Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
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Magnitogorsk / Russia
Extreme heat and sulfur fumes turn the work on top of the coke ovens in the Lenin steel works in Magnitogorsk into a living hell.
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Magnitogorsk / Russia
Extreme heat and sulfur fumes turn the work on top of the coke ovens in the Lenin steel works in Magnitogorsk into a living hell.
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Magnitogorsk / Russia
Workers on top of the coke ovens in the Magnitogorsk Lenin steel works.
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Magnitogorsk / Russia
Workers on top of the coke ovens in the Magnitogorsk Lenin steel works.
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Murmansk / Russia
Broad belts of pine and birch forest around the town of Monchegorsk are being destroyed by pollution from a nikel plant. Trees even dozens of miles away, die of acid rain and thus are susceptible to forest fires. Conservationists mark the few surviving trees in some parts of the forest with red flags and labels to monitor their survival.
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23/07/2009 3575
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Murmansk / Russia
Broad belts of pine and birch forest around the town of Monchegorsk are being destroyed by pollution from a nikel plant. Trees even dozens of miles away, die of acid rain and thus are susceptible to forest fires. Conservationists mark the few surviving trees in some parts of the forest with red flags and labels to monitor their survival.
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Kunda / Estonia
Workers take welcome breaths after a shift in the dust-filled confines of their cement plant. Exposure to the pollution leaves them exhausted at day’s end.
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Kunda / Estonia
Workers take welcome breaths after a shift in the dust-filled confines of their cement plant. Exposure to the pollution leaves them exhausted at day’s end.
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Baku / Azerbaïjan
Water is covered by a layer of oil and chemicals in the oil fields in the vicinity of Baku. Runoff from the oil fields is responsible for the streams in the area being considered biologically dead.
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06/02/2003 3577
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Baku / Azerbaïjan
Water is covered by a layer of oil and chemicals in the oil fields in the vicinity of Baku. Runoff from the oil fields is responsible for the streams in the area being considered biologically dead.
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Kiev / Ukraine
In many parts of the former Soviet empire children have to pay the price for the sins of their elders. In Kiev a girl’s dermatisis is but one example of the increase of allergic diseases due to environmental conditions.
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10/05/2004 3587
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Kiev / Ukraine
In many parts of the former Soviet empire children have to pay the price for the sins of their elders. In Kiev a girl’s dermatisis is but one example of the increase of allergic diseases due to environmental conditions.
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Kohtla Jarvae / Estonia
Slag heaps of the chemical plants in northerm Estonia consist mostly of oil shale remains. Water that is poured down the heaps washes out sulfur and other toxic chemicals. It is then collected in ditches but eventually seeps into nearby rivers which now lack any life.
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14/04/2009 3588
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Kohtla Jarvae / Estonia
Slag heaps of the chemical plants in northerm Estonia consist mostly of oil shale remains. Water that is poured down the heaps washes out sulfur and other toxic chemicals. It is then collected in ditches but eventually seeps into nearby rivers which now lack any life.
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Chelyabinsk / Russia
This boy in the oncological department of the childrens hospital in Chelyabinsk was diagnosed with leukemia. The increase of children suffering from this condition is generally contributed to 3 major accidents in nuclear facilities in the nearby Techa River region. Still the hospital is fairly well equiped due to aid from the U.S. and Germany, so that the percentage of patients that could be saved from death was doubled.
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20/06/2005 3589
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Chelyabinsk / Russia
This boy in the oncological department of the childrens hospital in Chelyabinsk was diagnosed with leukemia. The increase of children suffering from this condition is generally contributed to 3 major accidents in nuclear facilities in the nearby Techa River region. Still the hospital is fairly well equiped due to aid from the U.S. and Germany, so that the percentage of patients that could be saved from death was doubled.
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Baku / Azerbaïjan
Fumes from a burning storage tank in an oil refinery located in a residential neighborhood in Baku.
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Baku / Azerbaïjan
Fumes from a burning storage tank in an oil refinery located in a residential neighborhood in Baku.
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Novokuznetsk / Russia
Workers take tea and warm themselves between firing of open-hearth furnaces at the KMK steel plant, one of the oldest in Siberia. Victim of a tragic broken promise the once treasured “new Soviet man” is now threatened in his physical existence : his life expectancy has fallen to 61 years (1994) lower even than that of many developing nations.
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24/10/2006 3584
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Novokuznetsk / Russia
Workers take tea and warm themselves between firing of open-hearth furnaces at the KMK steel plant, one of the oldest in Siberia. Victim of a tragic broken promise the once treasured “new Soviet man” is now threatened in his physical existence : his life expectancy has fallen to 61 years (1994) lower even than that of many developing nations.
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Novokuznetsk / Russia
KMK (Kuznetsk Metallogical Kombinate) employs some 30 000 people and produces mostly railroad tracks. Exhausted workers rest at the end of their shift on top the coke ovens, where temperatures in summer generally are well above 40 Celsius.
