The employees of ChelyabEnergoSbyt, Chelyabinsk Region heat and electricity supplier, took part in the second series of New Generation Business Leader Program. According to their spokesperson, more people from the company attended the seminar this time compared with the first series. In order to select the participants, an ad hoc committee made up of managers, psychologists, and the company’s employees assessed the essays of the candidates written of the topic of what the 21st century business leader should be and look like. The authors of two best essays (Anatoliy Dzyuba and Andrey Sokolov)

First Power Generating Company (aka OGk-1) received the certificate of preparedness for the winter season. All of its power stations have been considered well-prepared for the maximum workload expected in late fall and winter; they got their certificates as early as October, reports the company’s spokesperson. OGK-1 has already repaired both major and supplementary equipment, buildings, and facilities; the corporate repair campaign is almost over now, with over 1.3bn RUR spent over the nine months of 2006. The oil-receiving and discharging systems, fuel preparation facilities, and

United Machine Building Works has recently published a report on the intermediate results of its financial success (based on the IAS) in the first half of 2006. The enterprise made 9.6% more profits in the first six months of 2006 compared with the first six months of 2005; the figure came to $374.3m, with international sales amounting to 55% of revenues. The company’s operational profit reached the point of $25m in June 2006, which is 21% better than one year earlier. EBITDA came to $37m, which exceeds the figures for January-June 2005 by 22%, reports the spokesperson for United Machine

Vysokogorskiy Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise (part of Evraz Group) upgraded its gas-tracking facilities located in the boiler and the ignition furnaces of agglomachines of Lebyazhinskiy agglomeration shop and in the boiler of Vysokogorskiy processing shop. These improvements provide for more reliable data on gas consumption and allow the company to keep track of its spending patterns as well as reduce their gas bills. The enterprise obtained the technical provisos from the gas supplier and had to redo its calculations and buy some new meters that were fixed in places with dramatic

The Interregional Federal Tax Service Inspectorate laid a claim against UralSvyazInform, the local mobile operator, demanding that the defendant pay 690m RUR worth of taxes and fines that it allegedly failed to pay in 2003-2004. The taxes come to 567.7m, with fines adding up to another 122.1m RUR, of which 448.2m comprise the income tax the inspectorate never received and 117.9m comprise the VAT. This information was reported by the spokesperson for UralSvyazInform; the spokesperson says the company is going to appeal against the claim.

The Managing Director of Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Nizhniy Tagil (part of Evraz Group) Alexei Kushnarev has received a special letter of thanks from the Federal Agency of State Reserves (RosREserve). The management of the Complex was awarded for fruitful cooperation and achievements in the field of storing and maintaining valuables classed as the emergency reserve. The Complex, one of Russia’s largest metallurgical enterprises, has for a long time been the responsible keeper of RosReserve. The company ensures immunity and regular updates of storehouses with raw stuffs and materials

Rescue teams are still operating at the site of an air-gas mixture explosion in UralCement JSC (based in the village of Pervomayskaya in Korkino District). On October 29, 2006, an air-gas mixture explosion occurred at No. 2 firing house of UralCement JSC. The explosion had been caused by a sudden gas pressure jump that resulted in a gas escape and a gas bolt fracture at the technological gas pipeline. The explosion destroyed the kiln control center and caused a collapse of the reinforced concrete constructions on area of 2,000 square meters. At the moment of explosion, 11 company employees

Magnesite Industrial Complex (part of Magnesite Group) installed unique natural gas record-keeping equipment at No. 1 and No. 2 gas-distributing units. This is the first equipment of such kind in Russia. The company used to have SuperFlow II (precision of 1.1% to 2.5%, depending on the flow), yet due the ever-growing energy resource tariffs the management of the Complex and of Magnesite Group decided to switch to the modern facility based on Dutch Q Sonic ultrasonic transducer (precision of up to .6%). As the spokesperson for Magnesite Group said to UrBC representative, this new

Sverdlovsk Region Court of Arbitration officially confirmed the bankruptcy of VIK Ltd., Vysokogoriye Trade House and Ural Gold Platinum Association Ltd. These companies were found insolvent, so now they have to undergo bankruptcy proceedings. Mr E. B. Rokhlin was appointed trustee in bankruptcy. The debtees may place their demands within two months of the official report of bankruptcy, thus the deadline for applications is December 28, 2006.

