ИСТИНА

Most studies on wildfires to date have focused on forest fires, while peat bog burning remains less certain in terms of the smoke emissions characteristics, although these fires are estimated to have released the equivalent of 13–40% of the mean annual global C emissions from fossil fuels (Page et al., 2002). Analysis of the extreme smoke event during August 2010 in Moscow demonstrated the strong impact of large-scale peat and forest wildfires around a megacity on aerosol chemistry and air quality, causing highly polluted environments (Popovicheva et. al., 2014). Smoldering fires present a large perturbation to atmospheric chemistry, while the contribution of peat fires to particulate air pollution such as smoke haze is of major concern because of its long-lasting adverse impact on regional air quality and the earth’s radiative balance. Quantification of atmosphere pollution and impacts of peat fires in Eurasia on changes in the aerosol/climate system of boreal regions of Russia is one of the most important research priorities to be addressed.