Mintimer Shaimiev takes part in the opening of the East wing of the main building of Kazan State University
12 March 2004, Friday
Today saw a grand opening of the East wing of the main building of Kazan State University. President of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev attended the opening. Constructions works started in November 2002 and have just come to an end.
The wing will host the faculty of biology and soil. There are 38 laboratories, 8 lecture-rooms, 18 offices and the conference-hall.
The construction was financed by the budget of Russia.
Tatarstan President said: “With the East wing completed, Kazan State University obtained more space for studies, and also it has got its architectural look completed, it has become full-fledged”.
Mintimer Shaimiev marked that the East wing was built a hundred years ago in 1904, so that in a hundred years after the university had been founded, and a hundred years before the today’s event. “By the bicentenary of Kazan State University there are a lot of problems to be settled in the nearest time”.
On 16 October in the Kazan Kremlin Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaymiev, who is also the Chairman of the Trustees Council of the regional Revival Fund, had a meeting with the Director General of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, who came to Kazan to take part in a ceremony of opening a new exposition “The Yusupovs. Luxury across the Centuries” at the Hermitage Kazan Exposition Center and which has been prepared especially for the 20th anniversary of the Hermitage’s first representational centre established in 2005 by celebrations of the Kazan Millennium.
On 28 August the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev took part in a plenary session of the National Assembly of the World Tatar Congress held with participation of about 1 thousand delegates from 68 regions of Russia and 27 foreign countries in the Tatar State Opera and Ballet Theatre in Kazan’
On 20 June the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev attended horse races held at the International Equestrian Complex in Kazan and dedicated to Kazan Sabantuy.
On 6 June the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev laid flowers to the monument of the Great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin by the Jalil State Opera and Ballet Theatre in Kazan.
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