Kazan took the 2nd place in the rating of good cities in Russia

(KZN.RU, December 18, Ekaterina Vislavskaya). Kazan took the 2nd place in the rating of the country's kindest cities, compiled by the Public Chamber of the RF. Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, called this a significant event on today's Business Monday.

“This is certainly a great victory. We recently defined “Good Kazan” among the 12 priorities as one of the main directions of our work. Efforts were noticed by federal authorities”, said the Mayor. “This is the victory of all our citizens, all public organizations that work in the field of philanthropy, sponsorship, good deeds not the first time”.

The Mayor noted that Kazan is becoming a federal platform where people exchange experience, practice, and their achievements in the field of charity. The head of the city also reminded that it was decided to make Kazan a regional platform in the Volga region for the examination of presidential grants.

“We are given trust so this is our responsibility but we are ready”, he said. “The sports volunteerism has its own history, school, traditions, and foundation of those people with whom we are proud beyond Kazan. We will have to work in social volunteering. But it pleases that we think the same way with our whole country”.

The Mayor instructed Damir Fattakhov, the first deputy head of the Executive Committee, to work with the heads of the districts to include the social volunteering subject in the work plan for 2018 in order to start resolving the urgent issues from January.

Kazan took the 2nd place in the rating of the kindest cities by the results of the all-Russian environmental action “Marathon of Good Deeds”, losing only to St. Petersburg. The third place in the rating of the Public Chamber of the RT is taken by Ulyanovsk. The top-10 also includes Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Saratov, Khimki, Ussuriisk, and Cheboksary.