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In July, KAMAZ will host a competition of professional skills among truck drivers working in the company's divisions and organisations.

The event is intended for KAMAZ employees engaged in cargo transportation and having a driving license category C. The KAMAZ Cup competition has been held for a number of years and is aimed to assist in raising the level of professional skills of heavy-duty vehicle drivers, to remind, once again, about the importance of road safety issues, and to enhance the prestige of this profession.

The competition programme provides one theoretical and three practical stages. All stages take into account the time and correctness of fulfilling a task; each mistake will result in penalty points. Only a certain number of participants who have demonstrated the best results will be qualified for each subsequent stage. As a result, only three drivers will start the last practical task and go for the prizes.

The results of the competition will be summed up by a panel of judges headed by the chief judge. The winners of the first, second, and third places will be identified in the individual competition. In addition, the Best Young Driver will be named, which will be chosen from among the participants under the age of 25. All the winners of the professional master competition will receive valuable prizes.

On July 5, the SEZ Alabuga hosted a strategic session for establishing an interregional composite industrial cluster in the Moscow Oblast, the Republic of Tatarstan, and the Saratov Oblast. The event was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, executive authorities of Tatarstan, Moscow and Saratov regions, industrial manufacturers of composite raw materials and semi-finished products.

The cluster is designed to promote the development of a complete technological chain of composite materials in Russia, which will include the production of polyacrylonitrile fibre (a raw material for the production of carbon fibre), high-tech carbon fibre conforming to the relevant international standards, semi-finished products based on carbon fibre, and composite products for end users.

Interest in cooperation within the composite cluster has already been expressed by more than 50 companies, which are involved in all process steps of composite production. During the strategic session, the goals and objectives of cluster development were determined; the participants discussed promising joint projects and approved a roadmap for cluster establishment. It is expected that the cluster will be created and included in the register of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation by the end of this year.

The 5th Annual Open Republic’s TV Festival of Working Youth Creativity “Our Time – Beznen Zaman” was launched in the republic.

The Festival implements an important function of forming a new generation of professionals and popularising blue-collar and white-collar jobs, uncovering the creative potential of young people at enterprises and organisations. It draws attention to the urgent issues of developing the potential of republic’s talent pool.

The zonal presentation meetings of the Festival are being held in the cities of Naberezhnye Chelny (July 4), Nizhnekamsk and Almetyevsk (July 5) with an aim to attract the attention of a wide public and to activate the municipalities and enterprises, organisations of different patterns of ownership, as well as to inform them about the essential conditions for participation in the 5th Festival of Working Youth Creativity “Our time - Beznen Zaman”.

The meetings are attended by Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Almaz Khusainov, General Producer of the Festival Dmitry Tumanov, Director and Chairman of the Youth Union of Tatarstan Enterprises and Organisations Vladislav Mayorov and Aidar Sagetdinov, representatives of municipal entities, enterprises, and organisations from various sectors of the economy.

On July 4, the Kirpichnikov Lyceum with Extensive Learning of Chemistry for Gifted Children under the Kazan National Research Technological University (KNITU-KHTI) held a school leaving ceremony for its graduates to commemorate the beginning of their acceptance into full adult life.

A ceremonial event was held in the assembly hall of the Lyceum. On this day, graduates were awarded diplomas of graduation, certificates of achievements, and letters of gratitude. The guests of the celebration include Vice-Principal for Continuous Education at the KNITU Lyubov Ovsienko, Head of Corporate Governance Department at the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade Andrey Fyodorov, Deputy Dean of Oil and Petrochemical Department at the KNITU Olga Vakhitova, as well as teachers, parents, and many others.

A total of 28 students were graduated this year from the Lyceum; of them, 10 were awarded gold medals.

Today, the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade hosted a meeting between Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov and top executives from Turkey-based Guris Construction and Engineering Co. Inc. and OOO Russky Veter.

The meeting was also attended by representatives of Setevaya Kompaniya and the Tatarstan Regional Dispatching Office of the Unified Energy System.

