The employee of the Ministry of Forestry of Tatarstan Niyaz Khabirov – the Head of the Biodiversity Department – took part in Crimea in the seminar on “Sharing of experience in recreational use of forests”. The event was organized by the State Committee for Forestry and Hunting of the Republic of Crimea in the framework of the Agreement on trade and economic, scientific and technological and social and cultural cooperation between the Republic of Crimea and the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as in the framework of the Agreement on Cooperation between the State Committee for Forestry and Hunting of the Republic of Crimea and the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan. In the conference the forestry experts of the Chechen Republic, the Republic of Bashkortostan and the Republic of Karelia took part too. As part of the seminar, the forest industry representatives got familiar with the facilities of the use of forests for recreational purposes in the Kuibyshevskoye Forestry, examined facilities of the Yalta mountain-forest nature reserve (Yaltinskaya Cave, Ai-Petri picks), as well as Altushinskoye Forestry (“Nikulin’s Walnut” natural monument) and Sudakskoye Forestry (Novy Svet Nature Sanctuary).