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According to the document in 2019, subsidies from the federal budget, intended for the implementation of the program to create a comfortable urban environment of the national project “Housing and Urban Environment”, may be partially directed to the activities of digitization of the urban economy in the framework of the Smart City project. “Among the priorities that we face is the involvement of citizens in the processes of creating a comfortable urban environment. By 2024, this figure should reach 30 percent of the entire population of the country. The use of digital services allows you to make communication with the authorities simple and convenient, and also saves resources for conducting rating voting for the facilities, - said the Minister of Construction, Housing and Communal Services Vladimir Yakushev. “In addition, a comfortable environment should be safe, which is why we expanded the list of activities of the Smart City standard for which federal subsidies for the project to create a comfortable urban environment can be directed.”

The new Ilham Shakirov Concert Hall was opened at Kazan Expo by the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov. The event went within the framework of the Day of the native language and the 133th anniversary of the birth of the Tatar poet Gabdulla Tukai. A new concert hall with an area of ​​3,348.75 square meters forms a single hall with several transformation options. In the backstage space there are storage rooms for equipment and decoration, wardrobe rooms with fitting rooms, waiting rooms for the stage, dressing rooms, simultaneous translation rooms and a rehearsal room. In full, the hall is designed for 3187 seats, including 33 places for low mobility groups. In the decoration of the ceiling and walls of the hall, Acoustic panels "Decoustic" were used, made according to the requirements for multifunctional halls with sound amplification of this type. The project envisages the formation of a single hall with 8 variants of transformation due to the transformable partition and mobile stands: 3187 seats, 2971 seats, 2405 seats, 2189 seats, 1745 seats, 1529 seats, 1145 seats, 910 seats.

In the Republic of Tatarstan as on 25th of April 2019, major repairs are being carried out in 176 apartment buildings. This was announced today at a meeting in the House of the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan by First Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing of the Republic of Tatarstan Alexei Frolov. Alexey Frolov recalled that according to the program for the overhaul of apartment buildings in 2019, 936 apartment buildings with a total area of ​​5.6 million square meters are planned to be renovated. The program involves 42 municipal districts (except Atninsky, Drozhzhanovsky and Kaibitsky districts). Then Alexey Frolov reported on the implementation of a number of overhaul programs for the facilities. The overhaul of cultural facilities is carried out at 34 out of 40 sites. The amount of funding is 401 million 765.17 thousand rubles. During the meeting, President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov was interested in where today there are weaknesses in the implementation of republican programs. Alexey Frolov, answering questions, said that there are questions about the organization of preparatory work for creating projects of public spaces. Rustam Minnikhanov instructed to strengthen the work in this direction in order to capture the summer period as much as possible.

The meeting of the trusteeship and administrative councils of the Foundation "Vozrozhdenie" was chaired by the State Councilor of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev. The meeting participants summed up the work of the organization on the revival of the ancient Bolgar and the island-town of Sviyazhsk and discussed the progress of the pilot project - the creation of multilingual educational complexes. Mintimer Sharipovich Shaimiev named the key task for the coming years - reforming the education system. This is the creation of a multilingual educational complex in the republic. Within four years it is planned to build six such facilities - with training in three languages ​​- Russian, Tatar and English, two of which will be located in Kazan and one each - in Naberezhnye Chelny, Almetyevsk, Nizhnekamsk and Elabuga. “With the participation of the foundation, we embarked on a new project - the problem of the state of education. The world is changing so fast that we are lagging behind, running out of time. An artificial stagnation has been created in our country in the education system, meanwhile the methods of educating children around the world are changing.  We can not lag behind. The price of the issue is too high,” - Mintimer Shaimiev said.

Information-Advisory group on legal aid carried out in city to the Kama Estuary and tenki village of the Kama-ustyinsky municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan.The event was attended by the specialist of the legal Department of the Ministry of construction, architecture and housing and utilities RT L.A. Akhmetzyanova.

