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MTA opens office in Urals
Manufacturing Technologies Association opens representative office in the World Trade Centre, Ekaterinburg, at the heart of the Urals manufacturing region.
Following recent successes in the Russian market after last year's seminar missions to Russia, the Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA) - with the support of UK Trade and Investment - opened a representative office in the World Trade Centre, Ekaterinburg, on 1st February 2006 Ekaterinburg is at the heart of the Urals manufacturing region, within easy reach of Perm, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Samara and Izhevsk - cities that dominate the Russian aerospace, automotive, power and military industries
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 1 Dec 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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A city of great historical importance, Ekaterinburg is renowned as the centre of metal production in Russia and was a closed city until 1991 because of its manufacturing importance to the Russian army.
It has a population of about 1.5 million and is considered the third major Russian city after Moscow and St Petersburg.
The World Trade Centre, located nearby by the British Consulate, is close to the centre of the city and has the benefits of being a modern building with its own 1600m2 exhibition space.
It's fully equipped with broadband direct and Wi-Fi internet access.
The office itself will accommodate the Office Director, Office Manager and the Director's personal assistant and technical translator.
There is sufficient space to operate a hot desk for visitors.
Igor Bazhenov is the MTA Russia Representative Office Director.
Bazhenov, a fluent English speaker, gained his doctorate in the optimisation of metal cutting processes for gearbox manufacture from the Manufacturing Engineering and Technology Department of the Urals State Technical University (USTU).
He has until recently been Associate Professor of the Engineering Management Department of USTU and has worked for several years as a consultant to many of the large manufacturing plants in the region and also in the USA.
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