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The Kazan Helicopters of the Russian Helicopters Holding (part of the Rostec Corporation) has received approval from Rosaviatsiya to install an on-board boom on the Ansat helicopter. The new option significantly expands the rotorcraft’s functionality, allowing it to safely lift people and cargo weighing up to 272 kg onto and down from the helicopter.

The airborne boom increases the efficiency of the Ansat helicopter application during search and rescue operations and allows for loading and unloading operations in hover mode.

The airborne boom can easily be assembled and disassembled using quick-release couplings. The boom retains access to the under-hood for servicing the machine.

In addition, Kazan Helicopters has completed tests of the cargo cockpit mooring system, which will allow operators to perform cargo transportation on-board the Ansat helicopter. Note that the Ansat fuselage has the most spacious cargo cabin among helicopters with a take-off weight of up to 4 tonnes.

Ansat is a light twin-engine multirole helicopter, serial production of which has been established at the Kazan Helicopters. According to the helicopter’s certificate, its design allows to convert it into a cargo version or into a passenger rotorcraft that can lift up to seven people. Ansat is certified for the operation at outdoor temperatures ranging from -45°С to +50°С.

Within the framework of the National Productivity project, Director of the Tatarstan Energy Saving Technology Centre under the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers Marat Akhmerov and Deputy Director, Head of the Tatarstan RCC Shamil Bayramov held a meeting with Deputy Chairman of the Arkhangelsk Oblast Government for Project Activities Viktor Ikonnikov and Director General of the Arkhangelsk Regional Development Agency Maksim Zaborsky.

The purpose of the Arkhangelsk Region delegation’s visit to Tatarstan was to acquire the accumulated expertise in arranging the activities of the Tatarstan Regional Competence Centre for Labour Productivity, as well as to evaluate the Process Factory training platform.

The Labour Productivity and Employment Support national project was approved by President Vladimir Putin in 2018 and is intended to create conditions for continuous growth in country’s labour productivity.

To conduct practical training for employees of companies participating in the national project, the “Process Factory” was created in 2020, a modern training production site where participants gain practical experience in using lean manufacturing and production optimisation tools. Already today, more than 500 employees have been trained.

For the second year in a row, the branch has held a leading position, becoming the Best Branch in the Energy Production System (EPS) competition.

The meeting, which was attended by Ilshat Fardiev, the company’s Director General, was broadcast to all branches of the company via video conferencing.

Then the company executives moved to enclosed warehouse of Alkeyevskiy Power Distribution Zone, where tools and materials storage is organised in accordance with 5S system requirements (sorting, setting in order, shining, standardising, sustaining).

During the inspection of each of the production facilities, Kaizen proposals were shown to the guests; the authors talked about the positive effects of their initiatives and answered all questions. In total, more than three dozen “kaizen” and rationalisation proposals were presented.

At the end of the presentations, an award ceremony was held, during which the winners of the Energy Production System contest were recognised. “The Best Subsidiary” was awarded with a monetary certificate, as well as the winners in other nominations of the contest, who received, along with diplomas, material incentives. The winners in “The Best Quality Circle” and “The Best Process Improvement Group” categories were awarded certificates and toolboxes to create an order according to the 5S system requirements both in the workplace and at home.

The Tatarstan grid company is introducing smart meters. They can be installed without disconnecting the electricity supply to the customers’ or their neighbours’ flats.

The Grid Company’s implementation of smart metering devices in Tatarstan, as well as providing customers with the option of drawing up the necessary documents through a personal account, help reduce the time it takes to connect new consumers to the power grid.

According to Ilnaz Razov, Deputy Director for Utility Connection at the Privolzhskiye Power Grid subsidiary, each customer’s contract is thoroughly reviewed to apply the right technical solutions for connection.

Another innovation of the Tatarstan Grid Company is the method of connection. All work is carried out energised so that the customers and their neighbours do not experience problems with electricity.

Tatarstan and the Arkhangelsk Oblast have all capacities to strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation. This was stated today by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov at his meeting with Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast Aleksandr Tsybulsky. The meeting took place at the Kazan Kremlin.

Rustam Minnikhanov thanked Aleksandr Tsybulsky for his visit to Tatarstan and his attention to strengthening mutually beneficial relations with the Republic. The Tatarstan President noted that the regions have good traditions of joint work.

Among promising areas of cooperation, the President named digitalisation, the development of online formats of product promotion, procurement and sales, the development of a comfortable urban environment, education and training.  He also suggested developing cooperation in shipbuilding, cultural heritage preservation and the oil industry.

Aleksandr Tsybulsky pointed out that the cooperation between Tatarstan and the Arkhangelsk Oblast is very substantial. The delegation’s visit to the Republic resulted in the signing of 4 agreements, including agreements in the sphere of higher education and information technologies.

During their working visit, the delegation, accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov and representatives of the Corporation and plant management, also visited the Zelenodolsk Shipyard.

