96 centers of environmental education – eco-classes, were created in all municipal districts of the republic on instructions of the President of Tatarstan together with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan. Mentoring over them is carried out by the employees of the territorial administrations of the Ministry, said Aleksandr Shadrikov. According to the Head of the environmental protection agency, in 2018, environmentalists conducted 1,161 eco-lessons with schoolchildren, covering 24,672 pupils.