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In the News (Thu 16 Feb 12)

  
  REVIEW OF LEASING SERVICES MARKET IN URAL REGION
In Sverdlovsk region a trend of lower profits in the economy is continuing, especially in industry: in January-June 2001 companies and organizations in the regional economy received 7.1% less profit than in the same period last year, especially in industry, where the drop in profit was 21.1%.
Regional government programs have already been in place for a number of years in Chelyabinsk region, in line with which a leasing mechanism was launched in the agricultural sector in the region.
Research on socio-economic development in the Ural region is based on information from regional state statistics committees, government ministries, and economic committees in the regions in question.
www2.ifc.org /russianleasing/eng/ural/review.htm   (1283 words)

  
  Eastern Europe article - Eastern Europe region Europe Ural Caucasus Russia History Eastern Europe Southeastern - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Generally this means that it lies between the Ural and Caucasus mountains and the western border of Russia, or alternatively also includes those countries adjacent to Russia's western border.
The concept of Eastern Europe was greatly strengthened by the domination of the region by the Soviet Union after the Second World War and the takeover of the nations of the region by communist governments.
It was seen as a region where serfdom and autocratic governments persisted long after those notions were fading in the west.
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Eastern_Europe   (628 words)

  
 Urals Russia. Ural mountains
Ural region spreads over the Ural Mountains, western and eastern parts near the Ural Mountains and the great part of the Western Siberian Plane.
The Ural Mountains, together with plains of the Preural, stretch from Arctic Ocean in the North to the steppes of Kazakhstan in the South.
Moreover, in the South, the Urals are rich with timber and fertile soil necessary and sufficient for agriculture.
www.uralterra.com /ekaterinburg-russia/geography-urals-russia   (841 words)

  
 Ural,Russia,Ekaterinburg,Chelyabinsk,Perm,Ufa,Magnitogorsk,Orenburg,N. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Urals region occupies an area of eight hundred and twenty thousand square kilometres (one and a half times the size of France), and encompasses the Urals mountains, which form the natural boundary between European Russia and western Siberia.
The Urals economic region is the second largest in Russia and is known as the industrial heart of Russia.
One of the oldest smelting centres of the Ural Mountains region, it was founded in 1725 in connection with the construction of a metallurgical factory that used the iron ore of Vysokaya Gora.
www.uda.ural.ru /ural.html   (5402 words)

  
 Ural,Russia,Yekaterinburg,Chelyabinsk,Perm,Ufa,Magnitogorsk,Orenburg,N. ...
Northern Urals (latitude 64° North to latitude 61° North) constitute a distinct craggy, treeless, narrow range with crests averaging 305 to 460 m (1000 to 1500 ft) in height.
The Urals region occupies an area of eight hundred and twenty thousand square kilometres (one and a half times the size of France), and encompasses the Urals mountains, which form the natural boundary between European Russia and western Siberia.
One of the oldest smelting centres of the Ural Mountains region, it was founded in 1725 in connection with the construction of a metallurgical factory that used the iron ore of Vysokaya Gora.
members.fortunecity.com /ekaterinburg/ural.html   (5384 words)

  
 Chelyabinsk Region - Kommersant Moscow
Chelyabinsk Region was also of inestimable value to the country in the postwar years, for example, when it sent the first group of regional Young Communists (Komsomoltsy) to the virgin lands in February 1954.
Chelyabinsk Region is situated in the watershed of the Volga, Ural, and Tobol river basins, which have an average annual flow of 6.22 km3 through the region.
Regional economic water intake is about 1.3 km3, 42% of which is used in industry, 43% in public utilities, and 10% in agriculture.
www.kommersant.com /p-39/r_382/Chelyabinsk_Region   (2593 words)

  
 Volga-Ural Military District
The Ural Military District lies south of the Northern district and east of the Ural Mountains, with the Siberian district to its east.
After the collapse of the USSR Ural region became near-boundary with the number of the states of central Asia, part from which was characterized by extremely unstable situation.
In 2000 troops of Ural military district commanded a participant in the war shooting in the territory of the Chechen republic the colonel general OF EXPLOSIVES Tikhomirov (subsequently commander-in-chief of internal troop of Ministry of Internal Affairs RF).
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/russia/vo-volga-ural.htm   (5984 words)

