Rustam Minnikhanov: Development of mono-towns is one of priority tasks for Tatarstan

On May 12, at his meeting with Director General of non-profit organization “Fund of the development of mono-towns” Dmitri Skrivanov, Interim President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov said that development of mono-towns is one of priority tasks for the republic.

Speaking at the meeting, Minnikhanov noted that the year was economically tough for the republic. Crisis affected a number of city-forming enterprises which resulted in decline of industrial production and job cuts. These problems will hardly be solved without federal support, he added.

Head of Zelenodolsk region Aleksandr Tygin said that on April 8 the Fund of the development of mono-towns made a decision to allocate subsidies to Zelenodolsk. Tygin told that an organized industrial and logistics zone, the Novaya Tura technopolis, will be created in the town.

“Diversification of the town and excessive dependence on city-forming enterprises are the main purposes of the project,” Tygin sad.

The project also implies construction of an Interregional agro-industrial distribution center, the Novaya Tura Agropolis.

Making report at the meeting, Head of Naberezhnye Chelny executive committee Natalia Kropotova stated that there has been a decrease in Russian truck market by 48 per cent in January-March of 2015. Because of decrease of production at KAMAZ truck manufacturer employees of the enterprises started working part-time. The unemployment rate is going up in the town, Kropotova continued.

Therefore, six investment projects of economic diversification,- Kama industrial park “Master”, industrial park “Development”, industrial park “Chelny”, and metallurgical plant “Naberezhnye Chelny Tube Works”, synthetic sapphire manufacturing plant, and technopolis for poultry production and processing have been prepared to smooth the situation.

Dmitri Skrivanov noted that projects of development of Zelenodolsk and Naberezhnye Chelny are unique and Fund of the development of mono-towns is interested in realization of these projects.