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During the mission, negotiations and round tables on cooperation with partners in Tashkent in areas of mutual interest were held. Thus, experts discussed youth policy, urban planning innovations, industry, the sphere of labor and employment, education, and the technologies of the Smart City.

The business forum “St. Petersburg and Uzbekistan Expanding Horizons of Cooperation”, organized as part of the mission, brought together more than 50 representatives of authorities and business circles of Tashkent. Anatoly Kotov, Special Representative of the Governor of St. Petersburg on Economic Development, and Elbek Shukurov, Deputy Hokim of Tashkent, spoke at the forum.

In addition, as part of the business part of the program, the St. Petersburg delegation from business circles visited the small industrial zone of the Bektemir district and the Yakkasaray district of Tashkent and discussed the prospects for cooperation.

Health professionals in St. Petersburg got acquainted with the activities of medical institutions in Uzbekistan and held master classes for colleagues in their areas of activity. (The delegation from St. Petersburg included representatives of St. Petersburg State Budgetary Health Institution City Dermatovenerologic Dispensary, St. Petersburg State Budgetary Health Institution City Emergency Medicine Station, St. Petersburg State Budgetary Health Institution Polyclinic No.86, St. Petersburg State Budgetary Health Institution ''Psychiatric Hospital P.P. Kashchenko", St. Petersburg State Budgetary Health Institution "Mariinsky City Hospital").

An important part of the program, organized at the request of the Uzbek side, was master classes for teachers in Tashkent who teach Russian. Irina Sherstobitova, an employee of the Department of Philological Education of the St. Petersburg Academy of Postgraduate Education, held classes on the methodology of teaching Russian as a second language. The two-day master classes of the St. Petersburg specialist were attended by 25 teachers from all schools in Tashkent, which teach the Russian language.

In addition, negotiations were held between the head of the St. Petersburg delegation - the special representative of the Governor of St. Petersburg on economic development Anatoly Kotov, with the deputy hokim of Tashkent, Elbek Shukurov and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Uzbekistan Vladimir Tyurdenev.

Also, the St. Petersburg delegation paid tribute to the memory and respect of the history of Uzbekistan. Flowers were laid at the Battle Glory memorial at the Volgograd cemetery in Tashkent, a memorial plate dedicated to the Uzbek warriors - the defenders of the besieged Leningrad, as well as the monument to the first President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov.

In addition, the St. Petersburg delegation met with the blockades living in Tashkent. The meeting was attended by the head of Rossotrudnichestvo in the Republic of Uzbekistan Viktor Shulika.

For reference: In total, 100 blockade residents live in the Republic of Uzbekistan, of which 27 people are in Tashkent.