Large-scale Saturday work campaign “Green Russia” was held in Tatarstan
30 August 2014, Saturday
The campaign — All-Russian ecological Saturday work campaign “Green Russia” — was held in every city and district of the Republic of Tatarstan. The event was aimed at improvement of the ecological state of Russian cities and regions. The Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Artem Sidorov, announced start of the campaign in Apastovo municipal district, where the trees were planted near the spring in Enali village in the framework of the campaign “Green Russia”.
Fellow workers of the Ministry cleaned the coastal area of Kaban lake in the direction of the “Military camp” together with proponents of public organizations and citizens of Kazan.
All in all, more than 80 regions of the Russian Federation participated in the campaign including representatives of public organizations and movements, large, small and medium businesses who care for the problems of environmental protection.
Inspectors of the Central Department, together with representatives of the Kazan Interdistrict Environmental Prosecutor's Office and the Office of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography of the Republic of Tatarstan, conducted a survey of the territory of the Zelenodolsk district.
The events were held in the Zainsky district. The commission included inspectors from the Zakamsky Department of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan received an appeal from residents about violations of environmental legislation in the Yelabuga district. Inspectors from the Kama Department went to the site and confirmed the fact of dumping production and consumption waste into the territory of the Bug River water protection zone.