Tatarstan President presented Fikryat Tabeyev with Order “For Merits before the Republic of Tatarstan”

Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev presented Fikryat Tabeyev with the Order “For Merits before the Republic of Tatarstan” in the Kazan Kremlin on March 4.
The Tatar Soviet statesman, Fikryat Tabeyev, was born on March 4, 1928 in the village of Azeyevo, Ryazan region. From 1960 to 1979 he was the First Secretary of the Tatar regional committee of the Communist party, worked as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to Afghanistan (1979-1986), First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (from 1986).