Results of architectural seminar on development of the Admiralty settlement summed up in Kazan
13 September 2014, Saturday
On September 13, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov took part in a closing ceremony of the International architectural seminar “INSERTS – the Admiralty settlement”.
Organized by the city administration and Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering, the seminar was held in Kazan on September 7-13. The Chief Architect of Barcelona, Professor Jose Asebilio became the scientific director of the seminar, while Swiss Architect Stanislava Boskovic was its scientific coordinator.
Students, post-graduates and architects from Kazan, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg and Switzerland discussed topical issues of contemporary urban development using the Admiralty Settlement as an example.
Participants of the seminar presented their projects to modernize the Admiralty settlement. After that, the honoured guests handed in diplomas to the seminar participants.
Speaking at the ceremony, Rustam Minnikhanov thanked teachers and students for a great work done, assuring them that their proposals would be accepted, considered and used in the development of the Admiralty settlement.
Tatarstan President thanked Professor Jose Asebilio. "I am sure that our cooperation will contribute to improving Kazan," Rustam Minnikhanov addressed the famous architect.
Aide to Tatarstan President Olesya Baltusova, Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, Tatarstan Minister of Construction Irek Faizullin also attended the ceremony.
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