43.7 percent of social and cultural objects supplied with heating in Tatarstan
18 September 2012, Tuesday
The heating season has started in Tatarstan. For September 17, heating systems have been switched on at several educational, health care and cultural objects.
Of 3566 educational objects heating was switched on at 1631 objects (45.8 percent). Of 1820 health care objects 988 were supplied with heating (54 percent). Heating was supplied to 588 of 1897 cultural objects (31 percent). On average, heating has been switched on at 3207 (43.7 percent) of social and cultural objects.
Such information was given at a briefing at the RT Cabinet by Deputy Minister of construction, architecture, housing and communal services Ravil Karimov.
For September 15, preparation for the heating season has finished. Preparation period has finished at 99.1 percent of educational objects, 99.8 percent of health care objects, and 97.8 percent of cultural objects.
Chairman of the Tatarstan State Committee on tariffs Marat Zaripov attended in the briefing dedicated to preparation for the heating season in the Republic of Tatarstan. The event was held in video conference format with participation of all municipalities.
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