Development Projects of Russia: Industry, Energy and Infastructure

Titanium Valley is a planned special economic zone in Sverdlovsk Oblast in the Urals Federal District of Russia, which will focus on creating titanium products for the aircraft, automotive, shipbuilding and medical industries. It will be created around the world's largest titanium producer, VSMPO-Avisma.[1] The Russian government plans to invest at least 40 billion rubles ($1.29 billion) for the project.[2]
The purpose of the special economic zone, to be located in the city of Verkhnyaya Salda, is to give enterprises the opportunity to develop and produce value added products in the region and bring international partners to the zone.[2] A total of 20 companies will participate in the project, and it is expected to create 20,000 jobs in the city.[1] The participating companies include VSMPO-Avisma, Arvi, SR Systematics, MAG[disambiguation needed], and United Aircraft Corporation. Companies operating in the zone will enjoy preferential tax treatment,[3] and Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast Aleksandr Misharin has stated that he expects the incentives to enable the companies to produce globally competitive products and create new jobs.[4]
While visiting the region, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on 13 November 2010 that a decree for creating the special economic zone will be signed in two weeks.[2] Titanium maker VSMPO-Avisma has already spent $700 million in preparation, and Russia's leading pipe producer ChelPipe has also already spent over $630 million into modernizing its facilities.[5] Foreign companies considering to create production facilities in the zone include Rolls-Royce Group and Goodrich Corporation.[1]
The "Titanium Valley" project is part of Russia's ongoing effort to modernise and diversify its economy, one of the main programs of Dmitry Medvedev's presidency.[2]
Titanium Valley is a special economic zone of industrial type, located in Sverdlovsk region. Priority directions of the SEZ are: titanium metal products, machinery for all industries (production of means of production, manufacture of components), construction materials, and chemical industry. The special economic zone is located in Verkhnyaya Salda - 40 km away from Nizhni Tagil and 180 km away from Ekaterinburg. One of the largest producers of the semi – processed materials from titanium alloys, designed for the airspace - “VSMPO – AVISMA” is located nearby. That is what defined a choice of the name for the special economic zone.

Sverdlovsk Region, Titanium Valley
Titanium Valley Special Economic Zone is located in the territory of Sverdlovsk oblast. The competitive advantages of the territory include: availability of raw materials, specialized staff resources and educational institutions, relevant infrastructure, developed logistic networks, export potential of future residents of the special economic zone.

There are qualified human assets with higher and specialized secondary education working in the mechanic engineering, metallurgy, electric power industries. It is planned to train personnel according to the projects requirements.

500 km away from the Titanium Valley, there are enterprises manufacturing all kinds of metals located:

•VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation OAO – supplier of titanium parts for such companies as Boеing, Airbus, Rolls Royce, Goodrich, Embraer, GE.

• EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Iron and Steel Works OAO – one of the nine major Russian integrated steel-smelting plants belonging to Evrazholding.

• UralVagonZavod Scientific Industrial Corporation OAO – the largest in the Russian Federation manufacturer of tanks and carriages.

• Uralchimplast Group

The area of the Titanium Valley Special Economic Zone makes 584.4 hectares.

The special economic zone is named Titanium Valley. However this does not limit lines of business of the industrial enterprises operating in the SEZ.

The main purpose of the SEZ is set up of high-tech enterprises in the following industries:

• mechanic engineering,

• mechanical processing,

• aircraft engineering,

• chemical industry,

• pharmaceutical industry,

• building industry.

The main transport, engineering and social infrastructure facilities will be created at the expense of the regional budget, as well as at the expense of off-budgetary sources.

MOSCOW, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Russia has plenty of natural resources to offer to the global market, but recently the country started promoting its new and exciting product – consumers. With population topping 140 million people, Russia has always been an attractive market, subject to the poor economic climate and other barriers. In 2012 and 2013, however, Russian government formed 'special economic zones' – business and industrial hubs aimed at creating 'entry points' for global companies that incorporate production capacity, abundant natural resources, labor pool, infrastructure, tax incentives, and access to the consumer market.

The Titanium Valley, one of the 'special economic zones' is located in the Urals, Russia's industrial and mining heartland. The region is home to the world's largest titanium production facilities; titanium is an essential material widely used in aircraft manufacturing and other industries. The special economic zone, by attracting major Russian and Western aerospace corporations, is creating a unique industrial hub similar to Seattle. Major aerospace companies, like Boeing, VSMPO-AVISMA, and other companies became the residents of the Titanium Valley.

