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At their AI cluster meeting in the Bashir Ramiev IT Park in Kazan, representatives of Tatarstan Ministry of Digitalization, regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the IT Park and entrepreneurs discussed how to help business and industry adopt artificial intelligence in everyday processes.

Additional telecom infrastructure has been deployed to extend mobile network coverage and capacity along the Kazanka Embankment. The URAM Extreme Park area now hosts new telecom infrastructure. MegaFon engineers carried out improvements to signal quality.

The upgrade was driven by the growing number of users at the site. This summer, the operator’s subscriber count within the park rose by 20% year over year. Of the total traffic, 30% to 60% came from visitors from other Russian regions. In three months, URAM was visited by residents from 72 regions of the country. Riders from Moscow, as well as from other regions of the Volga Federal District more frequently tested Kazan’s pools, pump tracks and air zones.

From January to August 2026, operators of the GLONASS+112 system handled more than 1.4 million inquiries. On average, the service processes about 6,700 calls per day, and a single operator handles about 270 calls.

Every day, 112 staff are the first to respond to any emergency and help save lives. In critical moments they remain calm, find the right words of support and coordinate actions, giving clear instructions even before rescuers, firefighters or medical teams arrive.

Schoolchildren and college students in Tatarstan will be able to study AI agent development, the fundamentals of artificial intelligence and its application in robotics through three new Yandex Lyceum programs in the 2026/27 academic year. Additionally, AI topics will be incorporated into existing Lyceum courses: students will use neural networks to solve problems, write code and create projects.

In the new academic year, the digital platform Sferum will introduce services designed to ease teachers' workloads and make lessons more interactive.

On September 1, a new academic year began at educational institutions across Tatarstan. Tatarstan Ministry of Digitalization and the IT Park joined in supporting students by attending celebratory assemblies in Kazan and Leninogorsk.

Tatarstan Minister of Digitalization Ilya Nachvin opened Knowledge Day at the Leninogorsk Petroleum College, which welcomed 337 first-year students this year. The Minister congratulated students on the start of the academic year, wished them a strong pursuit of knowledge and expressed gratitude to the faculty for their dedication. For the new academic year, a modern four-story dormitory with 185 beds and new furniture was opened for the students of the college.

September 1 marks the start of the new academic year in Russia. For Tatarstan, this Day of Knowledge is especially significant: AI clubs have been launched in 100 schools and 35 colleges across the republic, where schoolchildren and college students will learn to work with artificial intelligence. The clubs were established under the regional AI development programme, which embeds systematic specialist training starting from the school level.

On the eve of the new academic year, MTS and Positive Technologies presented a joint study on the digital safety of children and parents. Analysts found that fraudsters most often use phone calls (43%) to target minors. The majority of blocked unwanted calls directed at children came from five regions — Moscow and St. Petersburg with their respective regions, Krasnodar Krai, Rostov Oblast and Tatarstan. Nearly half of the calls targeted users aged 11–14.

September 1 marks the Day of Knowledge in Russia. Fraudsters may use this pre-holiday period as a pretext for new scam schemes.

Criminals send messages to parents or schoolchildren allegedly on behalf of a school representative. Under the pretext of "adding a child to the class," fraudsters ask for an SMS code. In reality, this password belongs to other services: State Services (Gosuslugi), online banking or messengers. If the code is shared, criminals can gain access to personal accounts.

Speaking at a weekly meeting of Tatarstan Ministry of Digitalization, MIG communications infrastructure operator has reported its results for the first half of 2026. During this period, the company commissioned 53 new facilities. The operator's total network now comprises 615 facilities across three regions of Russia.

In parallel, the company's specialists prepared sites for the placement of 81 new base stations. MIG's key clients and partners are the largest market players: TMT, VympelCom and MTS.