August 9, 2013

Norilsk located in Russia up in the Krasnoyarsk territory, above the Polar Circle, on the 69th parallel for many years has maintained its status as the dirtiest city in Russia. In August 2013, RIA Ranking experts published a list of the most troubled Russian cities on atmospheric contaminations, based on the data of the Russian Federal State Statistics Service. And Norilsk predictably confirmed his questionable leadership once again.

Located in Norilsk area Zevenyagin Mining-and-Metallurgical integrated works mines copper-nickel sulfide ores from the Oktyabrsky, Talnakh, and Norilsk-1 deposits with the use of opencast and underground technologies and produce copper anodes, nickel cathodes, cobalt, precious metal concentrate, metallic silver, selenium, tellurium and elementary sulfur.

Zevenyagin Mining-and-Metallurgical integrated works is one of the leading producers of nickel (20 percent of the world output), palladium (35 percent), platinum (25 percent) and copper. Citizens have to pay for economic benefits by environmental degradation.   

Hazardous substances emission of Norilsk, where two hundred thousand of residents live, are 2 times more than hazardous substances emission of Moscow is home to 12 million people. Lifetime  in Norilsk is 10 years less than the average in Russia.

Sources: http://lenta.ru/photo/2013/08/09/norilsk/#0,

http://www.nornik.ru/en/our_products/polar_divisions/