  
 ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION.TERRITORY. RESOURCES.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Chelyabinsk Region is situated on the border of Europe and Asia, in the southern part of the Urals and the adjoining plain.
The Northwest territory of the region is traversed by the Ural mountains.
As of July 1, 1995, in the region the average unemployment rate was 2.35 %, whereas in the cities and surrounding areas it fluctuated from 4 to 17.5 %.
www.fipc.ru /fipc/regions/chelyab/engl_n1.html   (16431 words)

  
 speleogenesis.net :: Publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Like the Western Ukraine, the fore-Ural region is located on the margin of the craton (the eastern limit of the Eastern European Platform), in the zone of its junction with the foreland structure of a large folded region (the Ural Mountains), the Ural Foredeep.
Regionalization of the Ice Mountain area according to the conditions of formation of collapse dolines by gravitational mechanism (A) and profile illustrating these conditions.
Evaluations performed in other areas of the fore-Ural region where observations in caves were possible, suggest that KVSP may vary between 0.3 (highly hazardous areas with respect to new collapses) to 1.0 (areas highly karstified at the surface but rather safe in terms of probability of new collapses).
www.speleogenesis.info /archive/publication.php?PubID=3267&Type=publication   (7376 words)

  
 ELITA Travel
Region, where the rivers from western part flow in Europe, and with east - in Asia, the place, where is unique in the sort the rivers proceeding on two continents and crossing mountain system.
It is important to note and natural riches of Ural submitted widest in the world by the list of minerals and mountain breeds in one region.
Ural is known by such names as Yermak, a leader of early Ural and Siberia; for Demidov, founder of industrial power of Ural; and also for Genin and Tatishchev, based of Ekaterinburg and Perm approximately 300 years back.
www.sweb.cz /uraltour/ing_ural.htm   (371 words)

  
 Untitled Document
The Ural region is one of the area with the highest development rate in the whole Russian Federation.
Both for strategic and historical reasons, Urals are the very center of the metallurgic and mechanic sectors in Russia.
At the same time, Ekaterinburg and the Ural Area are a very good new market in the logistic field, given the necessity to renovate their obsolete equipment.
www.uralexpo.mplik.ru /log/log_2004_eng.htm   (426 words)

  
 Ural Airlines - Ural Airlines
Ural Airlines is among 6 leading Russian airlines in terms of the passenger carriage rate.
Ural Airlines maintenance base is one of the most modern and efficient in Russian civil aviation.
The prestige enjoyed by Ural Airlines internationally is attested by a number of effective interline agreements with a number of leading world airlines which enable the airline to enlarge at the most its flight network.
en.uralairlines.ru /info/company   (1186 words)

  
 2003 IMZ Ural--April 2003
The original Urals imported to the US had 650cc motors that worked fine but were over-stressed and over-worked at the speeds found on US roads.
Granted, this is not exactly in keeping with the Ural vintage lines but until you've tried to kick a stubborn bike to life on a 20û morning, the true beauty of that starter is not readily apparent.
For those who are new to the brand, the IMZ factory in the Ural region of Russia has been producing their BMW-inspired flat-twin bike and sidecar since 1939.
www.motorbyte.com /mmm/pages/2003/56/review56.htm   (2995 words)

  
 WTCE - Regional Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
All this contributed to the fact that in 2002 the Sverdlovsk Region and Azerbbaijan turnover amounted to 23 mln USD that is 3,2 times higher than in 2001.
The peak of the economic cooperation between CPR and the Sverdlovsk Region was registered in 1994 when the turnover amounted to 328 mln USD.
98% of the Sverdlovsk Region import fall on fluor-spar that is used in the non-ferrous metallurgy and 2% fall on the frozen meat.
www.wtc-ural.ru /En/?Front=Docs&Docs-ID=582&Docs-Reset=1   (744 words)

  
 Urals - Wikitravel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Urals is a common geographical name of the area of Russia around the Ural Mountains.
The Ural mountains are among the oldest mountains on Earth and are generally not very high, more often looking like large hills, though there are some taller ones, too.
The Urals region is famous for its pelmeni, small dumplings usually stuffed with beef and eaten in large quantities topped with butter, vinegar, sour cream, or a combination of the three.
wikitravel.org /en/Urals_(region)   (344 words)

