Environmental culture in the Republic of Tatarstan: assessment of environmental awareness of the population

This article opens a series of publications «Environmental culture in the Republic of Tatarstan», presenting the results of the author's sociological research, implemented in 2022. The article provides an analysis of environmental awareness of Tatarstan citizens, based on their self-assessments of knowledge about the state of the environment, about the nature of the environmental problems and the ways to solve them, as well as on the basis of studying the information they consume. The data of the mass survey of Tatarstan citizens (n = 1 500) and content analysis of the news of the most popular mass media in the republic for 2021 (n = 15 389) were used.