UralElectroMed dumped 610 tons of pollutants in the air last year, which amounted to 14.2% of all the harmful emissions in the town of Verkhnyaya Pyshma. These data are available from a public report on the state of and protection of Sverdlovsk Region environment in the year 2010. The report was compiled on the basis of data provided by the state statistical bodies and environmental monitoring agencies as well as information provided by state-run environmental protection agencies and leading conservationist and environmentalist organizations.

Deputy Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government and Minister for Industry & Science Alexander Petrov feels that the region has a unique set of aluminum production facilities, with enterprises operating stably from Severouralsk to Kamensk-Uralsky. However, the processing and production of aluminum are made complicated by the fact that there are no hydroelectric power stations in Sverdlovsk Region, so the energy-intensive aluminum production is costlier in terms of electricity bills here than in other parts of Russia. ‘I believe that UC RUSAL’s management should invest in its own energy

Piastrella dumped 220 tons of pollutants in the air last year, which amounted to 4.2% of all the harmful emissions in the town of Polevskoy. These data are available from a public report on the state of and protection of Sverdlovsk Region environment in the year 2010. The report was compiled on the basis of data provided by the state statistical bodies and environmental monitoring agencies as well as information provided by state-run environmental protection agencies and leading conservationist and environmentalist organizations.

UC RUSAL created tension in Krasnouralsk on purpose, in order to exert pressure on the authorities, as the company hopes to make the electric power prices go down in this way, Chairman of Severouralsk division of Russian Miners’ Independent Trade Union Valery Zolotarev told UrBC. ‘RUSAL might go to court and fight for lower prices for as long as one year, but nothing would come out of it. This has happened before. It is easier for the company to increase the social tensions to force the authorities to pay attention to the problem. This is what is actually happening right now,’ Zolotarev

TNK-BP is once again thinking of buying the assets of the natural gas distributor GAZEX, Kommersant reports. TNK-BP’s Executive Vice President for Natural Gas and Electric Power Supply Mikhail Slobodin announced that the company keeps negotiating for the purchase of GAZEX from IES Holding. It is not quite clear just what TNK-BP might buy, since it was Gazprom that had already reached an agreement on buying the company’s energy assets in the summer. Gazprom’s division Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Moskva is to be involved in this transaction. In fact, the company already bought a 14.2% shareholding in

Polevskoy Cryolite Plant dumped 2,700 tons of pollutants in the air last year, which amounted to 51.8% of all the harmful emissions in the town of Polevskoy. These data are available from a public report on the state of and protection of Sverdlovsk Region environment in the year 2010. The report was compiled on the basis of data provided by the state statistical bodies and environmental monitoring agencies as well as information provided by state-run environmental protection agencies and leading conservationist and environmentalist organizations.

BMW’s largest provincial car-selling and maintenance center is opening in Yekaterinburg today. The construction of this specialized motor show center was fully financed by Bank Koltso Urala; the center will welcome its customers in Yekaterinburg’s Verkh-Isetsky district at 69 Metallurgov St, the bank reports. According to BauerHof (BMW’s official dealer) representatives, the three-storey building that houses the new center was completed in strict compliance with the legendary brand’s corporate standards and meets the German concern’s high demands.

A subsidiary of one of Russia’s largest online stores Ozon.ru opened in Yekaterinburg recently. The company explains the decision to set up a branch in Yekaterinburg had to do with a 40% increase in the sales in the provinces, Kommersant reports. According to Ozon.ru’s press service, the Yekaterinburg subsidiary of the online mega-market is actually a hub. ‘The hub will consolidate all the orders coming from Ozon’s primary warehouse in Tver; the orders will then be streamlined along their destinations. This particular node is responsible for the entire territory of Ural Federal District,’ the

Sinara Group and Siemens’s joint venture Ural Locomotives is planning to complete the construction of the department for manufacturing Lastochka (Desiro Rus) electric trains by August 2012, the enterprise’s BOD Chairman Evgeny Kopeyin said in his interview to Interfax-Ural. ‘The department is to be put up by next August. Along with the construction process, the site will be fitted with the necessary equipment, this equipment will undergo start-up and commissioning, and employees will be trained to operate it. In fact, we are actually creating a new electric trains-manufacturing plant on the

Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) announced it had signed an agreement that provides for the purchase of a 100% stake in the Australian Flinders Mines Limited (Flinders) for 0.30 Australian dollars per share. This comes to 554m Australian dollars for 100% of shares (with a clause regarding all the issued options and special rights). Flinders Board of Directors decided unanimously to accept MMK’s offer and to suggest that the company’s stockholders follow suit. Now Flinders’ main asset is the iron ore project PIOP in Pilbara, Western Australia. Under the JORC standard, the company’s

A.K. Serov Metallurgical Plant dumped 36,000 tons of pollutants in the air last year, which amounted to 46.8% of all the harmful emissions in the town of Serov. These data are available from a public report on the state of and protection of Sverdlovsk Region environment in the year 2010. The report was compiled on the basis of data provided by the state statistical bodies and environmental monitoring agencies as well as information provided by state-run environmental protection agencies and leading conservationist and environmentalist organizations.

