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The Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan notifies about the results of the auction for the sale of the right to conclude a contract for the purchase and sale of forest plantations to small and medium-sized enterprises located on the territory of the forest fund of the Menzelinskiy, Mamadyshskiy and Arskiy forestry divisions held on December 19, 2017.

By lots No. 2, 5, 14, 15, 16, 19 the auction was deemed to be held. With the winners of the auction, protocols on the results of the auction are signed and contracts for the sale of forest plantations to small and medium-sized enterprises will be concluded within ten working days from the date of signing the protocol.

By lots No. 1, 3, 4, 6-13, 17 the auction was declared invalid (Subparagraph 1 of paragraph 7 of Article 80 of the Forest Code of the Russian Federation). Protocols on the results of the auction are signed with the sole participant of the auction and contracts for the purchase and sale of forest plantations to small and medium-sized enterprises will be concluded ten days after the date of publication of information on the results of the auction on the official website of the Russian Federation in the information and telecommunications network "Internet" within ten working days after the expiration of the above period.

By lots No. 18, 20 the auction was declared invalid because of the absence of applications for participation in the auction.

A press conference on the results of the work of the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan for 11 months of 2017 was held in the Information Agency "Tatar-Inform". First Deputy Minister Emir Bedertdinov took part there. The speaker told reporters that in the current year, forest regeneration activities on a total area of 2,061 hectares were completed in full, with quality and in a timely manner. In order to preserve and protect forests within the framework of the State Program "Forestry Development of the Republic of Tatarstan in 2014-2020," ravine plantations on an area of more than 2 thousand hectares, field sheltered forest plantations on the area of 122 hectares are laid. Field shelter belts are cleaned from dead and damaged trees on the territory of 896 hectares. 6.5 thousand kg of seeds, including 1343 kg of coniferous species; 5304 kg of hardwood are prepared. In 53 basic forest nurseries, seed sowing is performed on an area of 27 hectares with a plan of 22 hectares.

The estimated felling area for all types of cuttings is 2,400 thousand cubic meters. In the current year, it was developed in the amount of 898 thousand cubic meters (37.6%). Cuttings of forest care were carried out on the area of 17.7 thousand hectares. The total volume of harvested wood was about 600 thousand cubic meters, liquid wood volume - 483 thousand cubic meters, which is 5% more than in the previous year.

Care for young growth was carried out on the area of 7.6 thousand hectares, in the volume provided for by the Forestry Plan of the Republic of Tatarstan. In order to support small and medium-sized enterprises in 2017, 20 auctions for sale of the right to conclude a contract for the purchase and sale of forest plantations were held. 268 thousand cubic meters of timber were sold for a total of 19.6 million rubles.

In the current year, a series of forest management works has been completed in 31 forest areas on the area of 1,236 thousand hectares, and accordingly the work on making amendments into

the forestry regulations of forest areas are completing, in order to bring them into line with new forest inventory materials.

For today 17% of forest lands were recorded in cadastral registration in the republic. Currently, cadastral work on the lands of the forest fund of the Republic is carried out on the territory of eight forestry divisions, and state work has also been carried out to establish the boundaries of one of the forest areas. The Ministry sent a request to the Federal Forestry Agency to include the work on the delineation of 22 forestry divisions of the republic into the plan for 2018.

In terms of forests preservation and protection, E.N. Bedertdinov noted that the number of fires in the border areas to the forest fund increased by 2 times and amounted to 309 cases, however, the area of fire decreased - 0.4 hectares because of the operational response of forest protection workers .

Forest pathology survey was carried out on the area of 70 thousand hectares. To protect forests from pests, special measures were carried out to destroy or suppress the number of pest outbreaks on the area of about 8,000 hectares.

For 11 months of this year, the forest protection service identified 849 violations of forest legislation during the forest patrol. The amount of damage to the forest fund amounted to 11 million rubles. Compared to last year, the number of detected violations increased by 21%, and the amount of damage increased by 9.5%. First of all, this is due to the work carried out with respect to people using forests, in compliance with the terms of the forest management contract.