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The 13th Educational Forum for Young Innovators and Inventors of Tatarstan was held at the Volga Youth Centre. The forum was attended by young workers from 37 companies and organisations of the Republic, such as Kazanorgsintez, KAMAZ, Tatenergo, Zelenodolsk Shipyard, SPA GIPO, TANECO, GazpromTransgaz Kazan, Tatneft, and others. Every year the number of applications grows, in 2019 there were 47 participants, in 2020 there were 93, and in 2021 there will be 100 participants. 

The purpose of the Forum is to create a unique educational platform for addressing the development of innovations and inventions at enterprises and organisations. The Forum is an environment for learning, designing, building cooperation and communication among talented young people. At the end of the event, participants received certificates of advanced training in the Protection of Intellectual Properties and Their Effective Use programme.

Within the framework of the educational programme, the participants received information related to innovative and inventive activities: organisation of work at Tatarstan enterprises, ways to stimulate activity, registration of applications for tenders, financial literacy, legal issues.

The Forum is organised by the Tatarstan Society of Inventors and Innovators and the Youth Union of Enterprises and Organisations of Tatarstan with the support from the Ministry of Youth Affairs of Tatarstan.

Products of the Zelenodolsk Milk Processing Plant (ZMK) can now be ordered using the Yandex service.

ZMK has started to work with Yandex.Lavka federal food delivery service. Tatarstan has become the sixth region where the service has been launched.

Yandex.Lavka is food warehouses in the neighbourhood store format for prompt delivery of orders. Eleven warehouses were opened in Vakhitovsky, Sovetsky, Aviastroitelny, Privolzhskyб and Moskovsky districts in Kazan, where they sell 2,500 items, some of which are ZMK products. The company plans to cover the whole city.

In Yandex.Lavka, one can buy cottage cheese, kefir, milk, butter, and other products of Ochen Vazhnaya Korova, Vaskino Schastye and Obnimama brands. Now the service operates from 7:00 to 23:30, and later there will be an opportunity to buy ZMK products with home delivery 24 hours a day.

The Zelenodolsk Milk Processing Plant was founded in 1957. Now the enterprise produces about 100 kinds of products of its own brands. In addition to the plant in Zelenodolsk, the company includes Chistopol and Buinsk branches of ZMK.

Every day, over 600 tonnes of top-quality milk are delivered to ZMK facilities from agro-firms from all over Tatarstan within 8 hours of milk yield.

More than 130 people in the Tatarstan delegation took an active part in the INNOPROM. Big Industrial Week Uzbekistan International Industrial Trade Fair. The list of the participants includes Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, representative of Tatarstan in the Republic of Uzbekistan Aidar Akhtareev, and heads of over 50 Tatarstan enterprises.

On the first day, Minister Karimov presented the Tatarstan stand to Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia Denis Manturov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan Sardor Umurzakov, Tashkent Mayor Jahongir Artikxodjaev, and Director General of REC Veronika Nikishina.

As part of the programme, Minister Karimov took part in the Global Industrial Production in Search of Growth Drivers main strategic session. The key vectors identified at the plenary session were expanding Russia-Uzbekistan cooperation and collaboration with other countries, identifying new points of industrial development, establishing and strengthening business contacts, and establishing joint ventures.

Within the programme, Minister Karimov had a meeting with Hokim of Tashkent Region Davron Khidoyatov; the meeting was also attended by representatives of Tatneft, Himgrad, and Tatkhimpharmpreparaty. A meeting was also held with Minister of Energy of Uzbekistan Alisher Sultanov, with the participation of Uzbekneftegaz, Uztransgaz, and a number of Tatarstan enterprises.

A Tatarstan delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov arrived in Uzbekistan on a two-day visit. The purpose of the trip was to participate in the INNOPROM. Big Industrial Week Uzbekistan trade fair, which has already started today on the UzExpoCentre site.

The forum will be held on April 5 to 7, 2021. The event is organised by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan. The main goals of the event are to expand industrial cooperation between the participating countries and companies, identify new opportunities for industrial development and establishment of joint productions.

More than 300 industrial companies and business delegations from Uzbekistan, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Japan have gathered at the single investment platform.

On the first day of the programme, the Main Strategic Session entitled “Global Industrial Production in Search of Growth Drivers” will take place with the participation of Russia’s Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov and Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan Sardor Umurzakov.

The 20 specialised sessions will be attended by top executives of major companies from Uzbekistan, Russia, Europe and Asia, as well as heads of ministries, agencies, industry and business associations, development institutions and the media.

The INNOPROM fair is one of the largest international trade fairgrounds and one of the main instruments of exporting Russian industrial products.

Leading Tatarstan companies presented their products and latest developments at the INNOPROM International Industrial Trade Fair, which is taking place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, at the UzExpoCentre Exhibition and Convention Centre, on April 5-7, 2021.

