A familiarization excursion for the pupils of 1 – 3 forms of Kazan gymnasium No. 20 took place in the Central Specialized Inspection for Analytical Control under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan (CSIAC). The campaign took place within the framework of environmental education in the course of “Habitat Monitoring” discipline study.
To study an existing monitoring system of the sources of man-made impact on environment using analytical equipment was the main aim of this excursion.
The excursion started with the meeting with Andrey Shibayev, the Chief of the laboratory, who told children about the system of environmental and analytical monitoring.
Familiarization with the laboratory work included visiting of the departments of industrial wastes and atmospheric air analysis, water and soil analysis, physical and chemical methods of analysis, biological and operational monitoring. The chiefs of these departments told children about their work in detail, demonstrated equipment and instruments corresponding to up-to-date standards and intended for water, soil, and air analysis. They also answered all pupils’ questions.
Inspectors of the Central Department, together with representatives of the Kazan Interdistrict Environmental Prosecutor's Office and the Office of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography of the Republic of Tatarstan, conducted a survey of the territory of the Zelenodolsk district.
The events were held in the Zainsky district. The commission included inspectors from the Zakamsky Department of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan received an appeal from residents about violations of environmental legislation in the Yelabuga district. Inspectors from the Kama Department went to the site and confirmed the fact of dumping production and consumption waste into the territory of the Bug River water protection zone.