On the banks of the Menzelya River near Menzelinsk, inspectors of the Kama Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan established the fact of illegal removal and movement of a fertile soil layer. According to the results of measurements, the area of disturbed lands amounted to 7 thousand square meters.
It has been established that the land plot where the violation was recorded belongs to agricultural lands. In addition, it is part of the boundaries of the coastal protective strip of the Nizhnekamsk reservoir. In this regard, the survey materials for taking measures were sent under the jurisdiction of the Rosselkhoznadzor Administration for the Republic of Tatarstan and the Volga-Kama Interregional Department of Rosprirodnadzor.