On April 26, 2013, Ural Airlines will launch a new scheduled flight from Saint Petersburg to Cologne and back. Tickets can already be booked: the cheapest ones are available for 8,160 RUR (round trip, all fees included). Starting April 26, 2013, the flight will be operated every Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday via a comfortable A320 manufactured by the European concern Airbus. The plane is fitted with both the economy and the business class sections. Ural Airlines also operates a scheduled flight Moscow-Cologne-Moscow: this flight was launched in April 2012.

Sinara Pipe Plant (a part of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK)) is now working on a project for the reclamation of landfills where the company’s production waste is disposed. In compliance with the current Russian environmental legislation, the reclamation is aimed not only at restoring the practical value of the destroyed land but also at improving the environmental conditions, TMK press service reports. So far, a number of engineering, geodesic, hydrological, hydro-meteorological, and environmental surveys have been carried out. The findings were used to design a project for the reclamation

Experts from Sinara Pipe Plant (a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK)) took part in the international technical conference Metal 2012 on the premises of Byelorussian Metallurgical Palnt in Zhlobin, Byelorussia, TMK press service reports. Over 130 participants from different countries attended the conference. The Russian delegation comprises five young experts from Sinara Pipe Plant; they joined four out of the forum’s eleven sections and demonstrated a great level of project preparedness everywhere. At the end of the conference, a report on the methods of enhancing IT systems’

In the first half of the year, 21 legal entities performed foreign trade transactions in Yamalo-Nenetsk Customs area and filled out 508 cargo manifests (including 255 import ones and 253 export ones). A year earlier, 620 cargo manifests were filled out, including 295 import ones and 325 export ones, Ural Customs Administration’s press service reports. The foreign trade turnover came to $236.5m, with 85.4% of goods coming to or from the far abroad ($202.1m) and 14.6% of goods coming to or from the CIS ($34.4m) Imports amounted to 34.5% of the foreign trade turnover ($81.7m), while exports

According to the files of the case, Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court stopped the bankruptcy proceedings of OAO Pnevmostroymachine. The proceedings were stopped because the plant had come to an out-of-court settlement with its creditors. Now Pnevmostroymachine submitted an insolvency application to the court itself in the fall of 2009. There are 76 legal entities on the creditors’ list, with their claims amounting to a total of 2.17bn RUR.

The Italian authorites haven’t yet responded to the query regarding the seizure of Alexei Kalinichenko’s Italian assets; the man is accused of fraud involving his investors’ money, Interfax-Ural reports. ‘We were able to obtain data on some bank accounts and some real estate (a twenty-room mansion and a villa in Italy and some other buildings). However, the extradition of assets is more complicated than that of the accused,’ Head of the Investigative Department of the Internal Affairs Ministry Main Administration in Ural Federal District Andrei Taranenko reports. According to Taranenko, since

The business centers Suvorov and President in downtown Yekaterinburg will be commissioned this year, Yekaterinburg Council’s press service reports. This means the original launch date was put off by three years. The construction of Suvorov, located at 6/1 Radischev St, began as early as 2007 (the original name of the center was The Count Orloff). The center was supposed to have been launched as early as 2009, but all the jobs had to be halted a number of times, and the construction process stopped. As a result, The Count Orloff is only about to be launched now. President Business Center, a

Experts from Sinara Pipe Plant (a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK)) took part in the international technical conference Metal 2012 on the premises of Byelorussian Metallurgical Palnt in Zhlobin, Byelorussia, TMK press service reports. Over 130 participants from different countries attended the conference. The Russian delegation comprises five young experts from Sinara Pipe Plant; they joined four out of the forum’s eleven sections and demonstrated a great level of project preparedness everywhere. At the end of the conference, a report on the methods of enhancing IT systems’

In the first half of the year, 21 legal entities performed foreign trade transactions in Yamalo-Nenetsk Customs area and filled out 508 cargo manifests (including 255 import ones and 253 export ones). A year earlier, 620 cargo manifests were filled out, including 295 import ones and 325 export ones, Ural Customs Administration’s press service reports. The foreign trade turnover came to $236.5m, with 85.4% of goods coming to or from the far abroad ($202.1m) and 14.6% of goods coming to or from the CIS ($34.4m) Imports amounted to 34.5% of the foreign trade turnover ($81.7m), while exports

According to the files of the case, Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court stopped the bankruptcy proceedings of OAO Pnevmostroymachine. The proceedings were stopped because the plant had come to an out-of-court settlement with its creditors. Now Pnevmostroymachine submitted an insolvency application to the court itself in the fall of 2009. There are 76 legal entities on the creditors’ list, with their claims amounting to a total of 2.17bn RUR.

