On December 27, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation  Alexander Novak, Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov, The Mayor of Kazan  Ilsur Metshin and others visited the  New Year fair opened  in  Staro-Tatarskaya sloboda. 

On December 27, at the end of ceremony dedicated to the launching a new electrical power unit, a combined cycle plant with a capacity of 220 MW named after V.K.Shibanov at Kazan CHPP-2, Minnikhanov said, “It is the most up-to-date power unit. The electricity market is very competitive, and we need to meet the modern requirements”. “We have fallen in the field of updating the power engineering facilities and we have to work hard. We have projects for the further development, electrical power units in Nizhnekamsk, Zainsk and Elabuga are among them. 

On December 27, general director of the Fund for utilities reforms promotion Konstantin Tzitzin, Chairman of the supervisory council of the Fund for utilities reforms promotion Sergey Stepashin, Chief of Staff of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Asgat Safarov, Head of the Laishevo Municipal District Mikhail Afanasiev, Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing of the Republic of Tatarstan Irek Faizullin, Executive Director of the Tatarstan State Housing Fund under the Tatarstan President Talgat Abdullin took part in the solemn ceremony dedicated to handing the  keys to new flats to the hazardous dwelling resettlement programme participants.