Tatarstan President visits top petroleum educational institutions
16 December 2013, Monday
On December 16 during his working trip to the South-East of the republic Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov visited Leninogorsk Petroleum College and Almetyevsk State Oil Institute, being part of the educational cluster established by OAO “Tatneft”.
To the point, Leninogorsk Petroleum College was organized by Ministry of Petroleum Industries in 1957 to deliver evening courses. In 1966 the college was reorganized into Leninogorsk Petroleum College, offering full-time, part-time and evening courses.
Currently, there are 1200 full-time and 300 part-time students attending the college. About 400 students graduate from the college every year with 96% of them getting jobs at OAO “Tatneft”, “Gazprom”, “Surgutneftegaz”, “Sibneft”, “YUKOS”, “Lukoil”, “Rosneft”.
Rustam Minnikhanov looked around college classrooms and laboratories and spoke to students.
Later on the same day, Tatarstan President visited a science education center at Almetyevsk State Oil Institute.
The science education center for automated industrial management system was established in 2009 at Almetyevsk State Oil Institute with financial support of OAO “Tatneft”.
Specialized laboratories of the center are equipped with state-of-the-art equipment of top world companies such as Yokogawa (Japan), Roxar (Norway), Emerson, Honeywell, Lufkin Automation, Rockwell Automation, HP (USA), Vega, Samson (Germany).
Having visited educational institutions in Almetyevsk, Tatarstan President held a meeting on training specialists for the regional industry.
On 20 December, speaking at a meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Government House of the republic with participation of the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the First Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and House Utilities Sector of the republic Damir Shaydullin informed that huge work in capital overhaul of 713 social and cultural facilities have been completed in the republic with the total cost of work of 15bn rubles.
On 20 December, in his address on the occasion of the Russian Security Bodies Officers Day, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin congratulated employees and old stagers of the service with their professional holiday and wrote: “
Throughout the history of our state, security agencies have stood guard over national interests of Russia and protected the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country. Your high professionalism, courage and dedication to duty are a reliable shield against external and internal threats.
On 15 December, speaking at a meeting of the competition committee of the regional public competition “The Manager of the Year” about its results in 2025, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin said that the list of 155 participants (nominees), who are heads of enterprises and organizations from various industries and sectors of the economy, for the competition was formed based on recommendations from regional ministries and departments, city and district municipalities, employers' associations and the Federation of Trade Unions of the republic.
On 6 December speaking at a regional meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Government House of the republic with all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector Marat Ayzatullin reported about progress in implementation of the of multi-apartment houses capital overhaul programme.