SuperJob: Novokuznetsk turned out to be the dirtiest city in Russia
Analysts of the SuperJob job search service named the cities of Russia with the most unfavorable environmental conditions in the opinion of Russians. The leader was Novokuznetsk – only 20 percent of residents consider the level of pollution to be acceptable, writes RT, citing a study.
SuperJob has compiled a rating based on the results of a survey of residents of the largest cities in the country. The settlements were assessed for the quality of air, water and food, as well as for the cleanliness of streets and waste disposal. In addition to Novokuznetsk, the top 10 dirtiest cities included Ryazan (27 percent), Togliatti (29 percent), Chelyabinsk (30 percent), Astrakhan (34 percent), Lipetsk (36 percent), Volgograd (38 percent), Krasnoyarsk (38 percent) ), Saratov (39 percent) and Omsk (42 percent).
The Russians rated the ecological situation in Tyumen the highest of all – 74 percent of residents are satisfied with it. It is followed by Krasnodar (73 percent), Kazan (72 percent), Naberezhnye Chelny (68 percent), Vladivostok (67 percent), Barnaul (65 percent), Perm (65 percent), Kirov (65 percent), Khabarovsk (63 percent) ) and Izhevsk (63 percent). Moscow was in 18th place, and St. Petersburg – in 11th.
31,700 from 37 cities took part in the SuperJob study. Among 1.5 Muscovites and the same number of Petersburgers, there are a thousand residents from each city with a population of one million and 700 respondents from cities with a population of half a million.
air in 2020 increased the volume of harmful emissions from industrial enterprises and utilities. Among them are Magnitogorsk, Nizhny Tagil, Bratsk, Norilsk and Novokuznetsk.
However, according to the decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the federal project “Clean Air”, emissions in these cities by the end of 2024 should be reduced by at least 20 percent. Taking into account the alarming statistics, Rosprirodnadzor in November proposed to increase payments for the negative impact of enterprises on the environment by 100 times.