The Certificate of Appreciation from the Ministry was given to the members of reserved forestry “Sviyazhskii”.

15 years marked from the day when State reserved forestry of regional importance “Sviyazhskii” started its work.

The area of nature reserve is about 12456.32 ha. This reserved forestry is located on the territory of two municipal regions of Republic of Tatarstan – Zelenodolskii and Verkhneuslonskii regions. The main idea of creation is conservation and rehabilitation of natural and artificial ecosystems of river Sviyaga, Sviyazhskii creek of Kuibishev reservoir and circumjacent bottomland plot, storage of commercially important and exotic species of fish, unique natural landscape and biological diversity.

The staff of reserved forestry consists of 8 inspectors. Last four years the Head of this forestry is Aleksandr Evgenievich Salmin.

For 15 years of work by the inspectors of this forestry were made more than 1800 actions on different areas of reserved forestry and designated water areas of rivers Sviyaga, Sulica, Arja, Buva, Kubnja. During the supervision actions there were detected more than 700 breaches of nature conservation laws. From the breakers were collected 660 thousand of rubbles of fines.

To the jubilee of reserved forestry the Ministry prepared a special booklet which is containing information about plant and animal life of this reserved forestry and also the main areas of activities.

For achieving great results in ecology-outreach activities and keeping biodiversity by the decree of Minister of Forestry the members of this reserved forestry got the Certificate of Appreciation.