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By decision of the Board of Directors of the Kazan Helicopters, Aleksey Belykh was appointed the Managing Director of the company. Yuri Pustovgarov, who headed Kazan Helicopters since February 2018, resigned by agreement of the parties and currently holds the position of Advisor to the General Director of the Russian Helicopters holding.

“I would like to express my gratitude to Yuri Pustovgarov, who came to the Kazan Helicopters during the crisis. The period since 2018 has become a time of change for the Kazan Helicopters, when it was necessary to stabilise the company’s financial position and to take on new challenges at the same time: to master the production of promising products and to promote helicopters to domestic and foreign markets”, said Andrey Boginsky, Director General of the Russian Helicopters holding.

The new Managing Director of the Kazan Helicopters Aleksey Belykh held various managerial positions at the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant, including the post of the Deputy Managing Director for Development and Lean Production. On 2017 to 2020, he headed the Novosibirsk Aircraft Repair Plant. In March 2020, Aleksey Belykh was appointed First Deputy Managing Director of the Kazan Helicopters.

Kazan Helicopters has adopted a firm plan until 2023, which identifies a steady workload of Mi-8, supplies of Mi-17V-5 for exports, an increase in supplies of Ansat and Mi-38 helicopters. In 3 years, it is planned to sell a total of over 180 rotorcrafts.

Within the framework of the Labour Productivity and Employment Support national project, the Tatarstan’s Regional Competence Centre (RCC), with the assistance of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, has implemented a pilot project to increase labour productivity at one of the leading manufacturers in the perfumery and cosmetic industry in Russia, AO Aromat, established in 1942.

The production flow of perfumery products was chosen as a pilot stream. RCC experts trained and helped an in-house team of go-ahead professionals to identify temporary losses in the pilot stream and provided guidance on how to improve the production processes by reducing labour costs.

Thanks to the 5C system, things were put in order in the workshop and in documentary records. For each unit, internal standards were developed for the performance of operations, as well as instructions for adjustment and maintenance. Production analysis was also launched, flow maps for current, ideal, and desired states and spaghetti charts were built, a reference area was created, problems were identified, and an action plan was developed to eliminate them.

The project to increase labour productivity at the company has achieved its objectives in full. Its successful implementation has led to a 41% reduction in the pilot stream production time and a 30% increase in the production output.

Tatarstan made it to the finals of the annual All-Russian Festival of Energy Saving and Ecology #VmesteYarche (Brighter Together) contest. The jury chose a flash mob video on the topic of energy saving and a new festival anthem presented by the Kazan State Power Engineering University.

In the current festival’s anniversary year, a total of 95 works from almost all regions of Russia were submitted to the flash mob contest. The jury saw 95 videos with the participation of 4,212 people, including schoolchildren, teachers, students of universities and colleges, employees of fuel and energy companies, pre-schoolers, employees of cultural centres and libraries. 27 works were submitted for the contest for a new official song of the #VmesteYarche festival. Tatarstan has become one of the most active participants in both projects.

The Federal Organising Committee of the All-Russian Festival of Energy Saving and Ecology #VmesteYarche has selected 30 flash mobs and 10 songs for participation in the final stage of the contest.

In the context of the new conditions in which the contest will be held in 2020 because of the epidemiological situation, the timing of winner selection was changed. The results will be announced no later than the Power Engineer’s Day on December 22.

All finalists’ videos, including those of the Kazan State Power Engineering University, were published on the festival’s YouTube channel in Playlists section.

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The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan announces the completion, from 14.12.2020, of receiving applications for a subsidy from Tatarstan budget to legal entities and individual entrepreneurs performing work on the conversion of vehicles to use natural gas (methane) as a motor fuel, with an aim to reimburse lost income resulting from the provision of discounts to vehicle owners for the said work by the entities performing the conversion operations.

Today, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov visited the NPP Hortum plant of Nizhnekamskneftekhim and the canteen of School No. 22 (Nizhnekamsk), within the framework of his working trip to the cities of Naberezhnye Chelny and Nizhnekamsk

During the visit, Albert Karimov saw the samples of the products manufactured there, and examined the production line consisting of the latest state-of-the-art equipment.

A bellows-type expansion joint is a flexible pipe joint designed to safely compensate for changes in the dimensions of steel pipe systems and gas ducts. The products are widely used in various industries (energy, petrochemical, chemical) and utilities.

