(KZN.RU,
May 8). Today Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of the RT, held a meeting of
the organizing committee for the preparation and holding of the 72nd
anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The event was held in
the Government House of the RT.
“The last
preparations for the events in honor of the Great Victory Day are held in all
regions and cities of the republic. Obelisks and monuments were put in order in
every settlement and meetings with veterans were organized. A lot of work is
carried out in the field of health care and social protection. I would like to
express special words of gratitude to the heads of enterprises who do not leave
their veterans without attention”, said the President of Tatarstan in his
opening speech.
Rustam
Minnikhanov marked that it is necessary to work with veterans everywhere in no
holiday time as well: “This category of people should be under a special
control. Because, unfortunately, every year 10 thousand people die, the ranks
of our veterans are thinning”.
“Our task
is to preserve the memory of the participants in the war and the workers of the
rear for the following generations as much as possible”, the President said.
Vasil
Shaikhraziev, the deputy Prime Minister of the RT, made the main report. He
said that today 54 thousand 844 veterans of the Great Patriotic War and the
widows of the deceased, as well as 2.553 participants and disabled veterans,
live in Tatarstan.
Active work
to provide veterans with comfortable housing continues in the republic. About
20 billion rubles have been received and disbursed from the federal budget
since the beginning of the implementation of this program. 19 thousand veterans
of the war are registered as those who need better housing conditions, 18.971
of them have been notified of the allocation of subsidies. Only 29 veterans with
unsecured housing remain in the republic, taking into account the funds,
allocated in 2017.
“Since 2014
to the present, the repair of 1326 living quarters, in which veterans of the
Great Patriotic War live, was carried out by the forces of municipal regions
with the involvement of concerned sponsors. This year the work continues”, said
Vasil Shaikhraziev.
According
to the speaker, a great attention is paid to social services for veterans.
Almost 30% of the total number of serviced at home in the first quarter of 2017
are veterans of the Great Patriotic War and equated to them. For 4 months of
2017, 107 veterans were accepted for social services.
Akhat
Yulashev, the Major General, the chairman of the Public Organization Committee
of Veterans of the War and Military Service of the RT, Ilshat Gafurov, the
rector of the Kazan Federal University, Sergei Rakovets, the general director
of the AO “Kazan Optical and Mechanical Plant”, and others also spoke during
the meeting .
Alexei
Pesoshin, the Prime Minister of the RT, Farid Mukhametshin, the chairman of the
State Council of the RT, Asgat Safarov, the head of the Office of the President
of the RT, Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, Shamil Gafarov, the deputy Prime
Minister of RT and the head of the Cabinet of Ministers of the RT, heads of
republican ministries and departments, Veterans of the Great Patriotic War, and
the press service of the President of the RT took part in the meeting.