Mayor Arkadiy Chernetskiy: Yekaterinburg faces an impressive increase in investments this year

‘I’m not going to resign unless I feel positive that the new city-managing system is viable,’ Mayor of Yekaterinburg Arkadiy Chernetskiy announced at a press conference in the town hall. Chernetskiy also said the idea of a people-elected mayor who’d also chair the municipal Duma plus a Duma-appointed head of the administration looked good to him. The mayor added that the current system had a lot of advantages; for one, it protected Yekaterinburg from incompetent people in power. He stressed that any changes in the way a city is administered had to be made extremely carefully. Arkadiy

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 18, 2010. ‘Trying to introduce some urban sprawl is not worth the candle. It is a pointless thing to do; the sprawl won’t do any good. If there exists a worthy project, it is the one of Greater Yekaterinburg as a single municipality,’ Mayor of Yekaterinburg Arkadiy Chernetskiy said at a press conference. At the same time, Mayor of Berezovskiy Vyacheslav Brozovskiy suggested that the fifteen satellites around Yekaterinburg should be merged into a mega-city. ‘The benefits of a merger are self-obvious, and our common sense must win. The only problem is that this

Last year, Chelyabinsk Tube-Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (members of ChTPZ Group) paid 6.123 billion RUR worth of taxes, which exceeds the figures for a year earlier (5.25 million RUR) by 17%. This includes 2.485 billion directed to the federal budget, the Group’s press officer said to UrBC. Chelyabinsk Tube-Rolling Plant paid 3.191 billion RUR worth of taxes in 2007, which is nearly 1.5 times more than the 2.188 billion RUR paid in 2006; this included 1.424 billion RUR directed to the federal budget, 1.337 billion RUR transferred to Chelyabinsk Region’s budget, and 154.6

«We are only formally starting our Academic construction project today. In fact, things got going as early as two years ago, but this is the time for the project to be transferred from paper to soil», Mayor of Yekaterinburg Arkadiy Chernetskiy announced in the course of the solemn opening ceremony devoted to the start of construction in Yekaterinburg’s future Academic district. The Mayor said no construction projects exceeding 1 million square meters in scale had ever been implemented in Yekaterinburg or Sverdlovsk (as it was previously called), whereas the new project provided for 9 million

A new head office of Sberbank’s Ural branch will be put up at the intersection of Kuibyshev St., Rosa Luxemburg St., and Gogol St. - right in the center of the city. The symbolic beginning of the construction process took place on June 27, 2007 when Head of Sberbank’s Ural branch Vladimir Cherkashin and Mayor of Yekaterinburg Arkadiy Chernetskiy placed a time capsule in the foundation. The ceremony was attended by Archbishop of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturiye Vikentiy, Deputy Mayors Vladimir Kritskiy, Alexander Lyashenko, and Alexander Yakob, Head of the Central Bank of Russia in Sverdlovsk