Ilsur Metshin: “We will do our best to make our beloved Kazan a world-class city”

In the next five years, it is planned to increase the average life expectancy by three years in Kazan, to raise income levels of citizens, provide medical care and improve the quality of education. The newly elected Mayor of the city Ilsur Metshin shared these plans at the meeting of the first session of the fourth convocation of the Kazan City Duma.

“Kazan should become an educational center, a magnet that attracts the best minds and talents”

The new program of city development is divided into four blocks, linked by one idea: the program is based on caring for people, the head of the city noted. According to him, new hospitals and clinics should be built in the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, including Children’s Republican Clinical Hospital -2 in Zarechye.

Fifteen health facilities will be renovated and equipped with the latest technology.

“We will continue to promote a healthy lifestyle and bring the rate of daily fitness activities and sports up to 60% of Kazan residents, - the Mayor said. - The average life expectancy of Kazan residents in 2025 should grow by three years and exceed 78 years".

The second most important priority is urban environment. Six new parks should open in Kazan, including two unique specially protected areas on both banks of the Kazanka River. It is also planned to plant at least 100 thousand trees in the next five years.

“One of the most important areas of our work is to raise income levels of citizens. We must preserve the living standards of Kazan residents as much as possible and provide conditions for attracting investment in the urban economy”, - I.Metshin shared his plans.

The fourth direction is the development of education. “Kazan should become an educational center, a magnet that attracts the best minds and talents”, - the Mayor believes.

“Like in sports, there will be no win without maximum performance”

In recent years, the capital of the republic of Tatarstan has achieved serious results in various areas of socio-economic development, the Mayor reminded. “Like in sports, there will be no win without maximum performance”, - he said.

At the first stages of work as the head of the city, the team led by I.Metshin focused on the development Strategy of Kazan until 2015. In 2010, a new program “Five-year health plan” has become the impetus for the development of Kazan, aiming at improving the lives of citizens.

An important component of the five-year plan was the implementation of the Green record and 100 squares programs, which served as a prototype of a large-scale reform of public spaces.

Universiade 2013 made a huge contribution to achieving the goals of the Five-year health plan.

In 2015, the party program “12 priorities” was launched. Its main goal and idea was to create a comfortable urban environment.

All this brought Kazan to the leading cities of Russia, the Mayor said.

“We have coped with challenges-this indicates a strong and powerful team of our Mayor”

The achievements that Kazan has managed to achieve over the past years indicate a great coordinated work, including that of the Federal government, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov believes.

“Everything that happens in our republic and its capital is made with the support of the President of our country. All our initiatives and major events that gave an impetus to the development of the city are the trust of the first person, - said R.Minnikhanov. - And of course, the fact that we have always coped with challenges indicates a strong and powerful team of our Mayor”.