The results of the vote on the choice of public spaces were discussed today in the Tatar-Inform news agency

This year, 421,806 residents of the republic took part in the All-Russian online voting on the choice of public spaces planned for improvement in 2025. This was announced by the first Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing and Communal Services of the region Alexey Frolov at a press conference in Tatar-inform.

As in the past year, along with public spaces, residents also chose the adjacent territories, which, in their opinion, need to be improved as a priority. The list of objects included 274 public territories in all 45 municipalities of the republic and 1,550 courtyards.

"A comfortable environment – be it a park, an embankment, a square or a courtyard – directly affects the quality of life. Therefore, residents of the republic traditionally take an active part in voting, while their involvement in the process is growing every year. So, in 2022, 207,329 people voted for a particular public space, in 2023 – 363,258 Tatarstan citizens," Alexey Frolov noted.

In total, 398 new public spaces were landscaped in the republic from 2015 to 2023. The total amount of invested funds amounted to almost 24 billion rubles.  Including 225 of them – within the framework of the federal project "Formation of a comfortable urban environment" of the national project "Housing and urban environment".

In addition to the federal project for the formation of a comfortable urban environment, public areas are also being improved within the framework of the All-Russian competition of Small Towns, which has been held since 2018. The experience gained so far has allowed the republic to become one of the leading regions in terms of the number of winning projects: over 5 years, 42 winning projects received funding from the federal budget totaling 2.9 billion rubles.

The press conference was also attended by Director of the Institute of Urban Development of the Republic of Tatarstan Naila Zinnatullina, Deputy Head of the Kazan Executive Committee on Landscaping Igor Kulyazhev, Head of the Department of Urban Environment Development Programs of the Institute of Urban Development of the Republic of Tatarstan Arina Petrova.