Hundreds of citizens of Tatarstan participated in the campaign “Day of water body cleaning”

Traditionally, the International Day of water body cleaning is celebrated in Russia on the first Saturday of June.Onthisday, clubs of underwater swimming organize a field trip to local water bodies where they clean the coastal area and bottoms by efforts of divers. InKazan, thecampaignwasheldonJune 7thonthelakeGlubokoeandthelakeLebyazye,and it was arranged by the Tatar department of the Russian Geographical Societywith the assistance of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as Kazan Town Hall.FirstDeputyMinisterforEcologyandNaturalResourcesoftheRepublicofTatarstanRustemKamalov, Deputy Minister – Chief State Inspector for Nature Protection Ramil Nizamov, representatives of the Russian Geographical Society, public organizations and proponents took part in the Day of water body cleaning. All in all, 7 cubic meters of trash were removed from the territory and the bottom of lakes. TheTatardepartmentoftheRussianGeographicalSocietytakesactivepartinvariousnatureprotectioncampaignsoftheRepublic, and to that extent it was decided to award the members of the society with identity documents of public inspectors of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Press Service of the Ministry