Today it’s the anniversary of Head of the Department for Applied Ecology of Kazan Federal University Venera Latypova

Today it’s the anniversary of Head of the Department for Applied Ecology of Kazan Federal University, Doctor of chemical sciences, professor, academician of the Russian Ecological Academy, Chairperson of the Research Council for Ecological Problems under the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan Venera Latypova. While congratulating Venera Zinnatovna on her anniversary, First Deputy Minister of Ecology Rustem Kamalov delivered the Certificate of Merit on behalf of the Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Artem Sidorov for long flawless service in the field of nature protection, as well as fruitful cooperation in the sphere of assurance of ecological safety in the Republic of Tatarstan and the results achieved in the field of establishment of public movement.
Venera Latypova is a member of the Scientific and Technical Board, the Board of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as a member of the editorial board of the “Magazine of ecology and industrial safety” and the “Magazine of theoretical and applied ecology”; a scientific consultant of the Hazardous Waste Committee under the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The area of expertise of Venera Latypova includes ecology, ecological standardization, biogeochemistry of natural systems, and ecological monitoring. Venera Latypova has created a new scientific direction having already obtained significant scientific results in the interdisciplinary field of ecology and nature use. It is the first time that consistent patterns of selective absorbance of microelements in the course of their involvement in biogenic migration, as well as consistent patterns of the transfer of substance and energy in water ecosystems of various types have been detected and quantitatively described. Justified and newly created approaches and criteria of ecological standardization of man-induced impact on water and terrestrial ecosystems for protection of biological systems significantly contributed both into science and practice. She carried out important work regarding ecology of the largest water reservoirs of the Middle Volga, landfills, silt detention ponds of biological treatment facilities, as well as oil regions.
Methodologies developed by Venera Latypova were taken as a basis for the experimental method of waste hazard class assessment approved of by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan and widely used in nature protection practice of both Tatarstan and Russia. Venera Latypova led development of the Ecological Safety Concept in the Republic of Tatarstan for 2007-2015 having determined strategic goals, tasks and principles of carrying out of nature protection activity in the Republic until 2015 aimed at balanced solution of tasks related to social, economic and demographic development, as well as assurance of favorable environmental state and natural resources potential to satisfy demands of the population of Tatarstan.
The Department for Applied Ecology of Kazan Federal University headed by Venera Zinnatovna for the last 20 years trains highly qualified and enterprising specialists that successfully work both at various departments of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, and at research institutions and nature protection services of the Republic.



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