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By now, the Cathedral of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God restored in the capital of Tatarstan is ready for 60 percent. In addition, by November 4, builders will have to complete the installation of all utilities. To date, the cost of work that already done to restore the cathedral, amounted to 750 million rubles. However, the final estimate, as said Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing of the Republic of Tatarstan Vladimir Kudryashov, is constantly growing. "General construction works are completed at 90 percent today. The finishing works are just beginning. There is a very large amount of work, which is difficult to lay down in the regulatory deadlines. Usually, they are prescribed in the construction project, but here it is not entirely applicable due to certain types of work - the manufacture of the iconostasis, icons from smalt, wall painting. These are unique works, and our general standards are not applied to them. We hope that by the 4th of November, probably, the iconostasis will be fulfilled," - said Kudryashov. According to the optimistic assumption of the representative of the Kazan diocese, Mikhail Fedotov, however, it is possible that some decorations and murals will be realized by the summer holiday of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God on July 21, 2019.

On April 18, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov visited the State Record Office of the Republic of Tatarstan after capital repair.

Minnikhanov looked around the main five-storey building, where he was shown a reading room, an exhibition and other renovated premises, including archive facilities, where a lot of archive documents are stored. The guests also looked into offices, where archive specialists work with archive documents that have been already digitized.

Head of the Federal Agency of Records of the Russian Federation Andrei Artizov, Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Leila Fazleeva, Head of Chief of Staff of Tatarstan President’s Administration Asgat Safarov, Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture, Housing and Utilities of the republic Vladimir Kudryashev, Director of the Main Investment and Construction Department of the republic Marat Arazatullin took part in the event.

On 27th of April in the building of Kazan State Energy University will be held the contest "The best plumber of Kazan 2018". The aim of the competition is to raise the prestige and popularity of the sanitary engineering profession, to change the attitude to this profession as a working speciality in general, to attract the attention of the public and young people who are faced with the choice of the working profession. On 17th of April the first stage of the professional skills competition took place in the Training Center of the Housing and Communal Services "Kazgylcomsertification" in the form of passing the theoretical examination, which was preceded by training, which covered the issues of: engineering and technical equipment of a residential building, operational requirements for internal sanitation systems, repair and preventive maintenance of sanitary equipment, sanitary-and-technical water-fittings, heating system of an apartment building, labor protection, industrial sanitation, warning traffic injuries and others. Based on the results of the district competitions, 24 participants in the contest "The Best Plumber of Kazan 2018" were identified.

Acceptance of applications for the all-Russian competition "Letter A" for the media, journalists and bloggers writing about architecture, extended until 30th of April inclusive. As explained by the organizers, this decision was made in connection with the active changes initiated by the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation with regard to changes to improve the quality of the residential environment in Russian cities. In particular, we are talking about the project "Smart City", a pilot part of which is planned to be implemented in 17 cities. You can download the regulations and the application in the groups: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1940256266203215/ and https://vk.com/club161560611  and on the competition website:букваа.рф. For mail: urban.institute@yandex.ru with the note "COMPETITION-PRIZE" LETTER A ".

For the 1st quarter of 2018, the Naberezhnye Chelny zonal inspection registered and examined 356 applications. 69 unscheduled on-site inspections were carried out. As a result, 64 prescriptions were issued. 66 warnings about the inadmissibility of violations of mandatory requirements for: the maintenance of the facade pipeline; charge for capital repairs; use of common property; cleaning of snow canopies, icicles and ice. In total, within the scope of the inspections, 124 residential houses with a total area of ​​125.7 thousand square meters were surveyed.

On April 13, 2018, a plenary meeting of the interregional meeting on the Volga Federal District took place on the basis of the Kazan College of Public Utilities, Architecture and Construction on the theme: "Public control and housing education is the way to improve the efficiency of the housing and communal services." The event was attended by Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Housing Policy and Housing and Communal Services Pavel Kachkaev, First Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Tatarstan Alexey Frolov, Deputy Minister of Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Bashkortostan Alfred Zinnatullin, Deputy Director of the Department methodology and modernization of the communal infrastructure of the Housing Fund Andrei Ulyanov, the head of the Press Center of the Office Housing Fund Olga Grishina, as well as representatives of the executive authorities of the Volga Federal District, representatives of public control, associations of homeowners of the Republic of Tatarstan.