In a roundtable hosted by the economic zone's management in Hannover during the 2013 Hannover Messe, Titanium Valley's CEO Artemiy Kyzlasov said that the hub is becoming an entry point into Russia for multinational corporations: "It has tax breaks and customs relief, optimization of logistics and excellent skilled labor potential. We are not only interested in investment in the region, but rather in a system for integrating international manufacturing in the region's infrastructure, with every new special economic zone resident creating benefits for the other residents, developing and enhancing the production chain. Both the regional and federal governments support this. You could say that we are building an aviation and manufacturing Hollywood here, where all the industry players – directors, actors, models, screenwriters – are concentrated in one area, educating one another."

By 11 July, Russia harvested 20 million tons of grain, 9.3 million tons more than in July 11 last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. Who is involved in the harvesting of Orenburg region.

Between JSC "SatIZ" and repair and toolmaker Group OJSC "KAMAZ" signed a contract for the manufacture of special equipment and measuring tools.

In accordance with the first specification of JSC "Saturn-Tool Plant" will produce about 30 different kinds of special tools and measuring tools at the customer's drawings - Repair Tool Factory Group OJSC "KAMAZ". Repair-tool factory provides the leading enterprise tools and equipment, provides repair, maintenance equipment to use, engaging in procurement of necessary tools.

Today, July 12, First Deputy Minister of Industry and Minister of Transport Komi Gibezh Alexander attended the opening of a new factory in Ukhta - of "PC" Stalkonstruktsiya. "
How to tell "Komiinform" the press service of the Ministry, the honor to cut the red tape was provided to the general director of the plant Bushchik Sergey and Alexander Gibezhu, who noted the special importance for the Republic of the event and wished success to the enterprise. The guests were given a tour of the workshops of the plant, during which they were able to see the whole process of construction, to ensure sustainability and security of modern production.

The first meters in their independent living fry will be held here on these channels. Of 6 ponds for three weeks in the White River, and then in the Bratsk reservoir gets 7,000,000 fry.
peled grown in the village SOSNOVKA Usolsk district for three years. Nine months caviar is in the incubator until the larvae are then sent to a pond to grow up, because the grown-fry is much more likely to survive.

16 Jul '13 NIIME & Mikron, Russia’s largest manufacturer and exporter of RFID chips, announced last week that it has won a Moscow Subway tender for the supply of its Troika, a special contactless plastic smart card to be used as a travel pass.

Under the terms of the tender, Mikron is expected to provide for Moscow Subway 5.5 million such contactless tickets.

te] 16 Jul '13 Saint-Gobain, a global leader in the habitat and construction markets, announced last week that it has launched production at its first Russia-based plasterboard factory. The new site, which also contains a gypsum quarry, is located close to the village of Gomzovo some 75km west of Nizhny Novgorod, in the mid-Volga area.

The new site is expected to help Saint-Gobain meet growing demand for plasterboard in Russia. With an investment of around 70 million euros it currently has a workforce of 87 employees.

The leader of Russia's diamond was in 2012. The place of honor confirmed by documents published by the Kimberley Process Diamond Association.

According to analysts, Russia produced almost 35 million carats of diamonds. Their total cost was $ 2.9 billion.
It is noted that 27% of world production comes from Russia. However segment sales money expressed somewhat less than - 23%.

n Buryatia increasing demand for fish products. Is claimed to fish factory "Baikal", which for half a year increased its sales in half. What's going on in the enterprise, as residents formed the tastes of Buryatia, what are the nuances of the fish? Shared the secrets and plans for the plant director Olga Karataeva  - Fish factory "Baikal" has been working for one and a half years.

In Kolyma in the 1st half of 2013 produced 7.7 tons of gold

Mining companies and prospectors Kolyma six months produced more than 7, 7 tons of gold, 765 kilograms more than the same period in 2012, according to the administration of the Magadan region.

