Press conference on the Year of Culture in Tatarstan was held at the State Council

On December 4, the State Council held a press conference on the Year of Culture in Tatarstan. At the meeting with representatives of republican and federal mass media took part  Chairman of the Committee on Education, Culture, Science and the National Question Razil Valeev and the Deputy Minister of Culture of Tatarstan Guzel Nigmatullina.

Opening the press conference, Razil Valeev noted that the announcement by the President of Russia and Tatarstan Culture Year has for our country a great importance. "2014 will be remembered for such important events in Tatarstan, as a forum Turksoi, determining Kazan, the cultural capital of the Turkic world, Turkish pop music festival Tyurkvizhn, forums Turkic-speaking editors of magazines and Turkic-speaking writers, - said the head of the parliamentary committee. - For the organization and conduct of many of these events, our committee has immediate value. "

According to the parliamentarian, in the activities of the Committee on Education, Science, Culture and national issues remains a priority for legislative support of cultural development in the country, which includes a variety of issues ranging from the preservation of cultural heritage to the construction of new cultural institutions, from the search of the building as a museum of the Tatar literature to the social protection of librarians ... "Culture - the concept is very versatile, which can not be limited only to the Year of Culture - said Razil Valeev. - Culture includes education, religion, and history, and narrow areas such as corporate culture, the culture of communication, professional, political culture. Therefore, our committee will work in this direction in the next year is not less active. We plan to have the bills related to the development of theater and theatrical activity, support of creative personalities and creative unions. We already have a precedent - is the RT Law "On State Support of the Republic of Tatarstan Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education" Kazan (Volga) Federal University ", adopted in May 2014. Also, a legislative solution is needed to the question of preservation of intangible cultural heritage of our people - a huge reservoir of folk festivals, customs, rites, crafts, oral tradition. "

Deputy Minister of Culture of Tatarstan Guzel Nigmatullina, summarizing the Year of Culture in the country, recalled the adoption in late 2013 of the Republican program "Development of culture and arts in the Republic of Tatarstan in 2014-2020 years." "This program includes 15 routines and aims to meet the cultural needs of the entire population of the country regardless of their place of residence, - she said. - After watching theater, listen to songs performed by professional actors villagers have the same right as citizens. Program identified as key challenges of the industry. "

One of the important practical problems of the Ministry of Guzel Nigmatullina named raise the prestige of the employee of culture. And for this, according to her above all the need for further work to increase the size of his remuneration. "During the first 9 months of this year the average monthly wage in the industry amounted to 17,900 rubles, - reported the deputy minister. - Of course, this is not enough, since it is only 65% to the average in the economy. But on the other hand, in any other branch of the republic was not observed such an increase (20.6%) to the level of 2013 ".

The great achievement of the republic in 2014 Guzel Nigmatullina called Bolgar inclusion in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to her, a renovated Kachalovsky theater opened and became an object of pride of all of Tatarstan. Over the past three years in the country built 139 cultural institutions, only this year opened 47 rural palaces.

At the end of the conversation press conference participants expressed their gratitude to the media for professional, creative and serious coverage of the culture of mutual understanding and cooperation in solving common problems.