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Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan German Lerner, has met today with Erkin Aydit, Advisor to the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kyrgyz Republic to the Russian Federation.

During the meeting, the parties exchanged views on the bilateral cooperation agenda in the economic sphere. During the talks, the Kyrgyzstani side expressed its readiness to adopt the experience of establishing special economic zones and creating logistics centres for agricultural products to supply them to Tatarstan.

As Deputy Minister Lerner noted, Tatarstan is interested in expanding economic and investment ties with the Kyrgyz Republic. “Great interest exists in cooperation in automotive industry, helicopter manufacturing, petrochemicals, hi-tech, healthcare. There are also premises for expanding ties in culture and tourism,” he said.

In 2017, an agreement was signed between Tatarstan and the Kyrgyz Republic on trade and economic, scientific and technology, social and humanitarian cooperation. Currently, a Tatarstan-Kyrgyzstan working group is being worked out and a draft roadmap for enhancing cooperation is being developed. The Tatarstan-Kyrgyzstan working group includes representatives of various organisations from Tatarstan.

At the end of the meeting, the parties expressed mutual interest in continuing close contacts to promote topical issues of mutual interest.

Today, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan German Lerner had a videoconference meeting with Managing Director of KazakhExport Insurance Company Kuanysh Mukazhanov. The meeting was also attended by Plenipotentiary Representative of Tatarstan in Kazakhstan Denis Valeyev.

During the meeting, the Kazakhstani party told the participants to the meeting about the experience of implementing government support measures for export development. Kuanysh Mukazhanov dwell on KazakhExport activities and the tools being used to support and develop exports of the Kazakhstani enterprises.

KazakhExport is a state export insurance agency of Kazakhstan, the core operations of which are to support exports and implement insurance tools for protecting export operations. In March 2017, it was awarded the status of a national company, which allowed KazakhExport to expand its capacity to support domestic exporters.

In order to implement its mission and vision, KazakhExport carries out work in the following three key strategic areas, in line with the KazakhExport Development Strategy for 2014-2023: development of financial and insurance support to Kazakhstani exports, non-financial support to export activities of Kazakhstani enterprises, and reinsurance.

Vaccination of employees against coronavirus continues at KAMAZ.

According to the latest data, 2,577 employees have already received the first component of the vaccine. Both components of Sputnik V have been given to 21,167 KAMAZ employees.

In addition to the main production sites in Naberezhnye Chelny, employees are also being vaccinated at subsidiaries of KAMAZ. For instance, 1842 and 486 people were vaccinated at Bashkiria’s sites of NEFAZ and TZA, respectively. Tutaevsky Engine Plant, a KAMAZ subsidiary in the Yaroslavl Region, currently has 666 vaccinated employees; United Auto Technology Group (also part of KAMAZ), 2232 employees.

Company staff is vaccinated on-the-job. In order to apply for the procedure, KAMAZ employees should contact the personnel department of their division. Vaccinations are administered by employees of the city polyclinics in the health posts of the company’s plants and divisions.

Seventeen manufacturers from Tatarstan have submitted applications for the Tastes of Russia contest. They include Tatar Baly, Pishchekombinat, Kausar, Kaprino (а Laishevo cheese factory), Kamamber, EMIZ Trading House, Bakery No. 1, Agrosila, Factory of Healthy Foods, Bekhetle Trading House, and National Trademark Unitary Enterprise.

The second Tastes of Russia national contest of regional food brands organised by the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia has already received 620 applications from 78 regions of the country, more than the number of participants last year.

From October 20 to November 7, a popular vote will take place, during which every Russian citizen will be able to support their favourite product and their region.

The 16th International Commercial Vehicle Show, Comtrans 2021, will open next week on 7 September in Moscow at the Crocus Expo exhibition centre. The leader of the Russian truck building, a permanent participant of the largest exhibition site, KAMAZ, will present about 30 exhibits this year including a lot of novelties.

Visiting the main stand of KAMAZ, one will be able to follow the main trends of Russian automotive industry development. There will be the first KAMAZ of the K6 generation, alternative fuel vehicles including gas-powered trucks, electric vehicles, novelties for passenger transportation, and much more.

Other exhibits to be displayed are the NEFAZ-5299-31-57 CNG-powered commuter bus, the KAMAZ-6290 hydrogen-powered bus, the KAMAZ-6292 articulated electric bus, the KAMAZ-53198 (Chistogor) electric garbage truck, and KAMAZ-62825 trolleybus with increased range of autonomous operation, the Compass 9 light-duty truck and other state-of-the-art models of motor vehicles.

As part of the outdoor display, the company will present a KAMAZ-5490 truck tractor running on compressed natural gas coupled with a NEFAZ-93348 curtainsider semi-trailer with 1107-litre gas cylinders to increase the range of the road train and a concrete mixer 58146W on a gas-powered KAMAZ chassis. KAMAZ-65805 (Atlant 60), KAMAZ-65807 (Atlant 65) and KAMAZ-6561 (Hercules) will be demonstrated in the mine truck division. In addition, a whole range of KAMAZ special vehicles will be presented jointly with partner companies.

Partnership relations between Tatarstan and Uzbekistan oil companies were discussed with participation of Director General of Tatneft Nail Maganov and Chairman of the Management Board of Uzbekneftegaz Mekhridin Abdullaev.

