Tatarstan Prime Minister visits Tatenergosbyt, where he talks to company’s activists

On September 4, at his meeting with the staff of Tatenergosbyt Company, Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov said that despite the tough economic situation in the country, Tatarstan maintains stability in the oil, petrochemical and machine building industries.

“The situation remains quite stable, probably mainly because a good foundation has been built in the recent years. The gross regional product is decreasing, but payment defaults, including power supply debts, are not going up. It is an important indicator signifying that businesses are stable and that all the measures taken within the 2008-2009 crisis were effective,” he noted.

He stressed that Tatarstan has high-performaing oil, petrochemical and machine building complexes, with some existing enterprises having been modernized. Also, new plants were built, including TANECO Oil Refining and Petrochemical Complex in Nizhnekamsk, two automobile factories and some enterprises in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone.

“Large industrial facilities have prospects in Tatarstan. Next year, another large enterprise, the Ammonium plant, will be opened in Mendeleevsk. We are talking about dozens of companies that are under construction here. This means the region has a future and we will have consumers,” Khalikov said.

Speaking about construction and major repair in Tatarstan, Ildar Khalikov reminded that 22,000 places were created in kindergartens in the republic in three years and 56 kindergartens were built in 2014 alone. A total of 150 schools are repaired every year, and about 100 village clubs were constructed in the republic in three years, he said.

“I cannot say we have solved all the problems and everything is smooth. But generally, over 7,000 facilities, including major housing renovation, are under construction and renovation,” he said.

Ildar Khalikov thanked a large team of Tatenergosbyt Company for their fruitful work and congratulated them on taking the first place among Russian companies in the rating "Sales companies: the effectiveness in the market" by results of the first quarter of the year.

Summing up, Tatarstan Prime Minister wished the company to become the best in Europe.