Rustam Minnikhanov takes part in presentation of vapor recovery unit at one of Kazan filling stations
7 August 2012, Tuesday
The Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov has attended presentation of a vapor recovery unit at one of the Kazan filling stations.
The filing station belongs to OOO “TatGasServis.” The equipment was provided by the German company TST and Russian company “ALL Impex 2001.”
Rustam Minnikhanov was told about the technology used at the filing station. The vapor recovery unit was also presented to the president. By the way, it enables significantly reducing emission of harmful substances produced by fuel tanks and cars at the filing stations.
TST Director for Eastern Europe, Director of ADZ-Nagano Wolfgang Dürfeld told about the equipment in details.
German partners expressed intention to find a partner for further production and assembly of special equipment for filing stations in Tatarstan.
Director General of OAO “Tatneftekhiminvest-holding” Rafinat Yarullin informed that the technology was for the first time presented at the board meeting. Variants of cooperation between TST and Tatarstan enterprises, in particular OAO “Elektropribor”, are now being considered.
It is meant that in future filling stations located in residential districts of cities and rural settlements of republic will be provided with vapor recovery units.
On 9 May Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a ceremony of laying flowers to the monument “The victorious soldier” dedicated to the celebrations of the Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (WW II) 1941-1945 and held at Arsk cemetery in Kazan.
On 8 May, speaking at a meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector of the republic Marat Ayzatullin reported that capital overhaul of social facilities is in full swing in the republic with 170 educational facilities having been included into regional and federal programmes.
On 4 May at a briefing held in the Tatarstan Government House it was told that currently there are 92 combat veterans, the last witnesses of the Great Patriotic War (WW II) of 1941-1945, living in the republic. The briefing also informed about veterans’ support measures and how the republic is planning to celebrate the Victory Day on 9 May.
The Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Leyla Fazleeva told that names of 353 Heroes of the Soviet Union from Tatarstan “ are immortalized in street names, on memorials, in monuments and squares and, of course, in our memory”. “The Victory Day is the day of memory, mourning and joy. It is the event which today should be clearly understandable to all young people and younger generation of Tatarstan,” she said.
On 24 April, upon his arrival to the Kazan International Airport, the Defense Minister of China Dong Jun was welcomed by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, representatives of the General Consulate of China in Kazan and other officials