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I. Metshin: "Confidence in Kazan’s future will help solve demographic problems"
(KZN.RU, July 26, by Taisiya Basharkina). A veritable wedding boom began in Kazan. This is evidenced not only by the weekend columns of wedding cars near the Kremlin, where brides and grooms arrive for a photo shoot, but also by the statistics. Thus, in the first six months of this year, 4,418couples tied the knot, which is 600 more than in the same period last year, stated Kazan’s Head of the Registry Office Albina Shavaleeva at the "Business Monday" meeting today. The number of divorces during the same period dropped almost twice to 2,307.
According to the city registry office, during the six months, 8,619 babies were born and 6,862 people died. The number of births grew by 13 per cent as compared with the same period last year.
For any state, the number of births, deaths, natural population growth and life expectancy are among the top ten indicators determining the quality of life. "The fact that we have a 13 per cent increase in the number of births compared with the first half of 2010, is very encouraging," commented Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin.
The city and the Republic do a lot for the preservation and promotion of positive demographic trends, including the low interest mortgage program, the program providing housing for Tatarstan’s young families, the construction of kindergartens under the "Belekech" program, and the state support for families with two or more children. Incidentally, 3,738 infants (43% of total) are second and subsequent children. In the past six months, two Kazan families had triplets.
"We set ourselves the task in every possible way to give people confidence in the future, so that they can have a family, raise children and have two or more kids," said
I. Metshin. "We hope that following the implementation of the presidential “Belekech” program, we’ll get even more positive demographic trends," he concluded.
Incidentally, Kazan is ahead of such megacities as Ufa, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara and Perm not only in the number of births, but also in terms of natural population growth. In Kazan, the gap between the number of births and deaths is 25 per cent, while in Perm it is 12 per cent, in Ufa - 10 per cent, in Nizhny Novgorod and Samara the trend is the opposite: -23 per cent and -22 per cent respectively.