Rustam Minnikhanov meets with Zhores Alferov

The Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov has met with Nobel laureate, Vice-president of the Russian academy of sciences, chairman of St.Petersburg scientific center presidium Zhores Alferov.

Tatarstan Minister of education and science Albert Gilmutdinov and President of the RT Academy of sciences Akhmet Mazgarov took part in the meeting.

Zhores Alferov is visiting Kazan in the context of participation in XX, anniversary international symposium “Nano-structures: physics and technology.” About 200 prominent scientists from leading academic and university centers of Russia (At.Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Moscow, Ekaterinburg, Vladivostok, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Saratov, Samara), near and far abroad take part in the event.

This year they travel on the motor ship “Fedor Shalyapin” from Nizhny Novgorod to Samara and today they have stopped in the Tatarstan capital. A plenary session of the symposium was held at the RT Academy of sciences.

During the meeting Rustam Minnikhanov and Zhores Alferov discussed issues of developing fundamental and applied science in Russia and Tatarstan in particular.