A meeting was held at the Ministry of Construction, Architecture, Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Tatarstan on the implementation of the pilot project, the State Information System "Stroycomplex RT". The meeting was held by the Minister of construction of Tatarstan Irek Faizullin. Representatives of the Ministry of Informatization and Communications of the Republic of Tatarstan, State Unitary Enterprise GISU RT, state autonomous institution “Government Of Public Examination And Pricing Of The Republic Of Tatarstan in Construction and Architecture”, TIGP, AO BARS Group, State Unitary Enterprise Gasification Fund took part. “Any information system, including the State Information System “Stroycomplex RT”, should solve one problem, namely, simplify and speed up the work,” - Irek Faizullin said during the meeting. “We are currently working to improve the usability of the system,” - said a spokeswoman of BARS Group. The issues of the need to make changes to the system, and further integration with relevant systems of ministries and departments of the Republic of Tatarstan were raised.

The criteria  according to which it is possible to complete earlier started construction by the old rules, i.e. without using escrow accounts have been approved. This was announced today by the Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture, Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Tatarstan Ilshat Gimayev at a republican meeting on project financing of housing construction. It should be noted that from 1st of July 2019, all Russian developers should switch to project financing of housing construction using escrow accounts. Opening the meeting, Deputy Minister of Construction Ilshat Gimaev said that a decree of the Government of the Russian Federation was signed yesterday, which will facilitate construction for developers of apartment buildings. According to the decree, developers will be able to attract funds of real estate investors directly, without creating escrow accounts, if the house is ready for more than 30%. The number of concluded equity participation agreements must reach at least 10% of the number of residential and non-residential premises in a residential building. Ilshat Gimaev assured that there should be no failure in the construction market of Tatarstan due to reform.

The deputy minister spoke at the opening ceremony and looked at the exhibition. Attendees of the event will be able to familiarize with information about new developments in the construction market, select finishing materials, get contacts with suppliers and establish business contacts. “Tatarstan is the undisputed leader among the regions of the Volga Federal District in terms of the share of the volume of construction work (the volume of capital investments 2018– 360 billion rubles), which is 28.6% (in 2017 - 21.4%) with the share of the population 13, 2%. Another important event of the business program was the round table "Actual issues of the development of the construction industry." Ilshat Gimaev stressed that the solution of issues of development of the construction industry, primarily aimed at the implementation of the instructions of the President of Russia on the transition to a new system of housing development. The topic of discussion was also labor protection. Experts discussed industrial injuries in the construction industry. “The interaction of the ministry with municipalities, control and supervisory bodies, SROs, the trade union and customers over the past 5 years has reduced the number of accidents in the construction industry by 2.6 times (from 57 to 22, including fatalities from 19 to 9 ),” - said the representative of the Ministry of Construction.

The rules for monitoring the prices of construction resources will be changed. The draft resolution is being finalized and will be approved soon. This was announced by the head of the Ministry of Construction of Russia Vladimir Yakushev at a meeting of the State Council working group on the issue of "The development of the housing market and the formation of a comfortable urban environment"  at 22nd of April. The resolution spelled out the possibility of participating in the monitoring of regions, federal executive bodies, state corporations and companies with state participation with verification of their data by the Glavgosexpertiza of Russia,” - the minister specified. It is also proposed to expand the list of types of information on the price of building resources, including the price of offers of manufacturers and wholesale suppliers. Vladimir Yakushev said that by July of the current year it is planned to adopt a bill that is proposed to “unfreeze” a change in federal rates and their components to include new technologies (changes in 191-FL). These measures will give the construction industry new and update the existing indices, increasing the accuracy of the calculation of the cost by about 10-15% already this year.

The resolution issued on 22nd of April , 2019 No. 480. The criteria determining the degree of readiness of an apartment building or other real estate and the number of concluded contracts for participation in shared construction have been approved, provided that the developer is given the right to raise funds from participants of shared construction without using escrow accounts under contracts for participation in shared construction submitted for state registration after 1st of July, 2019. The purpose of the decision is to ensure the completion of residential buildings in cases where it is possible to complete the shared construction according to the old rules, i.e., without the use of escrow accounts. The criterion of the degree of readiness of the construction project is set at a minimum of 30% with the exception of a number of cases. If the construction project is implemented within the framework of agreements on the development of a built-up area, integrated development  of the territory, other agreements that provide for the developer’s obligations to build and transfer social and engineering infrastructure objects to state or municipal property and (or) demolish old and damaged housing, the degree of readiness of the construction project should be at least 15%.