The first section of the electrolysis facility at UC RUSAL’s Bogoslovsky smelter is expected to be fully dismantled by May 9, 2012. However, some sources at the plant think this might also happen earlier, namely, before April 1, 2012, Uralsky Rabochiy reports. UC RUSAL decided to shut down the older electrolysis series that are not fitted with any gas-purification units. Governor Alexander Misharin announced he could not agree with the company management’s decision to close down the facility, as this will result in massive job losses. In the meantime, the company claims that the aluminum

Adore Creative was designated to prepare Yekaterinburg EXPO 2020 application video; this news was confirmed to Kommersant’s Review supplement by Chairman of the application support committee and Russia’s Deputy Industry & Trade Minister Denis Manturov. ‘This company created a number of presentation clips whose emotional charge helped win votes for Russia. This company has been doing business with the global leaders for years, with Reebok, Pepsi, Sony, and The Walt Disney Company, for example,’ the official said. ‘We’d like to hope that their products for EXPO 2020 will be of highest

The subsidiary of OGK-2 Serovskaya hydroelectric power station dumped 36,300 tons of pollutants in the air last year, which amounted to 47.2% of all the harmful emissions in the town of Serov. These data are available from a public report on the state of and protection of Sverdlovsk Region environment in the year 2010. The report was compiled on the basis of data provided by the state statistical bodies and environmental monitoring agencies as well as information provided by state-run environmental protection agencies and leading conservationist and environmentalist organizations.

Ural Airlines came up with a special offer on the anniversary of Chelyabinsk Region’s founding date, the company’s press office reports. The region as a federal constituency recently turned seventy-eight years old. The airline is now putting on sale the tickets for its Vienna-bound flights. The launch of direct flights from Chelyabinsk to the European capital was Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Mikhail Yurevitch’s idea, so the expansion of the carrier’s international flights network is supported by a partnership agreement between Ural Airlines and Chelyabinsk Region Government. Between

Rosgosstrakh’s strategic research center came up with the results of its Bank Brands survey that measured the on-the-spot awareness of a particular brand. Those surveyed were asked, ‘What banks do you know?’ The percentage was calculated on the basis of the total number of responses. In addition to Russian banks, a number of foreign banks operating in Russia were also featured in the survey. In comparison with the year 2010, the number of people aware of the Austrian Raiffeisenbank declined from 10% to 7%; that of respondents aware of the U.S. Citibank decreased from 5% to 4%, and the number

Ural Federal District division of Russia’s Federal Financial Markets Service completed a scheduled on-site inspection of Tyumen Commercial Agroindustrial Bank. The inspection resulted in the agency’s order for the bank to stop violating the Russian legislation and to take measures to prevent such violations from happening in the future.

Ural Asbestos Ore Mining & Processing Plant dumped 5,900 tons of pollutants in the air last year, which amounted to 73.2% of all the harmful emissions in the town of Asbest. These data are available from a public report on the state of and protection of Sverdlovsk Region environment in the year 2010. The report was compiled on the basis of data provided by the state statistical bodies and environmental monitoring agencies as well as information provided by state-run environmental protection agencies and leading conservationist and environmentalist organizations.

MDM Bank reports that an agreement has been reached that leaves Igor Kim without a stake in the bank’s capital. The bank’s BOD Chairman Oleg Vyugin said that the negotiations also resulted in the agreement to sell a 100% shareholding in LTB Bank (MDM Group’s former member) to Kim. The bank’s Board of Directors and its leading stockholders supported the transaction.

Russian Chrome 1915 dumped 1.3m cubic meters of wastewater last year, which amounted to 4% of all the harmful water discharge in the town of Pervouralsk. These data are available from a public report on the state of and protection of Sverdlovsk Region environment in the year 2010. The report was compiled on the basis of data provided by the state statistical bodies and environmental monitoring agencies as well as information provided by state-run environmental protection agencies and leading conservationist and environmentalist organizations.