Contest “Clear sky of cities” has started in Kazan

Deputy Premier – Minister of info and communications Nikolai Nikiforov informed in his microblog about starting of a contest “Clear sky of cities” (tag in Twitter #KazanSky).

One who will publish in Twitter a Kazan house mostly winded with hanging cables will receive “Sony” camera with GPS. According to terms of the contest a picture of house should be taken so that it will be possible to count the number of cables noting the address and number of cables. The contest will last for 10 days, picture will be chosen by joint voting.

One may send pictures to e-mail os@tatar.ru, they will и published in Twitter as well. Currently there are 2253 km of hanging communication lines in 20 Tatarstan cities.

By the end of 2011 big cities of Tatarstan Republic should be relieved from unauthorized hanging communication lines. In accordance with RT Government Edict more than 1,8 thousand km of cables in Kazan, Zelenodolsk, Chistopol, Elabuga, Nizhnekamsk, Naberezhnye Chelny, Almetievsk, Leninogorsk and Bugulma should be changed to underground lines.