The 20,000 employees of Uralvagonzavod who have been made redundant recently are to increase the number of Nizhniy Tagil’s unemployed to 30,000 people.

The enterprise’s GD Oleg Sienko signed the decree making 20,000 workers temporarily redundant for the period of May 4-29, 2009.

In the meantime, the local unemployment figures are still on the rise: prior to these layoffs, there were 10,479 jobless in the city, which comes to 5.1% of the working age population.