  
 Ural Motorcycles Europe | History of Imz-Ural
Ural motorcycles are equipped with four-stroke air-cooled flat-twin engines, a four-speed gearbox with reverse gear, shaft drive, two disc dry clutch, spring shock absorbers, and drum brakes.
Ural is the only Russian manufacturer of heavy capacity motorcycles, and one of few manufacturers of sidecar motorcycles in the world.
The future looks bright for Ural, constantly improving its role as versatile and economical form of transport that is fun to ride and easy to maintain.
www.ural-motorcycles.com /index.php?history   (1173 words)

  
 Present situation of Soviet Muslims
The Tatars and Bashkirs, the Muslim people of the Volga-Ural region, were the first to fall under Russian domination 433 years ago [1552 C.E.] and were heavily suppressed by the Orthodox Russians.
When in 1552, with the decline of the Chanate [Khanate] of Kazan, the peoples of the Volga-Ural region, particularly the Turkic Tatars and Bashkirs, passed under the Russian yoke and were heavily suppressed by the Orthodox Russians, Islam alone enabled these Turks to keep their national identity.
Further, this council and its representatives in the republics and administrative regions (kray, rayon) is responsible for the cooperation with the local councils [29].
members.tripod.com /worldupdates/islamintheworld/id24.htm   (3806 words)

  
 Ural Federal District. Ekaterinburg - Ural Region
The plenipotentiary of the President of Russia in Federal District is an official, who represents the President of Russia within the Ural Federal District, where he ensures the implementation of constitutional authorities of the Head of State.
The residence of the plenipotentiary is in the center of Federal District (in Ekaterinburg).
Urals' population density is 6,8 persons per square kilometre (cf: 8.5 persons per square kilometre in Russia) The central and southern parts of the federal district are more densely populated, there population density makes up 42 persons per square kilometre.
www.uralterra.com /ekaterinburg-russia/ural-federal-district-russia   (265 words)

  
 Tours - Siberia
The city in the middle of the Ural Mountains in Russia is situated on the border between Europe and Asia, on the Isset riverbank.
The city was founded in 1728 by a Russian geographer Vasily Tatischev and at first developed as a fortress and it was turned an administrative and a cultural center of the Ural region.
You'll be able to see majestic Altai region with mountainous ridges, high mountain lakes, and magnificent views of "stone sea" and blossom of alpine meadows.
www.irkutsk-baikal.com /tours_siberia.htm   (1634 words)

  
 Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
There are craftsmen who carefully follow all the traditional methods of working this material; however, it was only in the mid-1980s that the Western Urals were opened for general visiting [many cities of the region were closed to foreigners in the Soviet period because of their defense, nuclear, or other strategic facilities].
Ten percent of the hard coal reserves in the Ural economic district are concentrated in the Kama region.
Martens, stoats, weasels, and wolves are found throughout the region; badgers and otters, in the southern and central districts; and wolverines, the north.
www.kommersant.com /t-62/r_5/n_406/Perm_Region   (3543 words)

  
 URAL History.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The history of the URAL had begun with the glory of helping to defeat the terror of Hitler's armies on the Russian and European battlegrounds.
The URAL was built for the military only, up until the late 1950's when another plant in the Ukraine was built to take on that job and the Irbit Motorcycle Works (IMZ) began to concentrate on bikes for domestic consumption.
URAL motorcycles are equipped with four-stroke air-cooled flat-twin engines, a four speed gear box with reverse gear, shaft drive, two disc dry clutch, spring shock absorbers and drum brakes.
www.use-us.com /Raceway/URALHistory.html   (2319 words)

  
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Another factor to consider regarding the climate in Beringia, particularly in comparisons to inland Siberia, is the proximal margin of the Pacific Ocean and the climate moderating effects of the oceanic mass.
        The Ural Mountains are a rugged spine across Russia, running 1,300 miles from the fringe of the Arctic in the North, to the bend of the Ural River in the South.
The north-south course of the Urals is relatively narrow, varying from about 20 to 90 miles in width, but it cuts across the vast latitude landscape regions of the Eurasian landmass, from Arctic waste to semidesert; the Urals...
www.lycos.com /info/ural-mountains.html   (416 words)