The parties discussed issues concerning joint projects in geological prospecting, overhaul of wells, drilling of wells, staff training, expansion of gas station network, and opportunities of implementing fine petrochemicals projects in Uzbekistan.

During the working visit to Tatarstan, the Uzbekneftegaz delegation was introduced to Tatneft’s operations directly at production facilities.

The company has been successfully implementing oil, gas, and chemical projects. As part of the visit to the Nizhnekamsk business sector of the company, the representatives of Uzbekistan were introduced to the activities of TANECO Complex of Refinery and Petrochemical Plants, the prospects for project development and the products manufactured. The Uzbekistan delegation visited tyre manufacturing complex of Tatneft, where the guests were shown the advantages of the solid metal cord tyres. The Uzbek representatives also visited Tatneft’s simulation and drilling control centres. The competencies of the company allow to create scientific proving grounds for exploration and field development, conduct feasibility studies, design field development with selection and implementation of geotechnical measures, enhanced oil recovery methods, etc.

Tatenergo took second place in the social efficiency rating of the largest Russian energy companies, compiled by the AK&M rating agency. RusHydro was the best energy company in terms of the ratio of benefits to society and the burden on the environment.

Tatenergo ranked second in the social efficiency rating, while Inter RAO ranked third, according to AK&M.

The social performance rating has been published by the AK&M rating agency since 2018. The purpose of the ranking is to show the companies that bring the best benefits to society with the least environmental impact and to find a balance between the environmental burden of enterprises and their positive impact on society.

The result of the ranking is a list of companies based on the company’s social performance. It was calculated using two groups of indicators: social effect of activities (total payments to the budget, for charitable purposes, expenses on environmental protection, payments to employees with account for their labour involvement factor); environmental burden (volume of air and water pollution, solid waste corrected for the level of waste toxicity). The social efficiency rating was constructed by ranking the companies according to the resulting indicator.

During his visit to Kazan, Deputy Chairman of Gazprom Management Committee, Head of Department 623 Oleg Aksyutin, together with Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Director General of Gazprom Transgaz Kazan Rustem Usmanov, and other high ranking guests reviewed the construction progress at the Sokury gas distribution station (GDS) that meets all industry’s reference standards.

Oleg Aksyutin noted that the new GDS is a crucial step towards implementing the instruction by Russian President Vladimir Putin on regional gas supply development and stressed that Chairman of Gazprom Management Committee Aleksey Miller highly appreciated the concerted efforts of Tatarstan’s gas transmission companies and top officials of the republic.

President Minnikhanov stressed the importance of cooperation between Gazprom and Tatarstan’s enterprises and noted that the Sokury GDS based on modular terminal equipment manufactured by AviagazSoyuz+ of Kazan is a vivid example of this. Moreover, the Tatarstan President thanked the representatives of Gazprom and the contractor company for the high quality of construction and installation work and for securing a reliable gas supply to consumers in Kazan and its suburbs.

The facility was constructed as part of the third final stage of Gazprom’s investment project entitled “Reconstruction of Minnibayevo-Kazan Gas Pipeline in the section 220-285 kilometres”.

Radik Khasanov, Chairman of the Tatarstan regional branch of Russia’s Soyuzmash and Director General of POZIS (part of Rostec Corporation), congratulated the faculty and students of the Tupolev Kazan National Research Technical University on the Knowledge Day at the traditional celebration of this institution. 

The event was also attended by State Duma Deputy Marat Bariev, Managing Director of Kazan Helicopters Aleksey Belykh, and First Deputy Director General of the Gorbunov Kazan Aviation Plant (branch of Tupolev) Nikolay Savitskikh.

As part of festive events, POZIS Director General delivered a History of Success public lecture in front of future engineers and designers. He presented interesting information to freshmen about activities of Tatarstan regional branch of Soyuzmash, about role of mechanical engineers of the republic in the defence industry of Russia and, in particular, about POZIS, which contributes to strengthening of our State defence potential by manufacturing high-quality special-purpose products. Students learnt how the company managed to achieve leading positions in production of POZIS domestic, specialised medical refrigeration equipment, which the company intensively sells both in Russia and abroad.

At the end of the lecture, Radik Khasanov wished the freshmen success in their studies, good health, prosperity, execution of creative ideas and to become worthy citizens of our great Motherland.

Within the framework of the Tatarstan Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals Forum, the Kazan National Research Technological University (KNRTU-KHTI) held a round table discussion entitled “Staffing and Engineering Support for Oil, Gas, and Chemical Facilities: Engineering Pedagogy Development Issues” and the annual International Research and Practice Networking Conference “Regional Development: New Challenges for Engineering Education. Synergy 2021”.

This is a traditional event in the field of engineering personnel training discussions, annually supported by such a large employer as Gazprom. The round table was moderated by Director of Institute of Additional Professional Education at KNRTU-KHTI Mansur Galikhanov. The session was attended by experts in the field of engineering education from Russia and foreign countries, such as President of the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP) Hanno Hortsch, President of the Association for Engineering Education of Russia (AEER) Yury Pokholkov, etc.

As noted by Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Rodion Karpov, an important condition for modernisation and innovative development of the economy is its staffing. Enterprises all over Russia need young professionals who possess present-day knowledge, have the skills to apply this knowledge in their practical activities, and are motivated to self-development and achieving professional success.