Mintimer Shaimiev visits All-Russia historical festival “Great Bolgar”
15 August 2015, Saturday
On August 15, Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev and other officials participated in solemn opening of All-Russia historical festival “Great Bolgar” held in Bolgar state historical-architectural museum reserve.
The event attracted spectators from 30 regions of Russia, as well as Belarus, Ukraine and Israel. Special tours were organized from Russian cities. The aim of the festival is reconstruction of life, culture and ammunition of XIV- XV centuries that is considered to be the Middle Ages Rise, including in Bolgar under The Golden Horde. The festival was organized by Tatarstan State Committee on tourism and non-profit organization “Historical fencing and reconstruction center “Sulitsa”. It should be mentioned that the first historical festival “Great Bolgar” took place in 2014.
Welcoming guests, Mintimer Shaimiev said that the festival is of great importance as it is the continuation of the work done in the field of renovation of two towns –Bolgar and Sviyazhsk and thanked all specialists and people who contributed to holding the festival.
In his turn, Chairman of State Committee on Tourism of the Republic of Tatarstan Sergey Ivanov thanked Mintimer Shaimiev for the support rendered to the festival as well as the organizers of the event and volunteers.
Then, guests saw mass battles called buhurts on the tiltyard, looked around all sites of the festival and tried Tatar cuisine at the stall of the Tatar national fast- food chain “Tubetei”.
As for the competitions, Tatarstan was represented by a history club team of 24 members aged 19 to 30. Each member was clad in armour of The Golden Horde period. Russian national team includes two teams “Russia -1” and “Russia -3”, acting winners of World Medieval Fighting Championship.
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.