June 7, 2013. In 2013, ChTZ-Uraltrac (a member of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) is planning to ship 1,360 vehicles to consumers, which is 10% more than last year, the plant’s DG Andrei Sentyabov said at the STT-2013 Exhibition in Moscow. ‘ChTZ-Uraltrac still has the largest share of the market in the 10-ton drawbar category segment. The companies that shape the Russian economy are still our long-time partners, these are: Gazprom enterprises, Russian Railways, UES, Alrosa, Norilsk Nickel, UMMC, Spetsstroy, as well as the Federal Security Service, the Department of

June 7, 2013. Seversky Pipe Plant (STZ), a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK), recently launched a ready-mix station meant for producing building materials; this was a joint project with Remstroygroup, TMK press officer reports. The new ready-mix station is a highly productive modern unit for concrete and concrete solution with the capacity of up to 60 m3 an hour. The unit has a numerical control system and can make up to 1,000 m3 of building materials a day. The new ready-mix station’s three receiving bins make it possible to produce both custom concrete and building mortar. It’s

June 7, 2013. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) took part in the international metallurgical forum on Russian steel industry and its global market. Russian Steel, a non-commercial partnership that unites the country’s largest metallurgical produce manufacturers, acted as the conference’s general partner and Metally Evraziyi magazine was the conference organizer, with some support from Russia’s Industry & Trade Ministry, TMK press service reports. TMK Chairman and Russian Steel Chairman of the Supervisory Board Dmitri Pumpyansky opened the forum with his welcoming address. He pointed out

June 7, 2013. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) is now offering discounts to customers performing foreign currency transactions. The discounts were launched on May 29 and are available in all of the bank’s branches. If you buy a sum ranging between 10,000 and 50,000 USD/EUR/GBP, the discount might come to 0.02-0.04 RUR. The greater the sum, the greater the discount. According to UBRD Foreign Currency Group’s Director Ruslan Khamzin, the discounts offered on a sum equal to or exceeding 50,000 USD/EUR/GBP are discussed on a case-by-case basis. This discount and loyalty

June 6, 2013. Uralvagonzavod is going to deliver its multi-purpose TMV-2 vehicle to Railway Carriage Repair Company. A contract to this extent will be signed at the Construction Vehicles and Technologies Exhibition in Moscow today, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s press service reports. The contract will be signed by the corporation’s Deputy Director-General for Railway Vehicles Andrei Shlensky on behalf of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation and by Director of Management Company Evgeny Podalinsky on behalf of Railway Carriage Repair Company. Under

June 6, 2013. In the first quarter of 2013, bank deposits in the 700,000 RUR to 1m RUR range grew the fastest; so did those in the 400,000 RUR to 700,000 RUR range: the figures grew by 11.5% and 8.2%, respectively. The volume of bank deposits that are more than 1m RUR big rose by 6.6%, so, just like in Russia on average, the local bank deposits mainly grew thanks to those that are bigger than the ensured sum of 700,000 RUR and thanks to those that were falling within the 400,000 RUR to 700,000 RUR limit. Bank deposits that are under 100,000 RUR big were actually on the decline: their volume

June 6, 2013. Uralvagonzavod is going to deliver its multi-purpose TMV-2 vehicle to Railway Carriage Repair Company. A contract to this extent will be signed at the Construction Vehicles and Technologies Exhibition in Moscow today, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s press service reports. The contract will be signed by the corporation’s Deputy Director-General for Railway Vehicles Andrei Shlensky on behalf of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation and by Director of Management Company Evgeny Podalinsky on behalf of Railway Carriage Repair Company. Under

June 6, 2013. Russia’s Deputy Minister for Industry & Trade Alexei Rakhmanov visited Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s stand on the first day of the Construction Vehicles and Technologies Exhibition (STT-2013) that opened in Moscow on June 4. He took a great interest in the full-scale specimens of the corporation’s produce, including those produced at ChTZ-Uraltrac, Chelyabinsk. These are the B10M.09, B11, B14, DET-400m tracked bulldozers, the PK-55 and PK-65 front loaders, the BKK-2 compactor and the 10M tractor with a selection of attachable implements: a mulcher,

June 6, 2013. Ural Airlines’ fleet of vehicles now has one more Airbus 321 plane fit for 220 passengers, the airline’s press service says. The aircraft arrived from Neapol; this is the 4th plane that the company has leased this year. Given the fact that A320 aircraft will have to be given back to the leasing company, the air carrier currently operates 28 planes (18 A320 ones and 10 A321 ones). Given that some new destinations have been launched and that the passenger turnover is on the increase, the company needs increasingly more planes. Ural Airlines is actually one of Russia’s top 5 air

June 5, 2013. 1,200 employees from 12 member enterprises of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation took part in the 71st track-and-field relay race, with prizes awarded by the company newspaper Machinostroitel. The corporation’s press service reports that all the participants were divided in 104 teams and ran 2,775 meters. In addition to the corporation employees, a number of amateur sports players from the Security Department and Sverdlovsk Region division of Federal Firefighting Service that liaise with Uralvagonzavod took part in the race as well. This year, the race was

