The cold-roll Mill 2000 of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) has reached its maximum production output since the moment it was launched. When Mill 2000 and the continuous etching line were launched in July 2011, the first stage of the construction of a cold-roll facility that is currently unique to the Russian metallurgical industry was complete. This July, the second stage of the construction was finished. The facility’s overall capacity comes to 2m tons of produce a year. The facility is meant for making cold-rolled and galvanized products for the automobile industry, white goods

Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court made Pyshma Dairy Plant face administrative liability for the violation of technical rules regarding the production of milk and dairy foods and imposed a 100,000-ruble fine on the company, the press office of Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor reports. Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor conducted a scheduled on-site inspection of the plant. Experts from the surveillance agency examined the production shop, the production lab, and the well. It was determined that the technical rules of milk and dairy foods production were violated: a

Sverdlovsk Region dwellers keep complaining to Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor about the poor quality of communal housing utilities services, the press office of Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor reports. As for Yekaterinburg, most complaints have to do with SverdlovEnergoSbyt, Standard Management Company, Verkh-Isetskaya Management Company, UZhK Ural-ST, Oktyabrsky District Communal Housing Services Management Company, Fond Radomir, Zheleznodorozhny District REMP Management Company, REMP Elmash Management Company, Ordzhonikidzevsky District Housing Management

Sinara Pipe Plant (a part of Pipe Metallurgical Company/TMK) shipped the first batches of its new product – coiled tubing – to Podolsk-based EnergoTechProm and Krasny Kotelschik Taganrog Boiler-Making Plant, the company’s press service reports. The experimental site for making the coiled tubing meant for the nuclear industry, machine-building, and the fuel and energy complex, was launched at the company’s pipe-drawing department 2 in April 2012. The project was implemented within the company’s strategic development program aimed at expanding the range of cold-worked tube products. The new

The public prosecution authorities of Yekaterinburg’s Kirovsky District detected some violations of the federal legislation at Institute of Metal Physics of the Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The authorities looked in the organization’s compliance with the Federal Law 94-FZ On Placing Government and Municipal Orders for Goods Shipments, Execution of Work, and Rendering of Services and at its compliance with the law on the legitimacy and efficiency of federal property management and making sure these assets are kept safe and used properly. The investigation revealed that the

The meat and milk production went up in Sverdlovsk Region. The local farmers increased their milk production by 9% and their meat output by 6% against a year earlier, the region’s Agro-industry Ministry reports. ‘This means the agriculture is doing well in the region, it gets the timely and good quality subsidies from the regional and the federal budgets,’ says Minister Mikhail Kopytov. Thanks to this, the region can afford to keep the local food prices stable. According to the data gathered in the course of the weekly monitoring by the ministry, the wholesale beef prices have gone down by 4%

In July, the life satisfaction level of Russian citizens dropped by 2% on the previous month and came to 85%, Rosgosstrakh’s Strategic Research Center says. As for certain categories of people, the life satisfaction level of some executives in managerial positions and their deputies, as well as of business proprietors and co-proprietors came to 90% in July and to 91% in June. Among those well-off consumers who can afford to buy a new house or a flat, life satisfaction level comes to 100% against 98% in June. Moscow and Saint Petersburg residents’ life satisfaction level is the highest and

Russia’s Transport Ministry suggests raising the railway transportation rates by 7% in 2013. According to Minister Maxim Sokolov, the increase in the rates will let Russian Railways break even. ‘Given the lack of additional funding from the federal budget, the decision to raise the rates in 2013 (we propose 7%) and further indexation in accordance with the inflation rate will make it possible for Russian Railways to break even. In terms of investments, other sources of funding are needed. One should also bear in mind that this 7% rise does not account for the extra expenses stemming from the

Experts from Oblkommunenergo State Unitary Enterprise coordinated an emergency drill for Sverdlovsk Region division of the DoE at Kirovgrad chlorinator station for deferrization. The drills were related to a hypothetical technological emergency caused by a container leakage and some liquid chlorine getting outside,’ the company’s PR Department reports. Under this scenario, a fault in the isolation valves of the chlorine-containing vessel led to a leakage; 0.8 tons of liquid and gaseous chlorine were emitted. The experts’ actions were estimated very highly by Mayor of Kirovgrad Alexander Oskin

The main enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Scientific Production Corporation was declared the Best Backbone Enterprise. The plant won in the municipal contest held on the 290th anniversary of the town of Nizhniy Tagil, the corporation’s press service reports. The contestants were evaluated along five criteria: their involvement in the program called Beautiful Streets & Clean Backyards for Our Home Town, their socioeconomic development, the situation around the social/labor relations, their efforts in the field of working with the local youth, and the sanitary condition of the premises.

