Kazan Mayor Ilsur Metshin was ranked first in the
National Mayor’s Rating for August-November 2020. The research was conducted by
the “Rating” center for information communications together with the Financial
University under the Government of the Russian Federation.
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin was ranked second in the
rating. The top five also includes the Mayor of Tyumen Ruslan Kukharuk, the Mayor
of Khanty-Mansiysk Maxim Ryashin and the Mayor of Salekhard Alexey Titovsky.
The election of Ilsur Metshin as head of the capital
of Tatarstan for the fourth time contributed the leadership in the National
rating.
Experts also point to the Mayor's international standing.
Ilsur Metshin, President of the UN Advisory Committee of Local Authorities,
remotely participated at the UNECE Forum of Mayors 2020.
“The Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, heads the city for
15 years, and its position as one of the leaders among the mayors of Russia is
well established”, – experts noted in the study.
For information, Kazan regularly becomes the leader of
numerous ratings. The Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin headed the media rating of
the heads of capitals of the Volga Federal district for September 2020. In
addition, at the end of last year, Kazan was recognized as the best city in
Russia in terms of living standards.