Today, a large-scale campaign on cleaning of mass leisure sites “I am for clean beach” took place in 17 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The All-Russian Ecological Campaign is held in the framework of the federal Projectof the “United Russia” party. The territory adjacent to Blue Lake near Scherbakovo village of Aviastroitelny district of Kazan was cleaned up byeffortsofproponentsofthe Tatar Regional Departmentofthe Russian Geographical Society, fellow workers of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as volunteers and proponents of ecological movement. According to divers, the lake bottom is clean. Participants of the campaign collected about 20 bags of wastefrom the shores. Ingeneral, itiswasteleftbycampers. Moreover, plantsofpineswereplantedtodaynearBlueLake, and wooden platforms were repaired.
Thecampaignisaimedatfosteringofecologicalawarenessofyouth, careful attitude to monitoring of territories in order to detect popular sites for recreation and swimmingthat need further beautification by granting them the official status of a “beach” or a “leisure area”.