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With the intellectual ECO-fest was ended the first quarter in gymnasium No. 2 in the Chistopol district. A cognitive event for students was conducted by the teachers together with specialists from the Volga-Kama territorial administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation has developed a draft resolution of the Government of Russia “On the approval of criteria for classifying production facilities used by legal entities and individual entrepreneurs that have a negative impact on the environment, to a certain risk category for regional state environmental supervision.” This is reported on the agency’s website.

Appeal about garbage under the windows of one of the residential buildings on the Tbilisskaya street of Aviastroitelny District of Kazan was received by the Central Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. Inspectors found out that the heaps formed due to untimely removal of garbage. This is observed every spring and autumn, residents of nearby houses explained.

To popularize the culture of careful attitude to nature. Ecologists of the republic joined the All-Russian Festival of Energy Saving “Together Brighter”. Within the framework of the action timed to the Year of Ecology in Russia, the inspectors of the Central Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology of Tatarstan conducted lessons on an environmental theme in a number of general educational institutions of Kazan.

The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan announces the start of the republican contest ECOleader. The most eco-friendly enterprises and educational institutions whose task is to teach how to care of nature, public figures who are not indifferent to environmental problems and, of course, journalists who during the year became real assistants to the inspectors of the Ministry of Ecology of Tatarstan, are invited to participate.

The works are accepted for the following groups and nominations:

Today, a delegation from the Kyrgyz Republic, as part of studying the Tatarstan experience in the projects “Safe City” and “E-Government”, familiarized with the republican policy in the field of environmental protection. First Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustem Kamalov told the guests about the functioning of the territorial monitoring system for the state of the environment, material and technical base and information technologies in the work of Tatarstan environmentalists. The greatest interest among the guests was caused by the air quality control system.

How did life on Earth appear? How did the evolution go? In the first ecological class of Tatarstan a practical lesson in natural science was held. A visiting lesson for schoolchildren was held by the natural science club Pilgrim of the Museum-Reserve “Kazan Kremlin”. During the interactive session, the children were told what the main difference of the Earth from other planets is, what the first living organisms were, and how the evolution of the plant and animal life went.

The inspector of the Prikamsk Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan took part in a city-wide cleanup. Within the framework of the autumn sanitary-ecological month, together with the residents of Naberezhnye Chelny environmentalists landscaped the city. Sanitary pruning of trees, cleaning of leaves and debris, repair and painting of benches were carried out.

Thousands of water bodies of the republic, 10 thousand kilometers of coasts have been brought to the proper condition, more than 10 thousand cubic meters of garbage have been taken out from the territories. Results of republican contests for cleaning of places for mass recreation of citizens and improvement of the springs “Clean Coast” and “Springs of Tatarstan”, organized by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan together with municipalities, were summed up in Kazan today.

Residential district M14 located in the Volga region of Kazan will be supplied with spring drinking water. Now, near the Orenburg highway, the 2nd exploratory well is being drilled. The Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Farid Abdulganiev familiarized himself with the progress of the work. According to him, the indicators of chemical analysis and mineralization and hardness meet all the necessary requirements: “We expect to receive up to 20,000 cubic meters per day.