In his opening speech, the First Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture, Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Tatarstan, Alexei Frolov, emphasized the relevance of the meeting's topic. The sphere of housing and communal services concerns every inhabitant of our country. "And I hope that today's joint work of representatives of the executive and legislative state authorities, management companies and public figures will certainly give their positive result in creating a comfortable and safe living environment", - said Alexei Frolov. Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Housing Policy and Communal Services Pavel Kachkaev in his report spoke in detail about the innovations in the legislation of the Russian Federation concerning the housing and communal services. The main attention he paid to the draft law on payment by residents of public services directly to resource-supplying organizations, bypassing the management companies. He also answered the questions of the meeting participants related to the latest changes in the housing legislation.

On the eve of the new construction season in Kazan, discussion about a new and very popular technology of construction will be held. The event is designed both for professional participants (builders, engineers, entrepreneurs, teachers), and for all interested in innovations in the construction industry. The seminar on 3D construction printing, which will be held in Tatarstan and the Volga region for the first time, includes coverage of such aspects as the technological map (technology essence), history of technology (players, equipment, realized projects), features and opportunities, 3D printing economy, market and technological prospects . We remind that listen to the report and ask questions can be on 25th of April at the exhibition "VolgaStroyExpo" in the exhibition centre "Kazanskaya Yarmarka" (Kazan, Orenburg tract, 8). Phone for more information: (843) 202-29-07. Participation in the seminar is free of charge.

On April 14, speaking at a regional video-conference held by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov with participation of Prime Minister of the republic Aleksey Pesoshin and all regions of the republic, Tatarstan Minister of Construction, Architecture, Housing and Utilities Irek Faizullin reported that since the beginning of 2018, the State Construction Inspectorate and State Labour Inspectorate of Tatarstan have carried out 366 inspections and issued 118 decisions for the sum of 3m886 thousand roubles for violations of labour safety rules and regulations.

April 12, 2017 the house is located at the address Yamasheva St, 74 under the management of  "Yutnyi Dom" in a solemn atmosphere was awarded the title of a house of exemplary content. The meeting attended by Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Committee of Housing and Communal Services of the Executive Committee of the Municipality of Kazan Kurbanov Almir Akhatovich, Head of the Department of the Ministry of Construction, Architecture and Housing of the Republic of Tatarstan Nasyrov Ildus Nailovich, Director of the Department of Housing and Communal Services of the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation Solntseva Elena Pavlovna, executive directorate  of National Center "Housing and Utility Infrastructure Housing Control" Razvorotneva Svetlana Pavlovna, Executive Director of the National Center "Regional Center of public control in the sphere of housing and communal services of the Republic of Tatarstan" Dmitry Romanov and director of the Managament Company"Yutnyi Dom" Nuriyev Marat Abdulkhaevich.

On April 12, at the Korston Entertainment Complex in Kazan, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in the ninth annual general meeting of members of the Association of Builders of Tatarstan.

The President of the organization Rim Khalitov made a keynote report on the work of the Association of Builders of the republic in 2017.

Making a report of the audit commission, Chairman of the Audit Commission Ildar Galeev said that the results of work in 2017 were found to be satisfactory.

Speaking at the meeting, Pesoshin stressed that the Association of Builders of the republic is one of the largest regional self-regulating organizations in Russia.

"The construction complex is one of the most important sectors of the regional economy," Pesoshin said. "Due to the investment of budget funds in the construction industry, the government has significantly contributed to the reduction of the housing problem in the republic, additional jobs have been created, the construction community of Tatarstan has managed to minimize the negative consequences in the economy."

According to the Head of the regional Cabinet of Ministers, the transition from licensing to self-regulation was one of the turning points in reforming the construction industry, which consists not only in replacing licenses with certificates of admission to work, but in ensuring high quality of construction work, occupational safety and increasing the responsibility of building organizations.

The idea of ​​self-regulation of the construction industry has justified itself and has been successfully put in practice, Pesoshin continued.

The Association of Builders of the republic includes more than 1,000 construction organizations (as of April 1, 2018, there are 1,025 organizations).

As noted at the meeting, as many as 37 state programmes were implemented in Tatarstan, with the amount of financing made more than 44 billion roubles in 2017, Pesoshin reminded. He also reminded that it is planned to implement 38 programmes with approximately the same amount of funding in 2018.

"I believe that in 2018 the Association of Builders of the republic should strengthen control over the quality of construction works at facilities, fulfil contractual obligations in due time, including the terms of commissioning; improve the  institution of public inspectors in organizations - members of the Association; contribute to the development of the system for raising the level of professional skill of workers of construction organizations - members of the Association, increase the information transparency of the Association, carry out work to reduce occupational injuries, hold training seminars in the field of labor protection, construction and self-regulation,” Pesoshin summed up.

He thanked everyone for their work and expressed his confidence that the builders will continue to actively promote various projects for the further development of the republic.