In Ufa the square named after Tukay may appear. Deputies of the City Council considered this issue at a meeting of the Presidium. The name of the Tatar poet is proposed to be assigned to the square next to the Ufa State Tatar Theater "Nur", where a monument to the poet is had been erected.
This early morning, the Tatarstan delegation, headed by Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Chairman of the National Council of the World Congress of the Tatars, Vasil Shaykhraziev, has arrived in the city of Ulan-Ude. At the Baikal Airport, guests were met by Chairman of the Republic of Buryatia RNCAT (Regional National Cultural Autonomy of Tatars), Sazhida Batalova, Deputy Chief of the Administration of the Head and Government of the Republic of Buryatia, Chairman of the Committee on Interethnic Relations and Development of Civil Initiatives Mikhail Kharitonov.