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The best social projects and initiatives of entrepreneurs, volunteers and non-profit organisations in the field of the urban environment can apply for a presidential grant of the #MYVMESTE international award. The winners of the competition will receive public recognition and financial support in the amount of up to 2.5 million rubles. The collection of applications for relevant projects takes place on the premia.myvmeste.rf website and will last until July 5. Individuals over the age of 14 and representatives of organizations are invited to participate. Depending on the track, the application must contain information about the participant, projects, their goals and results, or about the proposed content. Correspondence evaluation of works will take place from July 6 to August 1 - at this time the experts will select the semi-finalists. Evaluation of their projects will continue at the district Dobro.Festivals #MYVMESTE from August 2 to October 1. The projects and works of those who reach the final will be evaluated by the Russians through popular vote, as well as by the jury from October 15 to November 5. The winners will be announced on December 5 at the #MYVMESTE International Forum.

The Ministry of Construction of Russia, together with the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia and DOM.RF, launched an all-Russian open competition for the development of standard designs of individual and low-rise buildings, social and cultural facilities. The competition, which is being conducted on behalf of the Government of the Russian Federation, is another step towards improving the quality of life in the country through the development of private housing construction segment that is accessible to citizens and profitable for business. According to the terms of the competition, by July 20, participants must upload materials on the website woodenbuildings.ru. At the second stage, the jury will select 120 finalists who will develop conceptual bids based on the Standard for the Integrated Development of Territories. In September 2021, 40 winning projects will be selected, the authors of which, at the expense of the organizers, will develop design estimates for the land plots of DOM.RF. By the end of 2021, the documentation will undergo an examination in order to enter the register of cost-effective design documentation for reuse of the Ministry of Construction of Russia in 2022. The competition will be held in 3 stages - qualification selection based on portfolio and essays, development of projects by participants and development of design estimates, passing state expertise based on the winning projects of the competition. Development of design and estimate documentation will be carried out on the land plots of DOM.RF.

The return visit will depend on the epidemiological situation in Moscow. A delegation of young specialists from DOM.RF paid a three-day visit to Tatarstan. The trip was organized as part of an exchange internship and aimed at studying the experience of the republic in the creation and development of public spaces, the construction of affordable housing, in particular for social mortgages, and the creation of single customer service. During the first day, representatives of the DOM.RF got acquainted with the activities of the Ministry of Construction of the Republic and its subordinate organizations. During the meeting, the topics of the application of the mechanism for the integrated development of territories, innovative approaches in design and construction, and digitalization of the industry were raised. The State Housing Fund under the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, in turn, shared its experience in the implementation of housing construction under the social mortgage program. During the second day, meetings were organized with representatives of the Fund for Supporting defrauded homebuyers of the Republic of Tatarstan, and the State Construction Supervision of the Republic of Tatarstan. At the Kazan State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, they were told about the training of personnel for the construction industry and existing research and educational centers. Young specialists also visited the youngest city in Russia - Innopolis and the residential complex "Salavat Kupere", where the construction of new residential buildings is carried out within the framework of the social mortgage program. At the end of the trip, the guests studied the experience of improving urban infrastructure and creating public spaces on the example of Kazan.

From 21 to 24 September 2021, Kazan will host the International Forum Kazan DigitalWeek - 2021. The event is aimed at developers and users of digital intelligent technologies, systems and services created on their basis and services, it is planned to be held in a mixed (offline + online) format in the Kazan Expo International Exhibition Center, which is equipped with exhibition pavilions, session halls, open demonstration areas, comfortable transport and recreational infrastructure. The main thematic areas of KDW-2021: "Intelligent transport systems"; "Digital Industry 4.0"; "Cybersecurity"; "Digital technologies in education"; "Digital technologies in the sphere of culture"; "Digital technologies in the field of healthcare and medicine"; "Digital technologies in agriculture". More detailed information about the program, conditions of participation and organisers of the forum can be found on the Kazan Digital Week website.

