Holding of WorldSkills Russia Championship 2014 in Kazan discussed at Tatarstan Government House
11 April 2014, Friday
On April 11, issues related to organisation and holding of WorldSkills Russia national championship 2014 in Kazan were discussed at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov at Tatarstan Government House.
The championship will be held on May 16-20, 2014 in Kazan. The capital of Tatarstan will host this prestigious competition for the first time.
Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Education and Science Engel Fattakhov, who took part in the meeting, said that the event will be held at the Kazan Fair Exhibition Center. Participants from the whole Russia, including Tatarstan, will compete in 35 skill areas at the championship, he added.
Tatarstan Prime Minister is sure that holding of such a spectacular and prestigious event in Kazan will contribute to enhancing the prestige of blue-collar jobs among young people.
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