Ildar Khalikov: Development of archive-keeping will be more important in 2012
2 February 2012, Thursday
Collegium of the main archive department under RT Cabinet on results of work of archive institutions for 2011 and tasks for 2012 was held today in Kazan. Tatarstan PM Ildar Khalikov attended the event.
Head of the department Danil Ibragimov told about achievements, objectives and problems of the institution. He informed employees continue working on transfer to rendering services in electronic format. The work on improving material and technical base of archives was fulfilled last year.
Speaking about problems Head of Department informed ensuring fire safety of archives (about 15 mln roubles are required for installing automated gas fire-fighting equipment) and shortage of free area are currently very urgent problems. Danil Ibragimov believes construction of attached block near the archive building on Dekabristov Street will help solving the last problem.
Moreover, an Australian investment construction holding “Strabag” represented by Russian representative is ready to take part in construction of this building and render assistance on attracting foreign investments in the project.
Employees of archive department worry about frequent cases of notifications about absence of documents by personnel of bankrupt organizations and “abandoned” archives of liquidated organizations.
Danil Ibragimov addressed the audience noting that more than 2 000 archive units in state archives of Tatarstan need to be restored.
Employees of archive institutions put high hopes on a complex program on preservation of cultural heritage “Miras-heritage” for 2012-2016 to be approved this year so that they will refill RT Archive fund with new valuable unique documents and restore the old ones.
Head of the department focused on urgent need for safe protected storage for digital information of great volume and great computing capacities for processing and cataloging of this information.
Summing up, Ildar Khalikov thanked the staff of archive institutions for their work noting that improvement of archive-keeping would be more priority in 2012.
On 12 April in his address to residents of the republic, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin congratulated them with the Space Exploration Day and said: “April 12, 1961 has forever been inscribed into the world history as the day of triumph of the Soviet science and engineering thought. The flight of Yuriy Gagarin opened the way to the stars for the humankind and demonstrated to the whole world the might of our country.
On 4 April , speaking at a closing ceremony of the XX Russian Venture Forum held at the Kazan Expo Exhibition Center, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin said that the Russian Venture Forum has confirmed its status of the point of attraction of technological development leaders.
The Forum created a unified scientific, technological and investment space where scientific ideas are transformed into competitive products, and startups gain access to capital and markets. Its business programme is organically integrated into the regional and federal agenda for achieving technological sovereignty and leadership of Russia, he said.
On 1 April Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Russian Minister of Healthcare Mikhail Murashko introduced Ayrat Farrakhov, who was appointed the Acting Rector of Kazan State Medical University (KSMU) to its staff.
In his speech Mikhail Murashko emphasized that today KSMU is rightfully considered one of the most respected in the country and said:”Ayrat (Zakievich) has been officially appointed the Acting Rector and I am sure that under his leadership the University will maintain the positions it has achieved and, of course, will continue its development.”
On 31 March in the Government House of the republic Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Leyla Fazleeva hold a meeting of the Commission on the Russian language under the Rais of Tatarstan, which considered key issues of supporting and developing Russian language, including new educational initiatives and discussed programmes of popularization of Russian literature and activities to preserve the language heritage.