Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov arrives on a working visit in Chelyabinsk
11 September 2014, Thursday
On September 11, Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov arrived in Chelyabinsk to visit production facilities and meet Acting Governor of Chelyabinsk region Boris Dubrovsky.
Ildar Khalikov will also meet Tatar diaspora of the region and visit agricultural complex “Ariant”.
Upon his arrival Ildar Khalikov visited Chelyabinsk pipe plant to see production of single-joint big-diameter welded pipes. Due to this production Russian fuel and energy sector can provide itself with big-diameter pipes. These pipes can be used in pipeline laying in permafrost areas, earthquake zones and under the sea.
The Prime Minister also got familiar with foundry production for fuel and energy industry at a new Russian-Italian steel plant OOO “BVK”, the most state-of-the-art plant in Russia and Europe.
Due to the electric-arc steelmaking unit with liquid steel degassing, the plant can produce high-quality carbon and stainless steel. The end customers of the produce are Russian oil and gas companies, enterprises of energy and military industrial sector.
The plant production capacity is 25,000 tonnes of foundry products per year.
On May 26, speaking at a briefing in the Cabinet of Ministers of the republic held in a videoconference mode with participation of all municipal regions of Tatarstan and focused on events scheduled for June 1, International Children’s Day, as well as the implementation of the “Summer in Tatarstan” programme, Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Leyla Fazleeva appealed that parents should closely supervise their children during recreational activities near water in order to prevent accidents.
On 18 May ay the CIPR conference in Nizhniy Nogorod the Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov, the Rector of the Innopolis University Aleksandr Gasnikpov and the Vice-rector of the University Yevgeny Bobrov will take part at round tables session of the conference.
Experts will discuss the role of Tatarstan and Innopolis as one of the key technological centers of the country and how regional innovative platforms help to solve tasks of the whole Russian industry. A special emphasis will be placed on the digital transformation of the oil and gas sector and how large clusters and scientific and technological centers are becoming drivers of industry change.
On 16 May, speaking at a meeting in the Government House of the republic held by the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin with participation of the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Minister of Agriculture and Food of the republic Marat Zyabbarov reported that the sowing of spring crops is in full swing in the republic with 1m 38 thousand hectares or 61 per cent of the planned have been sown.
On May 14, on the sidelines of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Head of the Federal Service for Accreditation Dmitry Volvach signed an agreement on interaction and cooperation in the development of the halal industry.