Russia, a considerable rise in which was observable last year, is going to nearly halve in 2014; this is the forecast quoted in a report by Wiener Institut fuer Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (WIIW) that was published on Thursday, Banki.ru says. According to the database the institute has been keeping on the basis of data supplied by a number of national statistical services, the amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Russia reached €59.667bn in 2013, which was 51.6% more than in the previous year. However, due to the fact that the

June 6, 2014. Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) is going to deliver over 9,000,000 kg of large-diameter pipes to Rosneft for the construction of Suzun-Vankor oil pipeline (this is part of the Yamal Pipeline System). The LDPs are to be shipped in May-July 2014, the company's press service reports. The 530-mm pipes with wall width of 9mm are made from corrosion-resistant 09GBYu steel with urethane-foam coating (the foam width is 100mm, the width of the zinc-coated membrane is more than 1.5mm); the pipe's running pressure is 6.3 Mpa. This

June 6, 2014. The electronic banking system known as eLife underwent numerous upgrades and had new useful and convenient functions added to it over the last year. All this helped customers feel even more comfortable and confident when managing their cash flows remotely. Thanks to these developments, the system proved one of the top three in the e-banking usability rating that was created by Expert Rating Agency. In 2013, Life Group's eLife system was promoted in the rating and got the flattering 3d position, VUZ-Bank's press service says. The e-banking systems were evaluated against

June 6, 2014. A modern building with a parking lot fit for 300 cars and a business center will be put up in Dzerzhinsky District of Nizhniy Tagil by Uralvagonzavod Corporation's daughter enterprise UBT-Uralvagonzavod, the corporation's press service says. The projected total area of the site is 8,700 sq m, the area of the building and the surrounding premises is 7,400 sq m. The construction of a parking lot will make it possible to de-clutter the nearby streets that have cars parked on the sides of the road and therefore to make the traffic much safer and easier. The large-scale

June 6, 2014. Yekaterinburg was promoted from the 6th to the 3d position in the rating of Russian cities that assesses their development. Krasnodar and Tyumen are in the first and the second places, respectively, Expert magazine's research states. According to the magazine, the median monthly pay in Yekaterinburg comes to 37,190 RUR, the total budget spending per capita is 25,456 RUR, 1,075 RUR are spent on culture and sports, 11,768 RUR are spent on education, 4,003 RUR are spent on transportation and roads, and the retail trade turnover is 470,900 RUR.

June 6, 2014. A children's coloring pages booklet with samples of vehicles was published in celebration of ChTZ-Uraltrac's (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) 'birthday', 'The idea is to help pre-schoolers and young schoolchildren to get acquainted with the most popular machines that are made at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant. They will be able both to see what a modern bulldozer, pipe-laying vehicle, or loader looks like and to paint the black and white pictures using a colored sample. They can also use their imagination and come up with an original

June 6, 2014.The risk management policies pursued by Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) were estimated very highly by the professional community at the 9th International Best Risk Management 2014 Exhibition. The company was declared a laureate in the Best All-Round Risk Management Program category. ‘Making the company’s risk management system work took a lot of effort. The recent diagnostic checks have shown that the system is working efficiently and meets all the global standards. MMK has a full understanding of the peculiarities of managing business processes both at the enterprise

June 5, 2014. Fifteen engineers from Transport Machine-Building Design Office (KBTM, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) took part in the 3d Siberian Engineers Conference in Omsk Expocenter on May 28-30, 2014. According to the corporation's press service, participants from 18 different parts of Russia arrived at the conference. The motto of the event ran, 'Engineering is the Basis of Russia's Development'. The primary idea behind the conference was to consolidate the expertise and the best practices from different constituencies in the field of industrial

June 5, 2014. Yekaterinburg police officers detained a young man who is suspected of a series of frauds, the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry reports. ‘According to the police data, the alleged offender had been renting flats for one day and then sublet them for a longer period since the beginning of 2012. The man used fake IDs in the names of Gordy, Mittelman, and Khild. He found his victims on the Internet and invited them to have a look at the apartment. In order to sound more convincing, he would show the future tenants documents relating

June 5, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor got a query from customers of the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD), who complained of violations of consumer rights. The bank charged its customers for some additional services without complying with the legal requirement that information should be provided as to the price of these services and as to the customers’ right to turn the offer of these services down. The total commission that one of the customers had to pay throughout his loan period amounted to more than 85,000 RUR, the agency’s press service