DUSHANBE, November 11, 2014, Asia-Plus – Days of Dushanbe are expected to take place in Saint Petersburg, Russia next year.
“On completion of Days of Saint Petersburg in Dushanbe, Saint Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko proposed to Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev to hold Days of Dushanbe in Saint Petersburg next year,” Shavkat Saidov, a spokesman for the Dushanbe mayor’s office, told Asia-Plus in an interview.
We will recall that Days of Saint Petersburg took place in Dushanbe on November 7-8. On the sidelines of the event, the sides signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the field of labor migration and an agreement on cooperation between School No 261 located in Saint Petersburg’s Kirov district and Dushanbe’s School No 92.
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.
