June 5, 2014. Electromachine (a Chelyabinsk-based member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) is now commissioning five different units. The jobs will be implemented within the framework of a large-scale technical improvements program the company runs, Uralvagonzavod’s press service reports. An up-to-date milling processing center DAHLIH MCV-1020 is being installed at the mechanical department. It will primarily be used for making pilot batches of new products and will make it possible to considerably increase the existing milling capacity of the enterprise. A selective soldering unit

June 5, 2014. Ural Locomotives (a joint venture operated by Sinara Group and Siemens) was successfully tested by an interregional acceptance committee; the enterprise’s R&D and design efforts in the field of making the AC 2ES7 loco (Project 11201) were assessed. According to Sinara Group’s press service, the committee was comprised of representatives of Russian Railways, railway institutes, railway equipment suppliers, Ural Locomotives, and Siemens and chaired by Russian Railways Chief Engineer and Senior Vice President for Innovative Development Valentin Gapanovitch. In the course of the

June 4, 2014. The employees of ChTZ-Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) received a letter from a machine operator named Jan Hoffman, who lives in Amtsberg, a municipality in Saxony. In this letter, he spoke about how his relationship with the company's dealer F.K.M. Praga was progressing, the corporation's press service says. According to Hoffman, he came to the Czech capital together with his friend, a T-130 tractor owner, to meet the head of the dealer company Gennady Fedchun. The visitors picked up some pre-ordered pare parts there. Jan's friend

June 4, 2014. KBTM (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) got a compliance certificate for its coupler casting. This means the company is now expanding the range of products it makes for Russian Railways, the corporation's press service reports. 'The coupler is an automated hookup mechanism that hitches railway carriages together without (or almost without) human involvement. It is most often used for railway carriages and locos. The coupler casting is meant for sending the draft force impulse onto the draft mechanism and for placing inside the casting a mechanism for

June 4, 2014. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) shipped a 2,000,000 kg-plus set of line pipes with strength grade X60 made at Volzhsky Pipe Plant to a major international oil and gas company Saudi Aramco, the company's press service reports. 'Prior to sending off the order, the goods underwent an inspection audit at VTZ which was conducted by Aramco Overseas Cоmpanу and TVD experts; these specialists represented Saudi Aramco's interests and looked closely into the technological process and the technical requirements set out for the order and the quality of the goods and

June 4, 2014. Uralvagonzavod Corporation member enterprises embarked upon their summer health campaign for the children of their employees, the corporation's press service says. 'Thousands of children from Nizhniy Tagil, Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Yekaterinburg, Yurga and other towns and cities where the corporation operates are going to spend some time in the summer camps and Russian health resorts,' the press service reports. As for the company's head plant, 20 mothers with motion impaired children will go to Mitino, a health resort in Kirov Region. 'The employees'

June 4, 2014. Ural Airlines introduced an additional flight for the popular summertime destination: from Nizhniy Novgorod to Simferopol, the company's press service reports. Starting from June 17, 2014, the flight to the coast of the Black Sea will be operated not only on Sundays but on Tuesdays as well. 'The Crimea peninsula is a favorite vacation place for Russian travelers that makes you fall in love with it at first sight! This spot has everything a holiday maker longing for an unforgettable vacation needs: fresh air, the seaside, intact nature, medieval and ancient artifacts,

June 4, 2014. Making its new facilities pay off, all-round improvements in efficiency, and more focus on specific consumers remain Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works’ (MMK) key strategic priorities, the company’s Business Development & Efficiency Management Director Maxim Lapin said at the 22nd metallurgical summit that was held in Moscow under the auspices of Russian Steel Non-Commercial Partnership. Lapin believes that de-commoditization, that is, switching from supplying the market with non-specific, mass market goods (ingots, slabs, fittings, hot-rolled rolls, and standard-size

June 3, 2014. It was decided during the Supreme Hockey League Board meeting on May 30 that Sputnik Hockey Club and not Sputnik Sports Club should join the League. The hockey club was established as an independent legal entity and a non-commercial partnership, Uralvagonzavod's press service reports. The decision that was taken in the Board of Trustees' meeting was implemented. The new entity was set up by Sputnik Sports Club (whose general sponsor is Uralvagonzavod Corporation), Nizhniy Tagil Council, and Sverdlovsk Region Ministry for Physical Education, Sports and Youth Policy.

