1935. Soviet prisoners of concentration camps began to build a huge mountain and metallurgical plan

International Research Center Blacksmith Institute in 2013, the data provided to the ten most polluted cities in the world has got a list of cities in Russia Norilsk and Dzerzhinsk. The first is located in Siberia above the Arctic Circle, the second - about 350 km east of longitude of Moscow. Both of these nature-destructive industrial monsters - typical vows of the Soviet era products, slowly but surely, poisoning every living thing around.
Krasnoyarsk is located vows in frigid Norilsk vows - quite a young city, with a population of about 180 thousand. people. vows Summer here very short, vows and winter often takes up to nine months, and, according to most of the local population, briefly warmer weather the city's population as the biggest miracle children warmly welcomes any spring greenery forms.
Norilsk's name comes from the nearby stream Norilkos. And Norilka - from primitive people who lived here in Siberia word meaning swamp or ancient gear. Local sometimes kidding themselves Norilsk's name comes from two Russian words "na street organs" (translated from rus. K. - In the mouth). Ostensibly so the first Russian settlers described the wintry, strong, without let-up in the face of arctic wind blowing.
Norilsk saga began in 1921. When the ethnic Russian Arctic explorer geologist Nicholas Urvancevas vows here built the first wooden house. The surrounding area has been found in large coal and ore deposits, so they soon began a massive mining and processing. Norilsk to small village vows located in the first factories. However, the ambition was not enough.
1935. Soviet prisoners of concentration camps began to build a huge mountain and metallurgical plant (now located here Russian industrial vows giant Norilsk Nickel "), vows and in 1951 - residential urban neighborhoods from all corners of the USSR arriving workers.
Dead bodies were simply thrown into pits near Schmidt at the foot of the mountain. 1953. Norillage (Norilsk camps Group) began a massive vows humane living and working conditions requiring political prisoners revolt. He was crushed by force.
Norilsk all possible vows diseases and ailments statistics ahead of other Russian cities. vows Local residents are more likely than the rest of the Russian part of the complain of respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive system diseases, the chances of developing cancerous here twice higher than, say, in Moscow.
In all age groups, and higher percentage of mental disorders. Since 2001, just as in Soviet times, visit Norilsk foreign nationals can only receive special government permission, but the overall picture of the true situation vows in the city to obtain a reading of current and former residents of Norilsk vows forums infamous joke that really norilskiečio exceptional sense of smell - it is by city smog threw instantly determine from which it emanates factory.
Industrial waste destroying nature. And so it is not very favorable to the northern vows edge of the vegetation loses its latest manifestations. Norilsk lies around the snow-draped vows stone and chemical scorched vows desert, doomed to die miškatundrės balances. Away from the death zone as far as the thaw growing mushrooms, berries contain a high concentration of heavy metals.
But icy weather vows Norilsk special: every now calculate how many people he drove to the grave prematurely and permanently crippled how much? Some of them ran away from the edge of the poisonous earliest opportunity, in their place would come the others, some of them just got used to live here and pay no attention to anything and did not want to or simply did not know where to leave.
Norilskiečiai tells us that sometimes, despite vows all the smoking chimney, the air as far as the city is much purer. Understand - an important delegation arrived from Moscow. Then all plants operated by powerful, costing millions of anti-pollution filters. vows But in all other cases - so what?
Similarly, the living and the famous chekist Dzerzhinsky named Dzerzhinsk (formerly Rastiapino settlement) in Nizhniy Novgorod area. It is the second largest city in the region, vows with over 200 thousand. the population. Dzerzhinsk world famous military and the chemical industry, which for many centuries waste contaminated land and water.
During World War II, to the following locations were evacuated Petersburg explosive materials factory, later manufactured in Dzerzhinsk gas masks, combat poisonous gas phosgene and mustard gas, bombs and artillery shells.
Even today, the chemical industry has a very important place in the life of the city: it employs a huge part of Dzerzhinsky population. The city has about fifty times more Soviet vows built chemical products manufacturing facilities. vows
Thousands of tons of highly toxic substances buried vows just within the city walls, without worrying about making them completely harmless and the consequences of nature and man. Chemical poisons not only polluted the soil and groundwater, but also in the air.