Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture will host a business delegation from Tatarstan, Russia, on Aug. 20 at 2 p.m.
The delegation consists of 75 representatives from 45 companies of the private sector of the Republic of Tatarstan. With the aim of developing business relations, the delegation will meet and negotiate directly with their counterparts from four Iranian cities of Tehran, Gorgan, Rasht and Tabriz, the news portal of TCCIM reported.
The delegation is headed by Korobchenko Oleg Vladimirovich, deputy prime minister of Tatarstan and minister of industry and trade of the eastern European republic.
The companies present in the delegation are active in the fields of oil, gas and petrochemicals, transportation and logistics, aviation, food and agriculture, health, cosmetics, chemicals, auto parts, construction materials and supplies, polymer, investment and entrepreneurship.
Tatarstan is one of the most economically developed regions of Russia. The republic is highly industrialized and ranks second to Samara Oblast in terms of industrial production per square kilometers.
The region's main source of wealth is oil. Tatarstan produces 32 million tons of crude oil per year and has estimated oil reserves of more than 1 billion tons. Industrial production constitutes 45% of the republic's gross regional domestic product. Its most developed manufacturing industries are petrochemical and machine building industries.
The truck-maker KamAZ is the region's largest enterprise and employs about one-fifth of Tatarstan's workforce. Kazanorgsintez, based in Kazan, is one of Russia's largest chemical companies.
Tatarstan's aviation industry produces Tu-214 passenger airplanes and helicopters. The Kazan Helicopter Plant is one of the largest helicopter manufacturers in the world. Engineering, textiles, clothing, wood processing and food industries are also of key significance in Tatarstan.
Tatarstan consists of three distinct industrial regions. The northwestern part is an old industrial region where engineering, chemical and light industry dominate.
In the newly industrial northeast region with its core in the Naberezhnye Chelny–Nizhnekamsk agglomeration, major industries are automobile manufacture, chemical industry and power engineering. The southeast region has oil production with engineering under development. The north, central, south and southwest parts of the republic are rural regions.
The republic has huge water resources, as the annual flow of rivers of the republic exceeds 240 billion cubic meters.
Its soils are very diverse, the best fertile soils covering one-third of the territory. Due to the high development of agriculture in Tatarstan (it contributes 5.1% of the total revenue of the republic), forests occupy only 16% of its territory. The agricultural sector of the economy is represented mostly by large companies such as Ak Bars Holding and "Krasnyi Vostok Agro".
The republic has a highly developed transport network. It mainly comprises highways, railroads, four navigable rivers: Volga, Kama, Vyatka and Belaya, oil pipelines and airlines.
The territory of Tatarstan is crossed by the main gas pipelines carrying natural gas from Urengoy and Yamburg to the west and the major oil pipelines supplying oil to various cities in the European part of Russia.
