I. Metshin: “The situation in Kazan is incomparable with other cities, we have kindergartens that are 80 years old”

(KZN.RU, July 30, Ksenia Shvetsova). This year large-scale repair of kindergartens is planned in Kazan for the first time. 18 establishments are planned to be repaired at once. At the same time, old buildings of pre-school establishments are badly worn out and require more extensive renovation in excess of the standard list of works stipulated by the capital repair program. There is no other city of the republic with so many old preschool establishments, said Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, at the Business Monday.

Dmitry Anisimov, the chairman of the Housing Committee, said that just this year the program includes 22 educational facilities: 3 schools, 18 kindergartens, and the building of a station for children and youth tourism and excursions. In previous years, the main emphasis in the overhaul was done on schools. Thus, 134 schools were renovated in the city over 6 years of the capital repair program. Only 15 kindergartens out of 309 affected the overhaul in kindergartens. All kindergartens included in the program are in very poor state, two of them are completely closed. Most kindergartens have prescriptions of supervisors about unsatisfactory technical condition, noted the speaker.

The development of the program for the overhaul of kindergartens was based on the school overhaul program. Therefore, it includes 8 types of basic works with one addition: a device for warm floors in nursery groups. However, the inclusion of only these types of work in the program is not enough. “More construction works are needed due to the enormous wear of buildings and high requirements for putting objects into operation”, D noted. Anisimov. He added that the adjacent territory requires renovation, it is also necessary to repair the economic blocks. In addition, the program does not take into account the updating of the material and technical base, which has deteriorated over the years of operation and requires replacement. Furniture, inventory, small architectural forms are not provided by the program. “All these goals require the allocation of additional funds”, concluded the speaker.

For Kazan included in the program of work is not enough simply because of the huge wear and tear of buildings, said the Mayor in turn. In this regard, the capital of Tatarstan is different from other municipalities. “The situation with kindergartens in Kazan is incomparable with other cities. There are no  such problems and this age of kindergartens in other cities. We have institutions that are 80 years old. We reported to the President of the Republic on the additional amount. Everybody understands this situation for today. We hope there will be a solution, because it is impossible to perform such amount of repair work without additional financing”, said I. Metshin and thanked the leadership of the republic for the implementation of an unprecedented program to update social facilities.

“We are constrained in terms taking into account our workload and the line for kindergartens. There are other difficulties, prescriptions of supervisory bodies. However, we remember how difficult it was to start repairs in schools, but we eventually gained experience and developed a good quality standard. I hope that everything will be the same with kindergartens”, said the Mayor.