VLADIVOSTOK, July 16 (RIA Novosti) - A Macao gambling magnate is ready to finance construction of a $130 million casino resort in Russia’s Primorye entertainment zone in the Far East, a regional administration spokesman said on Tuesday.
Lawrence Ho has agreed to build a 120-room hotel and casino with 65 gambling tables and 800 gaming machines, the spokesman said.
“Agreement for the project’s financing was reached Tuesday at a meeting of the Primorye Territory governor with representatives of Melco International Development, which belongs to Mr. Ho,” a regional administration spokesman said. The two sides intend to sign a preliminary agreement at the Far Eastern investment congress in Vladivostok on September 6-7, the spokesman added.

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, July 16 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s state-controlled oil giant Rosneft is ready to invest 1 trillion rubles ($30 billion) in the development of East Siberia and the Russian Far East in the next five years, Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin said Tuesday.
Sechin made his statement during a visit to Rosneft’s Orlan oil platform in the Sea of Okhotsk off Sakhalin Island. Sechin was speaking in a video conference with President Vladimir Putin who was near Sakhalin monitoring military exercises.

Amounted to 119.5% growth rate of industrial production in the Tyumen region in January-March 2013. This is a 15 session of the Tyumen Regional Duma informed the chairman of the Committee on Economic Policy and Environmental Inna Losev.
According to her, in 2011 the growth rate was 115.9%, in 2012 - 118.5%. In the fixed assets in 2012 invested more than 204 billion rubles. The volume of investment per capita in the Tyumen region is 1.7 times higher than the national average.

ndustrial production in Russia in April of this year grew yoy by 2.3%.

In March, the industry growth in annual terms was 2.6% in February fell by 2.1% in January, down 0.8%.
In January-April, industrial production in Russia grew by 0.5% compared to the same period in 2012

In Russia in the last year there have been several hundreds of new industrial enterprises, which create jobs for more than 30 thousand people.
This was reported in the press service of the Russian government, summing up the first year / s May 21, 2012 / Cabinet chaired by Dmitry Medvedev.
"According to various sources, in the period from May 2012 to April 2013 in Russia have earned between 400 and 450 new manufacturing plants / factories and workshops /" - according to the materials of the Cabinet. In this case, the total amount of the investment in the production amounted to approximately 500 billion rubles. "In the new enterprises created more than 30 thousand jobs," - said the press service. In addition, last year carried out modernization of almost 500 companies, 35 of which as a result has put into operation a new capacity.

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As a country with the most resources in the world and the most educated nation in the world it is not beyond our reach to predict the future.

Russia is adding value to the exported goods and resources by using its brains.

In Togliatti, has launched a new venture for the production of automotive components - separation of the British company TI Automotive (fuel and brake systems).
The British have already concluded an agreement with AvtoVAZ supply: the first fuel pumps and fuel tubes for vehicles on the platform B0, including Lada Largus, Go on line at the end of this summer.

The company continues to upgrade its production facilities

Director General of UIC " Oboronprom "Dmitry Lelikov checked the progress of modernization of" Gear-PM ", part of the holding"Helicopters of Russia". At the company put into operation high-tech equipment, construction of a new production building.
Head "Oboronprom" visited JSC "Reducer-PM" working visit, the press service of the United Industrial Corporation. During the visit, Dmitry Lelikov acquainted with the production base of the complex 69, which specializes in the treatment of shafts and gears, as well as the assembly shop.
Dmitry Lelikov discussed with the leadership of "Gear-PM" the current state of affairs for the construction of a new production building company, which should accommodate assembly plant, testing facilities and engineering and technical services.

July 12 opening ceremony of the Mobile hatchery on artificial reproduction of sturgeon and building inspection zhiganskiye Conservation of Sakha (Yakutia) in paragraph Zhigansk.

On Rossoshansky enterprise "RosEkoPlast" opened shop granulation.
The company operates in Rossosh two years and specializes in recycling plastic waste. To date, the company employs 100 people, with the launch of a new plant processing volumes will increase from 100 to 250 tons per month.
"RosEkoPlast" provides a complete closed cycle from acquisition of raw materials to finished products.

One of the largest glass manufacturers in the Russian Federation and CIS countries is launching a new, thirteenth, CTiS plant in Rostov region.

Starting the industrial plant is scheduled for July. The project is a continuation of the program STiS the modernization and automation of production. According to the commercial director of the Group of Companies STiS Alexei Ljashko, the location of the plant in Bataisk - this is the best choice in terms of logistics.