  
 Hunnish Writing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In the Nevolinsk burial of Kungur region of Perm province of 14 found coins one drachma belongs to to the minting of Peroz, 6 drachmas - to the minting of Khosrov I (531-579 y.s.), and 5 drachmas - to the minting of Khosrov II (591-628 y.s.).
AD (Mukhamadiev A.G. Thus, the beginning of the penetration to the Volga and Ural region of the Sasanid drachmas pertain to the 20-ieths of the 5-th c.
Traced in the historical literature desire to explain the importation of precious metals to Volga and Ural region by the Sogdian traders does not withstand an elementary criticism and on is not based on facts.
sophistikatedkids.com /turkic/32WritingHuns/Diggiz3En.htm   (4264 words)

  
 Urals on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
or Ural Mountains, E European Russia and NW Kazakhstan, forming, together with the Ural River, the traditional boundary between Europe and Asia and separating the Russian plain from the W Siberian lowlands.
The Urals extend c.1,500 mi (2,400 km) north and south from the Arctic tundra to the deserts N of the Caspian Sea.
To the west, the Ural foothills slope gradually to the Volga.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/U/Urals.asp   (425 words)

  
 Ural Mountains Radiation Pollution
Near the southern Ural Mountains, in the Russian province of Chelyabinsk, there is a Soviet nuclear facility called the Mayak Chemical Combine.
This region of the southern Ural's is known for extreme wind storms.
The very doctors that were to have treated the victims were forced by the state to explain their conditions only as "blood" problems, or "vegetative syndromes." With radiation poisoning, however, the problems can and are passed from generation to generation.
www.american.edu /TED/ural.htm   (3630 words)

  
 Ural, Russia: Potential Instability, Autonomy and Independence
Summary: The region of Idel-Ural, presently consisting of three Finno-Ugric republics (Mari, Mordovia and Udmurtia) and three Turko-Tatar republics (Tatarstan, Bashkortostan and Chuvassistan) within the Russian Federation, forms a historically prosperous region with large natural resources.
Destabilisation of the Idel-Ural region in response to Putin's centralism would be such a fatal strike to the legitimacy of Russia that it can be compared to the fall of the Soviet Union.
The region between the Volga (in Tatar: Idel) river and the Ural mountains was not always an easternmost periphery of Europe.
www.globalpolitician.com /articles.asp?ID=366&print=true   (1405 words)

  
 Power   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Regional governments have become increasingly isolated and self-interested promoting few new policy initiatives and ignoring efforts to develop public society.
This proposed project intends to promote an active public society in the Ural region and help create a political context within which government authorities seek to obtain more public engagement as a normal course of action.
The key issue this project hopes to address is to identify and help develop the nature, forms and mechanisms of a successful partnership between government authority structures and civil society.
www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/departments/IC/development/ucgf/English/CurrentProjects/power.htm   (362 words)

  
 Summary: This report is an analysis of the development of the construction materials market in the Ural Region, which ...
Currently, the most popular methods of constructions are monolith construction (which is not the optimal for the Urals due to the long cold season) and the combined framed in conjunction with monolith construction.
BiKorm (Degtyarsk), BIS (Berezovskiy), and Iset (Pervouralsk) are the three largest roof coatings manufacturers in the region, with the total capacity of 5 million meters of bitumen and polymeric materials per year.
The construction sector in the Ural Region promises continued growth.
www.bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/bisdoc/0408UralsConstrMarket.htm   (1574 words)

  
 Sverdlovsk Oblast - Regional Profile from the Russian American Chamber of Commerce®
There are 4.7 million people living in the region or 3.1% of the population of the Russian Federation and 19.8% of the population of the Ural economic region.
The region possesses large resources of minerals and raw materials, 71% of bauxites, 61% of chrysotile asbestos, 23% of iron ores, 97% of vanadium, 6% of copper, 2% of nickel, 20% of refractory clays, 1.2% of coal produced in Russia fall in the region.
A supply of oil and gas in the region is guaranteed with transportation thereof from neighboring Tyumen Region and Bashkiria, where 245 million tons and 400 billion m3 of gas are produced per annum.
www.russianamericanchamber.org /regions/Sverdlovsk_region.html   (2792 words)

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