УрБК, Магнитогорск (Челябинская область), 22.11.2011. К Всемирному дню качества-2011 на сайте ОАО «ММК» размещен новый раздел «Продукция для автомобильной промышленности и бытовой техники». «В новом разделе в наглядной форме приведены диапазоны размерного сортамента (толщины и ширины) по каждой марке стали по нормативным документам, широко используемым в мировой практике. Теперь потребители имеют возможность познакомиться с обзором высокопрочных сталей, а также применением автосталей в различных частях автомобиля. Посетители раздела смогут получить информацию о возможности производства

В 09.00 в Областном центр реабилитации и коррекции (ул. Худякова,20) пройдет брифинг для СМИ на тему «От качества образования к качеству жизни». В 11.00 в пресс-центре «Комсомольской правды» (ул. Красная, 4) начнется пресс-конференция по итогам успешного выступления сборной Челябинской области на Кубке России по женскому боксу, а также на Всероссийском турнире по боксу «Олимпийские надежды» среди юниорок и девушек. В 11.00 состоится заседание Челябинской городской Думы (пл. Революции, 2). В 12.45 в ВЦ «Мегаполис» (Свердловский пр. 51а) откроется выставка «Информатика и связь. Безопасность –

2 декабря в Челябинске состоится вручение третьей ежегодной премии «Финансовая гордость Южного Урала». 7-8 декабря в Челябинске пройдет форум финансовых директоров «Управляя развитием».

Ural Airlines started working on a pilots’ training center: the first stone and a symbolic gold coin were laid in the foundation of the new facility on the premises of the air carrier on November 21. The company’s Director-General Sergey Skuratov said in the course of a solemn ceremony that the assembling of all the machinery will start as soon as February 2012, and the center will be launched in early April. The building, which will be 14.5 meters high and will have the area of 700 sq m, will be fitted with two cockpit mock-ups that fully reproduce the actual cockpit of an aircraft. One unit

‘We do not know even the preliminarily established cause of the emergency landing. It might actually have been the case that the sensor was simply faulty.’ S7 Airlines’ press service informed RIA Novosti. The news of the emergency reached the Ministry of Emergency at 8:55 AM Moscow time. The critical sensors of Boeing 737 flying from Nadym to Moscow suddenly went on, so the plane had to perform a landing in Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg. No one was hurt. An ad hoc committee is going to look into the causes of the incident. The plane is known to belong to Globus Aviation Company (a member

VUZ-Bank was given the 121st position on the list of Russia’s Top500 most profitable banks that was carried by RosBusinessConsulting recently. The bank’s pre-tax profit amounted to about 190m RUR as of October 1, 2011. According to RosBusinessConsulting, the Russian banks’ total profit set a record in the nine months of 2011 by already exceeding the figures for the entire year 2010. The total pre-tax profit of 500 banks reached 463bn RUR at the end of 2010 and over 486m RUR in January-September 2011.

68,929 new passenger cars were sold in Yekaterinburg in ten months of 2011, which was 26,710 cars, or 63%, more than in ten months of 2010, Auto-Dealer Yekaterinburg reports. 7,618 passenger cars were sold in the city in October 2011, which exceeded the figures for a year earlier by 2,311 cars, or 44%. October proved the best month of the year since June, when 8.142 automobiles were sold in Yekaterinburg. Considerably more cars are still being sold in Yekaterinburg than in Russia on average: in Russia overall, car sales increased by 43% in January-October 2011 and by only 27% in October. Lada

Nizhneserginsky Metal Goods Plant dumped 3,000 tons of pollutants in the air last year, which amounted to 35.1% of all the harmful emissions in the town of Revda. 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.