Sverdlovsk Region division of State Labor Inspectorate inspected Ural Aeronavigation, the subsidiary of Federal State Unitary Enterprise State ATM Corporation, for compliance with the labor protection requirements on June 4-29. As a result, twelve violations were revealed, the inspectorate reports. For one, the company has no personal new format files to account for the means of individual protection for every employee, and no certificates of compliance are listed there. This contradicts paragraph 3 of the Inter-Branch Rules for Providing Workers with Special Clothing, Special Footwear, and

Sberbank’s net profit (calculated in accordance with the Russian Accounting Standards) rose by 7% in January-June 2012 and came to 183bn RUR; this growth slowed down by a half compared with the earlier months and thus increased the company’s spending on the creation of reserves, Prime reports. In the first half of the year, profits resulting from the interest rate went up by 30% thanks to more loans being offered. However, the interest rate expenses keep growing faster (the increase came to 37.6% in January-June) as the rates are higher on the funds borrowing market. As a result, the bank’s

Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (a part of ChTPZ Group) now makes spacing wire with enhanced characteristics from chromium/nickel EK 164 steel for the nuclear industry, ChTPZ press service reports. The technology for the production of spacing wire that ChTPZ devised is unique, has no counterparts in Russia, and has eight Russian Federation patents. Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant is the exclusive supplier of round and oval-shaped wire; this used to be made from ChS 68 steel before, but, given the nuclear industry’s needs, ChTPZ Group has mastered the production of such wire from EK 164 steel. Both

The amount of shipments handled via Second Freight Company-managed open top wagons decreased by 5.9% in May 2012 compared with April 2012 and came to 3.2m tons against 3.4m tons, RZhD Partner portal refers to the company’s press service as saying. The greatest volume of shipments handled via Second Freight Company-managed open top wagons was registered at West-Siberian Railways (1.3m tons of goods, or 40% of all the open top wagon shipments), Sverdlovsk Railways (0.4m tons of goods, or 11%), Oktyabrskaya Railways (0.25m tons of goods, or 8%), and South-Ural Railways (0.13m tons of goods, or

Uralvagonzavod (UVZ) came up with a performance report for the six months of 2012. June proved the most productive month, and a new record of 2,500 railway vehicles made within a month was set, the plant’s press service reports. All in all, 13,918 wagons and carriages have been produced at this Nizhniy Tagil-based plant sicne the beginning of the year. This was 8.5% more than a year earlier, even though January-June 2011 were the most productive months in the plant’s history. This figure includes 11,010 open top carriages, 2, 820 tanks, and 88 lumber vessels. The plant’s sales revenues came

Head of Public Property Control Department at Rosimushchestvo’s Sverdlovsk Region division Ilya Trunilin was found guilty of bribe-taking (Article 290 (part 3) of the Russian Federation Criminal Code), the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region Court reports. The Director of Alliance-Techno 2002 V. Ivanov appealed to Trunilin in March 2011, asking him to facilitate the signing of a warehouse rental contract. The hangar for automobile storage and repairs has the area of 1,500 sq m, is located in the village of Istok, is managed by the Russian Agricultural Academy’s Istok, and belongs to the state.

A program for the development of Yekaterinburg, dubbed The Capital, will be devised by the end of July, after which a public discussion will be held on its points, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev told reporters on July 5. ‘My colleagues from the city council and I are now working on The Capital. The region’s government was requested to add a certain list of projects to the program. This includes road-building, urban development, and much else besides. I believe the program will be ready by the end of July, and everyone can voice their opinion then,’ Kuivashev said. The

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) approved of Ingosstrakh’s petition to buy a 100% shareholding in Yugoria Insurance Company that has to go private in August, FAS Deputy Head of Financial Markets Control Department Irina Smirnova told Prime. ‘A petition placed by Ingosstrakh’s daughter company InVest-Polis will be approved in four days, too. Both companies are members of one group and face the same risks,’ she added. Smirnova also noted no other applications for the purchase of Yugoria’s shares had been submitted to the FAS. Under the Government of Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region

9,173 people came to Yekaterinburg Employment Center between December 28, 2012 and May 31, 2012, Sverdlovsk Region Labor & Employment Department reports. The registered unemployment level came to 0.64% on June 1, 2012 compared with 1.01% on May 1, 2011. The labor market tension coefficient (the number of the unemployed per vacancy) came to 0.35 people.

The proprietors of Rezhnickel and Ufaleynickel are planning to convert their companies into state-run enterprises so as to avoid production stoppage and insolvency. Both plants are now struggling with financial troubles due to dropping global nickel prices. A meeting was held in the Representation of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District yesterday where the owners Alexei Timofeyev and Artem Timofeyev asked for support. A discussion was held on whether the enterprises could be handed over to the government authorities ‘not for the money but in order to save the enterprises’.