July 16, 2013 a resident of a special economic zone "Dubna" Company "ARKREY" opened a new plant for the production of blood glucose meters and test strips to them and shipped the first batch of high-tech products.

In Zelenchukskaya Karachay-Cherkessia put into operation the first of four new buildings for poultry of reproducers "Zelenchukskiy." company specializes in the manufacture and sale of seasonal breeding production, which was based on the hatching eggs and day-old chicks Beijing breed ducks.
The area of ​​new housing for poultry - 1375 sq.m. designed for 4,000 heads of breeding stock and is equipped with modern equipment.

JSC "Severstal SMC-Kolpino" (included in the division "Severstal Russian Steel") has launched a unique production of bending hydraulic press, worth more than 16 million rubles.
Press with a force of 800 tons was made of metal JSC "Severstal" in close cooperation with the production company of "SP Donpressmash." Frame for the press were also made to the "Severstal".

Micro-plant technology Mi.Da (Danieli, Italy) for the production of steel building assortment will be the first venture industrial park construction industry Boksitogorsky district of the Leningrad region.
The initiator of the project, LLC "Metal and innovation" and the company Danieli in August 2012 signed a protocol on the construction of the plant under the EPCM-contract. Total direct investments - 200 million euros.
Capacity of the new plant will be 350,000 tons of rebar per year. To reach full capacity of the project initiators intend to 3.5 years, and the production of the first products will begin in 2.5 years. Directly in production will create up to 400 jobs, which will take residents and Pikalevo Boksitogorsk. In addition, related jobs will be provided an additional 1,500 residents Boksitogorsky district.

As innovation news portal Venture Business News reports, GS Group, a privately-held international holding based in Russia’s westernmost enclave of Kaliningrad bordering Poland and Lithuania, has announced plans to support entrepreneurial innovators and start-up teams at all stages of project development. Its new venture project department is reportedly expected to invest anything between $15,000 and $9m per project.

Between now and the end of 2014, GS Venture, GS Group’s new venture arm, is said to have plans to invest a total of $45m.

Russia’s four-month-old Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF) has officially begun operation and is expecting application for funding, Russian news agency ITAR-TASS reports, citing Kirill Varlamov, the Fund director.

“We have plans to invest in a variety of Internet-related projects. For example, projects that aim to improve the environment, or the quality of life (roads, ecology), education, etc.,” Mr. Varlamov explained.

He underscored that the Fund is not going to support projects that focus on excisable goods, religious matters, politics or legislatively regulated goods and services, such as drugs.

The Fund will work with both start-ups and “successfully functioning online businesses” that seek money for expansion.

Moscow’s Russian Aviation Materials Research Institute (VIAM) announced earlier this month that it has inked a cooperation agreement with NefteTechnologii, a Moscow-based company, over innovation development in transport, mechanical engineering and aircraft-building.

Under the terms of the agreement, the partners will jointly push projects aimed at creating and testing SMC/BMC type composite materials, making composite-based products on the premises of NefteTechnologii, protecting intellectual property, introducing advanced composite machining technologies, and putting together regulatory documents for widespread use of next gen materials, originally developed for military purposes, in civilian economic sectors as well.

The Belgorod regional government in Central Russia is ready to co-fund 12 best technology projects developed by scientists of Belgorod State University and Belgorod Shukhov State Technical University, the region’s two leading higher education hubs, regional portal Belru.rf reports.

KAMAZ increased its RAS net profit in the 1st half of 2013 by 11% compared to the same period last year - up to 2.428 billion rubles.

Moscow Refinery goes to production of fuels of Euro-5

july 17, 2013, press release
At the Moscow Refinery Link will open in a new window "Gazprom oil" put into operation an FCC gasoline hydrotreating and isomerization of light naphtha. This allowed the plant in 2013 to switch completely to production of gasoline 5 emission class technical regulations of the Russian Federation on the quality of motor fuels. New production facilities visited during the visit of Acting Mayor of Moscow Link will open in a new window Sergei Sobyanin.

The largest company in the mining sector of the Siberian region of mining and processing of building stone is JSC "Novosibirsk quarry." Stone quarry in the village of Mountain - one of the largest, here goes quarrying, and then carried out its processing. Old plant, built in 1970, no longer meet the new requirements to the quality of the produced material, so in the modernization of existing equipment and machinery was built a new plant.

