Municipal retro vehicles will be shown at Ecological Forum in Ufa

At the specialized exhibition "Environmental Forum-2022" in Ufa, a special exposition of five retro municipal vehicles of the 20th century from the collection of MUE "Spetsavtokhozyaystvo" of Ufa will be presented.

One of them is 93M  - a manual rear-loading vehicle on the GAZ-51D chassis. They were produced in the USSR at the factories of the Minkommash from 1946 to 1975. Instead of the usual open body, a closed all-metal van body was installed on the truck. The garbage was loaded through a receiving device at the rear, inside there was a hydraulically driven sealing plate. The garbage truck could carry 2 tons of cargo.

According to the Ministry of Ecology R, colleagues from Tatarstan, Crimea, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov, Kaluga, Voronezh regions, as well as more than 30 companies from Moscow, the Tyumen region, Perm Territory, and Tatarstan will come to the forum. Among the enterprises of Bashkiria, which showed up for the forum, are Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat, Areal (Ufa), and Industrial Ecology (Ufa). A separate exposition will be devoted to the geoparks of the republic.

The business program of the forum will be opened by a plenary session on the topic: “Ecology of the Region. Industry Development Trends”. The forum will include 15 industry discussion platforms and round tables dedicated to the conservation of forest resources, industrial ecology, MSW management, anti-poaching, ecotourism, and other topics, as well as the All-Russian Research and Practice Conference "Healthy Environment".

April 13 is marked in the program as Youth Ecological Day. It will include a plenary session "Green Future of Bashkortostan", a presentation of student environmental projects, an eco-quiz, an eco-game "Keepers of the Earth", and workshops on making handicrafts from recycled materials. An interactive platform "Green Transport of Russia" will operate in the exhibition area.