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Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov had an online meeting with President of the Volga-Dnepr Group Aleksey Isaykin. The meeting was also attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov.

For over 30 years, the Volga-Dnepr Group has been representing Russian civil cargo aviation in the international market. The Group includes Russia’s leading cargo air carriers and also has charter transportation capabilities.

During the meeting, the parties outlined steps to further develop cooperation between Tatarstan and the Volga-Dnepr Group. In particular, they discussed the project of creating a transportation hub based on the Kazan International Airport.

Starting from today, mass vaccination against coronavirus has begun in Tatarstan.

“Anyone can get a Covid-19 vaccine after registering at a local health centre”, the press service of the Ministry of Health of Tatarstan confirmed to the Tatar-Inform News Agency.

One ampoule of the Sputnik V vaccine is intended for five people, while the expiration date after its opening is only two hours, so Tatarstan citizens should take a responsible approach to vaccination after the registration and come to the medical facility at the appointed time.

Sputnik V is a two-phase vaccine, after the first visit for vaccination one will need to come again in 21 days. If acute respiratory viral infection symptoms appear between the two phases, vaccination will have to be interrupted, so you should be doubly careful of your health.

Antibodies to coronavirus are expected to appear two weeks after the second vaccination.

More information can be found on the website (in Russian).

In the rating of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation for implementing the activities of the Targeted Support for Increasing Labour Productivity at Enterprises federal project by regional competence centres, the Republic of Tatarstan ranked among Top 3 from 26 regions of Russia. A place in the rating is assigned according to such criteria as level of satisfaction with a regional competence centre (RCC) activities, compliance with project implementation schedule, fulfilment of plans for completing projects, and the staffing level.

According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, a total of 105 enterprises of the basic non-resource sectors of the economy are participants in the national project, while the target for 2024 is the involvement of 249 organisations.

The national project’s operator in our republic is the Tatarstan’s Regional Competence Centre for Labour Productivity established in 2017. The regional centre has successfully implemented more than 50 projects to increase productivity in various sectors of the republic’s economy. The RCC staff includes highly professional expert practitioners.

To conduct practical training for employees of enterprises participating in the national project in 2020, the Process Factory was created, an up-to-date training production site, where participants can gain experience in using lean manufacturing tools and study the mechanisms affecting the improvements in operational and economic performance. Some 350 employees have completed the training already.

Some 40 people from 20 enterprises of Tatarstan visited the Kalashnikov Group on Thursday. The delegation included representatives of such major businesses as Tatneft, KAMAZ, Kazancompressormash, the Kazan Motor-Building Production Association, the Kazan Helicopters, KNIAT, Saturn, Eidos-Medicine, RIAT, and others.

During the visit, the delegation members were introduced to the SCADA equipment monitoring system and studied the Group’s tool-making capabilities. The guests highly appreciated the level of production process organisation.

The greatest interest of the industrialists from Tatarstan was aroused by the Group’s latest development, a hybrid processing centre. It combines direct laser cladding with metal powders and machining of parts. The equipment is designed to overcome technological limitations of traditional technologies, to shorten the cycle of product launch by 3-4 times, and to control properties of the products.

Machine tools of this class are only manufactured by five companies in the world, including Kalashnikov. For the first time, the Group presented this development at the Army 2020 International Military-Technical Forum.

Based on information by the Kalashnikov Group press service

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov took part today in the meeting with CEO of Coca-Cola HBC Russia Aleksandar Ruzevic. The meeting was held in Moscow on the sidelines of the Gaidar Forum 2021.

The participants to the meeting discussed the preparations to the Special Olympics World Winter Games to be held in Kazan in 2022. Russia is hosting these Games for the first time. Earlier, the Coca-Cola Company became the official partner of this socially significant sporting event.

Also during the meeting, the parties discussed the implementation of joint environmental initiatives. In 2019, Tatarstan and Coca-Cola signed an agreement on developing a culture for separate collection of municipal solid waste. In accordance with this agreement, Tatarstan is improving the infrastructure of separate waste collection for the purpose of further waste processing and implementing environmental education projects.

The Kazan International Airport has summed up the results of participation in the Labour Productivity national project in 2020. With the assistance of experts from the Federal Competence Centre (FCC), several new process solutions and measures were implemented at the airport, which made it possible to improve production processes, as well as to replicate the experience gained.

The Kazan International Airport joined the national project in June 2019 and became the first participant in the project from among airports and civil aviation companies.

