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The international competition of power engineering specialists will be held in Vitebsk on September 14-20, BelTA learned from deputy general director of Vitebskenergo company Vladimir Diklov. According to him, competing in the event will be the teams of best professionals from Belarus, Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Belarus will be represented by the Glubokoe grids company, who won the national competitions. The participants will show their theoretical...

Naftan Co. has started commissioning a sulphuric acid plant. The new equipment has been installed; the setup will be completed simultaneously with the construction works, BelTA was told in the company. The sulphuric acid plant is scheduled to go live in October 2007. This will be the second phase of the sulphuric production upgrade (the first phase was completed in 2005). The capacity of the new facility is 75 thousand tons a year. With it in operation Naftan will step up the annual...

Orsha Linen Mill (Vitebsk oblast) is extending thitse sales network in Russia and is to open an outlet in Odessa, director of the mill Valeriy Shatkov told BelTA. In the next few months Orsha Linen Mill will open outlets in Yekaterinburg, Rostov-on-Don. Ukraine’s first outlet of the Belarusian linen will open in Odessa. The paper work is in the final stage.  According to Valeriy Shatkov recently the company has focused on its expansion of own commodity distribution network...

In 2006, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of the Vitebsk oblast exported products worth of $370 million, the chairman of the Vitebsk oblast executive committee, Vladimir Andreichenko, said during the award ceremony of Best Entrepreneur 2006 Contest. In 2006, the volume of investments of the entrepreneurial sector soared by more than 47% to exceed Br78 billion. Around 50 thousand people, or 9% of the workers, work for SMEs. Jointly with the bodies of authorities the entrepreneurial...

A concert organ will be installed in the Vitebsk Oblast Philharmonic, director of the philharmonic Elena Podolyak told BelTA. The wind-instrument was ordered in one of the famous companies in the German town of Owingem which produced organs for the Moscow Music House and the Perm Philharmonic. In Vitebsk the instrument will be transported in early May. According to Elena Podolyak, the organ is made for a concrete concert hall. Its tuning is one of the most important stage of its...