OREANDA-NEWS. On 08 August 2008 was announced, that Grigory Rapota – Plenipotentiary Representative of President of the RF in Privolzhsky Region – visited KAMAZ.

Accompanied by Farid Mukhametshin, Chairman of the RT State Council, he arrived in Naberezhnye Chelny. Sergey Kogoghin, Director General of KAMAZ Inc., and Ildar Khalikov, Mayor of the city, welcomed the distinguished guests.

Grigory Rapota and Farid Mukhametshin visited the mother assembly conveyor of the KAMAZ Automobile Plant. Then they saw an exhibition of automotive engineering in the KAMAZ R&D Center and visited the Center of Auto Racing of the KAMAZ-master team. Plenipotentiary went for a ride in the racing vehicle of the team which is piloted by Firdaus Kabirov – the hero of many “Dakars”.

Negotiations for strategic development of KAMAZ Inc. and Naberezhnye Chelny were carried on during the visit.