President of Tatarstan visits cottage settlement and educational center in Kaluga oblast

President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov has visited a cottage settlement “Voskresenskoe” and an educational center for training and retraining staff for auto industry during his working trip to the Kaluga oblast.

The cottage settlement “Voskresenskoe” is being constructed within the limits of the regional program “Housing for professionals”. 1500 individual houses are to be constructed on the area of 180 hectares. 200 houses with complete infrastructure have been already commissioned. A comprehensive school for 630 children opened here last year. Houses are purchased by employees of enterprises, residents of the industrial park Grabtsevo.

RT President believes that such an experience can be used in realization of the republican housing programs.

The educational center for training and retraining staff for auto industry was created on the basis of Kaluga colleges and is one of the advanced institutions of professional education in the Kaluga oblast. Educational programs were created according to orders of partner enterprises, mainly auto companies of the region.

The German concern “Volkswagen” and French “Peugeot – Citroën” provide equipment, pay scholarships to students and bonuses to teachers, and organize internship for teachers abroad.

Members of the Tatarstan delegation looked over training and production premises, where students learn to work on machines, electronic equipment, and model production lines.

Chiefs of the college invited Tatarstan enterprises to cooperation. Rustam Minnikhanov was interested in Kaluga experience and promised to send specialists to make more detailed analysis.