OREANDA-NEWS. September 14, 2009.  Victor Basargin, Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation, visited KAMAZ.

The high guest was welcomed and accompanied by Rustam Minnikhznov – Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Ildar Khalikov – Mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny, Yury Klochkov – First Deputy Director General of KAMAZ Inc., and the managers of the largest industrial enterprises of Zakamye.

The federal minister visited KAMAZ R&D Center and saw an exhibition of automobile equipment the serial production of which will start this autumn. Then Victor Basargin and other guests were at the production premises of the Kama Industrial Park Master where the enterprises of medium- and small-scale business working in the production string of KAMAZ and producing automobile components for trucks.

Sharing his experience the RF minister of regional development said:

- Naberezhnye Chelny is a highly diversified city which has got enterprises of various industries. Of course, KAMAZ stands out against this background; it has an impressive output line, produces a wide range of trucks, special equipment on their basis and other items. It enables the city to solve the problems of unemployment and the whole range of financial and economic issues.

We have agreed with the authorities of the republic that KAMAZ has to carry out a more aggressive marketing policy, exclude its foreign competitors from the inner market and, in the first run, Chinese producers – especially in the Far East and Siberia. The miners and oil industry workers are waiting for KAMAZ vehicles and they know that they are of good quality and that they will meet their requirements.