October 15, 2012 Seversky Pipe Plant (STZ), a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK), has successfully completed the overhaul of its electric steel-smelting shop, the company’s press service reports. The overhaul involved a replacement of metal structures and worn-out parts of the technological equipment as well as an examination of the automation and measuring systems and checking the performance of the electric and power systems; also, all the problems that had been detected were seen to. The overhaul also resulted in the upgrades of some of the shop’s units. For one, the chimney of the

October 15, 2012 OOO Mayak Corporation is offering an office building in downtown Yekaterinburg (located at the intersection of Krasnoarmeyskaya St and Kuibysheva St at 78 Krasnoarmeyskaya St) for sale. This news is available from the Ural Chamber of Ready-Made Business website. The nine-storey building, whose total area comes to 4,143.3 sq m, is being sold for 269,295 RUR. The building has both a ground and an underground parking lots. This estate used to be rented; according to the sales advertisement, the building is now filled with tenants.

October 12, 2012. The workers of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation were thanked by Sverdlovsk Region’s Minister for Industry & Science Vladislav Pinayev for ‘their great contribution to the development of Sverdlovsk Region’s industrial potential and economy, for strengthening its partnership ties, and for their noticeable activity in the Ural Chamber of Commerce & Industry,’ Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. A recent meeting dedicated to the 53d anniversary of the Ural Chamber of Commerce & Industry included award-giving ceremonies for a

October 12, 2012. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant – Uraltrac presented its new diesel engine at the AgroShow 2012 in Moscow, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s press service reports. The plant presented its new product at the country’s largest agricultural vehicles and machinery exhibition in cooperation with OAO Noginsky Fuel Machinery Plant. The latter fitted the Chelyabinsk plant’s engine with an electronically controlled fuel pump which replaced the older mechanically controlled one. The Noginsk company is expected to supply up-to-date fuel machinery for tractor engines to

October 12, 2012. October 11, 2012 was determined as the date Koltso Urala’s corporate bonds were traded at MICEX for the first time. A few days ago, the bank’s securities were placed on quotation list B, the bank’s press service reports. Bank Koltso Urals’ first bond issue (Series 01, total face value 1bn RUR) was launched successfully on April 27, 2012. The bonds are to be in circulation for 3 years (1,098 days), and an offer to buy at face value is available in one year’s time. Promsvyazbank acted the issue’s underwriter. ‘The bank’s bonds getting listed at Russia’s leading stock exchange

October 12, 2012. Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) had dampers installed onto all the pipes at its exhaust fumes station: this was part of the company’s program on reducing noise impact on the environment. The new equipment was installed at the three lines of dump valves (two nitrogen lines and one oxygen one), the company’s press service reports. ‘The dampers that were installed on the nitrogen lines are based on ‘a pipe inside the pipe’ principle: a new pipe is installed around the main perforated pipe, and some damping material is placed in between. The main thing that was accomplished at

October 12, 2012. Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev keeps working on his projects in Moscow: he had two important meetings with the representatives of the U.S. business community who are taking part in the 12th annual investment conference run by the American Trade Chamber in Russia and with the President of Boeing – Russia & The CIS Sergey Kravchenko. At the conference, Kuivashev presented his report on the opportunities Sverdlovsk Region offers to American business. His main point was that the Mid-Ural companies are willing to build up on their cooperation with both

October 11, 2012. Two processing units and a programmed numerical control lathe manufactured by the Czech company Kovosvit have been assembled at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) Advanced Technology Department, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s press service reports. In early October, one of the machines was launched by the Czech company’s after-sales representative in Yekaterinburg Igor Larin, who also provided training for the plant’s electric equipment team and mechanics. The other two mechanical treatment units are expected to be launched this week. Experts from the

October 11, 2012. Uralvagonavod’s Forging Department 1 has already met the annual target figures by manufacturing its 100,000th pivot well ahead of time. This important event occurred earlier than planned and one month earlier than in 2011, Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s press service reports. This achievement was made possible due to the August overhaul of continuous-working kiln 2 that is meant for heating up the ingots. None of the repairing jobs required a production stoppage, which meant the department retained its output and produced 8,500 pivots in August. The

October 11, 2012. The pipe-manufacturing enterprises of ChTPZ Group – Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant – launched their annual flu immunization campaign this week. The vaccines will be offered to employees through December. Over 7,000 workers from the two plants will be able to benefit from the free vaccine available in the corporate health units and the company’s Medical Center. The company management directed about 2.5m RUR to this good cause, ChTPZ Group’s press officer reports. The well-reputed, highly refined Influvac was purchased for the immunization