Tatarstan will be represented at the INNOPROM International Industrial Trade Fair with a single stand, a large delegation of officials and business representatives. 

The exhibition showcased 32 Tatarstan-based companies in five sectors, such as mechanical engineering; petroleum, petrochemical and chemical industries; aviation, radio-electronics and optics; engineering and design; and robotics.

In total, there are more than 200 companies from Russia, Uzbekistan, France, Belarus and Kazakhstan, including both major companies and SMEs.

Detailed information and programme can be found on the event’s official website.

On April 5, at the Alabuga Special Economic Zone, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, who is on a working visit in Yelabuga municipal region of the republic, and Head of the Kuibyshev Branch of the Russian Railways Vyacheslav Dmitriev discussed issues of interaction between the republic and the Kuibyshev railway in terms of further development of the railway infrastructure.

A number of important economic agreements were signed today as part of a working visit of a Tatarstan delegation to the city of Saran (Kazakhstan). The ceremony was attended by Kazakhstan Prime Minister Askar Mamin and Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov.

Thus, Tatneft jointly with its Kazakhstani partners plans to produce rubber in Kazakhstan. An agreement on this was signed with NC KazMunayGas. The capacity of the factory planned to be put into operation by 2025 will be 186,000 tonnes of butadiene rubber and 170,000 tonnes of isobutane. The plant will employ 400 people.

President Minnikhanov said that Kazakhstan has most valuable raw materials for production of rubbers, and therefore there is a need to work together actively in this direction.

In addition, a memorandum of intent was signed today for the construction of a plant for bitumen production.

The construction of the joint venture between Tatneft Group and Allur Group has been started today in Saran, Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Askar Mamin and Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov attended the capsule laying ceremony.

Investment in the project will amount to $284 million. The plant construction is planned to be completed in 2022. Once it reaches capacity, it will produce 3 million passenger car tyres and 500,000 all-metal cord tyres.

Today, as part of the ceremony there was a live broadcast from Nizhnekamsk, where future employees of the plant are undergoing training at the Kama Tyres site. It is expected that 500 experts from Kazakhstan will be trained during the construction period in time for the opening. In this way the company will have qualified personnel specialising in tyre production, already at its start-up. The Tatarstan President noted that Kazakhstan is one of Tatarstan’s leading foreign partners.

It is expected that 1100 people will be employed at the plant by 2025. Products will be mainly supplied to the domestic market of Kazakhstan (about 60%) and the rest will be exported.

The ceremony was also attended by Director General of Tatneft Nail Maganov, Chairman of the Board of Allure Group Andrey Lavrentyev, and Chairman of the Management Board of NC KazMunayGas Alik Aidarbayev.

A delegation from Tatarstan, headed by Tatarstan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Albert Karimov, is on a working visit to St. Petersburg. The delegation included representatives of the Tatarstan Association of Enterprises and Industrialists: KMPA, KNIAT, Zavod Elekon, AK BARS Shipbuilding Corporation, Zelenodolsk Shipyard, and others.

The guests were welcomed by Principal of the St. Petersburg’s Peter the Great Polytechnic University Andrey Rudskoy. A guided tour was organised for Minister Karimov and those accompanying him at SPbPU, where they were shown the Technopolis Polytech research building, facilities, and technology centres of the University.

At the end of their working visit, the delegation visited the International Scientific and Educational Centre for Additive Technologies as well as the Baltic Industrial Company (BIC), having examined the research and manufacturing complex of the enterprise where testing and assembly of prototype machines are carried out, as well as a design office.

The company is one of the leaders in the development and implementation of solutions for equipping companies with up-to-date and reliable metalworking equipment.

The Day of Unity of the Peoples of Belarus and Russia is a landmark holiday which originated in 1996. It was on this day that the presidents of the two states signed the “Treaty on the Union between Belarus and Russia”. Every day we are working together to achieve the main goal of the integration: to improve the lives of people through the successful socio-economic development of Belarus and Russia.

This holiday is an evidence of friendship, trust, and intention to further develop the Belarusian-Tatarstan cooperation. The development of cooperation between Tatarstan and the Republic of Belarus is one of the priority areas of Tatarstan’s foreign economic activities.

An Agreement between the Government of Tatarstan of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Belarus on trade, economic, scientific, technology, and cultural cooperation has been in force since 2004. Tatarstan has a branch of the Embassy of Belarus in Kazan.

In recent years, relations between Tatarstan and Belarus have been successfully developing in various areas. The foreign trade turnover between the two republics amounted to more than USD 870 million in 2020.

On this festive day I wish everyone health, happiness, new success in the name of prosperity of our brotherly peoples, strengthening of the existing relations and further mutually beneficial cooperation in all areas!

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