The Recommendations on the application form of the developer to the bank for the provision of project financing for housing using escrow accounts and the list of documents for filing an application came into force. The document was developed by the Ministry of Construction of Russia, the Bank of Russia, the Institute for Development in the Housing Sector DOM.RF with the participation of experts and the professional community. The recommendations were prepared on behalf of the President of the Russian Federation to reduce the time frame for providing project financing to developers and to simplify the procedure for its provision. The document supplements the Recommendations issued in April 2019 on defining the procedures for interaction between banks and developers in the transition to project financing of shared housing projects using escrow accounts. The project financing aggregator implemented by DOM.RF has already been upgraded to the recommended application form and is available to all developers working in the Unified Housing Construction Information System. The application is formed in a completely machine-readable format and, if necessary, can be integrated into the internal systems of the bank using a specially developed API service. The amount of information specified in the application takes into account all the information necessary for making a decision about the developer and the construction project. The recommendations are published on the official websites of the Ministry of Construction of Russia, the Bank of Russia and DOM.RF, as well as on the portal of the Unified Information System for Housing Construction Nash.dom.rf.

The organizers of the TOP RC Prize made a decision to introduce additional 14 nominations for the competition. Acceptance of applications for participation in the summer stage of the TOP RC award began on June 21 and will last until July 23.

The Government of the Russian Federation has agreed on changes to the rules for providing preferential loans for the construction of socially significant facilities. Dom.rf will act as the sole operator for the implementation of the new financial instrument, and the funds will be managed by the Ministry of Construction of Russia. A preferential loan is provided for up to three years at a rate of no more than 3% per annum and is allocated for the creation of capital construction of engineering, social and transport infrastructure, the construction of which is carried out in whole or in part with the involvement of the federal budget. According to the rules, the loan will be provided to compensate for the construction of facilities put into operation earlier than the deadline established by state, regional programs, as well as the federal targeted investment program (but no later than six months before the expiration of the deadline established in state, regional programs, as well as the federal targeted investment program).

The Minister of Construction, Architecture, Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Aizatullin reported on the progress of implementation of republican programs for housing construction and construction of social facilities today at a meeting in the Government House of the Republic of Tatarstan. In terms of national projects, the Ministry is implementing 95 objects and almost 4 thousand square meters of emergency housing for a total amount of more than 10 billion rubles, for which today the average implementation is 55%. A school for 1.5 thousand places was built according to the federal project "Housing". Currently, the educational institution is equipped with all the necessary equipment. 16 kindergartens are being built within the framework of the federal projects "Housing" and "Promotion of Women's Employment". Completion of work at the facilities exceeds 54%. At one site - in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny - work has already been completed. As part of the federal project "Clean Water", a water treatment station will be built in the village of Vasilyevo, Zelenodolsk district. Construction and installation works are closed by 45%. The housing plan by the current date has been fulfilled by 48.5%. Built 1 million 294 thousand square meters, which corresponds to the level of last year. The maximum implementation (73.7%) was achieved within the framework of individual housing construction: with an annual plan of 8,330 houses, 6,144 have already been commissioned. Under the social mortgage program, 161 apartment buildings of 280,000 square meters must be commissioned, of which 99 thousand "squares" have been commissioned - this is 80 houses. Another 41 houses are close to putting into commission.

In Tatarstan, within the framework of the federal project "Improvement of the Volga" of the national project "Ecology", 11 treatment facilities were built and reconstructed in 10 municipalities, including Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny, Yelabuga and so on. Two more objects are being built in the village of Koschakovo, Pestrechinsky municipal district and the city of Kazan.

The event was organized by the Government jointly with the State Council Commission in the direction of "Construction, Housing and Utilities, Urban Environment" in order to develop solutions to achieve the national goals set by the President. Marat Khusnullin made an introductory report to the participants of the seminar-meeting. He outlined the main tasks facing the Government and governors: creating comfortable cities and a trouble-free and convenient transport network, improving living standards and increasing safety. As priorities in the spatial development of the country, the Deputy Prime Minister singled out increasing the affordability of housing, including through preferential mortgages, the development of individual construction, the integrated development of territories, the introduction of a new program for resettlement of emergency housing, and the creation of new points of attraction. Speaking about the development of housing construction, the Deputy Prime Minister focused on the need for the development of transport infrastructure, including its backbone network to connect the entire territory and space. Marat Khusnullin devoted a special part of the report to new, improved approaches to the administrative burden on developers and the reduction of mandatory requirements in construction, as well as to the issue of improving the quality of financial management of state customers and using the experience of leading objects.