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The All-Russian photo competition “Me — My house — My country” will take place in October 2013. It is one of the contests held in the framework of the campaign “Ecology of Nature is Ecology of a Family” aimed at development of ecological culture through positive and negative images of the environment in Russian families. Anyone who feels like it can participate in the competition.

Today the briefing devoted to the results of the IX All-Russian Open Field Olympiad of Young Geologists took place in the Cabinet of the Republic of Tatarstan. Artem Sidorov, the Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Ravil Mutygullin, the Head of the Subsurface Management Department for the Republic of Tatarstan, and Marat Magdeev, the Deputy Chief of the Geological Prospecting Department of the Tatneft JSC on ecology and hydrogeology and Chairman of the Tatarstan Regional Department of the public organization “Russian Geological Society”, took part in the briefing.

TheNationalPublicCommittee“Russian Family” informs on holding the All-Russian campaign “Ecology of Nature is Ecology of a Family” in 2013.

Thecampaignisaimedatfosteringecologicalawareness, thesenseofresponsibilityfor preservation of the environment, as well as harmony between family and nature in citizens of the Russian Federation.

OnAugust23,alarge-scalecampaign “IamForCleanBeach”envisaging cleaning of mass leisure sites will take place in 17 regions of the country. Thecampaignisaimedatfosteringofecologicalawarenessinyoungpeople, careful attitude to monitoring of territories in order to find popular leisure and swimming sites that need further beautification by means of awarding to them the official status of a “beach”or a “recreation site”.

Today, theIXAll-Russian Open Field Olympiad of Young Geologists held at the premises of children’s recreation camps “Solnechny” and “Zarechye” was closed. The Minister for Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation Sergey Donskoy, the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, Deputy Head of theFederal Subsoil Resources Management Agency Andrey Morozov, the Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Artem Sidorov, Director General ofОАОTATNEFT named after V.D. ShashinShafagat Takhautdinovparticipatedintheclosingceremony.

Today regular competitions of the IX All-Russian Open Field Olympiad of Young Geologists took place in Kazan at Lake Izumrudnoye. This time teams showed their mastership in heavy mineral concentrate sampling. Under the terms of competitions participants had to find small copper fractions in 3 liters of special sand within 20 minutes. According to the judge from Kazakhstan Konstantin Dissel, it is one of the most inexpensive, but very efficient types of work. Teams’ performance is marked very high. The winner will be announced during the closing ceremony of the IX All-Russian Open Field Olympiad of Young Geologists that will be held on August 9 at 11.00 at the premises of children recreation camps “Solnechny” and “Zarechye”.

Today the IX All-Russian open field Olympiad of young geologists opened in Kazan at the premises of the “Solnechny” and “Zarechye” children recreation camps.

Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of Tatarstan, Valery Pak, the Deputy Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Russian Federation and Head of the Federal Subsoil Resources Management Agency, Victor Orlov, the President of the Russian Geological Society, Artem Sidorov, the Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, took part in the opening ceremony.

Today Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of Tatarstan, met with Valery Pak, the Deputy Minister for Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation and Head of the Russian Federal Agency for Subsoil Management. The meeting took place in the House of the Government of the republic. Andrey Morozov, the Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Subsoil Management, Victor Orlov, the President of the Russian Geological Society, Ravil Mutygullin, the Head of the Department on Subsurface Use in the Republic of Tatarstan, and Artem Sidorov, the Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, also took part in the meeting.