At a briefing at Tatarstan Government House Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Artem Sidorov informed that this year sanitary and ecological two-month campaign starts on April 15.

The date has been changed because of severe weather conditions in republic. Earlier the campaign was implemented on April 1 – June 1. According to the minister, there were other reasons to change the dates.

On the threshold of Universiade 2013 Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources will work more intensively. 90 per cent of republican specialists will perform supervision activity in Kazan.

The republican cleaning day will be held on April 20. Much attention will be paid to Kazan, especially to adjoining territories of sports venues. Moreover, volunteer work on revealing unauthorised landfills will be organised, and public ecological organisations will be involved. “Public control” service on the website of state services will be fully used.

During Universiade Kazan interregional environmental prosecutor's office and employees of relevant ministries will carry out inspections at enterprises which make technological environmental impact to improve ecological situation in the city.