June 5, 2013. Head of Yekaterinburg Council Alexander Yakob and Italy’s Honorary Consul in Yekaterinburg Roberto D’Agostino talked about the city’s socioeconomic and historic development today, the council’s press service reports. Yakob spoke in the course of this meeting about a number of international-scale events that Yekaterinburg is going to host in the nearest future, and about the efforts the city is making to develop in order to host these events on a grand scale. At the end of the meeting, Yakob gave his guest a souvenir book and a number of electronic devices with plentiful

June 5, 2013. A reporter employed with the Hong Kong newspaper Wen Hui Bao presented his impressions from visiting Yekaterinburg at the invitation of the World Universal Exhibition EXPO 2020 Application Committee on the pages of the newspaper. He says Yekaterinburg proved to be ‘an industrial center full of life and energy’ whose splendour is available for everyone to see. ‘Unlike Moscow, where all the streets and roads run from the center like the sunrays, Yekaterinburg has a very organized layout: all the streets and buildings are oriented in the cardinal directions,’ Yekaterinburg

June 5, 2013. RSG International Limited (the head company of KORTROS Group, known as Renova-StroyGroup prior to a re-branding campaign) was given the AA- credit rating, National Rating Agency reports. On April 5, 2012, the Agency assigned a rating to Renova-StroyGroup for the first time. Now the rating is given to a legal entity as such, that is, to the Group’s head company RSG International Limited. KORTROS Group is now Russia’s 5th largest developer in terms of the amount of housing commissioned in 2012. The Group coordinates some unique projects that are known as the multi-faceted area

June 5, 2013. The 31st Russia-EU Summit was officially closed in Yekaterinburg. The spokesperson for the Kremlin reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy, and Chairman of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso talked about the pressing issues relating to the two parties’ trade and economic and humanitarian cooperation and about the ways of improving the contractual legal framework of these relations. Special attention was paid to working on a new framework agreement between Russia and the EU that will take into account the

June 4, 2013. The top managers of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation took part in the section dedicated to the ‘broad gage’ problem in the course of Strategic Partnership 1520 Business Forum in Sochi. According to the holding’s press service, the Director-General of the corporation’s daughter company UVZ-Logistic Dmitri Yeremeyev made a report on the railway carriage manufacturers as freight forwarders and therefore on the aspects of a new business strategy. In his introductory speech, he said that the freight forwarding market and its future prospects did not look good.

June 4, 2013. A healthcare campaign targeted at children took off at Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s head plant. The holding’s press service says that 9m RUR were allocated for the purpose in 2013, which will fund the holidays of 1,700 children of the plant’s employees. Some of them will go to municipal camps such as Antonovsky, Zvezdny, Zvonkiye Golosa, Izumrudny, Lesnoy Rucheyek, Severyanka, Solnechny, and Uralsky Ogonek as well as to health resorts such as Sosnovy Bor and Roosh.1,169 trips have been booked for the summer for the plant workers’ children, which is

June 4, 2013. ChTPZ Group Education Center and Pervouralsk Metallurgical College are now enrolling students for their joint cadre training the Future of White Metallurgy program. All school-leavers with complete general secondary or vocational secondary education from all parts of Russia are eligible to apply. Within three years, they will acquire at list four blue-collar qualifications, and the best students will be offered jobs at ChTPZ Group’s innovational production facility, the enterprise’s press service says. This year, students are enrolled for the following qualifications: metal

June 4, 2013. Sberbank Leasing is handing over to UVZ-Logistic (a member of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) about 7,500 railway carriages. The lease contract was signed by acting Director-General of Sberbank Leasing Kirill Tzarev and Director-General of UVZ-Logistic Dmitri Yeremeyev during the 8th International Railway Business Forum on Strategic Partnership 1520 in Sochi, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press officer reports. It is reported that this is the largest contract on the Russian railway carriage leasing market at the moment. The project is worth about 30bn RUR

June 4, 2013. All of Yekaterinburg Bus Union Municipal Unitary Enterprise’s buses have been fitted with an alarm button for informing dispatchers about emergencies. Yekaterinburg Council’s press service reports that this comes to 525 buses that transport about a half of all the passengers who use the intra-city routes. To make passenger trips safer, all the drivers and bus fare collectors are obliged to undergo special training on how to act in case some explosive or life-threatening substances or unattended bags and packages are found in the cabin. Besides, during their trip along the route

June 3, 2013. An art exhibition called ‘With Chisel and Brush’ was launched at Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s exhibition center. The company’s press service says that the exhibition is dedicated to the works of two members of Russia’s Union of Artists: a monumental sculptor Vitaly Stekanov and a painter and Russia’s Renowned Artist Petr Bortnov. Both of them graduated from Ural Applied Arts College and went to the front during the war; they were the founding fathers of Nizhniy Tagil school of artists. Petr Bortnov passed away on May 24, just a few days before his