July 18, Novomoskovsk opened a plant to produce energy-efficient insulation "Penoplex." The ceremony was attended by Deputy Minister of Regional Development SA Vahrukov, deputy executive director of the Russian Union of Builders AA Purse, CEO of "Penoplex" GA Protosenya, Deputy - Director of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations of the Ministry of Economic Development and Industry Tula region OA Fedosov, head of the administration Loc VA Zherzdev, director Novomoskovsky plant "Penoplex" SA Shatalov, representatives of the contractors involved in construction.

West Siberian Metallurgical Combine before the Day of Metallurgist opened the reconstructed rail and structural steel shop. Reconstruction began in 2010, is now complete. Investment in the first phase amounted to 1.2 billion rubles , the second 18.1 bln.
The shop will produce differentially-hardened rails R65 category DT-350 100-meter length. The upper part of them has tempered more lower - less, and the average stay moist. This technology allows the rail plastic, provide a soft and silent stroke trains. And the increased length - 100 meters - reduces the number of connections, increase security and speed.

25 years ago Volgograders and could not assume that the black caviar and sturgeon will be unusual and rare delicacy. Most fishermen are now even dare to dream about such a catch. After construction of the power plant and the mass extermination of sturgeon and beluga sturgeon is not left. In order not to lose public property especially valuable fish species are now grown in factories. Another batch of bottle-released into the Volga River on Wednesday Volgograd sturgeon hatchery.

SAMARA, July 19 - RIA Novosti. ceremony launching construction of a new passenger terminal of the international airport "Kurumoch" throughput capacity of 3.5 million passengers a year, was held in the Samara region.

On the eve of the professional holiday - Day of the metallurgist in the blast furnace of Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant, included in the company "Mechel", produced the 200 millionth tonne of iron.

The planned turnover of JSC "Murmansk Commercial Sea Port" (MITI) in 2013 was 16.34 million tons, up 4.1% over 2012 results. The press service of the company.
The company's plans for the second half of 2013 - Implementation of the investment program. The program has already signed contracts for the supply of three cranes Mantsinen 120R grapples with a capacity of 5 cu. m, 2 cranes Mantsinen 70R c grabs of 3.5 m3 and 3 566 Liebherr loaders for loading of coal buckets to 6 cu. m the stage of signing contracts for the supply of 3 heavy cranes "Knight" for grabs with a volume of 20 cubic meters. m, 6, and 4 radial telescopic loaders for coal conveyor type, 3 forklift load capacity of 16 and 33 tons, 2 Terex loaders to work with cars.

In Teykovskogo near Ivanovo region launched the construction of a plant for the production of heat-insulating materials. Investment will amount to 2.6 billion rubles. The symbolic clock with a countdown to the opening of business on July 18 launched a regional head Mikhail Men, president of Baring Vostok, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot-cosmonaut Alexei Leonov and CEO of "Teplant" Yuri Vertoprakhov.

JSC "Ural Plant of Metal" ("Umekon") has launched a new hot-dip galvanizing plant. New capacity cost the company 600 million rubles.

Launched department will conduct an annual 30,000 tons of galvanized steel. The new production will create about 300 high-performance workplaces. The estimated payback period is 3-4 years.

Specialists "Uralvagonzavod" began assembling automatic molding line, the German company HWS.

Automatic molding line put into operation in the foundry number 4 "Uralvagonzavod". Now the forces of JSC "Koksokhimmontazh" being installed conveyor belts. Upon its completion, the work will proceed contractor - JSC "Repair-building complex of the Urals." The entire assembly is held under the supervision of experts of the manufacturer.

The cost of a new complex with the design, construction and installation works is 1 billion 983 million rubles. The complex includes:
Mixture-site,
molding line,
six transport streams
two lines of the fill.

A total of 12 July 2013 processed 3,794,521 tons of oil. From 1 July this year, refining depth was more than 74 percent, the selection of light oil - more than 49 percent.

On the complex of refineries and petrochemical plants "TANECO" a meeting of the personnel on the results of the first half of 2013.

In the Kuzbass Technology Park opened a new building, "Ecology and nature." Residents by providing a platform for the introduction of environmentally sound development in the region's economy.

Rosseti (Russian Grids), the former MRSK Holding reorganized by this past June, announced last week its plans to invest more than $1bn in energy-related innovation.