The Italian authorites haven’t yet responded to the query regarding the seizure of Alexei Kalinichenko’s Italian assets; the man is accused of fraud involving his investors’ money, Interfax-Ural reports. ‘We were able to obtain data on some bank accounts and some real estate (a twenty-room mansion and a villa in Italy and some other buildings). However, the extradition of assets is more complicated than that of the accused,’ Head of the Investigative Department of the Internal Affairs Ministry Main Administration in Ural Federal District Andrei Taranenko reports. According to Taranenko, since

The business centers Suvorov and President in downtown Yekaterinburg will be commissioned this year, Yekaterinburg Council’s press service reports. This means the original launch date was put off by three years. The construction of Suvorov, located at 6/1 Radischev St, began as early as 2007 (the original name of the center was The Count Orloff). The center was supposed to have been launched as early as 2009, but all the jobs had to be halted a number of times, and the construction process stopped. As a result, The Count Orloff is only about to be launched now. President Business Center, a

Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation completed the tests of its Chelyabinsk T-10m tractor fitted with a bush-cutting device for clearing the forests off bushes and young offshoots coming to up to 120mm, Uralvagonzavod’s press service reports. The unit, which looks like a bulldozer with an impressive wedge-shaped shovel with blades, was tested at Sofrino, Pushkinksy District, on the premises of TsentrLes, the federal agency in charge of controlling fires in Moscow Region. The performance of the tractor was assessed by an ad hoc intergovernmental committee comprising Professor

A quarter of Sverdlovsk Region dwellers submit ‘blank’ tax declarations, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev said at the regional social security council’s meeting. ‘First of all, more and more taxpayers are now submitting ‘blank’ tax declarations. In 2011, they made up about 26% of all the registered legal entities. Also, the number of loss-making organizations is also big enough. As for the taxes paid to municipalities, there are some problems there as well: the land tax debt keeps on growing and comes to over 707m RUR now,’ Kuivashev said. In fact, over 11,000 land allotments

Head of Russian Government Dmitri Medvedev signed a decree on the construction of a large seaport in Sabetta, Yamal Peninsula, Oblastnaya Gazeta reports. In addition to the infrastructure necessary to transport the mineral resources, the port will also have some facilities for handling shipments from Sverdlovsk Region. In 2012-2016, 47.2bn RUR will be allocated from the federal budget and 25.9bn RUR will come from the non-budgetary funds to put up these facilities. Following the launch of the Northern Line (Salekhard-Nadym railway link), the Ural Region will have an access to the sea. ‘Our

An agreement on the transfer of management authority over the special economic zone located next to Verkhnyaya Salda from the Russian Economic Development Ministry to OAO Titanium Valley Special Economic Zone was signed in Moscow. The signing of the agreement resulted from the changes made in the Russian law: on January 1, 2012, the amendments to the special economic zones legislation came into effect and made it obligatory for the management companies to assume more power and perform more functions. The agreement was signed by Deputy Minister Oleg Savelyev on behalf of the Russian Economic

Cyprus is opening three new consulates-general in the Russian Federation because increasingly more Russians are traveling to the island, Interfax-Tourism reports. ‘We do confirm that three consulates-general will soon start operating in Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar, and Samara so as to service the Russian travelers going to Cyprus,’ Cyprus’s Foreign Affairs Minister Erato Kozakou-Markoulis said at a briefing in Moscow after talks with her Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday. She noted that Cyprus considered the Russian market to be the second most important one in terms of tourism, as

Jozef Pavleye (www.pavleye.com) founder of Pavleye Art and Culture (www.pavleyeartandculture.com), answers UralBusinessConsulting Agency for information & Analytics’ questions. — How popular is the institution of a photographer’s agent in the Czech Republic? — Fifteen years ago, when we just started on photography, there were about fifteen professional photographers in the Czech Republic. They mainly did advertising and fashion projects then. Now there are about a hundred of them around, which is quite a lot for Prague: it is, after all, a small town. There are only about three or four

The housing construction in Sverdlovsk Region will only come to 75% of the target figures for the year 2012, the region’s Construction & Infrastructure Development Minister Sergey Fedorov said at a government meeting today. ‘370,000 sq m of housing was commissioned in the first half of the year. 1.6m sq m more is expected to be launched before the end of the year, but this only comes to 76% of the target 2,100,000 sq m,’ Fedorov said. Now in 2011, 1.817m sq m of housing was commissioned in Sverdlovsk Region.

Roskomnadzor published the GSM 900-1800 mobile telecommunications coverage maps of Ural Federal District; the data are based on the licenses the mobile carriers currently hold. Kurgan, Chelyabinsk, and Sverdlovsk Region have the best coverage figures (89.3%, 74.6%, and 69.8%, respectively), while Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region has the worst coverage (56%). MegaFon offers access to mobile communication in 76.5% of Ural Federal District’s territory; the figures for MTS and Vympelcom come to 68.8% and 55.1%, respectively. Tele2, which only operates in Chelyabinsk Region, covers 12.3% of the