Business Forum “Perezagruzka” gathered about 6 thousand participants in Kazan

(KZN.RU, March 16). Today a large-scale training forum for entrepreneurs “Perezagruzka” (Rus. “Reload”) started in Kazan on the sports arena “Basket-Hall”. Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of the RT, Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, and others took part in the opening ceremony of the business forum that gathered about 6000 participants in Kazan.

The President marked in his welcoming speech that the main task of the republic's leadership is to do everything necessary for the dynamic development of small and medium-sized businesses. The programs implemented today are aimed at creating an infrastructure. These are special economic zones, technology parks, IT parks, TOSER. In total, 10 percent of all such infrastructure decisions of Russia are accumulated in Tatarstan.

Rustam Minnikhanov noted that it is necessary to pay attention to young people by training them and providing skills that are necessary for engaging in entrepreneurship. And also it is necessary to continue work on reducing administrative barriers. “I think that the Republic of Tatarstan should become a place where not only our entrepreneurs but also young people from other regions will come, study, create new businesses”, added the President of the RT. “I hope that this forum will be successful and useful. We have already agreed to hold such events systematically”.

After the speech, the host of the forum reminded Rustam Minnikhanov about the All-Russian inter-national relay race # ВыборЧемпионов180318. On the proposal to repeat the exercise, the President of Tatarstan made about 20 push-ups and urged entrepreneurs to also participate in this action, reports the press service of the President of the RT.

Grigory Avetov, the rector of the business school “Synergy”, noted that today Tatarstan is one of the foremost regions of Russia in terms of the business ecosystem, attracting investments in small and medium-sized businesses. The republic has been in the first position in attracting investments for several years.

According to the speaker, entrepreneurship in Kazan is actively developing, due to which the capital of Tatarstan, competes with the main business megacities of the world along with Moscow.