United Machine Building Works won the Corporate Media Leader 2006 contest as the owner of The Best Corporate Site 2006. The competition took place in Moscow on October 26-27, 2006 as part of the 3d All-Russian corporate media forum (CorPress 2006). It was organized by the Russian Department of International Association of Business Communication (IABC) and supported by Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Guild of Corporate Media (part of Media Industry Association Committee) Forty corporate media, including those of VneshTorgBank, SberBank, SUAL Holding, RAO UES of

OMZ Uralsmash (part of United Machine Building Works) set to constructing a large modern storage facility meant for servicing the corporate divisions as well as other local clients. The area is currently occupied by the storage houses of Uralmashzavod (a business unit of OMZ Uralsmash). The project will have been completed by May 2007. Uralmashzavod is already using its vehicles and facilities to render services to a number of organizations such as receiving, shipping, and forwarding railway carriages and containers, maintenance and storing of goods and equipment, customs clearance,

The regional division of TGK-9, the heat and power supplier, received the certificate of preparedness for the fall and winter, reports their spokesperson. Throughout October, a committee made up of the representatives of the company itself as well as of Rostechnadzor and Uraltechnadzor (the official safety monitoring bodies), and Sverdlovsk Region Department of Emergencies had been assessing all of the company’s subsidiaries in Sverdlovsk Region. Based on the committee’s report, they received the certificates of preparedness. Sverdlovskaya and Novo-Sverdlovskaya power stations that provide

Vysokogorskiy Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise (part of Evraz Group) has almost completed overhaul of its No. 3 grinding and sorting facility used for processing limestone. The company’s contractors and the corporate repair teams have fully restored the jawbreaker (one of the major pieces of equipment). They replaced the old parts of the oil systems and thus eliminated all the leakage. In order to protect the units, they replaced the lining of the sinkhole and repaired the conveyors and shakers. This overhaul makes it possible to stabilize the limestone processing routine as well as cut

A special workshop for psychologists, rehabilitation experts and other staff of regional clinics that treat patients with hematologic and oncologic diseases will be taking pace in Chelyabinsk on October 31 to November 2, 2006. The workshop will be devoted to psychological assistance to children diagnosed with hematologic and oncologic diseases and their parents shortly after the problem has been revealed. The workshop is conducted by the Children of Russia Fund, Chelyabinsk Region hemato-oncologic children’s center, Chelyabinsk State Medical Academy, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

Net profit of Chelyabinsk Steel Sheet Plant went down by 66.7% in the third quarter of 2006. According to the company’s press release, this was effected by the drop in sales and increase in the expenses (including those connected with the growing railroad shipment tariffs). The company’s net profit went down from 7,187,000 RUR in the second quarter to 2,404,000 RUR in the third quarter of 2006 (the decrease amounted to 4,783,000 RUR).

The Board of Directors of Integrated Metallurgical Complex of Chelyabinsk JSC decided to set up a collegiate seven-member Management Board of the Association. Alexei Alekseyev, Alexander Kolchin, Anton Levada, Valentina Nekrasova, Petr Cherkasov and Vladimir Kaukin were elected to the Board. Vladimir Polin joined the Management Board as Chairman due to his position of GD of Mechel Management Company Ltd. (the sole executive body of the Complex and its management company). The Board of Directors also decided to elect Mr Alexeyev Deputy Chairman of the Management Board and to permit Mr Polin to

On October 29, 2006, an air-gas mixture explosion occurred at No. 2 firing house of UralCement JSC located in the village of Korkino. The explosion had been caused by a sudden gas pressure jump that resulted in a gas escape and a gas bolt fracture at the technological gas pipeline. The explosion destroyed the kiln control center and caused a collapse of the reinforced concrete constructions on area of 2,000 square meters, the spokesperson for Chelyabinsk Region Department of Emergencies said to UrBC representative. At the moment of explosion, 11 company employees were at the firing shop. 10

In the third quarter of 2006, net profit of Mechanical Engineering Works of Kopeysk JSC went down by 27.1% against the figures for the previous quarter. According to the company’s press release, the profit decrease was effected by a reduction in sale proceeds. The company’s net profit dropped from 88.093m RUR in the second quarter of 2006 down to 64.21m RUR in the third quarter, so the decrease amounted to 23.883m RUR.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service in Sverdlovsk Region ordered Teplovodocanal Ltd., the local water supplier, to stop violating competition law (Article 5 (paragraph 1) of Competition and Monopoly Limitations on Commodities Markets Bill). The Service received a complaint from Sredneuralskiy Teplovodocanal Ltd. that claimed that Teplovodocanal Ltd. was exerting pressure on them to make them sign an additional agreement providing for maintenance of sewerage and in-house services. These two companies had already signed a water supplying and wastewater-handling agreement. The Federal Antimonopoly

Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Nizhniy Tagil (part of Evraz Group) has set up an organizational committee responsible for getting ready for the International Young Experts’ Conference. The committee consists of the company’s Chief Engineer and the directors of most shops as well as directors of some departments. The conference will take place at the end of November and will be made up of ten specialized sections (metallurgical processing, transportation, power engineering, IT-technologies and personnel management). The applications have already been received from all of Russia’s