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The Republican Center of students’ teams is engaged not only in organization of the teams “Green Patrol” for forest  beautification, but also in the matters of professional orientation and labor nurturing among young people and pupils. The first children’s labor and recreation camp was opened in Matyushinsky local forestry. Both economic help to the forest and forest nursery and sport events along with evening parties are on the agenda of the camp session. Nurslings of school forestries, as well as pupils interested in the ecological matters and forest life were included into the first group.

The 12th International Expo of forest industry and forest machinery accompanied with scientific conferences and special shows will be held in Munich (Germany) from July 16th to July 19th.

         Professors Albrecht Bemmann and Swen Vagner from Technical University of Dresden, as well as a representative of the headquarters of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Mr. Christian Susan, who visited Tatarstan and forestries of the Republic multiple times, sent an invitation to the Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan Nail Magdeev to visit the exposition.

Archbishop Anastasy of Kazan and Tatarstan and Manager of Kazan Eparchy awarded the Minister of Forestry, Nail Magdeev, with a Letter of Gratitude for restoration of orthodox churches.

Archbishop Anastasy of Kazan and Tatarstan expressed his gratitude to the Minister: “In blessing for hard work to the glory of the Holy Church”.

All in all, 72 full-time students and 19 students that study by correspondence graduated from the Lubyany Forest and Engineering College this year. The college trains specialists in the following specialties: “Forest and aesthetic forestry”, “Park, garden and landscaping construction”, “Economics and accounting”.

During the meeting, the Minister Nail Magdeev heard heads of subordinate establishments with regard to the graduates who got job placement, as well as candidates of applicants who would like to enter the college.

In 2014, the Lubyany Forest and Engineering College was granted with the status of the laureate of the National Contest “Best colleges of the Russian Federation”. In the course of 93 years, all in all 8,822 logging foremen got their education here along with assistants of foresters, forest protection engineers, accountants, who work mostly in Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Chuvashia, and Kirov region.   

This year it was the first time the Republic of Tatarstan took part in the All-Russian contest of professional craftsmanship “Wood chopper 2014” that was held at the end of June in Kirov.

Despite the debut of Tatar wood choppers and high competitiveness of experienced fellers who came from all regions of Russia, the national team of the State Budgetary Establishment “Forest” performed successfully. The Minister Nail Magdeev awarded Spartak Elivanov, team captain, Director of the State Budgetary Establishment “Nurlatles” and foremen from Saby forestry and the State Budgetary Establishment “Nurlatles” Stanislav Marinin, Nikolay Grishakov, Ramil Zakirov, Ivan Druzhkov and Valery Ivanov with the Letters of gratitude of the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan and valuable prizes. 

10 young specialists, whereof two graduated with honors, are prepared for the professional activity, i.e. to work at wood and paper and wood processing companies of Kazan, Zelenodolsk, Naberezhnye Chelny and other cities of Tatarstan and Russia. They will need to get involved in the process of timber processing, improvement and development of new materials and wood objects.

Upon awarding diplomas to the graduates of the department “Processing of wood materials”, an executive officer of the Ministry Adel Galiullin acknowledged that a timber processing complex of the Republic is developing together with the forestry, and creation of the large modern manufacturing plant for wood processing “Kastamonu Integre” was a good start for a new stage of development of the timber processing complex in our region. The process of creation of new companies, including furniture companies, will follow meaning that new working places will be created for the graduates of the universities as well.

More than 150 people, big and small, gathered in the Borovetsky forest of the Elabuga forestry to participate in the class on the healthy way of life, sport competitions, and to demonstrate their talents during musical and literature evening parties.

Participants of the meeting planted 400 coniferous seedlings provided by the Elabuga forestry on its territory.

A theatrized holiday of Ivana Kupaly was held at the end of the meeting, wherein each participant was engaged. Before departure, all participants took part in the Saturday work campaign to clean the forest territory, while the collected waste was removed to the landfill.

The project is aimed at revelation of territorial connections and distribution of the nesting grouping of Haliaeetus albicilla, longevity, causes of death and peculiarities of birds’ behavior. The birds are labeled using special color rings according to the European program, which is coordinated by the Swedish center of birdbanding.

In the course of the birdbanding, an expert ornithologist Rinur Bikmansurov visited nesting sites of Haliaeetus albicilla in Agryz, Verkhny Uslon, Elabuga, Zelenodolsk, Kamskoe Ustye, Laishevo, Mamadysh, Nizhnekamsk, Rybnaya Sloboda, Spasskoe, Tetyushi, Tukaevo, Chistopol districts including the territories of the state public nature reserve “Spassky”, state public nature reserve “Sviyazhsky”, state public nature reserve “Chistye luga”, state nature landscaping reserve “Gora Lobach”, and the natural monument “Borkovskaya dacha”.

Scientists also acknowledged interruption of the nesting of Haliaeetus albicilla, death of sets and nestlers.

All in all, 43 nestlers in 23 nests were ringed this year in Tatarstan. 

Why do forests catch fire? Are the regions prepared, and how they manage the fires that have already started? What measures do we need to prevent repetition of summer 2010? Independent experts as well as representatives of the Green Peace declare that truthful information on forest fires in Russia is being suppressed. Is it true? Who needs to conceal such information and why? How often do natural forest fires happen, and how often are they man-induced? To what consequences do they lead both for the economics and for the ecosystem?

Participants of the discussion include: Fatikh Sibagatullin – a member of the Committee of the State Duma for Natural Resources, Environment Management and Ecology, Andrey Kalinin – Head of the Federal Budgetary Establishment “Aerial Forest Fire Center”, Nail Magdeev – Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan, Alexey Yaroshenko – Head of the Forest Department of the “Green Peace of Russia”, Nikolay Moiseev – Head of the Subdepartment of Economics and Management of Moscow State University of Forest, the academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a merited wood grower of Russia, Vyacheslav Fedorov – Head of the information and analytical projects of the All-Russian public organization “Green patrol”, Petr Tsvetkov – Head of the laboratory of the forest pyrology of the Forest Institute named after V.N. Sukachev (Krasnoyarsk), Doctor of biological sciences.

On the invitation of the Ministry of Forestry Nail Magdeev, Doctor of biological sciences, professor Andrey Selikhovkin, one of the leading forest pathologists of Russia, visited forest plots of the Prigorodnoe forestry and inspected the territories, whereon pines and fir trees are drying up or have already dried up. Big trees that look rather healthy dry up, their bark blackens and falls off, and needles become yellow. According to A.V. Selikhovkin, due to general climate warming and decrease in humidity of the environment, vermin appear in forests in large quantities. Urban green vegetation suffers from the same type of diseases, and, moreover, it is also exposed to man-induced load. Many citizens of Kazan worry about the destiny of the drying up blue spruce that beautified administrative territories of the capital. According to the scientist, urgent human intervention is required – it is necessary to carry out sanitary felling and treat the trees, if possible.