President of Tatarstan and Russian Deputy Minister of finance discuss prospects of major infrastructure projects in Kazan

President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and Russian Deputy Minister of finance Andrei Ivanov discussed realisation of projects of Kama industrial cluster, special economic zone “Alabuga”, and IT city “Innopolis”. The meeting was held in IT-park within the framework of a working trip of Andrei Ivanov to Kazan.

Deputy PM - Minister of informatization and communications Roman Shaikhutdinov told about activity of IT-par. Russian Deputy Minister of finance visited data center and business incubator where he got familiar with advanced startup. Rustam Minnikhanov said that Kazan IT-park was occupied for 100 %.

President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, Deputy PM - Minister of informatization and communications Roman Shaikhutdinov, Minister of economic Midkhat Shagiakhmetov, Aide to the RT President on economic issues Airat Khairullin participated in the meeting on issues of realisation of major infrastructure projects.

Speaking about development of Kama industrial cluster, Andrei Ivanov and Rustam Minnikhanov agreed on necessity of creating high-capacity research centers in such industrial clusters.

Andrei Ivanov promised to consider inclusion of research centers in the list of objects of infrastructure that would be created by the state and business within the framework of industrial clusters development.

Prospects of further development of special economic zone “Alabuga” were also discussed at the meeting.

Moreover, Russian Deputy Minister of finance was told about realisation of the Innopolis project.