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The analysis of ways for development of anecological framework of the Kazan city agglomeration is given in the paper. Currently, about1.7 million people live in this territory. The Kazan urban agglomeration has amonocentric structure and includes the city of Kazan, its satellite towns, as well as 6 municipal districts. Sustainable development of this territory requires mandatory consideration of the environmental component. The most important role in the ecological component belongs to the ecological frame work of agglomeration. Currently, the basis for the formation of the ecological frame work of the Kazan urban agglomeration is existing natural ecosystems: water objects, and forested areas. The work defines nuclei that are considered fundamental points of the natural ecological framework. It is the Volga-Kamsky state natural biosphere reserve in Laishev sky and Zelenodol sky districts, the State nature reserve of regional significance" Sviyazhsky" in Verkhneuslonsky district; the monument of nature of regional importance "Semiozer sky forest" in Vysokogor sky district; the State Nature Reserve of Regional Importance of the Landscape Profile " The Old Mill " in the Pestrechinsky District, and the Lenino-Kokushkin sky State Nature Reserve of Regional Importance and the Integrated Profile. Keywords: urbanization, ecological framework, Kazan urban agglomeration