During the meeting, the participants discussed promising areas of cooperation in the field of wind energy, in particular, in the construction of wind farms and in localising the production of wind turbine components in Tatarstan.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, Guris, and Russky Veter signed a trilateral agreement on cooperation in the field of wind power.

Further discussion of opportunities for implementing joint projects in this area continued in the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers under the chairmanship by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov.

Today, the meeting of the Committee to Combat Illicit Trafficking of Industrial Products was held under the chairmanship of Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Almaz Khusainov.

During the meeting, the participants considered the results of the work done to date to curb illegal trafficking in dairy products in the Republic of Tatarstan. Members of the Committee noted that a number of organisations have yielded positive results in combating and reducing illicit trafficking in dairy products in Tatarstan.

Summing up the meeting, Deputy Minister Khusainov suggested to continue work in this area and increase the number of verification activities, to join the efforts of regulatory and law enforcement bodies in order to reveal and prevent the spread of counterfeit products in the consumer market of Tatarstan, to organise regional monitoring of the quality and safety of dairy products and accept the suggestion of Executive Director of the Association of Processors for the Counteraction of Dairy Products Counterfeiting Aleksandr Brazhko about recommending retail companies to sign agreements with Rospotrebnadzor of Russia, Rosselkhoznadzor of Russia, ANO Roskachestvo and ANO Roskontrol on voluntary participation in the monitoring of counterfeit dairy and food products.

Today, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan hosted a meeting between Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov and the delegation from the city of Tabriz (Islamic Republic of Iran) headed by Mayor of Tabriz Sadegh Najafi-Khazarlou.

From the Republic of Iran, the meeting was also attended by Representative of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tabriz Rageb Babai, Consul of the Iranian Consulate General in Kazan Malekoddin Shafaghat, and others.

During the meeting, Minister Karimov held a presentation of the industrial potential in the Republic of Tatarstan.

The parties also discussed the mechanisms and prospects for mutually beneficial cooperation.

Today, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan hosted a meeting between Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of the Tatarstan Albert Karimov and newly appointed Head of the Kazan Office of the Belarussian Embassy in Russia Oleg Isaev. The participants to the meeting discussed a number of issues concerning further cooperation between the republics.

For reference: Oleg Isaev has been appointed Head of the Kazan Office of the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in the Russian Federation since June 2017.

On June 28, the Kosmos Concert Hall in Moscow saw a ceremonial event commemorating the 85th anniversary of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Aviation Materials” (VIAM) under the State Scientific Centre of the Russian Federation. The event was attended, among others, by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov.

The emergence and development of a new subject area – aircraft materials science – is inextricably linked with the history of VIAM. The results of VIAM’s fundamental and applied research enabled creating and mastering new materials that meet the highest requirements for strength, service life, and reliability. Many of them still have no equals in the world. For 85 years, VIAM has maintained its intellectual and technical potential. Experimental and pilot facilities, laboratories equipped with the latest technology help to combine tradition and innovation, ahead of time and competitors.

Honored guests at the event include Deputy Chairman of the Military-Industrial Commission Board Oleg Bochkarev, State Duma deputies Vladimir Gutenev and Nikolai Gonchar, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia Oleg Bocharov, etc.

From today, applications began to be accepted for participation in the 5th Annual Open Republic’s TV Festival of Working Youth Creativity “Our Time – Beznen Zaman”, to be held with support from Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov.

The Republic’s Festival of Working Youth Creativity “Our Time – Beznen Zaman” has been held in Tatarstan with support from the President of the Republic since 2013. The festival was established by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports of Tatarstan, the Tatarstan Federation of Trade Unions, as well as a number of other ministries, agencies, and organisations. The Festival is a socially significant governmental project that has no commercial purposes. The mission of the Festival is to form a new generation of professionals, popularise blue-collar and white-collar jobs, draw attention to the urgent issues of developing the potential of republic’s talent pool, and uncover the creative potential of young people working in enterprises and organisations. In the fair opinion of the organisers, young men and women united by a desire to succeed and keen of their activities are the force that promotes the vigorous development of the republic.