The President of Tatarstan and the Head of the Federal Forestry Agency presented the republican foresters with the keys of new cars
Today in Kazan within the framework of the professional holiday - the Day of Forest Workers, solemn presentation of new official use vehicles to the forestry workers of the republic took place on the square in front of the State Great Concert Hall named after Saidashev. The forest managers and the directors of the forestry enterprises received the vehicles VAZ-21214 and UAZ-390945 in the quantity of 64 units. In a solemn atmosphere, the keys to cars were handed by the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation - Head of the Federal Forestry Agency - Ivan Valentik.
The event was also attended by the Prime Minister of Tatarstan Aleksey Pesoshin, the Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan Ravil Kuzyurov and the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Aleksandr Shadrikov.
In the course of his speech, the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov congratulates the foresters of Tatarstan on a professional holiday and stresses that forestry workers make a huge contribution to the preservation and enhancement of forest resources. "Day of forester is the most beautiful holiday for forest villages and we have preserved these traditions. Today we give such gifts to the forestry departments so that your work becomes of a better quality, you would have more comfortable working conditions and would be able to respond quickly to different challenges. I hope these vehicles will help to facilitate your work, it was for this purpose that these gifts were made", - said the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov.
Also, the President of Tatarstan thanked the leadership of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Federal Forestry Agency for the support provided to the republic.
As the Head of the Federal Forestry Agency Ivan Valentin noted, Tatarstan had managed to preserve the best traditions of forestry, the traditional forest management system and the prestige of the forestry profession. "The Republic takes serious care to ensure that your work is worthy. And this gift, which is being presented to you today by the Government of Tatarstan, is proof of this. Not in every region of our country we see such serious and deep attention to the issues of forestry", said the Head of Rosleskhoz Ivan Valentik.
He added that the federal agency will continue to promote forestry in Tatarstan. So, next year financing of this branch will be increased by more than 20 million rubles. During the speech, it was announced about the possibility of appearance of a fire-chemical station of the third type in one of the regions of the republic, about financing additional sanitary and health measures and a number of other issues.
Then, the President of Tatarstan and the Head of the Federal Forestry Agency handed over the keys of 64 new off-road vehicles to the forest managers and directors of the forestry enterprises. These vehicles will allow state forest inspectors to perform their work duties for the protection and control of forest areas in a fire hazardous season in hard-to-reach areas of the forest fund, and these vehicles will allow more efficient forest management. Totally about 140 million rubles were allocated for the renewal of the vehicle park and forestry equipment of the republican industry in the current year. In the end, the Head of the Forestry Department of the Arskiy forest district thanked for the gifts received on behalf of all foresters.