President of Tatarstan visits new house constructed under social mortgage program
2 August 2012, Thursday
President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin have visited a multi-dwelling house in Kazan that was built under the social mortgage program.
A nine-storey house with 72 flats on Maximov street (the Aviastroitelny district, Kazan) has been built within a year. The general contractor was OAO Kazancentrstroi. Total cost of construction has made 124 mln roubles. The house was commissioned in June 2012.
Today, the president has met with residents of a new house. They thanked Rustam Minnikhanov for an opportunity to purchase high-quality housing. New dwellers especially appreciated children’s playground in the yard.
Residents of neighboring houses asked the Tatarstan President to assist in including their housing in the capital repair program. Rustam Minnikhanov assured that realization of the program will be continued in republic. It is planned to allocate 4,5 bln roubles yearly at the expense of owners, municipal and republican budgets.
Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin noted that lately many efforts have been applied for developing the Aviastroitelny district. New kindergarten, school and sports complex have been built, and the metro station will soon be constructed.
On March 10, the third meeting of the organizing committee on preparation and holding of the 20th anniversary Russian Venture Forum 2026 to be held in Kazan from April 8 to 10, chaired by Russian Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov and with participation of Tatarstan Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan and co-chair of the forum’s organizing committee Aleksey Pesoshin, President of the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan Rifkat Minnikhanov, Director of the Investment and Venture Fund of Tatarstan Damir Galiev as well as representatives of federal and regional authorities, development institutions and partner organizations via videoconference, took place.
On 10 March, speaking at a briefing dedicated to the development of the national Max messenger in Tatarstan and held in the Government House of the republic with all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Minister of Digitalization of Public Administration, Information Technologies and Communication of the republic Ilya Nachvin informed that according to the data of March 2026 about 1.5m residents of Tatarstan use domestic Max messenger.
On 5 February Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in ceremony of awarding winners of the regional competition “The Woman of the Year. The Man of the Year: A Woman’s View” held at the Korston Leisure and Recreation Center in Kazan.
On 4 March at a briefing in the Government House of the republic Tatarstan Minister of Land and Property Relation Fanil Agliullin told about changes in land legislation enforced from 1 March of the current year. He said that they simplify a number of procedures for land plot owners including expanding the possibilities for land use and changing the rules for changing the category of a plot.