Ural Airlines looked into its performance results in August 2012. The company flew 427,612 passengers last month, which is 31% more than in August 2011. All in all, 2,335,489 passengers have used the airline’s services since the start of the year. On August 14, Ural Airlines checked in its 2,000,000th passenger, the airline’s press service reports. In August 2012, Ural Airlines operated 2,736 flights (23% more than in August 2011). This included 1,287 international flights, 944 domestic flights, and 505 flights around the CIS. The actual passenger turnover came to 1,127,971,000

Yekaterinburg is totally ready to host the world football championship of 2018. Russia’s Sports Minister and Chairman of Russia 2018 Coordination Committee Vitaly Mutko named five cities that are prepared to host this large-scale sports event, the Governor’s PR Department reports. According to the minister, all of the thirteen candidate cities on the application list can be divided into three groups. The first group comprises cities that are fully prepared to host the World Cup 2018. These are: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan, Sochi, and Yekaterinburg. The second group comprises the cities

Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) completed its energy-saving projects in MMK Group’s departments and companies for the first half of 2012. Every year, MMK implements a number of programs aimed at reducing the amount of energy resources spent: electric power, fuel, fire-fighting/drinking and manufacturing water, heating energy, and air products. In the first half of the year, all the programs were fulfilled by 100% and in accordance with the schedules, MMK reports. The energy-saving measures will result in over 4.5m kilowatt-hours or 14.5m RUR worth of savings by the end of the year.

Yekaterinburg Central Stadium will be considered by the Russian Football Union as a possible venue for coordinating the Russian national youth team, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. On September 10, a qualification match for the European youth championship 2013 was held at the stadium, where the Russian national team played against Moldavia (2:2). In the same group, Poland and Portugal also had a draw. This means Nikolai Pisarev’s team came first in the group and is now in for the qualification play-off. ‘The Russian football union said at the end of the two matches, the stadium team managed

Ural Airlines is introducing a new flight in the Chelyabinsk-Moscow direction. The air carrier’s customers can now fly to the capital not only in the morning but also in the evening. Flight U6-607 Chelyabinsk-Moscow will be operated every day starting from October 28. Departure time is 6:00 PM, arrival time is 6:25 PM. The return flight departs from Moscow at 9:55 AM and arrives in Chelyabinsk at 2:35 PM (local time), the airline’s press service reports. The scheduled daily flight U6-609 departs from Chelyabinsk to Moscow at 8:00 AM; the return flight U6-610 leaves Moscow at 10:15 PM. All

Koltsovo Filling Station (a member of TNK-BP) is planning to increase its jet fuel prices from 30,520 RUR to 31,820 RUR per ton on September 12, Kommersant reports. The newspaper’s sources report that ‘prices are primarily growing at the filling stations that belong to the oil companies (and these are the players that set the current market trends). Jet fuel prices rose by nearly 6% in early September, which proved the greatest increase over the last few months. On July 3, 2012, Koltsovo Filling Station decreased jet fuel prices down to 30,520 RUR per ton. On April 23, 2012, its fuel cost

Silver Fir Mountains, a health and recreation resort, started a new fall season. A children’s camp used to be housed on the comfortable premises in the summer, but now this is a place of rest for the forty long-service employees of Uralvagonzavod, the corporation’s press service reports. A ten-day stay was a way for the plant’s administration to reward the most active members of the long-service employees council. The corporation workers say these energetic and caring people provide great support to all the initiatives at the plant. Trips to this health resort are usually offered to the

Russia’s First Vice Premier Igor Shuvalov asked the Economic Development, the Transport, and the Finance Ministries to consider and to forward him some coordinated proposals on the construction of high-speed railway lines in Russia and of Trans-Eurasian Container Railway Line, Prime refers to his letter as stating. According to this letter, the ministries’ proposals must be drawn up on the basis of the earlier requests and ‘as soon as possible’, and a report must also be prepared for the Russian Federation President. Shuvalov issued his requests after receiving a letter from President of

Russia’s Minister for Industry & Trade Denis Manturov congratulated the workers of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation and the corporation’s Director-General Oleg Sienko on Trooper’s Day. The governmental wire gives thanks for the people’s performance, contains some heart-felt good wishes, and praises the workers’ contribution to the development of the world tank-manufacturing industry, Uralvagonzavod’s press service reports. ‘On behalf of the Ministry for Industry & Trade of the Russian Federation, I congratulate you on your professional special event: Trooper’s

The pubic prosecution authorities of Yekaterinburg’s Chkalovsky District monitored the overall activity of the companies in the communal housing services sector and inspected, among others, Ural Energy Service Company, located in Gotvald St in Yekaterinburg; it was detected that as of April 1, 2012, the company owed Uralsevergaz Independent Gas Company 39.283m RUR, the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities reports. With balance at deficit and the lack of own working assets, the debtor company’s management still spent at least 1m RUR on things the business could

Switzerland’s visa center will start operating in Yekaterinburg on September 21. The address is 22 Karl Liebknecht St Off. 313. Up to now, Switzerland only used to process the applications directly and did not resort to any intermediaries for preliminary processing tasks. In addition to Yekaterinburg, visa centers will open in fourteen more Russian cities: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Krasnoyarsk, Rostov-on-Don, Novosibirsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Kazan, Sochi, Kaliningrad, Irkutsk, Ufa, Khabarovsk, and Vladivostok.