“For renovating backbone networks, more than $330m has been allocated; on upgrading distribution networks, in excess of $670m will be spent,” the company emphasized.

A brand new research institute for spacecraft engineering will be set up in Samara, in the Lower Volga, the Samara regional government announced earlier this week following a meeting between Governor Nikolai Merkushkin and Alexander Kirilin, the CEO of the Samara-based TsSKB-Progress space rocket center.

The Los Angeles-based University of Southern California (USC) has plans to collaborate with the Skolkovo innovation hub, the Skolkovo Foundation announced last week.

Charles McKenna, professor of chemistry and vice dean for natural sciences at USC, is reported to have visited Skolkovo’s main techno-park last week to take a look at its microanalysis and prototyping lab, talk to executives at Skolkovo and Skoltech (Skolkovo University for Science and Innovation), and also meet residents of Skolkovo’s biomed cluster doing research in areas that are of interest for the American university.

The Lipetsk region in Central Russia has plans to use a number of local companies as the core for its prospective biotech production cluster, the Abireg business information agency reported last week, citing Vladimir Lavrentyev, the regional minister of innovation and industrial policy.

The company "Tekhnopromexport" and "Siemens" signed an agreement o the supply of the main equipment for power plant construction project "Yamal LNG". It will be built to ensure the operation of a liquefied natural gas in the South Tambey field (Yamal Peninsula).
The contract includes the design, manufacture, supply and installation of gas turbine generator sets and heat recovery units.

Russian chemical enterprises in January-June this year increased production of polymers by 11.9% compared to the same period in 2012 - up to 3 million tons, according to the Federal State Statistics Service .
Release of polyethylene increased by 24.2% - up to 921 thousand tons of polystyrene - by 30.4%, to 227.4 thousand tons. PVC production increased by 2.2% to 341.6 thousand tons. Production of polypropylene increased by 25.7% to 410.2 thousand tons.

In Koshkinsky area recorded a bumper harvest for the area of ​​winter wheat - 54 quintals per hectare. Such indicators are usually obtained in the south of Russia - where the soil and climate are favorable for growing grain. And in our arid zone ceiling - 35 quintals per hectare.

In the I half-year 2013 on the railway network of JSC "Russian Railways" has received 387 new locomotives, the press service of the carrier. The volume of investments amounted to 38.8 billion rubles.

In Nicholas Khabarovsk region took delivery of the first stage of GOK "White Mountain". Mining Construction started in February 2012, the investment in the project amounted to 5.6 billion rubles.
Commissioning and then running at full capacity in 2014 will allow to process up to 1.5 million tons of gold ore and receive about 3 tons of gold bullion dore. According to the results of recent exploration, metal reserves at the field will provide enterprise work for the next 10 years. To further increase the mineral resource base Mining exploration continues.

Which produces amber jewelry
In ancient times a small amber jewelry worth more than the young slave, because the delivery of stone to Rome along the Amber path was difficult and dangerous. Up until modern times amber was mined by hand - in places where the deposits of "sun stone" comes to the surface. It was only in 1781, on the Baltic coast near the village of Palmniken (now Amber) was laid the first mine of amber extraction industrially. Its depth was about 30 meters - the height of a ten-modern home. Later became amber mine open pit quarries.

Half a million spiders
After the Great Patriotic War of Königsberg region (East Prussia) went to the Soviet Union and was renamed Kaliningrad region. In 1947, on the basis of the deposit was created PalmnikenskogoKaliningrad Amber Factory. work began with the restoration of the old German quarry flooded at the end of the war. And in 1949, the plant produced 309 tons of "sun stone", which corresponds to the weight of 22 T-34 tanks.

In the late 50's. Kaliningrad amber began to extract hydro way: the top layer of rocks that do not contain anything of value, bilge pump, and the lower the pipeline went to the factory.
Over time, the old field Palmnikenskoe fail. In 1972, work began on the sand beach nearby area. Its development was saved from total collapse plant, because here the cost of production was much lower. In an average year is unloaded 500-600 tons of stone. Work on the sand beach area stopped only December 14, 2003
Since its start, the Kaliningrad Amber Factory not only was shipping raw amber, but also produced jewelry. In 1976, the mill has opened a new jewelry factory, which occupied 10 thousand square meters. m - is 2.5 times greater than the area of ​​St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg. For 30 years, until the collapse of the Union at the plant produced up to 2 million of jewelery and fancy goods a year. Of particular prominence acquired brooch "Spider": for half a century they were released more than a million.

