DUSHANBE, November 9, 2014, Asia-Plus – On Friday November 7, Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev and Saint Petersburg governor Georgy Poltavchenko singed here a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in field of labor migration

“Under this document, legal entry of Tajik migrant workers into Saint Petersburg will be organized and their rights and freedoms will be protected,” Shavkat Saidov, a spokesman for the Dushanbe mayor’s office, told Asia-Plus in an interview.

The document was signed on the sidelines of h Days of Saint Petersburg that took place in the Tajik capital on November 7-8.

The sides reportedly also signed an agreement on cooperation between School No 261 located in Saint Petersburg’s Kirov district and Dushanbe’s School No 92.

Saint Petersburg is one of the first to sign a sister city agreement with Dushanbe.  The agreement was signed on October 6, 1991.

Saint Petersburg is the second largest city in Russia, politically incorporated as a federal subject (a federal city).  Saint Petersburg is a major trade gateway, financial and industrial centre of Russia specializing in oil and gas trade, shipbuilding yards, aerospace industry, radio and electronics, software and computers; machine building, heavy machinery and transport, including tanks and other military equipment, mining, instrument manufacture, ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy (production of aluminum alloys), chemicals, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, publishing and printing, food and catering, wholesale and retail, textile and apparel industries, and many other businesses.

10% of the world''s power turbines are made there at the Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod (LMZ – Leningrad Metal Works), which built over two thousand turbines for power plants across the world.