Violations in the water protection zone of the Bolgar River were stopped by environmentalists in the Almetyevsky district. During the raid, inspectors of the South-Eastern Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan found a pit that led to a change in the riverbed. Having arbitrarily removed and moved a fertile layer of soil with a volume of 100 cubic meters, the violator allowed damage to 600 sq. m. of the coastal strip.