200-meter-long trenches were dug in the Almetyevskiy district to dismantle inactive pipelines. Excavation work was carried out near Nizhnyaya Maktama village and garden society “Victoria” in Almetyevsk town in the absence of permits in winter of this year. The facts of violation were recorded by inspectors of the South-Eastern Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan during environmental monitoring. After that, in the framework of the administrative investigation, the owners of vehicles were determined, the perpetrators were identified.