Ilsur Metshin met with representatives of the company “Uber”

(KZN.RU, February 3, Alsu Safina). Today, Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, met with representatives of the international technology company “Uber”. The Mayor praised the quality of the company at the meeting. Representatives of the “Uber” noted that Kazan won the third place in Russia after Moscow and St. Petersburg in the charitable project of the company.

“Of the products that appeared on the market in recent years thanks to new technologies, I was most of all impressed and amazed by the “Uber”, said Ilsur Metshin, opening the meeting. “As we look at everything through the prism of the convenience to the public, this is a very high quality product. We want to see it developed in Kazan”. The Mayor himself, he said, used the company's services while he was abroad.

Pierre-Dimitry Gore-Coty, the head of the “Uber’ in Europe, Middle East and Africa, spoke about the company's history, which began its work in 2009. Now you can order the machine with the application in 500 cities around the world, and 1.5 million people are the drivers of the “Uber”. Pierre-Dimitry Gore-Coty drew attention to the fact that the company is also working to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution in cities by more rational use of cars.

The company is present in 16 Russian cities, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar, Novosibirsk and others. The “Uber” has started to work in Tatarstan in September 2015. Today, the international technology company and the Ministry of Information and Communication of the RT announced the signing of a letter of intent. The document aims to explore the possibilities of information technologies application to improve the mobility of people in the region.

Dmitry Izmailov, the general director of the “Uber Technology”, said that the company implements a charity project for last couple of years, in which the capital of Tatarstan took part last year. “Kazan took the third in Russia after Moscow and St. Petersburg. More than 700 people in Kazan passed about 500 kg of clothes for charity through our application”, said Dmitry Izmailov. The project will be implemented this year, too.

Pierre-Dimitry Gore-Coty noted during the meeting that the company's plans are to expand its presence in Kazan and Russia.

Rustam Nigmatullin, the first deputy head of the Ministry of Defense of Kazan, Damir Fattakhov, the first deputy head of the Executive Committee, Evgeny Varakin, the head of the Executive Committee, Rifat Khannanov, the head of Information Technology and Communications, and others also participated in the meeting.