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 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.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Azat Ziganshin informed that the regional central cleaning up action will be held in the republic on 25 April and clarified that the location of the national cleanup day will be announced later as the site will be chosen taking into account the opinions of Tatarstan residents.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the regional and the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector Damir Shaydullin informed about statistics on the collection of utility bills payments from the population and data on the payment discipline of enterprises and organizations of the republic.