The fact of illegal mining of common mineral resources was revealed in Kamskoye Ustye. A joint raid of specialists from the Zavolzhskiy Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan and employees of the Kamsko-Ustyinskiy police department of Verkhneuslonsky Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, a career with an area of 1080 sq. m and a depth of 0.4 m was revealed on the right bank of the Volga River, in the coastal protection zone of the Kuibyshev water reservoir.