To Ensure the Safety of the Swimming Season

20 August 2018, Monday

On August 18, at a republican meeting in the House of the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan, the head of the Headquarters of EMERCOM of the Republic of Tatarstan, Minister for Civil Defense and Emergency Situations of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rafis Khabibullin, reported on the provision of safety on the water. Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, held the meeting in a videoconference mode with all regions. Since the beginning of the year, 68 people have died on water bodies of the republic, 64 people died last year. The main causes of death are bathing in unequipped places and in a state of intoxication. It is planned to additionally create 48 beaches, today there are 33 operating ones.