The technical design documentation for the direct current electric train ES2G, based on Desiro RUS (Lastochka) modification, was presented at a meeting at All-Russian Scientific Research Railway Transport Institute (VNIIZHT) dedicated to the coordination of electric trains manufacturing at Ural Locomotives (a joint venture belonging to Sinara Group and Siemens AG), Sinara Group’s press service reports. Ural Locomotives’ designers presented their technical solutions (which give a full idea of the design, application field, assembly and maintenance rules, and repair-ability of the future city

Bank Petrokommerz will soon provide the money needed to pay the wages owed to the former workers of Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha Metallurgical Plant (a subsidiary of OOO Nigmas). Such was an agreement that the bank and Sverdlovsk Region authorities came to. The region’s Prime Minister Denis Pasler held challenging talks with the owner of Nigmas’s Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha subsidiary and Bank Petrocommerz. ‘The arrears in wages to the plant’s employees have been paid in full, and some of the workers have already been compensated for the layoffs. It has been agreed by now that Bank Petrokommerz will

Yekaterinburg winery used to illegally place Sverdlovsk Region’s coat of arms onto the labels for is Yekaterinburg Vodka. Sverdlovsk Region Government took the case to court and made the wine manufacturer pay an administrative fine; the sum (around 1,000 RUR) is insignificant, but the government feels that this will teach every other for-profit company a lesson, Oblastnaya Gazeta reports. Sverdlovsk Region Emblem Committee Chairman Mikhail Zubarev explained that everything started with a query the committee had sent to the plant in order to understand what grounds the wine maker had to use

Despite the lack of stability on the global economic arena, investors feel optimistic about Russia’s long-term investment appeal. The country’s abundant natural resources, its growing consumer market, highly skilled workforce, and the recent entry to the WTO make Russia a promising investment object for the coming decade. Despite a lot of red tape and the underdeveloped infrastructure, which are still two worrying factors, most investors feel that Russia has made a step forward and does not lag behind the other rapidly growing markets as much as it used to. The country’s investment appeal

OOO Ural Locomotives has put up the first framework connecting the two supporting pillars of the would-be department meant for the production of Desiro RUS (Lastochka) electric trains. This means the construction of the main structure for the new production facility has begun, Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s press service reports. Builders will have to put up nearly 9,500 tons of metal frameworks and to assemble the wall panels in the second half of September so as to finish the main structure by the end of the year. A former warehouse is being reconstructed at the same time: it will house the

On the eve of the Trooper’s Day, a memorial plaque dedicated to one of UVZ Corporation’s Ural Design Office of Transport Machine-Building’s most famous designers and the father of the Russian Army’s primary combat tank T-90 Vladimir Potkin was unveiled in Nizhniy Tagil, Uralvagonavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s press service reports. Vladimir I. Potkin is a cult figure not only for the corporation but for the world’s tank industry on the whole. He chaired Ural Design Office of Transport Machine-Building in 1987-1999 and supervised work on the gearing system and the running gear

295 citizens who paid their money to dishonest developers for the total of 12,752.93 sq m worth of housing in the future apartment buildings in Sverdlovsk Region in order to get the ownership rights over the apartments have been placed on the register of Sverdlovsk Region-based dishonest developers’ victims in accordance with the Procedure for setting up & keeping this register. These data were carried by Sverdlovsk Region division of the State Construction Surveillance’s press service today. The number of such victims in Yekaterinburg comes to 260, the number of square meters of not

Sverdlovsk Region prosecution authorities sent a letter to Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Prime Minister Denis Pasler, asking him to consider the possibility of facilitating the performance of LPK Ural-Lobva and of settling the company’s wage arrears issues, Sverdlovsk Region Legislative Assembly’s deputy Andrei Alshevskikh writes in his blog. Sverdlovsk Region Deputy Public Prosecutor Vadim Chukreyev sent the deputy a letter informing him of all the problems at the enterprise. The timber business is currently undergoing bankruptcy proceedings. What is more, the company owed its workers 24m

Perm City Planning & Architecture Department granted RENOVA StroyGroup State Corporation a permission to build a new apartment block at 61 Kuibyshev St in Perm, RENOVA’s press service reports. ‘This is going to be a 16-storey comfort-class apartment building in downtown Perm, with all the social and utilities infrastructure already developed. Thanks to this attractive location, the new building will be very close to the city’s main landmarks and shopping centers and will provide all the comforts of living,’ says RENOVA-StroyGroup-Perm’s Director-General Stanislav Kiselev. The new building