The public prosecution authorities of Kamensk-Uralsky detected that providers OOO KamenskTelecom, OOO Convex-Kamensk, and the macro-regional Ural branch of OAO Rostelecom provided access to extremist content websites, Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities report. The inspection by the authorities revealed that unrestrained Internet access was offered for certain materials classed as having extremist content and placed on the federal extremist content materials list. In order to put an end to the circumstances that make the dissemination of extremist content materials possible, at

The inflation rate was registered at 1.6% in Sverdlovsk Region in July and at 4.7% since the beginning of the year, Sverdlovsk Region division of the Federal State Statistics Service reports. Food prices (excluding alcohol) rose by 1.3% last month and by 5.9% since the beginning of the year; the price of strong drinks increased by 1.9% and 7.4%, respectively. Non-food items became 0.4% more expensive in July and 2.4% more expensive since the beginning of the year. The price of services went up by 3.5%.

63% of local housing and 42% of local boilers is ready for winter, Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government Denis Pasler said at a meeting with the region’s Vice Governor Sergey Nosov and Head of the Governor Administration Yakov Silin. ‘We have made sure that Sverdlovsk Region Government and respective ministries are working together smoothly in getting ready for the fall/winter season. Not everything is perfect, we are still struggling with some problems. However, I am sure the tasks set by the Governor will be fulfilled,’ Sergey Nosov said. The authorities directed nearly 20% more funds to

Sverdlovsk Region-based agro-enterprises have gathered 75% of expected fodder crop yield. This comes to over 1,700 kg per one nominal head of cattle. The speed of harvest-collecting is comparable with that for the previous year. 265,000 hectares worth of grass has been reaped, which is 55,000 hectares more than in 2011. ‘One should admit that the draught has affected the quantity and quality of the fodder crop. On average, 20% more fodder crop was gathered off a hectare of land last year. Yet we do hope the farms will manage to meet the target figures. Many of them still have last year’s

Sverdlovsk Region Industry & Science Minister Vladislav Pinayev said in the course of his meeting with the employees of OOO Nigmas’s Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha branch that they were still on the lookout for potential investors for the company to resume operating. On July 19, 2012, Moscow Arbitration Court declared OOO Nigmas bankrupt, so the company had to undergo six-month bankruptcy proceedings. It should also be noted that a number of Sverdlovsk Region-based metallurgical enterprises are willing to offer jobs to the former employees of OOO Nigmas’s Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha branch. For one,

The Federal Financial Markets Service (FSFR) annulled the license of Semeiny Non-State Retirement Fund, the Service’s official website reports. Semeiny Non-State Retirement Fund served a number of Yekaterinburg-based municipal enterprises and had about 25,000 customers. According to the FSFR’s official statement, the fund’s license was annulled because the company violated the federal legislation a number of times during one year. For example, Semeiny failed to provide accounting reports (starting from the second quarter of 2011) to the regulating body and never sent the FSFR the auditor’s

Air Arabia had to cancel two flights in Koltsovo Airport. Flight G9-271 from Shardzha was supposed to have arrived in Yekaterinburg at 4:15 PM on August 3 (local time). The return flight G9-271 was to have taken off at 5:15 PM. It was the airline’s decision to call the flights off. The airport explains not a single ticket was sold for either of these flights.

Vulkan 800/1500, a stand-alone power generation unit with a gas turbine engine, designed by Omsk-based machine-building design office (one of Uralvagonzavod Scientific Production Corporation’s divisions) was awarded a certificate. Under this certificate, issued by Firma SibTechStandard, the unit meets all the requirements stated in the Electrical Installations Code and can be produced on an industrial scale. This mini-power station Vulkan was developed by the KBTM designers on the basis of a number of nodes and technologies used in the armored vehicles production. This portable mini-power

President of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin announced former Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin might join the company, Prime reports. ‘We have discussed this option, and we would be interested in him (Misharin –editor’s note) joining the company. However, since he used to be a government official, this would require some expert advice on how to comply with all the procedures that are involved when a civil servant comes into a business,’ Yakunin said. Yakunin did not specify what position exactly Misharin might be offered at Russian Railways. He did say, however, that the

The Russian movie and TV series maker Central Partnership is now suing three movie theaters which did not pay for using the motion pictures produced by the company. The distributor company insists on being paid the interest it is owed for the running of the movies. The three non-payers’ debt amounts to a total of 1.5m RUR, Marker reports. The defendants in the case are the heads of Barnaul-based AltayConcert, Yekaterinburg-based ALT (Kolizey Club), and Tver-based DK-Tver. The distributor demands to be paid the interest it is entitled to under the movie-broadcasting agreement. The debt totals