350 violations of environmental legislation were revealed by environmentalists during a helicopter flyby

16 September 2022, Friday

For the purpose of ecological control over the sanitary condition of the Republic of Tatarstan, First Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Airat Shigapov together with the head of the Volga-Kama Interregional Department of Rosprirodnadzor Fayaz Shakirov conducted an air raid.  The territory was surveyed: the cities of Kazan and Naberezhnye Chelny, as well as the territories of Pestrechinsky, Rybno-Slobodsky, Mamadyshsky, Yelabuga, Tukayevsky, Sarmanovsky, Zainsky, Nizhnekamsk, Chistopol, Alekseevsky, Laishevsky districts.

In total, 350 violations of environmental legislation were detected. Most of the violations are unauthorized waste disposal.