Ural Locomotives (Sinara Group and Siemens AG’s joint venture) came up with a draft plan of a direct current ES2G city express modeled on Desiro RUS (Lastochka) train, Sinara Group’s PR Department reports. This direct current ES2G train is being developed in accordance with Russian Railways Public Company’s technical specifications. The city express is expected to be used mainly on Moscow inner city railway and on heavy passenger traffic routes. The express will differ from Lastochka in terms of capacity, seating, interior details, and the composition of the machinery used.

Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) supplied 2,600 tons of single PEWs with (diameter range 530mm - 820mm, wall width 20mm to 25mm) and 180 tons of weldless hot-rolled heavy-duty pipes (diameter range 299mm to 426mm) to the construction site of a new railway station in Adler. The railway station is designed to function as a transportation and connecting hub uniting the railway, the air, and the water means of transportation; its traffic capacity is expected to reach up to 15,000 people an hour. To fulfill this order, ChTPZ experts visited the construction site and got acquainted with the

Ural Airlines operated its first Moscow-Cologne-Moscow flight last Monday. Fifty-two passengers flew from Moscow to the capital of North Rhine Westfalia, and eighty-four people were on the return flight, which means this is a very popular offer, the company’s press service reports. The flight is operated three times a week, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; starting June, an extra flight on Thursday will be added to the timetable. The cheapest one-way tickets are available for ?30 (economy class, fees excluded) and for ?199 (business class, fees excluded). The timetable has been designed

An inspection conducted by Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities for the environment at Reftinskaya power station (a subsidiary of Enel OGK-5) revealed some grave violations of the environmental legislation. The power station in question is one the largest heat and power stations meant for supplying electric power to the industrially developed areas in the region and for supplying heat to the village of Reftinsky. The power station is a subsidiary of Enel OGK-5, has headquarters in Moscow), and belongs to the Italian company Enel. All in all, over fifty violations of the

The tender for the organization of Ural International Industry & Innovations Exhibition/Forum Innoprom 2012 had to be annulled, the government purchases-tracking website reports. The contract was offered for 100m RUR, with the financing supplied from Sverdlovsk Region budget. The state order was placed by Sverdlovsk Region Ministry for Investments & Development. It turned out that only one bidder, Formica, placed their application. Under the current government purchases legislation, when no other applicants compete for the tender, the order goes to the only bidder. ‘No problems are to

The claim laid by Sverdlovsk Heat Supply Company (STK) against Enel OGK-5 will be heard in Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court on April 13, 2012. The claim is related to forcing the defendant to sign a heat energy supply agreement. The hearing of the claim began in December 2011 when STK went to court with a claim on forcing the defendant to sign a heat energy supply agreement with them on the plaintiff’s terms. The defendant provided a written renouncement of the claim, referring to the fact that the draft agreement on the energy and feed water supply No. 3215 they had received had actually

OAO TransContainer launched a freightliner between Saint Petersburg and Sverdlovsk Region, the railway operator’s press service reports. The first 57-carriage train took off from Saint Petersburg-Finlyandsky Station; the carriages were loaded with multi-tonnage containers belonging to other proprietors. Starting from April 2012, the freightliner is expected to be available two times a month.

The inquiry team is now busy confiscating the documentation of UTair Airlines following the airplane crash in the vicinity of Tyumen, Russia’s Investigative Committee reports. ‘The company’s technical and pre-flight documentation is now being confiscated,’ the message states. UTair’s pssenger plane ATR 72 flying from Tyumen to Surgut crashed during take-off. There were forty-three people on board, of whom thirty-two (according to the latest updates) were killed.

Ural Insturment-Making Plant has been placed on the list of companies that owe over 1m RUR to the Russian Federation budget. These data (as of March 15, 2012) were provided by Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service.

