Ildar Khalikov takes part in opening of All-Russian youth educational meeting of military sports organizations and cadet schools "Union 2014 - Successors of Victory"
1 May 2014, Thursday
On May 1 Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov, Mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny Vasil Shaikhraziev, military commissar of the Republic of Tatarstan Sergey Pogodin, pilot cosmonaut, Hero of Russia, Hero of Kyrgyzstan Salizhan Sharipov, the senior free-style wrestling coach Hadzhimurad Magomedov took part in solemn opening of All-Russian youth educational meeting of military sports organizations and cadet schools "Union 2014 - Successors of Victory" near “Motherland” memorial in Naberezhnye Chelny.
At the beginning of the event, representatives of a host city of youth meeting presented the standard to Mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny Vasil Shaikhraziev. Cadets of Naberezhnye Chelny performed before the guests. Cadet education is one of main activities in patriotic education in Naberezhnye Chelny. Such education makes an impact on personal development, and enables doing military service in land forces, Federal Security Service, Ministry of Emergency Situations, and Air Forces. To the point, Naberezhnye Chelny took military units of Moscow, Yoshkar-Ola, and Sevastopol under patronage. Unofficial opening of the second building of reconstructed complex “Motherland” was held after the meeting.
Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov and Mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny Vasil Shaikhraziev addressed the guests and veterans of Great Patriotic War with welcoming speech.
Using materials of Press Office of Naberezhnye Chelny Mayor's Office
On May 14, Prime Minister of Tajikistan Kokhir Rasulzoda, who arrived on a working visit in Kazan to take part in the events of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, was met by Prime Minister of the republic Aleksey Pesoshin and other officials at the Kazan International Airport.
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.