Аннотация:Analysis of specific pollution figures and
their progress in 974 towns and cities with over 92.4
million population (97% of total urban population
in Russia) help us determine main pollution trends.
Differences between cities by specific pollution
levels due to stationary sources are as great as 1000
times. Values are lowest in machine-building, light
and food industry centers in European Russia, but
they increase further north and east. There are less
than 20 cities east of the Ural mountains, which have
relatively low specific emissions (less than 5 kg/1000
roubles of industrial production in comparable
prices, while the average national value is 31 kg).
These include more than 10 oil & gas producing
centers in the northern part of Tyumen Region, the
diamond producing centre of Mirny, and Yakutsk,
which has almost no industry and generates its
electricity from natural gas, unlike most cities in
Siberia and the Far East. On average, specific
emissions in northern and eastern cities where coal
accounts for most of power generation, are
respectively 3.5 or 1.4 times higher than in cities
where power is generated from gas or fuel oil.
Geographical location, climate and coal burning are
the main reasons for increased levels of
anthropogenic pollution in these areas