The fact of illegal mining of construction sand was recorded by inspectors of the Zavolzhskiy Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan on the banks of the Sviyaga River, near the Pochinok-Enaevo village. The total area of the illegal quarry was 20 square meters, the depth of subsoil extraction is 0.8 m. In addition, at the time of the arrival of the ecologists, the vehicle that was carrying out the extraction was 10 meters from the coastline, which is a violation of environmental legislation.