(KZN.RU,
April 29, Alsu Safina). Employees of the structural units of the Kazan
Executive Committee, headed by Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of the Tatarstan’s
capital, went out to the city subbotnik today in the morning. Active cleaning
began at 8 o'clock on the territory of Russo-German Switzerland: on the stretch
from the Millennium Bridge towards the Sovetsky district. Also, the structural
units of the Executive Committee are participating in the cleaning of the
coastal zone at the stadium “Kazan Arena” today.
According
to preliminary data, more than 70 thousand people and about 2.5 thousand
different enterprises and institutions will take part in the city subbotnik,
and more than 700 pieces of equipment will be used. For comparison, last year
1.4 thousand enterprises and 43 thousand people took part in the subbotnik, and
more than 400 units of equipment were used. Then, it was managed to export 9
thousand cubic meters of garbage from the city's territories by joint efforts.
The Mayor
of Kazan thanked all the residents of the city who came out for the subbotnik
today. “In the Year of Ecology and Public Spaces, which is announced in
Tatarstan, we are grateful to everyone: educational institutions, enterprises,
business representatives and, most importantly, citizens who went to the
subbotnik with love to Kazan, so that our city would become clean, beautiful,
and well-organized. It is important that we always maintain this purity”, said
the Mayor. According to him, holding a subbotnik at the end of April is a good
tradition. “We grew up with this tradition, now our children are growing up
with it”, marked I. Metshin.
Sanitary
cleaning of 75 territories will be carried out on the citywide subbotnik,
including forests in the streets Parin, Dubravnaya, Minskaya, Aitmatov, coastal
zones along Lake Kaban and the Kazanka River, green areas on the streets
Krasnaya Positsiya, Dementiev, Himicheskaya, Belomorskaya, and others. Also,
parks the Krylya Sovetov, Uritsky, Petrov, and Pobeda, Lyadskoy and Leninsky
gardens, the squares of Surikov and Molodozhenov will not be left without
attention of the townspeople. In addition, cleaning is organized in every yard.
In general,
it is estimated that 900 thousand square meters of green areas, 60 thousand
square meters of territories adjacent to the enterprises of the city, 380 households,
950 thousand square meters of roads, 7 thousand meters of fences, 30 hectares
of parks and gardens will be cleared of garbage today. It is expected that 7.5
thousand cubic meters of waste will be exported.
The
citywide subbotnik is held within the framework of the sanitary-epidemiological
two-month period, which started on April 1. 10.5 million square meters of green
zones, 15 million square meters of roads were cleared in Kazan, 2500 yard
territories are put in order, and 100 thousand meters of fences are washed and
painted from the beginning of the two-month period. In addition, 430 bus stops
are cleaned and washed, gardens, parks, and squares of the area of 210 hectares
are cleaned, and 130 thousand cubic meters of waste are exported.
This year,
as in the last two years, the main emphasis in the sanitary cleaning of the
city's territory is made on the cleaning of coastal water protection zones and
urban forestry.