Tatarstan President lays flowers at the monument to Polish Tatars in Gdansk (Poland)

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov is on a working trip in Gdansk (Poland).

Director of Department for external relations- Aide to RT President on international issues Iskander Muflikhanov, Chief of RT investment development agency Linar Yakupov, Director-general of ZAO “Innovative production technopark “Idea” Sergey Yushko are on Tatarstan delegation.

We remind Rustam Minnikhanov arrived to Gdansk from Vienna on December 6.

In the morning Head of Tatarstan laid flowers at the monument to Polish Tatars who fought in the Battle of Grunwald..

Rustam Minnikhanov also visited Tatar people’s centre of culture named after Leon Krychinsky in Gdansk.

Tatarstan President is going to visit Gdansk Science&Technology Park and meet with Marshal (Governor) of Pomeranian Voivodeship Mieczyslaw Struk.

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Tatar people’s centre of culture was opened in Gdansk by initiative of The Union of Polish Tatars in 1991 under the auspices of Pomeranian Voivodeship. For this purpose authorities assigned a mansion in a picturesque old park in the centre of the city.

The centre was named after an outstanding writer, scientist, public figure Leon Krychinsky who died in 1939 at the hand of Hitlerites. The office of The Union of Polish Tatars and a gorgeous museum of Tatars settlement history are now located in the building.

A hotel for 40 places is also situated here. Moreover, a café - tearoom of Tatar cuisine opened on March 24, 2007. It was given a name of Tatarstan capital - “Kazan” after consulting leadership of Tatar World Congress.

Chairman of the centre of Polish Tatars named after Leon Krychinsky in Gdansk is Jerzy Szahuniewicz. Major public events of Tatar diaspora are organized by the centre. Tatarstan official delegation visited Gdansk for the first time in 2006.