Construction of liquefied natural gas plant started in Tyulyachi region
8 June 2014, Sunday
On June 8, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Deputy Board Chairman of OAO “Gasprom” Valery Golubev, Chairman of Duma of Astrakhan region Aleksandr Klykanov, Deputy Chairman of Tatarstan State Council Aleksandr Gusev, Director General of OAO “Gasprom Transgas Kazan” Rafkat Kantyukov, and Head of Tyulyachi region Ildus Zaripov took part in foundation stone laying ceremony of liquefied natural gas plant started in Tyulyachi region.
The plant is expected to open in the first quarter of 2016, and its output will make 56, 000 tonnes per year. The project is supervised by OAO “Gasprom” and is implemented by OOO “Agro-industrial complex “Semiramida”. Similar complex is being built in Astrakhan region.
Rustam Minnikhanov said that opening of liquefied natural gas plant is an innovative step for Tatarstan and Russia. It is a new area aimed at expanding gas consumption in the country.
Tatarstan President noted that Tatarstan is one of the most gasified regions and biggest gas consumer in Russia.
The programme “Development of the marker of gas-engine fuel in the Republic of Tatarstan in 2013-2023” was accepted in the republic last year. It aims to gradual use of gas at all Tatarstan transport. Deputy Board Chairman of OAO “Gasprom” Valery Golubev said that construction of the plant will help creating new area in Russian gas industry.
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