Black Lake Park project presented to Rustam Minnikhanov
6 June 2015, Saturday
On June 6, in Kazan Interim Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov accompanied by Head of the Presidential Administartive office Asgat Safarov, Head of Executive Committee of Kazan Denis Kalinkin, Aide to the President of Tatarstan Natalia Fishman and other officials visited the Black Lake Park and attended the Open Space Market festival, which takes place this weekend at the Black Lake.
Fishman told Minnikhanov about the park development project. She also demonstrated a sample of the information pillar with a mailbox fixed on it. Any city resident will be able to put a note with his/her wishes and suggestions into it. Such information pillars with mailboxes will appear in other parks as well. Minnikhanov appreciated the idea.
During his walk along the park Minnikhanov was also shown how the national fast food may look like. After that, the guests attended the Open Space Market site, where among other things tableware, notebooks, ornaments, clothes and shoes made by participants of the festival were presented.
Later on the same day, Minnikhanov, Natalia Fishman, architects and builders discussed major current issues related to the reconstruction of the park.
On March 10, the third meeting of the organizing committee on preparation and holding of the 20th anniversary Russian Venture Forum 2026 to be held in Kazan from April 8 to 10, chaired by Russian Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov and with participation of Tatarstan Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan and co-chair of the forum’s organizing committee Aleksey Pesoshin, President of the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan Rifkat Minnikhanov, Director of the Investment and Venture Fund of Tatarstan Damir Galiev as well as representatives of federal and regional authorities, development institutions and partner organizations via videoconference, took place.
On 10 March, speaking at a briefing dedicated to the development of the national Max messenger in Tatarstan and held in the Government House of the republic with all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Minister of Digitalization of Public Administration, Information Technologies and Communication of the republic Ilya Nachvin informed that according to the data of March 2026 about 1.5m residents of Tatarstan use domestic Max messenger.
On 5 February Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in ceremony of awarding winners of the regional competition “The Woman of the Year. The Man of the Year: A Woman’s View” held at the Korston Leisure and Recreation Center in Kazan.
On 4 March at a briefing in the Government House of the republic Tatarstan Minister of Land and Property Relation Fanil Agliullin told about changes in land legislation enforced from 1 March of the current year. He said that they simplify a number of procedures for land plot owners including expanding the possibilities for land use and changing the rules for changing the category of a plot.