Thursday, May 2, 2024
A group of Russian scientists from the National University of Science and Technology (MISiS) have created the world’s first metallurgical furnace for recycling man-made waste, and successfully tested it, Caoinform.ru reported. The metallurgical furnace in Russia is capable of man-made waste recycling including iron-containing industrial waste as well as solids....
Reconstruction of Starosheremetyevskoye Highway, “Lobnya - Sheremetyevo airport” Highway and Sheremetyevo Highway is scheduled to begin in January-March 2019, Vechernaya Moskva reported. The Transport and Infrastructure Ministry said the reconstruction will be done on the section of Sheremetyevo Highway from Terminal B to the cargo terminal and all along the...
Russia recently marked the official start of construction of the “North Pole” station, which will be the world’s first scientific post permanently based in high Arctic waters, Popular Mechanics Russia reports. The 84 meters long, 22,5-meter wide platform should be completed in 2020, and the cutting of metal for...
Pioneering Spirit, the world’s largest pipe-laying vessel, recently sailed into Finnish waters to assist in the construction of one of Russia’s largest infrastructure projects in Europe – the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, Vedomosti reports. The project, which will operate in Russia, Finland, Sweden, and Germany when completed,...
The head of Rosaviatsia, Alexander Neradko, and Sheremetyevo’s CEO, Mikhail Vasilenko, signed a concession agreement on transferring the airfield infrastructure to the airport management, RBC reported. The term of the agreement is 49 years, and according to its conditions, the volume of Sheremetyevo investments in 2019 will be about...
Russia’s Aeroflot Group has announced that repair and overhaul (MRO) service provider A-Technics, its maintenance subsidiary, has won FAP-285 approval from the country’s aviation authority Rosaviatsiya. According to news outlet Rusaviainsider.com, endorsement entitles A-Technics to perform line maintenance and light checks on Russian-made Superjet 100 (SSJ-100) regional jets, including non-destructive...
Spanish energy company Windar Renovables and Russian partners Rusnano and Severstal have opened a plant for manufacturing turbine towers in Russia, Renewable energy magazine reports. Windar said the factory, at Taganrog in Rostov, is the first such facility in Russia. Commissioning of the factory required an investment of about $12...
Seven smoking booths, each of which can accommodate up to 14 people, have been opened at the Sheremetyevo International Airport, on the station squares of Terminals B, D, E and F, TASS reported. The measure creates a comfortable environment for smokers, and the booths will serve to protect them from...
The passenger traffic through Sheremetyevo International Airport for the period January-November 2018 grew 14 percent compared to the same period in 2017, reaching 42.141 million people, Investing.com reported. During January-November 2018, Sheremetyevo provided 325,574 take-off and landing operations, which is an increase of 15.6 percent than in the same period...
Russia has recently been developing the Northern Sea Route, which is supposed to shorten the time needed for shipping between East Asia and Europe as global warming is lengthening the season during which ships can use this Arctic passage. But the project, seen by many in the West as another...