Ural Airlines is launching new scheduled flights from Moscow to the coast of the Adriatic, the air carrier’s press officer reports. Starting July 14, a flight from Moscow to Rimini will be operated every Saturday, and starting July 27, the weekly Saturday flight from Moscow to Tivat will be complemented by another weekly flight on Wednesdays. Tickets are available via the air carrier’s official website www.uralairlines.com and in the booking offices. All of Ural Airlines’ flights are operated using the modern and comfortable Airbus aircraft that are all fitted with a full-scale business class

The industrial production index (IPI) rose by 7.7% in January-May 2012 compared with January-may 2011 for all organizations. This included a 3% drop in the mineral resource development, a 10.3% increase in the processing industry, and a 1.8% increase in the electricity production and distribution sector, Sverdlovsk Region Ministry for Economics & Development reports. The greatest increase on the previous year in terms of physical volume can be observed in the chemical industry: figures went up by 48.6% in January-May 2012 against January-May 2011. The figures for the car and machinery

Mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Yakob and representatives of the City Council PR Committee met with the delegates from the Republic of Austria, the spokesperson for Yekaterinburg Council reports. Among the foreign officials were the Manager CIS of Federal House of Austrian Economy Heinz Walter and Dietmar Fellner, Commercial Counsellor at the Austrian Embassy. The parties greeted one another, after which Alexander Yakob made a presentation on Yekaterinburg’s socioeconomic development to the Austrian delegates. The foreign partners arrived in the Urals’ capital with a great economic mission

Preparations for the Football National League Season 2012/2013 are nearly complete at Yekaterinburg Central Stadium. The main challenge was improving on the quality of the football pitch. ‘Throughout the entire month, our experts kept working on the lawn, added some mineral fertilizers, sawed new seeds, and watered and mowed the grass regularly,’ says the stadium’s Director-General Vadim Vorobyev. ‘What is more, new turf was laid onto some parts of the pitch, with problem spots replaced with new sections. Thanks to all these jobs, our lawn is now in the pink of condition and is fully prepared

Surgut public prosecution authorities for transportation started looking into an incident involving UTair Aviation Company’s Boeing 737 that had to stop the takeoff due to faulty equipment, Interfax-Ural refers to the prosecution authorities as announcing. The incident occurred late at night the other day. The aircraft had no time for takeoff: the decision to stop the flight was taken by the crew during the acceleration. The authorities pointed out that Tyumen Interregional Aviation Transport Administration was investigating the case as well. After the administration comes up with its report,

Titanium Valley Management Company has been taken off the list of the Mid-Urals Development Corporation’s affiliated companies. These data are available from the list of the corporation’s affiliated companies for the second quarter of 2012. However, Titanium Valley Special Economic Zone is still among the corporation’s affiliated companies. This special economic zone is the Mid-Urals Development Corporation’s project. According to the latest updates, the project will be financed from the budget without the corporation acting as the intermediary.

The attendees of Bank Uralsib annual general meeting decided not to pay any share dividend for 2011, the bank’s report states. It was decided that last year’s net profit (428.928m RUR) would be kept within the bank and reported as retained earnings.

ZAO Koltsovo Filling Station (a member of TNK-BP) decreased its jet fuel prices down to 30,520 RUR per ton, the station reports. Starting April 23, the station’s jet fuel was available fro 30,820 RUR per ton. This means the price of jet fuel went down by 1%. This is actually the second time the price has declined a little this year. Still, the cost of jet fuel rose five times at Koltsovo Airport last year. Prices were adjusted in May, August, September, October, and November 2011. In the end, the price of jet fuel increased by over 25%.

Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor inspected 19,700 cans of dairy foods and declared 1,800 cans (9%) were of poor quality last year. In 2010, 14,900 cans were inspected and 1,700 (11.3%) were found to be of poor quality, the agency reports. In the first quarter of 2012, 1,700 cans were inspected and 500 cans (27%) were found to be of poor quality. 36 samples of canned dairy foods have been examined for adulteration since January 1, 2012, and 21 samples (58.3%) did not meet the existing requirements as the dairy fat was replaced with non-dairy kinds of fat. These are the sellers of

The Mid-Urals Development Corporation published its balance sheet and the profit and loss statement for 2011. These data became available from Oblastnaya Gazeta today. According to these data, the company’s accounts receivable rose by nearly eight times over one year and came to 81.95m RUR, while its accounts payable dropped down to 1.75bn RUR. The immediately available funds and cash equivalents decreased to 687.99m RUR. Capital Auditing Company reports that over 50% of revenues the Mid-Urals Development Corporation obtained last year came from an agent’s fee paid for the agency contract