OREANDA-NEWS. December 5, 2007. Then Honor Order has been awarded to General Director of JSC "Tatenergo" Ilshat Fardiev in the White hall of Kazan Kremlin, President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev personally awarded the managers and regular workers of Republic, whose achievements were recognized at the level of Republican and Federal Governments. "In the hall today gathered people who in any economy due to their talent worked and work, so that the entire Republic is proud of them, - began his address speech Mintimer Shaimiev . - Their relatives, children, grand children are proud of them".

The manager of the Tatarstan power holding was given the high government award by the Order of President of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin dd., 25 July 2007. Honor Order are awarded for high achievements in various spheres of state, production, research, social, cultural, public, charity activity, for achievements in training the high skill staff, educating the growing generation, law and order enforcement.

Ilshat Shaehovich Fardiev is in the list of honorable people of the country as the outstanding manager of the TEC company who made big input in development of the power industry of Tatarstan. Heading the Tatenergo in 1999, he managed in shot time to stabilize the financial condition of the association turning it from the company in red to profitable one and bring the Republican power system to leading positions in the country.

Due to efforts of top-management in Tatarstan power holding the high level of reliable energy supply to consumers was retained, and the conditions were created for attracting the investments for upgrading and new construction of generation capacities, necessary for enhancing the competitiveness under conditions of the wholesale electricity market.

"What matters is that we have our own power engineering specialists, own production, - said President of Tatarstan, awarding Ilshat Fardievа "for big contribution in TEC development, achievements and many-year honest work". Awarding the Honor Order to chief power engineering specialist of Republic, Mintimer Shaimiev recollected the first rector of Kazan Power Engineering University Forel Zakirovich Tinchurin, who founded the necessity to open the specialized university for training the skilled specialists in power engineering, who the head of Republic called "elite engineering profession". "But what matters , - emphasized President of Tatarstan, - our guys work better than even in the RAO UES. They stand any competition".