The war on smugglers
But in the early 1990s, a period of prosperity ended. The company entered a period of protracted crisis. In 1993, an attempt was made criminal privatization of the plant, but the court found it invalid. However, over the last decade XXveka ruled the ball smugglers. Amber was taken out from the plant with false documents, employees were intimidated, and guard service cooperated with the criminals. An illegal Russian raw amber was formed market of Poland and Lithuania. Kaliningrad own jewelry manufacturing plant was destroyed.
Falling incomes and lack of investment have put the company on the brink of bankruptcy. In 2003, the Arbitration Court decided to impose external control plant. Just because the federal government failed to stop the mayhem is going on here. It was necessary to solve several problems, the most important of which - the neutralization of crime and modernization of production.
A new security system was created virtually from scratch, hired new people on the perimeter of the plant built a fence, imposed additional posts and installed a surveillance camera. Smugglers have made a step back. They used the "tame" people in law enforcement that have plagued the Kaliningrad factory countless inspections and audits. From 2003 to 2006, these raids were not less than sixty.

New shine otchischennogo amber
Only after the federal government took control of the combine in his hands, unable to pay its multimillion-dollar debt, increase staff salaries and recreate a jewelry shop. In 2003 in Kaliningrad, produced 188 tons of amber in the amount of 206.2 million rubles., Nearly one and a half times more than the year before, in 2004, the plant has already unloaded 312 tons of stone. Subsequently, the annual production held near the level of 300 m, which is about the weight of the airplane, "Boeing-747" with cargo and passengers on board.
In 2012, the Kaliningrad Amber Factory celebrated its 65th anniversary. He is now ranked first in the world in the production of amber up to 90% of the global amount of "sun stone" made by forces of 500 workers at the plant. Also in Kaliningrad are developing fields of emerald and beryllium. The head of the Audit Chamber Sergei Stepashin said that the plant will return to the list of strategic enterprises of Russia.

Ural Federal University (UrFU) announced earlier this month that it has signed a collaboration agreement with Promavtomatika, a Yekaterinburg-based company, on the development of a joint infrastructure system to support UrFU’s innovative spin-off companies.

Collaboration is already under way, the university emphasized. One of the new projects initiated by UrFU scientists has been packaged and developed from a prototype to a pre-industrial unit with active participation from Promavtomatika and its CEO Alexander Ponomarev.

This is what UrFU referred to as an “electronic sleuthhound” designated Alert, an instrument believed to be able to detect even the smallest particles of an explosive. The project initiator is Sfera, a university spin-off.

The Orenburg region in the South Urals and Hevel Solar, a Russian developer of solar solutions, have signed an agreement paving the way for jointly building a network of solar stations in the area with an aggregate installed capacity of 30MW, regional news portal Oren.ru reports.

Hevel Solar is a JV between Renova, a sizable group of Russian industrial companies, and Rusnano, Russia’s nanotech giant.

The new project is reported to come within Hevel Solar’s long-term strategy that calls for the company’s cooperation with Avelar Energy Group, another Renova subsidiary, in building and launching a total of 600MW of solar generation.

Regular wrote:Amazing thread sepheronx !
Particularly interesting news about amber :)As a kid I used to stroll around looking for amber pieces washed away by the sea. By having no excavation sites we only produce 200-400 kg of Amber per year
My country calls it self Land of amber, while 99 percent of amber our artists buy are from Russia. But now Chinese imploded the prices. They are buying amber like there is no tomorrow. Russian and Lithuanian artists are worried as for 1 kg quality amber You have to close to 10,000 euros! People are selling  amber they find, it's amber fever, no joking. You can see people leaving moon like landscapes after they dig amber themselves. Fines for non licensed excavation and selling are very harsh in Russia, but for a small match box sized piece You can get 500 euros so it's worth a risk. It's bit bizarre to see it happening as amber wasn't expensive and now all the process was made vulgar, there is no need for art, just material, but hey, it's capitalism.

