Many people were on this day in auditoriums of the University. Rector, Evgeny Romanov, was meeting alumni of different classes, among which there were specialists of the forestry field of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The faculty of forestry and ecology of the Volga State University of Technology, the oldest at the University, is included into the list of the leading faculties of analogous specialty in Russia. In 2013 it will celebrate its 95th anniversary as of the beginning of training of specialists of the forest industry.
It is this faculty that became the foundation, whereupon the Higher Forest School was established and then it was transformed into one of the largest higher educational establishments of the Volga Region. Alumni familiarized with innovations of the University in the field of forestry, visited biotechnological laboratories, as well as a botanical garden created under the University.