March 18, 2014. The 14th Coordination Committee will meet at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) on March 17-18. The meeting will involve the general directors of ChTPZ Group and MMK, the enterprise’s press service reports. The pipe manufacturing enterprise and the metallurgical enterprise managers will look into ways of cooperating in the field of metal quality control, tracking the goods and the terms of delivery, and expanding the range of steel sheets offered to customers, and will talk about their prospects of joining the major fuel and energy complex projects together, including

March 18, 2014. Ural Airlines is launching a new daily flight from Moscow to Kaliningrad on April 27, 2014. One can now travel from the Russian capital to Kaliningrad in the morning (the departure time for Flight U6 371 is 8 AM, the arrival time is 9 AM). The return flight U6 372 from Kaliningrad to Moscow is offered in the mornings as well: the departure time is 9 50 AM, the arrival time is 12 45 PM. This means passengers can now be more flexible in planning their business trips and manage their time more efficiently. Besides, Ural Airlines customers can always use the air carrier’s

March 17, 2014. Ural Airlines resumed the operation of its traditional summertime flights from Moscow to Mirny with a stopover in Yekaterinburg and from Yekaterinburg to Nadym and then to Salekhard and then back to Yekaterinburg, the air carrier’s press service says. Starting from May 22, 2014, an addtional Moscow-Yekaterinburg-Mirny flight will complement the existing schedule, so the flight will be operated twice a week, every Thursday and Sunday, with the flights back offered on Mondays and Fridays. As a matter of fact, the Moscow-Mirny flight is on the government subsidies list that makes

March 17, 2014. MegaFon and MegaLabs announce the launch of a new app, MegaFon Tracker, that makes it possible to track the locations of mobile devices with a high degree of precision. According to the telecommunications provider’s press service, the app is using data from GPS/GLONASS, the wireless, and GSM module, which ensures maximum precision in positioning. MegaFon Tracker is used for enhancing the positioning precision for such services as Radar and Cadre Control. The location of both Radar and Cadre Control users used to be identifed based only on the data provided by a few base

March 17, 2014. Burevestnik Central Scientific Research Institute (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) was awarded with the Governor of Nizhniy Novgorod challenge pennant for Defense Industry Enterprises. According to the corporation’s press service, the award was received by DG Burevestnik Georgiy Zakamennykh in the course of a solemn ceremony and is actually to stay at the enterprise forever, since this is the third year in a row the company has won this award. The head of the institute told reporters that the organization managed to raise its

March 17, 2014. A sports festival called Electromachine Ski Track 2014 was held at Khimki Stadium in Kopeisk. This was the beginning of a series of sports competitions to celebrate the company anniversary. Some 200 people took part in this Ski Track event, a lot of company workers came there with their families, and everyone could try their luck in both sports competitions and traditional folk festivities, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. The contests included ski races for all sports player categories (including the employees’ children) and a mini-football championship.

March 15, 2014. The current market trends and the ongoing devaluation of the ruble made it necessary for Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) to raise its metal goods prices on April 1, 2014, the company reports. This increase was also brought about by the growing demand that has to do with the end of the winter season. The hot-rolled metal goods prices will go up by 5% to 7% for thin sheets and by 4% to 6% for thick ones; the cold-rolled metal goods prices will increase by 6% to 9%, the prices of zinc-coated products will go up by 5% to 6%, the prices of products with polymeric coating

March 15, 2014. Given the current market trend and the ongoing depreciation of the ruble, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is going to raise metal goods prices on April 1, the company reports. The increase in prices also has to do with the rising demand after the end of the winter season. The thin hot-rolled stock prices will go up by 5% to 7%, the thick hot-rolled stock prices will rise by 4% to 6%, the cold-rolled stock prices will increase by 6% to 9%, the zinc-coated rolled stock prices will increase by 5% to 6%, and the prices for rolled stock with polymeric coating will rise by

March 14, 2014. The Director of the Russian Economics Ministry's Department for Special Economic Zones, Regional Development Projects, and One-Employer Towns Andrei Sokolov, Chelyabinsk Region Minister for Economic Develoment Elena Murzina, and Deputy Director-General of ChTPZ Group Maxim Ignatiev visited Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant's Vysota 239 department. 'I believe the main thing is that the employees acquire a great production culture here, this is the key factor. This is something that the Russian industry really lacks at the moment. What we saw at Vysota 239 today is

March 14, 2014. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) reports Alexander Borshchevsky, former Deputy Director-General for Economics & Finance of TMK INOKS, was appointed DG on March 12. 'Former DG TNK INOKS Leonid Marchenko resigned under both parties' cordial agreement. The decision to appoint Alexander Borshchevsky was taken at the meeting of TMK INOKS Board of Directors,' TMK press service reports. Alexander Borshchevsky was born in 1975. He mainly worked at Sinara Pipe Plant (SinTZ) and its subdivisions. Starting from 1998, he worked at the plant's Central Lab, at SinTZ

