GOMEL, 9 April (BelTA) – Gomselmash has plans to set up a trading house in Ukraine, BelTA learnt from head of the company’s marketing center Dmitry Mulyar. The decision was made at a session of the board of directors of Gomselmash. The new company will be called Trading House Gomselmash-Ukraine and will be located in Kyiv. The session approved the articles of incorporation and the amount of th...

MINSK, 8 April (BelTA) – The Belarusian company OAO Mozyr Oil Refinery intends to increase the yield of light oil products up to 72%. The information was released by the company’s Deputy Director General for Raw Materials and Sales Vitaly Pavlov on 8 April at the international conference scheduled to take place in Minsk on 7-8 April to discuss oil processing and the export of oil products, BelTA h...

MINSK, 4 April (BelTA) – As much as $1.7 billion will be invested in the modernization of Mozyr Oil Refinery, BelTA learned from Vladimir Sizov, Acting Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Belarusian petrochemical concern Belneftekhim, on 7 April. The information was released at the conference scheduled to take place in Minsk on 7-8 April to discuss oil processing and the export of Belarusian oil p...

GOMEL, 24 March (BelTA) – OAO Belarusian Steel Works (BMZ trademark), the managing company of Belarusian Metallurgical Company and the German bank AKA-Ausfuhrkreditgesellschaft mbH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) have signed a long-term agreement. In line with the agreement the German bank will lend €9 million to BMZ for implementing an environmental project, the company’s press service told BelTA. ...

MINSK, 20 March (BelTA) – The Japanese company Kobe Steel has sent four reactors to OAO Mozyr Oil Refinery for building a plant for hydrocracking black oil fuel, BelTA learned from Anatoly Kupriyanov, Director General of the Belarusian company. According to the source, the reactors are expected to be delivered to Ukraine by sea in May. After that they will be transported along the Dnepr Ri...

GOMEL, 20 March (BelTA) – The Gomel-based construction materials manufacturer OAO Gomelstroymaterialy has commissioned a new line to make lime bricks, stones, and partition walls. The commissioning ceremony took place on 20 March. Foreign partners, who had supplied the equipment, took part in the ceremony, BelTA has learned. The line is built around a unique hydraulic press WKP-750 made by...

GOMEL, 7 March (BelTA) - The foreign trade in goods and services of enterprises and organizations based in the city of Gomel (including oil and oil products and enterprises of national subordination) amounted to $5,108.5 million in 2013, up 5.4% from 2012, Ksenia Pantyukhova, the head of the economy department at the Gomel City Hall, said at a session to discuss the foreign economic performan...

GOMEL, 5 February (BelTA) - New caterpillar fodder harvesters designed by Gomselmash' central design office specializing in grain and fodder harvesters will help Amur Oblast to develop dairy farming, Deputy Premier of Amur Oblast Vladislav Bakumenko told BelTA in Gomel on 5 February. Vladislav Bakumenko leads the Amur Oblast delegation that is on an official visit to Gomel Oblast. At present ...

GOMEL, 3 February (BelTA) - The Belarusian industrial group Belorusneft has started taking seismic measurements in Russia's Western Siberia, the company's press service told BelTA. The work is part of the contract signed with the Russian company Geoseis Technology. The Russian company is part of the holding company Geoseis and performs geological prospecting, geophysical and geochemical resea...

GOMEL, 22 January (BelTA) - The chambers of commerce and industry of Gomel Oblast and Bryansk Oblast of Russia intend to develop cooperation in part of organizing exhibitions and fairs, and bolster ties in innovation activities and business education, President of the Bryansk Oblast Chamber of Commerce and Industry Tatiana Suvorova told BelTA in Gomel on 22 January. ?We would like to...

GOMEL, 17 April (BelTA) - The Mozyr District Executive Committee and the People's Government of the city of Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, signed a protocol of intent on trade, economic, cultural and social cooperation. The document signing ceremony took place in Mozyr on 17 April during the official visit of the Chinese delegation to Gomel Oblast, BelTA has learnt. The delegation h...

GOMEL, 17 April (BelTA) ? The book "Gomel Guberniya: how it all began. Unknown pages? has been published to the order of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee and under the general editorship of Gomel Oblast Governor Vladimir Dvornik, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. The book presents the historical facts relating to the little-known period o...

MINSK, 18 March (BelTA) – The Gomel airport is working to commission a Doppler weather surveillance radar, BelTA learned from representatives of the Aviation Weather Service of the National Hydrometeorology Center of Belarus. The radar will enter testing mode on 25 March. In September 2014 it will be fully operational. The radar model is the latest and most powerful one. It is adapted to the pl...

GOMEL, 7 March (BelTA) – The events in Ukraine will not affect the implementation of the Eastern Partnership Territorial Cooperation program (EaPTC), chief of the group of experts working on the program Alexei Sekarev said at a briefing in Gomel on 7 March, BelTA has learnt. The conference of the EaPTC partner regions will be held in Tbilisi, instead of Odessa, in April. However, the reloc...

GOMEL, 3 March (BelTA) – The number of citizens, who crossed the Belarusian-Ukrainian border in February 2014, is about 27% lower than the number registered in February 2013, BelTA learned from Igor Moroz, Chief of the Gomel Border Group, at the government session held by the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee on 3 March. The number of vehicles that crossed the border in February went down, ...

GOMEL OBLAST, 26 February (BelTA) – The Armed Forces of Belarus have a full-fledged and smoothly operating battalion of air defense missile systems Tor-M2, BelTA learned from Belarusian Defense Minister Yuri Zhadobin. During a tactical exercise involving units of the 120th Air Defense Missile Brigade of the Western Tactical Command of the Belarusian Air Force and Air Defense in Gomel Oblast on ...

MINSK, 14 February (BelTA) - People's Artist of Belarus, winner of the State Prize of Belarus Gavriil Vashchenko died aged 86. The memorial service will be held at the Arts Palace center in Minsk on 15 February, BelTA learned from the Vashchenko Art Gallery. Gavriil Vashchenko was born on 20 June 1928 in the village of Chkalovichi, Bragin District, Gomel Oblast. Gavriil Vashchenko made a huge cont...

GOMEL, 13 February (BelTA) - Cooperation between scientists and specialists of Belarus and Japan in matters concerning radiation safety after emergencies at nuclear power plants will soon reach a higher level, BelTA learned from Nikolai Vasilkov, Head of the Healthcare Office of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. In Hiroshima the city's university and the Belarusian national science to pra...

GOMEL, 4 February (BelTA) - Since taking part in elections to municipal councils of deputies is the primary task for the Belarusian national public association Belaya Rus it is possible that the association's candidates will be represented in most of the election constituencies. The information was released by Belaya Rus Deputy Chairman Alexander Shatko. He took part in a seminar held for the...

GOMEL, 23 January (BelTA) - The number of Indian medical students studying in Belarus might be increased up to 1,000, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to Belarus Manoj Kumar Bharti told BelTA on 23 January. The Indian diplomat is currently on a visit to Gomel. Ways to increase the number of Indian medical students in Belarus had been thoroughly discussed with heads of Bel...