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Two judicial instances supported the position of environmentalists and ordered the violator to pay 2 million 39 thousand rubles for damage caused to the soil due to unauthorized storage of garbage.

The Republic of Tatarstan has begun accepting applications for a new stage of the republican competition "School Eco-patrol", which is being implemented in support of the national project "Environmental well-being". The competition has been held in the Republic since 2014 by the decision of the Head of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Nurgalievich Minnikhanov. 

Today, on September 1, children, parents and teachers gathered in the schoolyard of the Nurlat gymnasium to celebrate the beginning of the new school year together.

Since 2023, Tatneft, together with the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, has been holding the Clean Heritage Olympiad, which has become one of the key environmental events for schoolchildren in grades 5-9. In 2025, the Olympiad will be held for the third time. Applications for participation in this environmental event will be accepted on September 1.

Environmentalists have reviewed and resolved 3,659 appeals out of 4,170 received by the Republican Public Environmental Reception since January 1 of this year.

1918 applications were received through the Ministry's online reception, 1204 notifications were received in the School Ecopatrol application. 930 messages were registered in the People's Control system and 118 on the feedback platform POS.

Parents of first-graders received gifts from the Trade Union of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Since January 1, 17 automatic stations for monitoring atmospheric air pollution have performed 2.06 million measurements. Of these, 706,000 measurements were carried out by five stations located in Kazan.

During the monitoring of the territory of the Mendeleevsky district, inspectors of the Kama Department of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan found a violation of environmental legislation. On a plot of land located in the Nizhny Kama National Park, environmentalists have identified unauthorized water intake from a spring.

During the practical session "Topical issues of monitoring the state of atmospheric air and monitoring industrial emissions from oil and gas and chemical industries", representatives of government agencies, research institutes and industrial enterprises discussed modern approaches to environmental monitoring and control.

At the request of residents, inspectors from the Zavolzhsky department went to the village of Kuibyshevsky Zaton in the Kamsko-Ustinsky district. During the survey of the territory, excavation work was discovered, namely the removal and relocation of a fertile soil layer in the coastal strip of the Volga River.