Olga Dergunova: "Tatarstan youth are eager for innovations"

Tatarstan offers for young people the environment in which they strive to realize their potential in the sphere of innovations, Deputy Minister of economic development, Chief of the Federal agency for state property management Olga Dergunova said after visiting the Kazan IT-park. Head of the Russian agency for state property management was accompanied by the Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov.

Director of IT-park Dinar Nasyrov told about activity of IT-park and its residents. In particular, 76 companies with 1600 employees are currently working in technopark, proceeds made 2.9 bln roubles, 432 mln roubles of taxes were transferred to budgets.

Deputy Minister of informatization and communications Anisa Gainullina told about different types of electronic state services.

Olga Dergunova visited business incubator and met with employees of startup companies working in various sectors of IT industry.

Tatarstan’s Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of informatization and communications Roman Shaikhutdinov presented the project “Innopolis Kazan.” He said that construction of the innovation satellite city had already started in Verkhneuslonsky region. It is meant that about 155 thousand people including IT specialists, their families and service personnel will work on the territory of 1200 hectares.

Several technoparks, housing and necessary infrastructure including kindergartens, schools, museum, culture center, shops, medical center, entertainment centers, and IT university will be constructed for them.

Olga Dergunova was also told about priority projects in oil-gas-chemical sector of republic. Besides, the state information system for analysis and forecasting of the state of enterprises and Geoinformation system in RT, and the unified system of emergency services “GLONASS+112” were presented to the guest.

“I saw interesting young people in IT-park. They understand the meaning of their activity. I suppose Tatarstan achievements consist in aspiration of young people for innovations,” Head of the Federal agency for state property management said.

Olga Dergunova said that the extensive use of information systems in daily work of state authorities is important. She paid her respect to the Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov who made his contribution to development of information technologies.