Shemursha District is among the best in Chuvashia for gasification, road and housing construction, and computerising libraries.
Mr Putin visited one of the houses built as part of the social development programme. The Matveyev family bought this two-story brick house through a mortgage programme very popular in Chuvashia.
The President next visited the local library—a multipurpose information, cultural and educational centre, where he saw the computer room and talked to readers and Internet users.