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On October 29, Tatarstan State Counsellor, Chairman of the board of guardians of “Revival” Foundation Mintimer Shaimiev held a meeting on the project of an open-air exposition of Turkic-Tatar writing in Bolgar. The exposition is being created as a new part of the Museum of Bolgar Civilization on the territory of Bolgar museum reserve near the River station.
On October 21, at his meeting with Tatarstan State Counsellor, member of the Board of Guardians of Russian Chess Federation Mintimer Shaimiev, Board Chairman of Russian Chess Federation, a member of organizing committee of the Super final Mark Glukhovsky told about holding women’s and men’s Russian chess championship in Kazan on November 27 - December 7.
On October 20, the IV (XX) All-Russia archeological congress opened in Kazan. Tatarstan State Counsellor, Chairman of the Board of Guardians of Regional fund “Revival” Mintimer Shaimiev, Co-chairman of the Russian Historical Society, Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Anatoly Derevyanko, Minister of Culture of the republic Airat Sibagatullin, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolai Makarov, Rector of Kazan Federal University Ilshat Gafurov, Director of the Institute of International Relations, History and Oriental Studies of Kazan Federal University Ramil Khairutdinov and others took part in a plenary session.
On October 9, Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev, Chairman of State Council Farid Mukhametshin, Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov, deputies of State Council, representatives of state authorities, business and wide public took part in the second session of Tatarstan State Council.
On October 7, a solemn reception on behalf of Tatarstan President on the occasion of the Day of agriculture and processing industry workers was held in Kazan.
On October 2, Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev met new Turkish Consul General in Kazan Turhan Dilmaç.
On October 1, Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev took part in the first session of Tatarstan State Council of the 5th convocation.
On September 21, Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev attended a ceremony of reburial of Vasily Engelhardt, an outstanding Russian scientist, corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, founder of the Kazan University Astronomical Observatory.