Ilsur Metshin: “We expect 200 thousand schoolchildren in 2025”

Four new schools for six thousand students will open in Kazan on the Day of Knowledge, which will become a new city record. On the eve of September 1, the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan took part in the ceremony commissioning of 11 new schools. The Minister of Education of Russia Sergey Kravtsov, Chairman of the State Development Corporation VEB.RF Igor Shuvalov and the Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin joined the event in the videoconference mode.

Welcoming the participants, the Minister of Education of Russia Sergey Kravtsov said that 160 new schools will open in the country on September 1. Including 28 educational institutions for 25 thousand children that have been opened in 2019-2022 in Tatarstan under the Education national project.

“There has never been such a amount of construction of schools and kindergartens. In general, Tatarstan is a leader in the education system. We implement the experience of the republic throughout the country. Rustam Nurgalievich, I would like to thank your entire team and you personally. This is a management that allows you to achieve results in the shortest possible time without failures,”- said the head of the Russian Minister of Education.

“Thank you, Rustam Nurgalievich. With any project that we undertake with you, we achieve success. And once again you have confirmed that your managerial abilities are unique. The experience of Tatarstan will be replicated nationwide, and this will also help us to build new schools throughout the country,”- Igor Shuvalov, the chairman of the state corporation VEB.RF, noted.

According to Rustam Minnikhanov, thanks to national projects and federal programs, 11 educational facilities totaling more than 17 billion rubles were built by the republic's funds for the new school year.

The Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, who joined the event from a new school on Rauisa Gareeva st., said that a record number of students will come to city schools on the Day of Knowledge -174 thousand schoolchildren, 20 thousand of them are first–graders. According to him, some schools have 13-15 first grades.

“We expect 200 thousand schoolchildren in 2025. The population of Kazan is growing, there are many young families. Therefore, it is difficult to imagine the future without the construction of schools and preschool institutions. I want to thank everyone for the national project. We really hope that it will be continued, we will grow with a new number of kindergartens and schools,”- the head of the city said.

This year, four schools for six thousand children were built in new residential districts in the capital of the republic of Tatarstan.

“We open new schools in Salavat Kupere, the Bright Valley, on Sibgat Khakima Street and in the area of the Fermsky highway. Seventeen schools have been renovated, and separately under the program of the Rais of Tatarstan we have renovated over 140 schools over the past eight years, which are more than 30 years old,”-  the Mayor said.