Ilsur Metshin congratulated the students of Kazan with Tatiana's day

(Kazan City KZN.RU, January 25, Anton Nozdrin). Mayor of Kazan congratulated Kazan students with "professional" holiday. He noted that today the university students have many opportunities for self-realization and wished them "to use these opportunities to the fullest". The chairman of the Committee on Children and Youth Affairs of the city Sergei Mironov told about how the student celebrations were held last weekend and what activities are planned today at Business Monday.

On the eve in the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Rest of Kazan student winter games for the Tatiana Cup passed, including leisure, comic contests and other winter activities. "Participants of the Cup had to show their skill, dexterity, creativity, - Sergey Mironov said. - During the event everyone could drink hot tea and try to taste "the granite of science".

Today holiday concerts and events are waiting for students. "In the medical and energetic universities contests and games are held, in the technology university symbolic “chopping of tails” of the students who successfully passed the session is held, other institutions hold their own competitions and concerts," - said the speaker. Tonight at 11^th time in a row the annual award ceremony "Student of the Year" will be held in the concert hall "Pyramid". "Today we will know the name of the most worthy of the students of last year", - said chairman of the committee. "Despite the fact that we have fallen to eighth place in the number of high schools in the city after the unification of certain establishments in the Kazan Federal University, we share first place with Ekaterinburg by the number of students per capita," - Sergey Mironov reported.

In total, according to him, about 158 ​​000 students and graduate students, 70,000 of whom came from other localities, including 8 thousand foreign students, study in Kazan.