ИСТИНА

Ecological Atlas of Russia issued in 2017 was developed by Moscow State University as the leading performer. It is the result of many years of work of more than 100 authors from different organizations. Atlas includes a various environmental topics, including topics on the environmental situation in large regions of the country. One of such regions was the Crimean peninsula was included in the country in 2014. The creation of the map was based on a large number of cartographic, literary and Internet data on the state of the environment of the peninsula. A content of the map includes data on air pollutant emissions from industrial enterprises and motor transport, degree of pollution of river and canal water, dumps, sewage in the sea, lands destroyed by mining industry (iron ores and building materials - limestone, marl, sand), contamination of soils by heavy metals and pesticides, catastrophic karst risk, places with high radiation risk, places of flooding of containers with chemical ammunitions, cases of observation films of petroleum products on sea surface. Also information on presence of bottom gas hydrate areas (as a factor of climate change) is placed on the map. Territories with low, medium, high and very high ecological intensity are identified on a basis of aggregate of data. The highest ecological tension is noted in areas of Sevastopol and Kerch, as well as in the Perekop Isthmus region in the north of the peninsula. Also the map contains an information about recreational objects including ecological state of beaches and about network of specially protected natural areas and boundaries of areas of mountain-sanitary protection.