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The II stage of the contest for the right to be included into the succession pool of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan was held at the Ministry of Ecology. All in all, 56 people participated in the contest, whereof 28 citizens were declared winners.

Deputy Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan — Chief State Inspector for Nature Protection, Ramil Nizamov, — met with students and professors of Almetyevsk State Oil Institute. The issues regarding environmental protection and ecological safety in the Republic of Tatarstan were discussed during the meeting.

The IX Interregional research-to-practice conference “Industrial ecology and safety” organized by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan was held today in Kazan in the frameworkof the Tatar Oil, Gas and Chemical Forum. Experts of the Institute for the Problems ofEcology andSubsurface Resources Management under the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, department“Technosphere safety”of Pskov State University, department “Engineering structures and materials” of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Establishments of Higher Professional Education, State University – academic manufacturing complex of Orel, department of chemical technology and industrial ecologyof Samara State Technical University, Ural State Forest Engineering University of Yekaterinburg, representatives of largeindustrial companies of the Republic of Tatarstan participated in it.

The Tatar Oil, Gas and Chemical Forum was opened in Kazan. The event is held at the premises of the expo center “Kazan Fair”. President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, Deputy Minister of Energyof the Russian Federation Kirill Molodtsov, Deputy Head of theFederal Service for Environmental, Technological, and Nuclear Oversight Svetlana Rodionova, Deputy Chairperson of the Cabinet of Ministers of TurkmenistanBaymyrat Khodzhamukhammedov, Vice Prime Ministerof the Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan Ravil Zaripov, Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Artem Sidorov, heads of ministries and authorities of the Republic of Tatarstan participatedin the opening ceremony of the Forum.

The Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Artem Sidorov, visited Kubinka, Moscow region, where he familiarized with technologies and operating facilities of the group of companies “National Ecological Project”, including developments in the field of reagent-free purification of sewage waters.Representatives of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise “Vodokanal” of Kazan and Nizhnekamsk Vodokanalaccompanied the Minister as part of the delegation from Tatarstan.

Today, the Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Artem Sidorov carried out reception of citizensin the form of a teleconference. The questions of the citizens of Naberezhnye Chelny, Nizhnekamsk, Menzelinsk district and Arsk district of the Republic of Tatarstan were answered online.

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: