Rustam Minnikhanov is on a working trip in Arkhangelsk region
1 November 2013, Friday
On November 1 Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, who arrived in Arkhangelsk with a working visit, was met by Governor of Arkhangelsk region Igor Orlov, Chairman of regional Tatar national and cultural autonomy Rim Kalimullin at Arkhangelsk airport.
Upon arrival Rustam Minnikhanov went to Severodvinsk where the Plan of measures on realization of Agreement on trade-economic, scientific-technical and socio-cultural cooperation was signed between Tatarstan and Arkhangelsk Governments.
Later on the same day, Rustam Minnikhanov and Igor Orlov took part in a meeting of Tatarstan and Arkhangelsk officials. Tatarstan President also looked around the exposition at Sevmash Production Association museum.
Tatarstan President was accompanied by Director General of OAO “Ak Bars Holding Company” Ivan Egorov, and Director General of OAO Zelenodolsk shipbuilding plant Renat Mistakhov.
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