In the first six months of participation in the national project, the airport has introduced lean manufacturing tools into the work process. In 2020, the airport replicated the experience gained from the pilot stream. To improve the efficiency of aircraft maintenance processes and the quality of services provided, a new unit was created, the apron service dispatcher (supervisor). Another effective solution at the airport is the relocation of the parking lot for special vehicles, which is involved in ground handling of aircraft, closer to the passenger apron.

As part of the national project, airport managers were trained under the Productivity Leaders programme: 17 people successfully completed the training course, as a result of which two projects were presented: “Increasing Labour Productivity by Improving Production Organisation and Introducing Managerial Innovations” and “Strategy for Increasing Air Freight Transportation Volumes Through Creation of Warehouse Infrastructure”. These projects are already being actively implemented.

The Kazan Helicopters of the Russian Helicopters Holding (part of the Rostec Corporation) summed up the results of the professional skill contest for the “Best in Profession” title. A total of 30 participants fought for the honorary title, their work was evaluated by 21 experts.

The contest was held in six skills, such as Aircraft Assembly, Labour Protection, Process Engineer, Aircraft Electrical Wiring, Manufacturing Team Challenge, and Electrical Installations. The youngest of the skills is the Labour Protection; it was attended by engineering and technical personnel who are responsible for labour protection activities in their units.

Participation in the professional skills contest is not only an opportunity to improve professional skills, but also to work one’s way up. The one who wins a prize is automatically assigned the next qualifying category, if there is a corresponding vacant staffing position. If there is none yet, then the holder of the Best in Profession title becomes the first applicant for promotion.

The in-house Best in Profession contest is a qualifying stage for many professional skills competitions, including city, republic’s and WorldSkills and WorldSkills Hi-Tech contests. In 2020, the Kazan Helicopters team took the 1st place in the Life Cycle Management skill at the 5th Corporate Professional Skills Contest of the Russian Helicopters Holding and the 2nd place in the RostecSkills contest.

On December 29, 2020, at the initiative of the Rossotrudnichestvo Office in the Republic of Uzbekistan, a meeting of graduates of Russian (Soviet) universities was held to sum up the 2020 results of the work of the Republic’s Non-Governmental Association of Graduates of Russian (Soviet) Universities in Uzbekistan.

The event was attended by Minister-Counsellor of the Russian Federation Embassy in the Republic of Uzbekistan Vadim Mitrofanov, Head of the Rosotrudnichestvo Representative Office in Uzbekistan Mikhail Vozhdaev, Chairman of the Republic’s Non-Governmental Association of Graduates of Russian (Soviet) Universities in Uzbekistan Sayora Khodzhdaeva, officials of the Russian Federation Embassy in the Republic of Uzbekistan, Representative Office of Tatarstan in the Republic of Uzbekistan, members of the Board of the Republic’s Non-Governmental Association of Graduates of Russian (Soviet) Universities in Uzbekistan, chairmen and activists of the Russian, Tatar, Bashkir and Crimean Tatar national cultural centres, creative and scientific intelligentsia, and the media.

In the course of the evening, memorable gifts, diplomas, certificates, and letters of gratitude were presented. Then the guests of the event were able to communicate with each other and exchange New Year’s greetings.

At the end of the evening, the participants thanked the organisers for the wonderful holiday and for the opportunity of informal professional communication.

The event was covered by the TNV-Planet Bureau in Tashkent.

New Year’s holidays bring happiness and bright moments of joy of communication with family and friends, uniting us and filling with good mood and bright hopes. In anticipation of the time when traditional Kremlin Clock strikes midnight, we believe in all the best that the coming year will bring.

On behalf of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan and on my personal behalf, I sincerely thank every employee who is selflessly devoted to his work, everyone who makes a daily contribution to the development and prosperity of the republic’s manufacturing sector, helping with their work in tackling diverse problems. Only through joint efforts will we be able to implement everything that has been planned and will go through all the difficulties that may arise. I am sure that together we can handle everything.

Only a few hours remain until the New Year. We, together with the entire country, are on the threshold of 2021. I sincerely wish everyone to leave your hardships in the past year, to meet the coming year with confidence and optimism, to take the brightest and most positive emotions with you into the future. May the dreams and desires made on New Year’s Eve come true, and may warmth and comfort not leave your families and homes in the coming year even for a minute. I wish you good health, well-being, and peace of mind! Happiness and good luck in the New Year 2021!

Best wishes,

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov

Today, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov introduced a new deputy minister to the staff. It was Ivan Kolchin, formerly working as Head of the Department for Machine Building Sector Development at the Ministry.

Ivan Kolchin will oversee issues of mechanical engineering sector, defence industry sector, timber processing and light industries.

The staff of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan congratulates Ivan Kolchin on his new appointment and wishes him further success in his professional activities for the benefit of the republic’s manufacturing industry development.