President of Tatarstan holds session on issues of Kazan airport reconstruction
10 August 2011, Wednesday
The issues of Kazan international airport reconstruction have been discussed today at the meeting of RT President Rustam Minnikhanov with Bulgarian Aviation Group top management. In the meeting held at RT Government house took part the following persons: executive director of the company Plamen Atanasov, RT first deputy minister of land and property relations Airat Nututdinov, RT vice minister of transport and road facilities Azat Galiakhmetov, other officials and Bulgarian Aviation Group representatives.
During the meeting presentation of a construction project of technical service hangar for two planes with participation of Lufthansa Technik company at the international airport Kazan was held. As Lufthansa Technik Sofia CEO Bernd Freckmann informed: “the company is ready to cooperate with air company Tatarstan and participate with investments in the project участвовать в проекте в том числе и инвестициями”.
Rustam Minnikhanov supported the proposed project. «Technical base is very important for any air company, for any airport. I hope that other air companies will use new hangar», - RT President stated and charged RT Ministry of transport to commence the work on its realization. Already tomorrow signing the agreement between air company Tatarstan and Lufthansa Technik is expected.
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