Rustam Minnikhanov attends a house-warming party in Sviyazhsk

Several new houses were commissioned in the island town of Sviyazhsk, Tatarstan on May 15.

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev, Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov, Tatarstan Construction, Architecture and Housing Minister Irek Faizullin, Executive Director of the Tatarstan Presidential State Housing Foundation Talgat Abdullin and other officials congratulated new settlers on the occasion.

Greeting the people, Rustam Minnikhanov said that the housing issue had been live on the island as for a rather long time people huddled in dilapidated structures and some of them even in old monastic cells.

The President promised the works on housing construction would continue.

Today we see the island changing, the President said, a gas pipeline was laid, water supply has become operational and a bridge over the Sekerka River was built.

Rustam Minnikhanov wished the new settlers good luck and joy living in their new apartments.