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Today, fellow workers of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan took active part in the campaign “Green Saturday”. The territory of the forestland in Derbyshki village (the site of bitumen spillage in April 2013) was cleaned in the framework of the Saturday work campaign. As a reminder, on October 12, about 1,200 seedlings of pines, mountain ashes and birches were planted on this territory by efforts of the Ministry of Ecology. Today, 300 seedlings of coniferous species were planted as well.

The campaign on wastepaper collection “Save a tree” will be held today in Kazan by a public organization “Help another one”. Fellow workers of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan participated in the campaign aimed at attraction of attention of citizens of the Republic to the problems of ecology and recycling of raw materials.

Today, in the framework of a two-month sanitary and ecological campaign, an inspection tour around Kazan Region of the Gorkovsky railroad and the adjacent territories was made on the following route: Kazan – Kurkachi – Yudino – Zeleny Dol – Kazan. Management of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Ministry of Transport and Public Road System of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Gorkovsky railroad, representatives of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage, the Federal Service on Surveillance for Consumer rights protection and human well-being for the Republic of Tatarstan, Administrative and technical inspection of Kazan, representatives of district administrations of Kazan, as well as Vysokaya Gora and Zelenodolsk regions of the Republic inspected sanitary state of the easement area of the rail facilities. In the course of the tour, 57 sites of unauthorized waste placement were revealed. The greatest amount of violations accounts for horticultural societies and garage cooperatives of Zelenodolsk, Vysokaya gora districts of the Republic and Kirovsky district of Kazan. The acts were drawn up with regard to the revealed facts of violation of the nature protection legislation, and the work on their elimination should be completed within 10 days. The recurrent inspection tour is planned for May 8.

Pupils of the “School of Young Ecological Specialist” visited a zoological museum named after Eversman at Kazan (Volga) Federal University. The tour was organized by fellow workers of the Department for Ecological Education and Interaction with public organizations under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. The event is aimed at fostering of ecological awareness and formation of ecological culture of the population, study of the outside world, promotion of careful attitude to the world around us. Fellow workers of the museum conducted a tour to the world of ichthyofauna of Tatarstan and Russia, and the dwellers of the sea bottom, the terraqueous and the reptilians, birds and the mammals.

This Saturday, on April 26, wastepaper will be collected by a public organization “Help another one”. The campaign “Save a tree” is aimed at attraction of attention of citizens of the Republic to the problems of ecology and recycling of raw materials.

An ecological and educational event was held at the rehabilitation center “Zdravushka” for disabled children and teenagers. A holiday for children was held in the framework of All-Russian Days of protection from ecological danger held annually from April 15 to June 5. The event is organized by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. The Principal Adviser of the Ministry, Elena Gilmizyanova, held entertaining contests and quizzes for children. The event was finalized by joint planting of grape seedlings.

The meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission for Ecological Safety, Environmental Management and Sanitary and Epidemiological Well-being in the Republic of Tatarstan was held today at the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan. The Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Artem Sidorov, made a report on intermediate results of a two-month sanitary and ecological campaign for cleaning of territories. In particular, he acknowledged that Republican supervisory authorities revealed 2,252 violations, and following the results of the revealed violations 1,663 protocols were drawn up, including 48 protocols against legal persons, 425 against officials, and 1,190 against individuals; 29 case materials were referred to the Prosecutor’s office, and more than 8 million rubles worth of fines were imposed. Artem Sidorov informed that on April 26 Saturday work campaign will be held in every municipal formation. A task set before supervisory authorities is to enhance the work on revelation and suppression of violations within their competence; to carry out examination of the state of the easement area of the railway station and the adjacent territories on April 25; to examine water protection areas of water facilities; to start examination of territories of horticultural societies.

On April 26, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan together with proponents of public ecological associations, institutes and citizens of Kazan organizes a series of Saturday work campaigns and planting of seedlings in the framework of the Republican campaign “Day of forest planting” and the city-wide Saturday work campaign.

Evacuation of the Ministry personnel was drilled today at the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan under guidance of the Deputy Head of the Supervisory Activity Department under the Central Administration of the Ministry for Emergency Situations of the Republic of Tatarstan, Irek Shariyazdanov. A fire hazard was simulated on the corridor of the first floor in the building of the Ministry. Evacuation took 4 minutes and 53 seconds. Aims and tasks of the drill were achieved. In general, Irek Shariyazdanov favorably assessed the degree of training of fellow workers of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan with regard to taking measures in case of fire or any other emergency situation.

The auctions regarding granting of the right to use the deposit “Tumutukskoe-1” in Aznakaevo municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan were held at the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan to allow exploration and extraction of sand-and-gravel material: the right to use a mining allotment “Berket-kluch” in Cheremshan municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan of the Republic of Tatarstan for the purposes of geological survey, exploration and extraction of limestone; the right to use a mining allotment “Vostochno-Urazaevsky” in Aktanysh municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan for the purposes of geological survey, exploration and extraction of brick clay, as well as the right to use a mining allotment “Pestrechinsky” in Pestretsy municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan for the purposes of geological survey, exploration and extraction of bog muck. The information on the indicated auctions is available in the section “Subsurface resources management” of the website of the Ministry.