Today the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan held an awarding ceremony of the winners of the competition for the prize named after Professor V.A. Popov in the field of ecology and nature management, and a competition of scientific and practical works on ecology among students of universities of Tatarstan. “Your scientific works, discoveries, inventions are of tremendous importance for science, practice and implementation in our common cause - environmental protection”, the Head of the environmental department noted in his welcoming speech.