March 14, 2014. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod) shipped two B10M bulldozers with hydromechanical transmission to Russian frontier guards. According to Uralvagonzavod Corporation's press service, both bulldozers are fitted with shovels and mulchers. 'The bulldozers headed off for their destination point via railways: one of them is bound for Chita, the other one for Balashikha, Moscow Region. The shipment of ChTZ vehicles results from our winning a tender for the delivery of engineering vehicles to the frontier troops of Russia's Federal

March 14, 2014. Following the Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin's Decree 128 as of January 24, 2013, Russia's Defense Ministry, Russia's Industry & Trade Ministry, and Russia's Economics Ministry decided to make Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation the sole executive body of eight repair companies: Spetsremont, 22BTRZ, 61 BTRZ, 81 BTRZ, 103 BTRZ, 144 BTRZ, 163 BTRZ, 560 BTRZ, and 192 TsZZhT. The companies are located in different parts of Russia and employ several thousand people altogether, the corporation's press service says. The

March 14, 2014. Between January 1 and February 28, Ural Airlines flew 605,130 passengers, which was 30% more than a year earlier, the air carrier's press service reports. Ural Airlines have operated 5,107 flights since the beginning of the year, including 1,524 international flights, 2,301 domestic flights, and 1,282 flights around the CIS. 'The airline's passenger turnover rose by 30% in January-February 2014 compared with January-February 2013 and amounted to 1,630,373 passenger-kilometers. In February, Ural Airlines operated 2,368 flights, including 629 international

March 13, 2014. For the first time in history, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation and ApATeK Scientific & Production Enterprise received the most prestigious international prize for innovations in the field of composites (technologies, materials, and structures) JEC Awards, the corporation's press service reports. JEC Awards, which is to the composites industry as Oscar is to the film one, is awarded within the framework of the world's largest composites industry JEC SHOW (JEC CompositesShow) in Paris. This year, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production

March 13, 2014. The turnover of organizations based in Ural Federal District grew by 6.4% in 2013 compared with 2012 and came to 15.1 trillion RUR, Sverdlovskstat reports. The industrial production index for fossil fuels development, processing industries, and electric power, natural gas, and water distribution grew by 0.7% compared with 2012 (the country average was 0.3%). The production index for fossil fuels development grew by 0.3%, that for the processing industries grew by 2.3%, and that for the production and distribution of electric power, natural gas, and water decreased by 3.2%.

March 13, 2014. 2,094bn RUR worth of investments were directed to Ural Federal District's socioeconomic development in 2013 (1.8% less than in 2012), Sverdlovskstat reports. The District's share of investments comes to 15.8% of all the investments made into Russia. The specific weight of investments from own funds was 57.2% last year, the share of attracted capital was 42.8%, including 2% allocated from the federal budget. According to the Federal Treasury, the consolidated budget of all the federal constituencies in Ural Federal District was implemented with the deficit of 129.5bn

March 13, 2014. The stricter customs control measures that were launched at Yekaterinburg Customs affected the volume of goods imported from Ukraine, Ural Customs Administration's press service says. The total worth of imported food items has come to $3.4m since the beginning of the year (117m RUR) compared with $11.6m (352m RUR) a year earlier. 'Political instability affected some of the key items Ukraine exports to Russia: metals, metal goods, machinery, chemical and mineral products, and some other goods. The imports nearly halved, dropping from $29.6m in 2013 to $16.9m in 2014),

March 12, 2014. Yekaterinburg is now busy running a tender for the design and survey work contract relating to the coordination of the FIFA Festival in Mayakovsky Park, Sverdlovsk Region Minister for Physical Culture, Sports, and Youth Policies Leonid Rapoport said at the first meeting of an ad hoc team who is in charge of coordinating the World Football Championship of 2018. The meeting was chaired by Sverdlovsk Region Government Vice Premier Valentin Gripas. 'It is already clear that most of the jobs will have to do with improvements in the park. I have asked the local Energy and

March 12, 2014. An electronic system called Windchill is now being launched at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ). This innovation is meant for managing engineering data, for set-up and maintenance of design and preproduction planning, and for automation of the process of managing an item's parameters, Uralvagonzavod Corporation's press service says. The employees of the plant's IT Center, headed by Lyudmila Filatenko, tuned in the system, worked through the operation routine, and converted their goods composition database from the traditional Omega into Windchill. This rather

March 12, 2014. The members of Sverdlovsk Region Cabinet, in the course of their meeting on March 11, approved of Sverdlovsk Region Government draft bill on setting the minimum cost of living figure for the second quarter of 2014 that had been calculated by Sverdlovsk Region Economics Ministry. The minimum cost of living calculated for Q'II 14 came to 7,317 RUR per capita a month; this is 1.1% more than in Q'I 14. For working age residents, the figure was 7,792 RUR, for retirees, the figure was 6,012 RUR (+1.2%), and for children, the figure was 7,384 RUR (+2%).