Hortum Director Ayrat Kharisov said that the expansion joints manufactured by the plant entirely consist of domestic components, while the in-house design department allows the company to develop non-standard expansion joints.

Please be informed that the All-Russian Citizens’ Reception Day scheduled for December 14, 2020, is postponed to a later date due to the worsening of the epidemiological situation associated with a high risk of COVID-19 infection.

The decision to postpone the event was made by the Russian Presidential Office for Work with Appeals from Citizens and Organisations in accordance with the proposal by the Government of the Russian Federation.

On December 15, Tatarstan entrepreneurs are invited to take part in a webinar on the capabilities of the Fast Payment System (FPS).

Experts from the Bank of Russia and the National Payment Card System will explain the features and benefits of the FPS for trading companies. Representatives of banks and businesses who are already using FPS will also share their experience.

The training webinar will begin at 10:00 Moscow time. It will be broadcasted on the Bank of Russia channel on YouTube and on its Facebook page. In order to ask a question, please register.

The Fast Payment System allows trading companies to significantly reduce costs. Commissions for them, when accepting payments for goods and services through the FPS, are 2-2.5 times lower than when paying with bank cards.

On December 8, a meeting of the State Duma Commission for the Legal Support of Defence Sector Organisations Development was held with the participation of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, the Ministry of Health of Russia, as well as with the support from the State Duma Expert Council for Biotechnology Development in Pharmaceutical and Medical Industries, and the Committee for the Development of High-Tech Medicine and the Implementation of Best Healthcare Practices at Industrial Enterprises under the League for Assistance to Defence Enterprises Association on diversifying hi-tech enterprises during the pandemic.

Vladimir Gutenyov, Chairman of the State Duma’s Defence Sector Commission, President of the League for Assistance to Defence Enterprises Association, drew attention in his speech to the fact that member enterprises of the SoyuzMash and the League showed high performance in the context of diversification during the pandemic. Within a very short time, major industrial holdings developed, established production and deliveries of medical equipment, including technical solutions against COVID 2019, most of which are unrivalled throughout the world.

At the end of the session of the State Duma’s Defence Sector Commission, Vladimir Gutenyov invited all participants to the meeting and experts to promptly assess the practicability to continue next year the support measures that the Russian Federation Government provided to the real sector of the economy and to make proposals on new mechanisms.

Today, the Korston Hotel & Mall saw the award ceremony for the winners of the 16th Fifty Best Innovative Ideas for Tatarstan annual republic’s contest. “The event always arouses great interest. Since 2005, some 23,500 applications have been submitted for the contest, of which 2,300 have won. I would like to point out that despite the organisational difficulties and limitations this year, the contest has confirmed its relevance. A total of 1,934 projects have been announced for participation, of which 175 have been recognised as winners”, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said at the ceremony.

The number of participants grows from year to year. These are people not only from Tatarstan, but also from various regions of Russia, as well as foreign countries. The wide geography of the participants allows attracting the best projects and their creators to Tatarstan. The Tatarstan President specially thanked the companies that in a difficult period acted as partners of the contest and provided grant support to the participants. These are Ak Bars Bank, Tatneftekhiminvestholding, Himgrad, Tatneft, Svyazinvestneftekhim, and IT Park. The contest winners were awarded by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov.

In addition, within the framework of the event, Minister Karimov had a meeting with Minister of Industry and Energy of the Chuvash Republic Yevgeny Gerasimov to discuss issues of bilateral cooperation.

Today, the House of Tatarstan Government saw a meeting with the regions of Russia on organising an all-Russian event dedicated to summing up the results of the fuel and energy sector and awarding the winners of the MediaTEK 2020 contest, chaired by Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Anton Inyutsyn.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov reported on the preparations to the all-Russian event in Tatarstan.

The event will be held on December 23, 2020, dedicated to summing up the results of the Russia’s fuel and energy sector in 2020 and encouraging media representatives covering the work of the energy industry. The online broadcast of the event will be conducted by the MIA Rossiya Segodnya on the website of the news agency.

The programme will also include the award ceremony for the winners of the 6th All-Russian Contest for the Media, Energy Sector Press Services, and Regional Administrations (MediaTEK) and encouragement of journalists involved in covering the activities in the Russia’s fuel and energy sector.

The event will be attended by Deputy Chief of Staff of the Russian Presidential Administration and Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Aleksandr Novak, and Minister of Energy of Russia Nikolai Shulginov, who will hold a press conference to sum up the results of the activities in the fuel and energy sector in 2020 and consider plans for 2021.