6.5 thousand cars have been checked in Tatarstan in support of the national Environmental Well-being project
The Clean Air operational and preventive event in support of the national Environmental Well-being project has been completed in the Republic of Tatarstan. Every year, the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan, together with the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan, and since 2024, and with employees of the interregional territorial Administration of Rostransnadzor for the Volga Federal District, organizes raids to prevent the negative effects of car exhaust emissions on atmospheric air.
From June 1 to September 30, 2025, 6,497 vehicles were checked. These are 6007 passenger cars, 270 trucks and 220 buses. 5,732 gasoline-powered vehicles, 582 diesel-powered and 183 gas-powered vehicles were tested.
In total, 168 vehicles were found to have excess capacity, which is 2.6% of the total number of vehicles checked. 151 passenger cars, 12 trucks and 5 buses failed environmental safety checks.
A greater number of exceedances were found in the old fleet of cars produced before 1986 with 0 and 1 class of ecological fuel.
There were no excess values for new vehicles with eco-fuel class 6.
"Tatarstan has a steady downward trend in the number of vehicles with high levels of pollutants in exhaust gases – from 7.7% in 2016 to 2.6% in 2025. This is due to the gradual renewal of the fleet, the decommissioning of obsolete vehicles, as well as the production and sale of motor fuels with improved environmental characteristics at gas stations," said Ildar Shakramov, Head of the Atmospheric Air Department at the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Vehicles were inspected in 28 districts of the republic. Checks were carried out daily at the stationary checkpoints, and twice a month in the districts.
In particular, as part of the raids, inspectors from the Kama Department checked cars both in Naberezhnye Chelny at the Tula-1 checkpoint and in 7 districts of the Kama region of Tatarstan. Environmentalists of the Kama region checked 2,056 cars and identified 36 vehicles with excess. And in the Southeastern Department, inspectors checked 400 cars for environmental friendliness and found 47 excess emissions of exhaust gases from cars.
The checks were carried out using special equipment - gas analyzers and smoke meters.
The Ministry's staff conducted explanatory work with the owners of vehicles that had been found to be excessive about the inadmissibility of violations of mandatory requirements of legislation in the field of atmospheric air protection and drew up protocols on administrative offenses.
In 2025, Operation Clean Air was conducted in the republic for the 43rd time. The main purpose of the operation is to monitor compliance with standards for the content of pollutants in the exhaust gases of vehicles and to prevent the negative effects of cars on atmospheric air.
For reference: in 2020, environmentalists checked 6,588 vehicles, 220 violations were detected;
In 2021, 6,201 vehicles were checked, 172 violations were detected;
In 2022, 6,570 vehicles were inspected and 183 violations were detected;
In 2023, 6,886 vehicles were checked, 184 violations were detected;
In 2024, 6,482 vehicles were checked and 177 violations were detected.