OREANDA-NEWS  On 09 June was announced, that Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev received Astana Mayor Imangali Tasmagambetov.

The Mayor informed the President on the current socioeconomic development of Astana, particularly, in the realms of housing construction and formation of modern city infrastructure.

At the beginning of the current year, 128 projects of the unfinished shared construction were under way. One hundred and four projects among them will be put into operation by the end of this year, the rest ones will be put in to operation in 2010.

Imangali Tasmagambetov also reported on the preparation to the celebrations devoted to the Day of Capital. The construction of the Locomotive-Leasing Railway Locomotive Assembly Plant, office buildings of the Kazakhstan Temir Zholy national company and of LukOil Company, 30 thousand capacity stadium, the Medical Emergency Research Institute, the Vocational Lyceum, and more is planned to be finished by this date.

The Mayor of Astana highlighted that traffic movement on the left span of the Bogenbai Batyr Avenue bridge would be launched by this holiday. The construction of two large interchanges will be finished as well.