UAVs are being actively introduced in Tatarstan

In 2025, most of the UAVs used were used by the republic's forest fire stations to protect forests from fires during ground-based monitoring. Their use by services in monitoring forests is an effective tool for timely detection of fires and assessment of the situation in hard-to-reach places. 

Due to the control carried out by firefighting measures, as well as the interaction of all structures and organizations, emergency situations related to forest fires can be avoided in the Republic of Tatarstan. All fires have been localized and eliminated in a short time, the transfer of fire to the forest fund and forest fires in 2025 is not allowed.

As part of the implementation of federal state forest control (supervision) and forest protection in forests located on forest fund lands, state forest inspectors conducted 10 control (supervision) and preventive measures with the help of UAVs, taking into account restrictions, and conducted 15 patrols within the framework of forest protection.

Ilgizar Zaripov, First Deputy Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan

Thanks to the implementation of comprehensive measures related to the regular implementation of control (supervisory) and preventive measures, patrolling forests, and the use of advanced technologies, including the use of unmanned vehicles in 2025:

✔️ forest fires did not occur on the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan;  

The detection rate of violations of forest legislation has increased compared to last year and amounted to 95%; 

The number of illegal logging incidents decreased by 25%, the volume of illegal logging decreased by 65%, and the amount of damage caused by illegal logging decreased by 81%.

Deputy Minister of Economy of the Republic of TatarstanGulnaz Ismagilova

The introduction of unmanned aircraft systems into the work of control authorities not only increases transparency and accuracy of control, but also helps to reduce the administrative burden on businesses, speeds up response processes and makes the supervision system more modern and efficient. 

Tatarstan, realizing the tasks set by the Government of the Russian Federation, is confidently moving towards the digital transformation of control (supervisory) activities, introducing the best domestic technological solutions and implementing personnel support projects in the field of unmanned aircraft systems.