June 3, 2014. Uralvagonzavod hosted its traditional 72nd track-and-field relay race for the Mashinostroitel prize. This contest became a whole-corporation event a long time ago. In 2014, 1,370 people ran the traditional 2,775-meter distance. In addition to Uralvagonzavod sports players, athletes from other member enterprises of Uralvagonzavod Corporation took part in the race. Workers from Nizhniy Tagil-based Uralcryomash, UBT-Uralvagonzavod, Ural Transport Machine-Building Design Office, and Ural Railway Carriage Design Office, Ural Scientific and Technological Division, representatives of

June 3, 2014. Uralkhimmash was fined for violating the existing sanitary legislation; the violations were detected in the course of an on-site inspection conducted by the experts of Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor. According to the agency's press service, most of the violations detected had to do with failure to provide acceptable working conditions and failure to meet the current hygienic regulations for dust and pollutants content in the air within production departments. It was also determined that the licensing agreement on the use of ionizing radiation source was not

June 3, 2014. The fan zone in Mayakovsky Central Park in Yekaterinburg is expected to be expanded for the World Football Championship of 2018 so that it can fit 35,000 people, Director of The Urals' Capital Anna Baichibayeva said at a press conference today. The venue that is now being prepared for hosting the visitors to Supporters' Festival in Yekaterinbrg in 2014 is only big enough for 5,000 people. 'Under the FIFA requirements, a fan zone must be at least as big as to host 35,000 viewers. We are now considering the idea of putting up a fan zone in the park. The current

June 2, 2014. According to the data provided by SverdlovskStat, 437,600 sq m of housing got built in Sverdlovsk Region in January-April 2014, with financing provided from all the possible budgets and private funds. This figure is 2.3 times bigger than in January-April 2013, Sverdlovsk Region Economics Ministry's press service reports. Private builders put up 63.4% of all this housing (277,600 sq m), which is 1.8 times bigger than in January-April 2013. 28,300 sq m of economy class housing were commissioned in Sverdlovsk Region in the four months of 2014; this was 2 times more than a year

June 2, 2014. 82% of Russian restaurateurs expect a complete ban on smoking to result in declining numbers of visitors, the findings of Yuri Levada Center's recent research on a complete ban on smoking in restaurants on June 1, 2014 state. This information was provided by activists of the Smokers' Rights Movement. Most of restaurant business owners and managers surveyed (82%) believe that a complete ban on smoking in restaurants will effect a drop in the number of customers. 17% of respondents feel that the customer turnover will remain the same. Only one of those surveyed expects a

June 2, 2014. ChTPZ Group directs some money to organizing summer holidays and leisure activities for children of Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant's employees this year. According to the company's press service, more than 4,000 kids will be able to enjoy a vacation in the company summer camps Yelanchik and Gagarinsky in June, July, and August. The first 'season' will begin on the eve of Children's Protection Day. 'ChTPZ Group has actually made investing in good quality children's holidays its tradition. The Group's company

June 2, 2014. As of May 27, 2014, Yegorshinsky Radio Plant transferred 5.8m RUR to the bank card accounts of its former employees after selling its assets, Sverdlovsk Region Government's press secretary reports. Besides, 500,000 RUR were directed to payments of writs of execution issued by court officers, including 103,800 RUR relating to moral damage. All in all, the plant's former employees received 6.3m RUR. Now under the agreement the staff representatives, the new plant's management, and the trustee in bankruptcy signed in April 2014, the sum total was to have come to 5.6m

June 2, 2014. The Director-General of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation Oleg Sienko paid a two-day visit to Algeria in the capacity of Chairman of the Russian Section of the Russian-Algerian Business Council; he also took part in the Council's meeting involving both the Russian and the Algerian parties. In his speech, Sienko stressed the importance of the Council's efficiency in the development of fruitful cooperation between both countries. 'The Russian-Algerian Business Council was set up in March 2006 and has proved an efficient mechanism that promotes

May 30, 2014. Based on the results of the latest tax declaration campaign, the number of billionaires living in Sverdlovsk Region is currently down to four. Last year, 7 people declared an income of over 1bn RUR, Head of Sverdlovsk Region branch of Russia’s Federal Tax Service Division for Taxation of Private Individuals’ Income & Property Lidia Isayeva said. As for millionaires, the number of these actually went up. ’11,200 residents of Sverdlovsk Region stated an income of over 1m RUR in their tax declarations last year. This is 6.5% more than a year earlier. This year, we received

May 30, 2014. LEPSE (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) was awarded the Dependable Reputation Medal and a laureate’s certificate in the Best Employers in Volga Federal District 2014 Contest; the event was organized by StatExpert Research Institute, Moscow. ‘The experts from among the employees of and visitors to the employment services and recruiting agencies located in the largest cities in Volga Federal District gave a very high estimate of how the company operates and commented on the splendid working conditions, clever HR policy, ever-timely

May 30, 2014. ChTZ-Uraltrac (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) launched a container filling station that was designed and produced by OOO AltaiSpetsIzdeliya in Barnaul by order of Uralvagonzavod. According to the corporation’s press service, the symbolic red ribbon was cut in the course of the opening ceremony by ChTZ Deputy Director for Corporate and Property Issues Alexander Anikin, Director-General of UBT-UVZ Igor Korkunov, and Director of UBT’s ChTZ-Uraltrac branch Allan Varziyev. The new filling station does not require any underground tanks and can be used in an