General Information

Name of the company:  Joint Stock Company "CHSC “Russia" (the Cultural and Health Sport Complex "Russia")

Address:  14 Vysotsky St., Ekaterinburg, 620072, Russia.
Telephone/fax: +7 (343) 347-47-37, 347-18-32. E-mail: kosk@kosk.ru; http:// www.kosk.ru.

Information about the company:

• Date of foundation - 1989.      
• The main activity – organizing and holding regional, interregional and international exhibitions

The Cultural and Health Sport Complex "Russia" is a unique and comfortable architectural complex with open interactive spaces and rich infrastructure, meeting the state-of-the-art requirements for holding exhibitions, fairs, presentations.

The total area of "CHSC "Russia" is 8000 sq. m including:

• Indoor exhibition space with two exhibition grounds of the total area of 2500 sq. m. 

• Stage and Amphitheater of the total area of 300 sq. м for 200 seats for Opening ceremonies, presentations, lectures, shows;

• Administration office equipped with up-to-date means of communication;

• Conference Hall for 100 seats;

• Press Centre, Negotiations rooms;
• Business Club for 20 seats;

• Outdoor exhibition space of the total area of 1000 sq. m on the adjoining territory.

To the services of the participants and visitors of the exhibitions:

• Café, Bistro, buffets;

• Left-luggage office;

• Parking area for up to 180 cars;

• Saunas, hairdresser’s parlour;

• Gymnasium and weight-lifting hall;

• Art Gallery "Noyev Kovcheg" ("Noah's Ark") where you can buy the best works of the Ural masters.

The facilities of the Complex enable to organize exhibitions on various subjects at a high level. On the grounds of the CHSC "Russia" up to 35 exhibitions are annually held by regional, Russian and foreign organizers of exhibitions. Since 2001 most of the exhibitions have been organized by the Exhibition Centre of CHSC "Russia" which was specially established for realization of exhibition projects.

For the years of work the Exhibition centre of the CHSC "Russia" has taken a leading position among the exhibition organizations of the Urals in the quantity and variety of the exhibition themes, as well as in the list of services offered in the Complex and the quantity of participants and visitors.

A wide range of activities, stake on modern exhibition technologies, professional method of approach to solution of any problems is the point of view of the Exhibition Centre’s staff to the cooperation both with exhibitors and partners. We offer to our customers all the variety of services which are necessary for successful and efficient participation in the exhibitions, for promotion of their products in the Ural market. Seminars, conferences, "round tables", symposiums held in the frameworks of the exhibitions have been the traditional actions arousing interest of specialists and giving them an opportunity to change ideas, demonstrate innovations, discuss topical questions.

Since  1998 international exhibitions have been held at the CHSC "Russia": national exhibitions of Great Britain, Finland, Turkey, China, Poland, Byelorussia, as well as international exhibitions with participation of such countries as Italy, Finland, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Austria, Greece, Bulgaria and others. 

The Exhibition Centre of CHSC "Russia" annually organizes up to 20 exhibitions on self-developed subjects. Such exhibitions as "Education from A to Z", "Holiday Season", "Autumn Blues", "Mother and Child", "Auto + Master" are the core of the exhibition programme and the Exhibition Centre’s visit card. The high status and attractiveness of these exhibition projects, which have become CHSC "Russias" undoubted brands in the Ural market of the exhibition services, are confirmed by the level of companies-exhibitors, as well as the quantity and the composition of visitors. The adequate level of organization and service of all the exhibitions, proficiency of the staff, creative and business approach and respect to the customers as well as special offers for companies-manufacturers have determined an enormous radius of the Exhibition Centre’s activity which isn’t bounded by the Sverdlovsk region.

The Exhibition Centre systematically cooperates with the professional unions, authorities of all levels whose support provides social and political significance, level and scale of the exhibitions.

The Exhibition Centre interacts with specialists of the committees and departments of the City Administration, ministries and departments of the Sverdlovsk region.

When developing and organizing exhibition events, we work in close contact with a wide number of professional and public-service unions of the Sverdlovsk region, such as the Association of Municipalities of Towns of the Urals, Interregional Association of Economic Interaction of the Subjects of the Russian Federation "The Great Ural", Forum of Women of the Ural Federal District, Interregional Voluntary Organization "The Ural Union of Hunters and Fishermen" ("UralOkhotRibolovSportSoyuz"), the Ural Department "SoyuzUpak", the Union of Building  Enterprises of the Sverdlovsk region, the Association of Landscape Architects and Engineers of the Sverdlovsk region, non-commercial partnerships "The Union of Entrepreneurs", "The Union of Gardeners", "Safety traffic, transport and ecology" and other organizations.

The Exhibition Centre is completed with standard exposition equipment, up-to-date technical facilities which enable to provide exhibitors with exhibition and maintaining services of high quality.

In order to improve the quality of work and to provide a high-level service for customers the Exhibition Centre cooperates with specialized organizations: "The Exponorm" enables to create modern and unique expositions; Ekaterinburg International Travel Bureau "SPUTNIK" organizes efficient hotel accommodation and various excursions.

The Exhibition Centre uses up-to-date technologies, various marketing and PR-technologies connected with study of the market and attraction of potential participants and customers of their products, promotion and organization of exhibition services.

The personnel of the Exhibition Centre regularly take special courses according to the line of their work: up-to-date computer technologies, effectiveness and standards of cooperation with customers, methods of marketing and promotion of products in the market.

Besides the exhibitions on the grounds of the CHSC "Russia", since 2004 the Exhibition Centre has been organizing out exhibitions representing the Ural manufacturers’ products on the exposition grounds of other Russian regions and abroad. Special Ural expositions were represented at the exhibitions in Nizhnevartovsk, in Mogilev and Minsk (the Republic of Belarus), in Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro).

The Exhibition Centre is permanently in search of topical subjects and new forms of actions claimed in the market and realizes them successfully. For the last years the exhibition programme has been enriched with new projects: "Hunting. Fishing", "Landscape Architecture and Design. City Environment. Country House." (in the composition of the exhibition series "Man and Nature").

The exhibition programmes of the CHSC "Russia" regularly take part in the competitions and ratings arranged by the City Authorities (the annual competition "The Best Exhibition-Fair" arranged by the City Administration), by mass-media (ratings of the magazine "The Business Quarter" ("Delovoy Kvartal") and other periodicals). According to the results of the measures of the competitions in most cases the exhibitions of the CHSC "Russia" take the leading positions. The Exhibition Centre has won the City competitions “The Best Exhibition-Fair” more than once.

A high level of service of the Exhibition Centre of the CHSC "Russia" is confirmed by "The Certificate of Quality of Service" ("Mark of Quality").  In 2005 it was awarded for the third time. The Mark is granted by the Ural Centre of voluntary certification of goods and services quality.

Now, in the period when the Russian economy is on the rise, we view the future with great optimism remaining open to new ideas and suggestions.

The CHSC "Russia" invites to joint realization of new exhibition project! 
To Future – together!