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The IX All-Russian Field Olympiad of Young Geologists will take place in Kazan from August 1 till August 10. The best teams from 35 subjects of the Russian Federation as well as from Mongolia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan will get together in the capital of Tatarstan. The Federal Subsoil Agency and the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan act as organizers of the Olympiad.
Today, at the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan, results were summarized with regard to the two-month sanitary and ecological campaign for cleaning of the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan that was held from April 15 until June 15. As it was reported by the Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Artem Sidorov, all in all, from the beginning of a two-month campaign, by efforts of all the authorities, 1595 locations of unauthorized waste placement were revealed, whereof 1419 locations were liquidated making up 89%.
Today specialists of CSIAM (Central Specialized Inspectorate of Analytical Monitoring) of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan will go on an expedition along the Volga on a patrol vessel of eco-analytical monitoring “Flamingo” with the nature protection “Volga-M” complex. The route “Kazan-Chistopol” will take, on the average, 7 days.
Watch the program “Environmental Patrol” on the Tatarstan State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company TV channel about the festive event devoted to opening of the shore protection construction on the right bank of the Kuibyshev reservoir in Rybnaya sloboda as well as about the campaign “Day of Reservoirs Cleaning”. You can watch the program at the following link http://trt-tv.ru/ekologicheskij-patrul/ekologicheskij-patrul-08-06-13/
Within the framework of the Year of environmental culture and protection, an environmental and educational event devoted to the International Day of environmental protection took place in the Museum of the Natural History of the Kazan Kremlin. The event took place with the support of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan at the initiative of the Committee for Ecology and Housing and Communal Services of the Civic Chamber of the Republic of Tatarstan, regional division of the All-Russian public organization “Centre of Environmental Policy and Culture”, the Museum of the Natural History of the Republic of Tatarstan.