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Automated station for air pollution control (ASAPC) was implemented and opened on September 1, 2014 in order to arrange constant regional ecological monitoring of local environment on the territory of Mendeleevsk and Mendeleevsk municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan.

On September 1, 2014, a republican contest “School eco-patrol” is to start at educational establishments of the Republic of Tatarstan.The project was elaborated by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan together with the Ministry of Information and Communications of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The campaign — All-Russian ecological Saturday work campaign “Green Russia” — was held in every city and district of the Republic of Tatarstan. The event was aimed at improvement of the ecological state of Russian cities and regions. The Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Artem Sidorov, announced start of the campaign in Apastovo municipal district, where the trees were planted near the spring in Enali village in the framework of the campaign “Green Russia”.

Technical training of experts of territorial departments was held in Tetyushi municipal district with participation of the Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Artem Sidorov. Experts of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, representatives of the Department ofthe Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage for the Republic of Tatarstan, Department ofthe Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography for the Republic of Tatarstan,the Directorate for Combating Economic Crimes under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan, the State Unitary Enterprise “Research and manufacturing association for Geology and Use of Mineral Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan”discussed the issues regarding organization and assurance of the regional state surveillance for geological surveying, rational use of protection of mineral resources (with regard to the sites of mineral resources of local importance), as well as in the field of use and protection of water facilities, except for water facilities liable to the federal state surveillance. The following reports were read:

A press conference devoted to the start of the annual republican contest ‘School eco-patrol” will be held todayat1 pm at the agency “Tatmedia” (Dekabristov str. 2). The Interdepartmental annual republican contest was founded by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan together with the Ministry of Information and Communications of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan. The contest is aimed at engagement of pupils of secondary educational establishmentsin the practical workregarding improvement of the state of the environment.

The Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Artem Sidorov and the Head of Nizhnekamsk Municipal DistrictAydar Metshin discussed the measures and events that are implemented in the frameworkof the Republican long-term target program “Environmental protection in NizhnekamskMunicipal District”. A meeting of the interdepartmental working group on assurance of ecological safety was held in Nizhnekamsk on August 25, 2014. During the meeting, the members of the working groupreviewed two issues – a new ecological program of “Nizhnekamskneftekhim” OJSC for2014-2020,nature protection events of “TAIF-NK” OJSC and implementation of the technology for motor fuel vapor recuperation.

A meeting of working young people with the Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Artem Sidorov, and the Head of Nizhnekamsk Municipal District AydarMetshin, was held in Nizhnekamsk. More than two hundred people gathered at the lecture hall of Nizhnekamsk Institute of Chemistry and Technology.

A football match between the team “SSSR” (representatives of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan and Nizhnekamsk Municipal Administration”) and the national team of working young people of Nizhnekamsk was played in Nizhnekamsk in the park “Solnechnaya polyana”.

Teachers and pupils of the 7th form of school No. 48 of the Volga District of Kazan participated in the ecological campaign for cleaning of the territories of the bank of lake Sredny Kaban. The pupils cleaned the coastline of the lake from litter in the area of the Military Station. This event was held with the assistance of the Department for the Fostering of Ecological Awareness and Cooperation with Public Organizations under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The ceremony of awarding of the winners of the contest for the “Best civil employee of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan” was held today at the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. In compliance with the protocol of the sitting of the Contest committee for summarization of results, the following contestants were announced the winners: