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From November 30 to December 1, a selection of projects was carried out for the upgrade of thermal power plants with the start of power supply in 2026 (COMmod-2026). On December 1, preliminary results of the selection were published on the website of System Operator of the Unified Power System. A total of 54 applications were submitted for participation in the selection. Fifteen applications from six energy companies were selected.

Of the 15 selected bids, 8 were accounted for the first pricing zone (European part and the Urals). Tatarstan is represented by one project, the upgrade of the turbine at the Nizhnekamsk CHPP-1 of TGK-16. According to preliminary results, the TGK-16 energy company (part of TAIF Group) received the right to upgrade 100 MW of capacity with the replacement of the turbine and its auxiliary equipment, closing the list of selected projects in the first pricing zone with the highest price indicator.

Within a month, the UPS System Operator will check the reliability of the projects’ technical parameters indicated by the participants, after which the Russian Government will approve the final list of COMMod-2026 projects.

For TGK-16, this will be the fifth project within the upgrade programme of generating facilities of thermal power plants. In February of this year, four applications from the energy company have already been selected for 2025. The upgrade of steam turbines at Nizhnekamsk CHPP-1 and Kazan CHPP-3 with a total capacity of 417 MW will result in increasing the efficiency and reliability of heat and power supply to consumers.

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov had a meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the Russian Federation Botirzhon Asadov. The meeting took place at the Tatarstan Government House.

The parties discussed the development of cooperation between Tatarstan and Uzbekistan, aimed at strengthening Russian-Uzbekistani relations. Further ways to develop trade and economic ties were considered in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, in particular, an increase in the volume and range of mutual supplies of goods and services. They also spoke about issues of interaction in the field of education, culture, and tourism.

The meeting was attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, Chairman of the State Committee of Tatarstan for Tourism Sergey Ivanov, and others.

On December 1, a grand opening of the Made in Uzbekistan business mission took place at the Korston Hotel in Kazan. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, Ambassador of the Republic of Uzbekistan to Russia Botirzhon Asadov, and Chairman of the Tatarstan Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Shamil Ageyev spoke to the guests. First Deputy Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade of the Republic of Uzbekistan Laziz Kudratov addressed the participants of the business mission via video link.

Tomorrow, on December 2, the business mission will continue. Korston will accommodate product displays of advanced Uzbekistani manufacturers. At 15:00, the ballroom will host a New Year’s theatrical performance and a fashion show. The business mission’s programme includes panel and round table discussions, presentations of the export potential in Uzbekistan and wide opportunities for investment projects, meetings of Uzbekistani producers with Russian businesses.

Representatives of more than 100 export-oriented companies will take part in the business mission, such as manufacturers of agricultural produce, fur products, footwear, denim and knitwear, household appliances and electronics, equipment for transformer substations, as well as wine companies.

The goals of the Made in Uzbekistan project are to demonstrate the products of Uzbekistani enterprises, increase the country’s export potential and build long-term cooperation with foreign countries.

On December 1 and 2, 2020, the Made in Uzbekistan business mission will be organised at the Korston Hotel in Kazan. As part of the business mission programme, over 20 events will take place in two days: panel discussions and round tables, presentations of the export potential in Uzbekistan and wide opportunities for investment projects, meetings of Uzbekistani manufacturers with Russian entrepreneurs. For on-site or online participation in the programme, please register on the project website.

Representatives of over 100 export-oriented companies will take part in the business mission: manufacturers of agricultural produce, fur products, footwear, denim and knitwear, household appliances and electronics, equipment for transformer substations, as well as wine companies.

The goals of the Made in Uzbekistan project are to demonstrate the products of Uzbekistani enterprises, enhance the country’s export potential and build long-term cooperation with foreign countries. For two years of its existence, business missions were organised to India, Belarus, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Turkmenistan. In Russia, the project was presented for the first time: within its framework, the Green Week has already taken place in Samara, further events are scheduled in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The organiser of Made in Uzbekistan is the Exports Promotion Agency under the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

On November 30, 2020, a gala concert of the 8th Our Time - Beznen Zaman Republic’s Annual Open TV Festival of Working Youth Creativity was held at the Pyramid Entertainment Centre. Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov took part in the opening ceremony and greeted the participants of the Festival, organisers, heads of enterprises, and spectators.

The team of the Kazan Traffic Safety State Budgetary Institution became a three-time winner of the Festival’s Grand Prix.

The Republic’s festival of working youth creativity has been held in Tatarstan with the support of the President of the Republic since 2013. The festival is a socially significant project that has no commercial purposes. The main mission of the event is forming a new generation of workforce, popularising blue-collar and white-collar jobs, and uncovering the creative potential of young professionals working at enterprises and organisations of the republic.

Since 2016, by the decision of Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, the festival was given the status of an annual one.

Since 2019, the Festival has been held under the auspices of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO, which testifies to the compliance of the goals and objectives of the project with the priorities of UNESCO in the field of youth policy.

As part of the resumption of the mechanism of a unified regional subsidy, the budgets of Russian regions will be able to reimburse part of the costs of industrial enterprises for connection to electric and other grids, payment of the 1st instalment upon signing a lease agreement, or purchase of new equipment. This was reported by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade.

The message specifies that within the framework of the renewed mechanism, it is planned to use increasing coefficients. For example, in case the constituent entity of the Russian Federation is included in the list of priority geostrategic territories or in the list of regions with a low level of socio-economic development. To resume the mechanism of a unified regional subsidy, the Ministry of Industry and Trade agreed on the redistribution of its funds, within the limits allocated by the Ministry of Finance, in the amount of RUB 1 billion annually from 2021 to 2023.

