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The republican specialized session for the participants of the interdepartmental scientific and practical project “Health of My School” (school environmental monitoring) took place in “Kostyor” (Fire) recreation camp with the participation of Andrey Kalayda, the Deputy Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, and Sergey Rybakov, the Director of the Republican Center of Out-of-School Work of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Today a regular meeting of the Interdepartmental Operation Group on Regulation of water regimes of Volga-Kamsk Cascade reservoirs took place in the Federal Agency for Water Resources of the Russian Federation. Ildar Fattakhov, the Head of the Minerals, Raw and Water Resources Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, took part in the meeting.

On October 5, at 10:00, the Awards Ceremony will take place in the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan: the winners of the “Green World” social video contest and “My Native Land” photo contest will get their awards.

Within the framework of the worldwide “Let’s Clear Away Our Planet from Garbage” Campaign the republican ecological and educational campaign “Cleanliness Lesson” was carried out in all educational institutions and institutions of primary and secondary professional education of the Republic of Tatarstan on September 27. The campaign was organized by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan, and the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Republic of Tatarstan in cooperation with administrations of municipal and city districts of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Experts of the territorial departments of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan underwent technical training on the matters of subsurface management in Bavly.

Today the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan together with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan, representatives of the ministries and departments, deputies of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan, bodies of Prosecutor General’s Office, higher education institutions, and public environmental organizations carries out the all-republican “Cleanliness Lesson” Campaign, devoted to the worldwide “Let’s Clear Away Our Planet from Garbage” Campaign, in all educational institutions of all municipal areas and city districts (in total these are about 1,700 schools).

The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan together with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan will carry out the all-republican “Cleanliness Lesson” Campaign, devoted to the worldwide “Let's Clear Away Our Planet from Garbage” Campaign, in all educational institutions of all municipal areas and city districts on September 27.

The All-Russia Running Day “Cross-country of the Nations – 2012” took place in Kazan as well as in many other cities of the country on September 23. The staff of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan headed by the Minister Artem Sidorov took active part in the campaign.

September 22 is the International Car-Free Day. This tradition originated in France in 1998. That year people of about 20 cities gave their support to this day. It is amazing that already in 2001 more than 1 thousand cities from 35 countries of the world joined the campaign.