July 23, in the industrial park "Vorsino" in the Kaluga region was inaugurated steel plant new generation of "NLMK-Kaluga."
Production capacity of NLMK-Kaluga to produce steel and rolled up 1.5 million tons of steel and 0.9 million tons of steel a year. The company is fully secured raw materials - scrap metals - due to the supply of scrap metal companies NLMK. The plant will have an important ecological function for the collection and disposal of waste and processing of secondary resources in the region.

In Khimki, on the basis of "BioIntegrator" started production of Russian import and innovative medicines. In particular, we will be releasing rituximab - a drug to treat certain types of cancer and autoimmune diseases. The volume of the domestic market, according to experts, will be 6.64 billion. However, sales of the drug will begin no sooner than two years. Total "BioIntegrator" will produce 12 different drugs.

In Khakassia completing the construction of the route, which has become a strategic project not only for the country but also for the whole of Russian ferrous metallurgy. It will connect dozens of villages and link Usinskoe manganese deposit with enterprises of Krasnoyarsk. In the road invested five billion rubles, and in the construction of mining and processing plant - six times more.

In Timashevsk region held a harvest festival. According to industry department, farmers in the district in 2013 achieved the highest grain yield of grains and legumes - 61 quintal per hectare, having collected 316,000 tons of high-quality wheat.
Harvest this year began ten days earlier. Meet the deadline did not stop even heavy rains. The region has collected a record for the last twenty years, the wheat crop. The leaderboard harvest - Timashevsky district of Krasnodar region, according to the portal "To yuga.ru."

The village Marshanskoe Kargat district of Novosibirsk region created a modern agricultural enterprise for the breeding of cattle breeding and production of milk and meat.

In the course of the program involvement of unused agricultural land is 6,500 acres of suburban areas have been put into operation this year. , Told reporters Tuesday the deputy chairman of the Moscow region, Vladimir Barsukov, "Interfax".

Defense News publishes new ranking defense companies Defense News TOP 100. According to the publication, reducing U.S. military spending and a number of European countries had an impact on the revenue table leaders (mostly Western companies). Seven of the top ten representatives showed a reduction of revenue from sales of military goods, and the sales of the one hundred largest manufacturers of defense products for the year fell by three per cent. The defense of only one country has shown impressive growth - Russia.

At the May gold deposit (Chukotka), the official opening of the mine. Maiskoe field was discovered in 1972 in since conducted exploration, built the village miners waged a power line from the Pevek made ​​its way road. In April 2013, the May field was launched concentrator capacity of 850 thousand tons of ore a year, got the first gold-bearing concentrate. Its processing at the Amur hydrometallurgical plant is scheduled for October of this year, the administration said the mine. expected that gold production from the field is 8 tons per year, period - not less than 18 years. washed gold in Chukotka in 1958 was the most fruitful 1974 , at which time it was reclaimed 36 tons of gold. And in 2002, the miners took from the natural storehouse of less than 5 m in Chukotka Then again began the rise of the mining industry in 2009, prospectors namyli more than 30 tons of gold. With the launch of a full cycle of the mine at the May field Chukotka will significantly increase the volume of production of the precious metal.

Just two parts of the resort's "Hills-City" will be built 2.5 million apartments in apartment buildings and townhouses, 110 detached houses (villas, chalets), 9 hotels by 1.5 thousand rooms and 54 penthouses. As well as commercial real estate (74, 5 sq. m.), Social and cultural facilities (31.7 sq. m.), Sports and SPA-facilities (27.3 sq. m.), Parking by 1.8 thousand . lots.
Fully put into operation resort "Hills City" is planned for the fourth quarter of 2013. To date, the builders have replaced the solid fence on a metal grid, so you can see the entire volume of work done.

"Recognition of wines agricultural product, no doubt, a historic step. Step, which Kuban struggled for many years ", - said Alexander Tkachev, focusing on the fact that this bill has promoted the region for many years, and now growers can count on the edge of preferences for agricultural producers.

Branch of OAO "UES FGC" - Trunk Power Grids (MEA) of the North-West - has completed construction of the third portion of the transmission line 330 kV Louhi - Putkinskaya GES - Ondskaya plant in the Republic of Karelia. The work carried out within the framework of the second circuit of the Northern Transit, which will improve the reliability of communication Kola and Karelian power systems, ensuring delivery of capacity of the Kola nuclear power plant of up to 500 MW in the north-western regions of Russia.