Rustam Minnikhanov meets with rector of St. Petersburg state forestry engineering university Andrei Selikhovkin
8 August 2012, Wednesday
The Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov has met with rector of St. Petersburg state forestry engineering university named after S.M.Kirov Andrei Selikhovkin.
The meeting took place at the RT Government House in a presidential study with participation of the Minister of forestry Nail Magdeev.
The parties discussed issues of preservation and development of forest resources in the country and republic, in particular, issues of staff training for the industry.
To the point, Andrei Selikhovkin arrived in Kazan with a working visit. During his stay in Kazan, the Cooperation Agreement was signed by St. Petersburg state forestry engineering university and the Tatarstan Ministry of forestry. Besides, Andrei Selikhovkin acquainted with activity of forest stations and saw objects of cultural heritage in the Kazan historical center.
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