The 3rd International Special Transport Salon INTERPOLITEX: SpecTransExpo’2021, the largest sectoral event in Russia, opened today in the Kazan Expo International Exhibition Centre. Military, urban and all-terrain vehicles and components were on show: from equipment for ambulances to snowmobiles, from import-substituting batteries to the Ural shift bus.
“Tatarstan is rightfully considered one of the main progressive and innovative regions in our country; it occupies a leading position in developing industrial potential of the Russian Federation and ensuring manufacture of competitive industrial products”, Mikhail Osyko, member of the Board of the Russian Military-Industrial Commission, opened both the Salon and the All-Russian inter-sectoral conference “Mechanical Engineering: Development Strategies” on its sidelines.
Head of Tatarstan’s Ministry of Industry and Trade Albert Karimov reminded that the machine-building sector accounts for over 20% of republic’s industrial output and employs some 150 companies that produced more than RUB 600 billion worth of goods last year.
The conference and exhibition will run until May 20. Speakers of the panel sections will be members of the Board of the Russian defence industry, committees of the Russian State Duma, Soyuzmash of Russia, Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.