Industrial excursions

Tatneft is one of the largest vertically integrated companies in Russia, which advances oil and gas production, oil refining, petrochemical industry, tyre production, a chain of filling stations, a composite cluster, electrical power engineering, development and production of equipment for oil and gas industry, and a module of service structures.

The Tatneft Group includes 150 enterprises across 10 countries. The experience and expertise of the company’s specialists allow it to develop super-viscous oil fields in the most cost-effective way using its own technological innovations and IT solutions.

Location: 75, Lenina St., Almetyevsk

A modern oil refining complex, which has implemented advanced process solutions –– such as machine learning and artificial intelligence –– to ensure high production efficiency. This socially oriented and dynamically developing enterprise includes a system of oil refineries and petrochemical plants in the city of Nizhnekamsk. The complex is aimed at promoting high-tech, efficient, and eco-friendly processing of oil and production of competitive goods that confirm to superior environmental standards while having a minimal impact on the environment, as well as building and maintaining the reputation as a reliable producer of high-quality petroleum products.

Location: Bldg. 5, Industrial Area 18, Nizhnekamsk

The tour includes: an interpreter, an audio guide, lunch, and transfer

Departure at 07:00 from the Korston Club Hotel Kazan parking lot (1a, N. Ershova St., Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan)

Travel time: 07:00-19:00 h

Cost: RUB 12,000/person

*Requests for this trip are accepted until 6 May 2025.

Kazansky Dairy Plant is one of the largest food industry enterprises in Russia. It forms a part of MILCOM, which was established on the basis of the COMOS GROUP Subholding Company and carries out wholesale distribution and direct sales of its own products throughout Russia.

This is a diversified and growing production enterprise. The Plant specialises in the production of cottage cheese, whole-milk and sour-milk foods, as well as set (thermostatic) foods.

Location: 7, Akademika Arbuzova St., Kazan

Biosphera-Fish is a fish farm engaged in the production of juvenile sturgeon; sturgeon planting material; and sterlet fry for compensatory stocking. The enterprise uses a closed water supply system, which makes it possible to produce and maintain a stock of young sturgeon fish all year round. A specialised wintering facility allows the fish to reproduce and the Farm employees to obtain full roe and healthy fry, while maintaining the long-term well-being of the fish population. Crustaceans, produced on the territory of the enterprise, are used as live feed. Modern methods of live caviar production make it possible to preserve the life and health of the stock as well as obtain fingerlings from the same fish repeatedly throughout the entire life cycle.

Location: 1b, Shosseynaya St., Zimnyaya Gorka Village, Laishevsky District

“Mayskiy” Greenhouse Plant in the Republic of Tatarstan was established in 1974 with the main objective of supplying fresh vegetable products to the population of the Republic and major industrial centres of Russia.

By now the area of modern winter (heated) greenhouses that use photoculture makes up 35.8 hectares. Mayskiy presents the leading Russian plant for the yields of protected vegetables. During the off season for growing glasshouse vegetables in Russia, this greenhouse complex produces an extensive line of fresh European vegetables in the volume of more than 44.7 thousand tonnes.

The range of products include: long-fruited, medium-fruited, short-fruited cucumbers; tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, plum tomatoes; various sweet peppers; aubergines; green crops; perpetual strawberries; and so on.

Location: 15, Gagarina St., Osinovo Village, Zelenodolsky District

The tour includes: an interpreter, an audio guide, lunch, and transfer

Departure at 09:00 from the Korston Club Hotel Kazan parking lot (1a, N. Ershova St., Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan)

Travel time: 09:00-16:30 h

Cost: RUB 8,000/person

Kazanorgsintez is one of the leading enterprises of the Russian chemical industry, which presents a strategically important production complex for the economy of the Republic of Tatarstan. It is the only Russian producer of polycarbonates, EVA, metallocene polyethylene, i.e. high-strength plastics, as well as one of the country’s largest producers of high- and low density polyethylene. Starting from 2021, Kazanorgsintez forms a part of PAO “SIBUR Holding”.

Kazanorgsintez main production facilities are located on a site with a total area of 4.2 sq. km and a single transport, energy, and telecommunications infrastructure. The company’s network includes 3 plants producing 170 goods strongly sought-for in 36 countries of the world. The factory’s production capacity of polyethylene and polycarbonate amounts to more than 1 million tonnes per year.

Location: 101, Belomorskaya St., Kazan

A modern industrial chemical park established in 2006 on the “Tasma” plant industrial site with a total area of 131 hectares and a projected floor area of buildings and structures of more than 500 thousand sq. m.

The purpose behind “Khimgrad” Technopolis was to provide residents with space and land plots on a lease and/or purchase basis. Comprehensive engineering infrastructure allows for a quick start-up of production facilities. The site is managed by a professional management company and is organised following a ‘one-stop shop’ approach. The Technopolis residents are small and medium enterprises working in fine chemical industry, polymer processing, nanotechnology, resource conservation and energy efficiency, and medical technology.

