DUSHANBE, November 1, 2014, Asia-Plus – Days of Saint Petersburg will take place in Dushanbe from November 7-8 and the Saint Petersburg governor Georgy Poltavchenko will attend this event, Shavkat Saidov, a spokesman for the Dushanbe mayor’s office, told Asia-Plus in an interview.
“A number of cultural activities and a meeting of representatives of the business circle of the two cities will be held,” said Saidov. “The sides will also discuss issues related to bilateral cooperation between the two cities in the fields of labor migration regulation, education, health care, trade, investment, and culture.”
Saint Petersburg is one of the first to sign a sister city agreement with Dushanbe. The agreement was signed on October 6, 1991.
Saint Petersburg is the second largest city in Russia, politically incorporated as a federal subject (a federal city). Saint Petersburg is a major trade gateway, financial and industrial centre of Russia specializing in oil and gas trade, shipbuilding yards, aerospace industry, radio and electronics, software and computers; machine building, heavy machinery and transport, including tanks and other military equipment, mining, instrument manufacture, ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy (production of aluminum alloys), chemicals, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, publishing and printing, food and catering, wholesale and retail, textile and apparel industries, and many other businesses.
10% of the world”s power turbines are made there at the Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod (LMZ – Leningrad Metal Works), which built over two thousand turbines for power plants across the world.