The mechanism for providing a unified state subsidy was tested in a pilot mode and implemented in 2016. State support funds were provided to the Republic of Crimea, Stavropol Territory and the Republic of Udmurtia, where it was possible to attract more than RUB 7 billion of off-budget investments. The resumption of this mechanism is provided for by the Russian Federation Spatial Development Strategy.

Earlier, Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin approved the corresponding resolution “On Amending the Resolution of the Russian Federation Government No. 194 dated March 15, 2016”.

A total of 9 companies that will create more than 250 jobs have become the new residents and partners of the Innopolis SEZ. The aggregate amount of announced investment in development and innovation infrastructure is RUB 43 billion. New projects were approved today at a meeting of the Supervisory Board of the Innopolis Special Economic Zone chaired by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov.

AO Transmashholding and OOO LocoTech-Signal will open a Competence Centre for Unmanned Technologies in the SEZ: the RailNext company will develop a Ctrl@Traffic integrated system for organising unmanned traffic in the Kazan metro; the project of Z-City Techno provides for the creation of large innovative infrastructure facilities in Innopolis and the introduction of a digital service platform on its basis; OOO Zen.Car will create an application for car owners and companies for the maintenance, repair and tuning of cars; OOO ITB will develop software for process design of facilities for oil, gas, and petrochemical industries; the Rusbitech-Astra company will be engaged in the refinement and expansion of the functionality of the Astra Linux operating system; the Electrifly company will develop a unified platform for owners of electric vehicles and charging stations with technical support; the Abiroy company presented a project of a Cyber ​​Cube cloud-based personnel management system; OOO LP Technologies will work on the Loudplay platform for virtualisation and streaming of resource-intensive applications and games; the project of the A-Plus company provides for the creation of a digital educational environment for schoolchildren.

From December 2 to December 4, 2020, the PromNavigator Business Forum will take place on the territory of the Kazanskaya Yarmarka Exhibition Centre.

The PromNavigator business forum is one of the main platforms in the Volga region, where initiatives and specific proposals are generated for the development of the main industries, where topical topics are discussed related to shaping a new type of economy, forming an innovation system, and effective interaction of small and medium-sized businesses with the manufacturing sector.

The PromNavigator business forum brings together the main players of the Russian industry to discuss topical issues and demonstrate innovative industrial equipment and technologies in mechanical engineering, metalworking, automation, innovation.

Key events within the Forum will include the Conference of Mechanical Engineers of Tatarstan; the “Mechanical Engineering. Metalworking. Welding. Kazan” specialised exhibition; business meetings with main procurement experts of the mechanical engineering and metal-working industries of Tatarstan, regional collective displays: Tver, Lipetsk, Krasnoyarsk regions, Mechanical Engineering Cluster of Tatarstan, as well as the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus.

Equipment displays of Russian manufacturers can both be found in the exhibition territory and on a digital online platform. The PromNavigator digital platform includes digital stands of participants, live broadcasts and online meeting rooms.

The Representative Office of Tatarstan in the Republic of Uzbekistan held an award ceremony for the winners of the creative online contest dedicated to the Flag Day of Tatarstan, as part of the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the Tatar ASSR.

The event was attended by Representative of Tatarstan in the Republic of Uzbekistan Aydar Akhtareev, Chairman of the Tatar Public Cultural and Educational Centre (TPCEC) in Tashkent Rishat Nabiullin, First Deputy Chairman of TPCEC in Tashkent Rustam Tukhvatullin, special correspondent of the TNV-Planet broadcasting channel in Uzbekistan Karimova S.I., and others.

In his speech, Aydar Akhtareev informed the audience about the date of adoption and the meaning of the flag of Tatarstan, highlighting in detail the most important historical events, achievements and upcoming tasks of the republic’s development.

Rishat Nabiullin spoke about the activities of the Tatar Cultural Centre, about the events held this year, and thanked the leaders of Tatarstan and the National Council of the World Congress of Tatars, the Representative Office of Tatarstan in Uzbekistan for the continuous attention to, and support of, the Tatars in Uzbekistan, despite the far distance from their historical homeland.

As part of the event, an award ceremony was held with the presentation of diplomas and memorable gifts to the winners of the creative contest, in which, in addition to Uzbekistani participants, a part was taken by Tatars from all over the world.

On November 27, chaired by head of the Russian Engineering Union (SoyuzMash) and head of the Rostec Corporation Sergey Chemezov, an expanded meeting was held by the Bureau of the SoyuzMash and the League for Assistance to Defence Enterprises Association. The topic of discussion was the development vectors of the youth policy at the SoyuzMash. The meeting was held via videoconference.

Sergey Chemezov noted that the SoyuzMash of Russia has been actively implementing youth policy in the mechanical engineering industry for more than ten years by overseeing technical education and training of qualified workers, as well as engineering and technical specialists. Now the Union includes 87 higher educational institutions and 18 secondary vocational education institutions.

In his speech, First Vice President of SoyuzMash Vladimir Gutenyov reported on the achieved results of the youth policy at SoyuzMash in accordance with the tasks set by the President of Russia: the implementation of ambitious engineering projects and participation in global leadership.

Special attention at the meeting was paid to the large-scale youth forum “Engineers of the Future”, the All-Russian Forum “Scientific and Technical Development and the Global Leadership Tasks”, as well as the No-Turnstile Week campaign.

The most active participation in this event was taken by young employees of industrial enterprises at 40 regional branches of the Russian Engineering Union.