A joint working team comprising the representatives of Seversky Pipe Plant and NL Agency under the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation will be working on an energy-saving project that will be implemented at the plant, the Governor’s PR Department reports. The Dutch energy-saving experts arrived in Sverdlovsk Region on March 29. Their two-day visit comprised a trip to the plant, where the plant’s management presented them the company’s production technologies and had a look at the Dutch party’s presentation on improvements in the field of energy-saving for

MMK Group’s trade union committee decided to raise the allowances paid to support the health of children of employees working at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), its daughter enterprises, and affiliate organizations in the summer of 2012. MMK is also preparing for the summer health campaign for the workers’ children. This is why the trade union committee actually decided that the compensation for the expenses related to paying for the trade union members’ children’s stay at MMK’s health resorts should be increased by 500 RUR. The trade union reimbursed 2,500 RUR to the workers last

Greenwich Shopping Center got a mobile app for iPhone and Android developed recently. The app can be downloaded from the online stores Android-Google Play and iPhone-AppStore’s official websites. Greenwich mobile app gives its users an opportunity to receive updates on all the news at the mall right onto their phones on a daily basis; the news is distributed via push notifications and widgets. The application can be downloaded with the help of a QR code or from Google and Apple’s official stores.

Sverdlovsk Region Government decided to buy four shares of Central Stadium, with face value of 1,000 RUR each; the shares are available through an additional share issue and will be purchased with the funds provided for by Sverdlovsk Region’s public property management and public property privatization program for 2012. Sverdlovsk Region Ministry for Public Property Management was requested to sign a purchase and sale agreement and pay for the shares. The government’s decree to this extent was carried by Oblastnaya Gazeta today. ‘This purchase will secure Sverdlovsk Region’s blocking

Ufaleynickel incurred 689.05m RUR of net losses (calculated in accordance with the Russian Accounting Standards) in 2011, which exceeded the figures for a year earlier by 475.2 times, the company reports. Ufaleynickel’s revenues declined by 9% last year in comparison with the year 2010 and amounted to 8.08bn RUR; this includes revenues stemming from the sales of industrial produce (which went down by 3.8% and reached 6.22m RUR), Kommerant says.

A group of delegates from the Chinese company CIMM Co. Ltd visited Karabashmed. The delegation was headed by the company’s First Deputy DG Zhang Saoming; CIMM Co. Ltd is the company which is working on the copper enterprise’s project and supplies the machinery for its new vitriolic department. At the moment, presentations are being made on the vitriolic department equipment, and talks are being held by the technical experts. The parties are negotiating over the particular components of the equipment that could be supplied and over the terms of the contract. In the future, the two companies

SECOM, the Ural Region-based strong drinks supplier, laid a claim against Kostya Tszyu Boxing Academy with Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court; the plaintiff wants to get back 50,000 RUR it lent the defendant. The corresponding application was placed with the court on March 23, 2012. SECOM’s Legal Department explained to UrBC that the fund had been offered a 1m-RUR loan, but the remaining unpaid portion of the debt (50,000 RUR) had to be obtained through the court, despite all the existing agreements and the Academy’s promises to pay the money back. When UrBC reporter called the boxing

In 2011, United Company RUSAL’s Polevskoy Cryolite Plant incurred 406.76m RUR worth of net losses, which was 2.4 times less than in 2010, Interfac Ural refers to the company’s report as stating. The enterprise’s revenues rose by 1.75 times in 2011 compared with 2010 and came to 1.55m RUR.

Evraz Plc made $453m in terms of net profit by the end of 2011, which was 3.6% less than a year earlier, the company’s press service reports. At the same time, Evraz’s revenues increased by 22.4% last year and amounted to $16.4bn. The company’s EBITDA went up by 23.3% and reached $2.89bn. The enterprise’s gross profit soared by 27.7% and came to $3.92bn, while its operating profit increased by 39.8% and came to $1.86bn; the pre-tax profit rose by 37.9% and came to $873m. As of December 31, 2011, the company’s total debt amounted to $7.2bn (compared with $7.8bn at the end of 2010). Its net

The Bank of Moscow’s Board of Directors decided to close down the bank’s representation in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, as well as its Syktyvkar subsidiary at 9 Pervomayskaya St in Syktyvkar.

‘We did receive a letter from Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities. The letter has been registered, so now our priority case investigation department is looking into the application. We have to decide whether to institute criminal proceedings against the region’s Economic Affairs Minister Evgeny Sofrygin, who is suspected of violating the migration law through exceeding Sverdlovsk Region’s foreign workers quota for 2012,’ the official representative of Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Investigative Committee Alexander Shulga told UrBC. Meanwhile, the public prosecution