The meeting of the Board of the Volga Region cities Association in Cheboksary

Secretary General of UCLG Euro-Asian Section, Rasikh Sagitov, attended the meeting of the Board of the Association of the Volga Region cities that took place on 20 August 2011 in the administration of the city of Cheboksary, marking the 542 anniversary of the city.
 

At the meeting the Board discussed the strategies of development of the Volga cities. The specialists from Cheboksary submitted a draft Development Strategy of the city till the year 2020 with agglomeration taken into account.

        Within the framework of the events devoted to the City Day celebration, the meeting of the Chuvash President M. Ignatov and the Mayor of Cheboksary, L.Cherkesov, took place.  The participation of Cheboksary in the UCLG Eurasian section activities was discussed at the meeting, as well as the participation of the city in the
V International Conference of the World Heritage Cities of Eurasia taking place in Istanbul on 27-29 October, 2011.

 
       Note: Association of the Volga Cities was founded on 27 October, 1998.
On this day in Samara the leaders of the seven large cities - Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Penza, Samara, Saratov, Ulyanovsk, and Cheboksary signed an agreement on the establishment of the association. In February 2000 Yoshkar-Ola joined the Association. Astrakhan and Saransk joined it on 1 November 2002 and Volgograd in 2005. At present the Association comprises 11 cities.

20.08.2011

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