The Association of Clusters and Technology Parks of Russia has developed and is implementing the educational programme entitled “Industrial Technoparks: Establishment and Management of Activities” which aims to improve the skills of initiators of new projects to establish industrial technoparks as well as representatives of managerial teams aimed at improving the performance of existing technoparks and regional SME support infrastructure.

The educational programme seeks the participation of representatives of executive authorities in the field of economic, innovation, and industrial policies, SME support infrastructure organisations, managers and experts of technopark management companies, as well as representatives of large and medium-sized businesses interested in developing industrial sites using the industrial technopark model.

The programme has been developed with account for the best practices in the creation and development of industrial technoparks and considers the current regulatory framework governing the activities of industrial technoparks and measures of their support in Russia, including the requirements for technoparks.

The enrolment for the 4th stream of the programme has been launched and will run from May 12 till June 10, 2021. Upon completion of the programme, the attendees will be awarded Certificates of Advanced Training.

On April 1, a delegation of representatives of higher education institutions from the Republic of Tatarstan visited the Tatarstan Mission in the Republic of Uzbekistan.

The meeting was attended by Director of the Institute of Continuing Education Development under the Kazan National Research Technological University Lyubov Ovsienko, Deputy Director for General Affairs of the Institute of International Relations under the Kazan Federal University Ramil Galiullin, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Admission Committee at the Kazan Federal University Albina Borisova, and graduate of KNRTU-KhTI M.A. Musaev

Representatives of Tatarstan higher educational institutions arrived in Tashkent to participate in the selection campaign for academic year 2021/2022 conducted by the representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo in Uzbekistan.

The representatives of the universities shared their proposals and further plans on cooperation with the educational institutions of the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as ideas on attracting more applicants to study in Kazan.

The Representative Office of Tatarstan in the Republic of Uzbekistan holds regular consultations for applicants who have expressed an interest in applying to Tatarstan’s higher education institutions.

The share of small and medium-size businesses in Tatarstan in the first 9 months of 2020 exceeded 25%. A total of 33% of able-bodied people are employed in Tatarstan’s SME sector.

This was stated today by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov at a meeting with community representatives of the Presidential Commissioner for the Protection of Entrepreneurs’ Rights in municipal and urban districts.

The meeting took place at the Kazan House of Entrepreneurs (Peterburgskaya St.).

According to President Minnikhanov, this format of meetings with representatives has worked out well.  It raises issues really important for businesses that need to be addressed at the federal level, at the level of the republic, the President said.

We should take decisions on the creation of business infrastructure, as it is also connected with the development of agglomerations, Rustam Minnikhanov said.

He pointed out that it is especially important today to carry out comprehensive development of the territories, not only housing but also social facilities like schools and kindergartens, to create jobs.

He noted that today new forms of goods movement are emerging as part of e-commerce development.

On April 21-23, 2021, the Tatarstan International Forum for Energy & Resource Efficiency and Ecology (TEF 2021) will be held in Kazan.

The Forum is a demonstration platform for fruitful business meetings, company presentations, discussions with government officials and industry partners of topical issues related to energy efficiency and innovative methods of energy conservation.

The TEF 2021 will also see the Republic’s Youth Initiatives Contest “We Opt for Energy Efficiency 2019” (further, the Youth Contest) and the Republic’s Contest of Corporate Mass Media and Press Services for the best coverage and promotion of energy saving and energy efficiency issues (further, the Media Contest).

The contests are held in order to popularise the fields of energy efficiency and energy saving and will be launched from March 1, 2021.

The wrap-up meeting and the award ceremony for the contests will be held:

- for the Media Contest, on April 21, 2021 within the framework of the Tatarstan Government Meeting on the implementation of the government programme “Energy Saving and Enhancing Energy Efficiency in Tatarstan in 2020 and Tasks for 2021”

- for the Youth Contest, on April 23, 2021, as part of the Youth Day at TEF 2021.

Today, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov held a meeting with representatives of Enel Group. The event was attended by Director General of PAO Enel Russia Stephane Zweguintzow and Director General of OOO Enel X Rus Aleksey Leonov.

Enel Russia is a country’s key asset of Enel Group, an international energy company and the leading integrated player on the global market of power, gas, and renewable energy. The company operates in the Russian Federation and its production branches include three gas-fired power plants: Konakovskaya GRES, Nevinnomysskaya GRES, and Sredneuralskaya GRES.  In addition, Enel Russia implements three wind power projects: Azovskaya TPP (90 MW), Kolskaya TPP (201 MW) and Rodnikovskaya TPP (71 MW). Enel Russia provides electricity and heat to industrial enterprises and household consumers through local distribution networks, which are mainly located in the European part of the Russian Federation and the Urals.

During the meeting, the parties discussed issues aimed at strengthening cooperation between them in Tatarstan in the field of renewable energy development, micro-generation, providing charging infrastructure for electric vehicles and the opportunity of applying technologies that allow the two-way exchange between the electric vehicle and the grid.