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The Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Aleksandr Shadrikov, is on a working visit to Germany. Today he met with the Director of the State Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection of the Land of Bavaria/Minister-Director, Head of the Department, Dr. Christian Bart.

At the beginning of the meeting, Aleksandr Shadrikov presented the work of environmental department of Tatarstan, after which the parties went on to discuss automation of monitoring air quality, water bodies and wastewater. German colleagues, in turn, shared their experience and promised to present the introduced technologies in the field of environmental protection.

A dump of dirty snow masses was discovered by residents of Naberezhnye Chelny on the Khadi Taktasha str. – and sent to ecologists. Inspectors of the Prikamskiy Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan established that waste from winter cleaning was dumped on soil on the area of ​​195 square meters. Now, environmentalists have launched an administrative investigation on the violation of Article 51 of the Federal Law No. 7-FZ “On Environmental Protection”.

     Discharge of liquid household waste on the terrain in the Tatarskiy Eltan village of Chistopolskiy district was identified by inspectors of the Volga-Kama Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. According to this fact, an individual involved in this offense was determined. To date, the dismantling of the pipe has been eliminated by the intruder.

The acceptance of works for the contest of drawings “Pure Water - a Clean Future!” dedicated to World Water Day has been launched. The organizer of the event is the Department of Water Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan of the Lower Volga Basin Water Administration with support of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan.

It is necessary to send the work to the address: Kazan, Adel Kutui street 50, office 414 or by e-mail: otdel.nvbvu@tatar.ru.

An event under the title “Homeland - the green cradle” took place in the Nizhnekuyukskaya school of Atninskiy district. Pupils of grades 6 and 8 prepared a theatrical performance in which they conveyed to their peers the importance of making the right decisions in relation to the nature of their native land.

The ecological workshop “School of Young Ecologist” is held by the Kazan City Children's Ecological and Biological Center in the first decade of June as part of the Biosphere Students' Scientific Society. Pupils of grades 6-10 upon applications of educational institutions of Kazan, parents may become participants of the workshop. Applications are accepted until May 26, 2020.

To form pupils’ knowledge about the diversity of relationships in natural communities. An environmental lesson on a given topic was conducted by specialists of the Zavolzhskiy Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan at Tetyushskaya Secondary School No. 1 named after Khanzhin P.S. The lesson addressed the interaction of ecosystems, as well as the concept of ecological balance.

The chemical smell from the foundry of the Kama Metallurgical Combine “TEMPO” was reported to the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan through the unified dispatch service of the Ministry of Emergencies on February 23, 2020. Specialists of Prikamskiy Territorial Administration immediately left to Azmushkino. No exceeding of the maximum permissible concentrations was found. An additional analysis of samples today confirmed previous results.

A large landfill was discovered by ecologists during a raid in the area of ​​the Salmachi settlement in Kazan. As it turned out, the area of ​​illegal storage amounted to 1,275 square meters, the volume - more than 200 cubic meters. An administrative investigation has been instituted to identify the persons with the aim of promptly eliminating the violation and bringing the perpetrators to administrative responsibility.

More than 120 schoolchildren from cities and municipal districts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Moscow, the Republic of Bashkortostan, the Republic of Mari El and the Orenburg Region took part in the XXVI Volga Scientific Ecological Conference of Schoolchildren named after A.M. Terentyev. The conference is held in order to attract pupils to research and practical work in the field of environmental protection, to exchange experience of the Volga region to improve the environmental situation, to identify the most gifted, creatively thinking and professionally oriented pupils.