Ilsur Metshin "We believe that the Tatarstan initiative will result in the federal program"

(KZN.RU, September 13, Alsu Safina). Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, summed up the results of the All-Russian Forum of the Council of local government, which passed yesterday in Moscow and was dedicated to urban development and improvement of the quality of urban environment, at the today's staff meeting. He spoke at the forum with a presentation of projects in the field of improvement of public areas in Kazan.

“We shared the practice of implementation of urban policy and improvement, design of public spaces”, said I. Metshin. “Tatarstan was presented as an example of a pilot project for the honor of our republic. I talked about the presidential program “Parks and squares”. As always, Tatarstan and our President are ahead of other regions, which are just starting to think about it”.  It was announced at the forum that 183 parks have been renewed in Tatarstan in the past two years.

The Mayor pointed out, how delighted the representatives of other regions talked about a future park and square or an embankment. “There are cities that still live with these embankments since the Soviet era. But there are no such improvement and renovation projects of the territories as in Tatarstan, except for Moscow and St. Petersburg”, said I. Metshin.

“Programs of houses overhaul, construction of kindergartens and others began with such discussions in the forums”, noted the Mayor. “We believe that another initiative of ours will result in the federal program”.

Ilsur Metshin noted that Kazan still has room for improvement, for example, a lot of work has been done in Moscow. “Muscovites passed the transport facilities for 220 billion rubles only for the City Day. What a sidewalks throughout the city and bicycle paths!” said the Mayor of Kazan. “When we see, how Moscow changes, we want all regions picked up this trend”, concluded the head of the city.