Seven foreign-owned enterprises operate in the territory of “Khimgrad” Technopolis, including the production facilities of the MBS International Group and the French company Air Liquide.

Location: Bldg. 9190, 100, Vosstaniya St., Kazan

The largest Russian manufacturer of household chemicals and cosmetic products. Nefis Cosmetics is among the top 3 leading companies for the production and sale of laundry detergents, as well as washing and cleaning products of such brands as AOS; BiMAX; Sorti; Biolan; baby and mum brand “Ya Rodilsya” (“I Was Born”); such natural brands as “Zavod Bratyev Krestovnikovykh” (“Krestovnikov Brothers’ Plant”), “Tselebnyye travy” (“Healing Herbs”), “Lesnaya polyanka” (“Forest Clearing”); and Free Time. More than 600 items in total are produced and sold in retail home care products and department stores throughout the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and CIS countries.

Location: 154/1, Gabdully Tukaya St., Kazan

The tour includes: an interpreter, an audio guide, lunch, and transfer

Departure at 10:00 from the Korston Club Hotel Kazan parking lot (1a, N. Ershova St., Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan)

Travel time: 10:00-16:00 h

Cost: RUB 6,000/person

This company is one of the top 20 largest manufacturers of pharmaceuticals in Russia, as well as one of the leading enterprises for the production of tablet formulations and ophthalmic ointments and gels across 30 pharmacological classes.

Location: 260, Belomorskaya St., Kazan

This company develops and manufactures medicines, along with potent drugs for the treatment of cancer and HIV, as well as drugs used in transplantation.

Location: Bldg. 9180, 100, Vosstaniya St., Kazan

A modern, innovative, and rapidly growing company specialising in the development and production of high-tech medical simulators under the MedVision brand, all the while adhering to the highest quality standards and meeting the dictates of the time.

Location: Office 426, Bldg. 23, 50, Peterburgskaya St., Kazan

The main institution of the Republic of Tatarstan for circulatory diseases; a high-tech medical centre specialising in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

Location: 12 A, Karbysheva St., Kazan

The tour includes: an interpreter, an audio guide, lunch, and transfer

Departure at 09:00 from the Korston Club Hotel Kazan parking lot (1a, N. Ershova St., Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan)

Travel time: 09:00-16:00 h

Cost: RUB 6,000/person

Innopolis is a city in the Verkhneuslonsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan, presenting the youngest city in Russia. It is one of three Science Towns in the Russian Federation (along with the Skolkovo centre near Moscow and Koltsovo in Novosibirsk) created for advancing information technology and innovative high-tech solutions.

The Innopolis Special Economic Zone (SEZ), with an area of 192.71 hectares, was designed to accommodate the offices of resident companies as well as research and development laboratories. The residents get preferential treatment in regard to income, transport, property, and land tax, as well as insurance premiums, and to income tax thanks to the simplified taxation system. The offices and research centres of resident companies and partners are located in the building of the A.S. Popov Technopark. More than 300 companies (residents, partners, and start-ups) operate in the SEZ.

Location: 7, Universitetskaya St., Innopolis

The private Innopolis University, located in the city of Innopolis, trains high-tech managers and conducts scientific research in information technology and robotics. The University has been operating since 2012, applying a unique learning plan for Russia that combines education, science, and business.

All classes are in English. Professors and researchers from 24 countries with work experience across the world’s leading IT companies teach here. Around 40% of the curriculum presents practical activities and team projects. More than 1,000 students from 40 countries study at the University.

Location: 1, Universitetskaya St., Innopolis

This is the second IT science park established in the Republic of Tatarstan. The main goal of the Technopark is to aggregate start-ups, IT companies, creative and ambitious youth, and representatives of investment funds into this business quarter, and to attract people who can set up new tech enterprises in the Republic. The IT Park houses the offices of leading IT companies; co-working spaces; paid meeting rooms; a technopark for kids; conference halls; a Start-up Hub; a Cyberpark Arena; and other public spaces.

Location: 2, Spartakovskaya St., Kazan

A free digital technology school from Sberbank. The teaching technique is based on the ‘peer-to-peer method’, where participants learn from each other. This is a Russian franchise of the French programming school Ecole 42. Anyone between the ages of 18 and 30 can enrol, regardless of their previous education, experience, any programming skills or lack thereof. It is called a ‘school of the future’, where the learning process is gamified: each applicant or student has a certain level, and at the beginning of their path they first have to pass the simplest ‘missions’.

Location: Bldg. 2, 2, Spartakovskaya Street, Kazan

The tour includes: an interpreter, an audio guide, lunch, and transfer

Departure at 09:00 from the Korston Club Hotel Kazan parking lot (1a, N. Ershova St., Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan)

Travel time: 09:00-17:00 h

Cost: RUB 7,000/person