October 11, 2012. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) analyzed its environmental management system performance in the first half of 2012. The company’s environmental management system has been certified in accordance with the ISO 14001: 2004 requirements. The analysis has shown that MMK’s production activity in the six months of 2012 complied with the Russian Federation’s legal requirements as well as the international standards for environmental protection The enterprise was quite successful in implementing its water protection projects. The gross dumping of pollutants in the nearby

October 11, 2012. Governor Evgeny Kuivashev signed an order on setting up a work group for the preparation for and coordination of the 10th Russia-Kazakhstan Interregional Cooperation Forum in Yekaterinburg in 2013, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policies Department reports. The work team comprises 28 people and is chaired by the regional government’s Prime Minister Denis Pasler. The team members are the Vice Premiers, some members of the regional Cabinet, and representatives of the law-enforcement authorities. Issues related to the forum preparations are also handled by the

October 10, 2012. Two decades ago, in October 1992, the Russian Army’s primary combat tank, the unique ‘flying’ T-90, was put into service. Т-90 was designed by the experts from the Ural Transport Machine-Building Design Office that is now a part of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation; the model was based on many years’ research of how the T-72 tanks were used in various parts of the world in real-life combat. Thanks to its creators’ great experience and thanks to the rich traditions of the Office, the T-90 embodied the best features that made UVZ’s earlier tanks T-34,

October 10, 2012. OOO Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) shipped 165m RUR worth of cooperation-projects-covered produce to consumers in September 2012. Most of this money came from selling the railway vehicle component parts and nodes, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. This is the first time the enterprise has reached these output figures: they are four times larger than a year earlier, says ChTZ Cooperation-Projects-Covered Shipments Director Roman Krupko. The plant fulfilled the orders from external customers (mainly railway carriage manufacturers) and thus mastered the

October 10, 2012. The solemn opening ceremony for Ural Airlines’ new Karlovy Vary-Tyumen flight took place in Karlovy Vary today. The event was attended by the Vice President of Karlovy Vary Region Petr Navratil and Karlovy Vary Airport’s Commercial Director Radek Zabransky, who gave a warm welcome to passengers from Tyumen, the airline’s press service reports. The Czech airport representatives made a cake in the shape of a boarding pass as a present. All the passengers on the flight were given memorable souvenirs by Ural Airlines and Karlovy Vary Airport. The ‘maiden flight’ from Tyumen to

October 10, 2012. The Environmental Safety & Management Public Council has been set up under Sverdlovsk Region Government recently, the government’s Press Service Administration reports. ‘Sverdlovsk Region Government pays a lot of attention to environmental safety and management in order to enhance the efficiency of the managerial decisions it makes. Under the government’s decree, the Public Council was set up for the purpose,’ says the region’s Natural Resources & Ecological Issues Minister Konstantin Kryuchkov. He pointed out that the Ecological Issues & Environmental Management

October 10, 2012. The machinery at OAO Kamensk-Uralsky Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Plant has been halted, Sverdlovsk Region division of the State Labor Inspectorate reports. It was detected through an inspection that the recent victim of an industrial accident who worked with the sheet metal shears (a part of the smelting department’s cathode copper-cutting production line) had been using faulty equipment. What is more, he underwent no training and no certification procedures. This constituted a violation of Article 189 of the Russian Federation Labor Code, of GOST 12.2.003-91 on The

October 9, 2012. Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor carried out inspections of ZAO AKADO-Yekaterinburg and of OAO Digital Channels Network this September because the deadlines set for the two companies to eliminate the violations that had been detected there expired, the division’s press service reports. During these inspections, experts from Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor found out that the violations that resulted in the orders to eliminate them still hadn’t been eliminated after all. This is why the division placed the case-related files with the Federal Mass

October 9, 2012. The unemployment rate in Yekaterinburg came to 0.53% in the third quarter of 2012, Yekaterinburg Administration’s Economics Department’s data state. The highest unemployment rate (2.15%) was registered in Yekaterinburg in 2009, when the world economy was quite unstable. After that, the figures kept going down and came to 1.13% at the end of 2010 and to 0.77% at the end of 2011.

October 9, 2012. The Union of Bulgarian Farmers intends to set up a representation in Sverdlovsk Region, the union’s head Tsvetan Gerov said at a meeting at Sverdlovsk Region Ministry for International & Foreign Economic Relations, the ministry’s website states. The Union of Bulgarian Farmers is currently considering different ways of cooperating with the Russian territories, including the delivery of high quality fruit and vegetable preserves onto the local markets. The Bulgarian agricultural produce has been familiar to Russian consumers since the Soviet times: people know the canned