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Today, ecological specialists, repsesentatives of executive committees, active participants of the public republican movement 'BUDETCHISTO!" ("It will be clean"), and students of higher educational institutions of Nizhnekamsk held the spring cleaning in the framework of the two-month sanitary and ecological campaign, having cleaned the coastal area of Dolgoe Lake in Nizhnekamsk. The Ministry for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan joined the large-scale campaign together with Mayor of Nizhnekamsk, Aydar Metshin. The Minister of Ecology expressed his gratitude to the students for passionate attitude to nature and native city and highly appraised the work carried out on the territory of Nizhnekamsk municipal district having acknowledged that enterprises, organizations, managing companies and population take active part in the campaign. In his turn, Mayor of the city, Aydar Metshin acknowledged that citizens of Nizhnekamsk traditionally take active part in the two-month sanitary and ecological campaigns, and

Continuous photo- and video-registration of violations of the nature protection legislation - sites of unauthorized waste placement located along the railway got caught in the lens of ecological specialists. While there are no problems with regard to the state of the easement area adjacent to the railway, there are some questions that ecological specialists would like to pose to summer residents and owners of garages in garage consumer co-operatives. "Besides ecological specialists, representatives of administrations by areas of responsibility participated in the raid; moreover, we also invited heads of all rural settlements adjacent to the railway, says Head of the Central Territorial Department under the Ministry of Ecology and

"Let's make the world more kind!" - a cleaning campaign on the territory of a boarding school No. 4 in Kazan was held under such a slogan. The event is organized in the framework of the Ecological Knowledge Day and the Republican voluntary campaign "Spring week of kindness - a relay of good acts". The campaign started with the welcoming work of the leading specialist of the Department of Ecological Education and Interaction with Public Organizations under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Elena Gilmizyanova. She acknowledged that the event is annually held by the Ministry of Ecology. On this day ecological lessons, labor landing troops, class hours are held at educational institutions to promote ecological knowledge, inform the public on the state of things in the field of ecological safety and on the state of the environment. Having equipped

 "The international airport is the air gate of the Republic, and so the first impression of the Republic starts right here", say fellow workers of the airport. In such a way, today, half of all the fellow workers of the air harbor went out to clean its territory.

"Saturday work campaigns are held here often - every Thursday fellow workers clean and beautify the assigned territories (a certain area is assigned to each airport service). As a rule, the campaign "Clean Thursday" starts on April 1stand goes on until the first snow. A huge territory of the airport and the adjacent territories are divided into 42 sections

Specialists of the Trans-Kama Territorial Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan arranged "Open House" for administration and freshmen of the State Autonomous Professional Educational Institution "Vocational School of Petrochemistry and Oil Refining" in Nizhnekamsk. To obtain practical skills, fellow workers of the Ministry arranged a tour for the teaching staff and students around the departments of analysis of industrial emissions and

Problems, suggestions and an appeal for help. A series of questions were discussed today in the framework of the project "Business and authority: a straight talk". The Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Farid Abdulganiev, met with entrepreneurs. Commissioner for the President of the Republic of Tatarstan on Protection of Entrepreneurs' Rights, Timur Nagumanov, was the organizer and moderator of the meeting. A wide range of questions was on the agenda. They also touched upon holding of the Year of Water Protection Areas in the Republic, prospects regarding business development on the territories adjacent to the water bodies, production, construction and operation of treatment facilities, "ecological" transportation pertaining to the decrease in emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere. Speaking of development of the gas-motor fuel market

"It is clean there where nobody litters!"  - under this slogan more than a thousand citizens of Nizhnekamsk participated in a large-scale cleaning campaign. The campaign is organized in the framework of a two-month sanitary and ecological campaign. Citizens of Nizhnekamsk cleaned parks, square gardens, streets, residential areas, playgrounds for kids, and public recreation places from trash, empty bottles and PE bags, and they also cut trees and bushes.  "To live in a clean, beautified and green city - is both a desire and an obligation for all of us. We should all together show the love and respect to the motherland", acknowledged participants of the cleaning campaign

Citizens of Alekseevskoe and Novosheshminsk municipal districts went out to clean the streets from litter that had accumulated during winter.

Saturday work campaigns are held both on weekends and on working days. In such a way, on April 13th, fellow workers of organizations and companies participated in a large

The citizens of Nizhnekamsk will be able to bring cardboard, paper, plastic bottles and PE for recycling and get remuneration. "From waste to profit" campaign will be held on April 23 in Nizhnekamsk. The event is organized by the Children's Ecological and Biological Center together with MOBECO company.

Drop-off stations will be located at the following addresses:

A series of nature protection campaigns and events will be organized in the framework of the Day of Ecological Knowledge under the auspices of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan.  Students of Kazan Vocational School of Communications will arrange tomorrow spring cleaning of the territory of a boarding school No. 4 (11 Zarya str.), students of Kazan River Vocational School will clean the coastal area of the Kazanka River from