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Novokuznetsk / Russia
KMK (Kuznetsk Metallogical Kombinate) employs some 30 000 people and produces mostly railroad tracks. Exhausted workers rest at the end of their shift on top the coke ovens, where temperatures in summer generally are well above 40 Celsius.
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Mirnyy / Russia
Mirnyy is a center of diamond mining. On an average of once a week, the rock in the diamond pit is being exploded. The explosions release an orange cloud of dust and gases. Depending on wind and weather this cloud can remain in the pit for days causing a shut down of all work activities in the pit.
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Mirnyy / Russia
Mirnyy is a center of diamond mining. On an average of once a week, the rock in the diamond pit is being exploded. The explosions release an orange cloud of dust and gases. Depending on wind and weather this cloud can remain in the pit for days causing a shut down of all work activities in the pit.
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Magnitogorsk / Russia
MMK (Magnitogorsk Metallurgy Kombinate) also called the Lenin Steel Plant is the world’s largest steel mill employing some 70,000 people.
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Magnitogorsk / Russia
MMK (Magnitogorsk Metallurgy Kombinate) also called the Lenin Steel Plant is the world’s largest steel mill employing some 70,000 people.
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Sumgalt / Azerbaijan
More than the stifling smell, the air in Azerbaijan is laden with chemicals. Pollution from chemical plants is considered one of the leading causes of the breakdown of the immune system, especially in children. This boy died from this condition within an hour after the picture was taken.
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Sumgalt / Azerbaijan
More than the stifling smell, the air in Azerbaijan is laden with chemicals. Pollution from chemical plants is considered one of the leading causes of the breakdown of the immune system, especially in children. This boy died from this condition within an hour after the picture was taken.
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Baku / Azerbaïjan
With forests of oil rigs in their backyards and no playground around, the children of suburban Baku have learned to enjoy the viscous pools of runoffs from the dilapidated and leaky pumps, not realizing what danger they pose to their future health.
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14/04/2009 3603
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Baku / Azerbaïjan
With forests of oil rigs in their backyards and no playground around, the children of suburban Baku have learned to enjoy the viscous pools of runoffs from the dilapidated and leaky pumps, not realizing what danger they pose to their future health.
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Prypyat / Ukraine
Wind blows through the desolate town of Prypyat. On April 26, 1986, this amusement park was being readied for the annual May Day celebrations when the nuclear accident struck.
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03/11/2009 3595
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Prypyat / Ukraine
Wind blows through the desolate town of Prypyat. On April 26, 1986, this amusement park was being readied for the annual May Day celebrations when the nuclear accident struck.
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Prypiat / Ukraine
Wind blows through the desolate town of Prypyat. On April 26, 1986, this amusement park was being readied for the annual May Day celebrations when the nuclear accident struck.
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05/02/2004 3596
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Prypiat / Ukraine
Wind blows through the desolate town of Prypyat. On April 26, 1986, this amusement park was being readied for the annual May Day celebrations when the nuclear accident struck.
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Kiev / Ukraine
Baffling cases of baldness among children in Ukraine are raising alarms among doctors. A sudden outbreak of the condition, know medically as alopecia, occured in 1988 in the city of Chernlvtsi, where more than a hundred children lost their hair while suffering from a host of more serious health problems.
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Kiev / Ukraine
Baffling cases of baldness among children in Ukraine are raising alarms among doctors. A sudden outbreak of the condition, know medically as alopecia, occured in 1988 in the city of Chernlvtsi, where more than a hundred children lost their hair while suffering from a host of more serious health problems.
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Kiev / Ukraine
In Kiev, a teen-aged girl's dermatitis coupled with balding is but one example of the increase of allergic diseases due to environmental conditions. She has suffered from the condition “as long as I can think back”. At an age when her girl friends start dating, she spends many weeks a year in the hospital for painful injections. “How can I not hate my body?” she asks.
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20/03/2017 3598
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Kiev / Ukraine
In Kiev, a teen-aged girl's dermatitis coupled with balding is but one example of the increase of allergic diseases due to environmental conditions. She has suffered from the condition “as long as I can think back”. At an age when her girl friends start dating, she spends many weeks a year in the hospital for painful injections. “How can I not hate my body?” she asks.
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Baku / Azerbaïjan
Once the U. S. S. R.’s major source of oil and one of the most productive fields in the world shortly after the turn of the century, Azerbaïjan’s oil pumping systems fell into decrepitude and more oil was spilled while the Soviets began exploring their great Siberian deposits in the 1960s.
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05/03/2008 3599
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Baku / Azerbaïjan
Once the U. S. S. R.’s major source of oil and one of the most productive fields in the world shortly after the turn of the century, Azerbaïjan’s oil pumping systems fell into decrepitude and more oil was spilled while the Soviets began exploring their great Siberian deposits in the 1960s.
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Aral Sea / Kazakhstan
Aralsk was once a flourishing port town at the Aral Sea. But with the sea shore receding more than 50 miles the town has lost its economic basis. Simple signs of the former harbor serve as a sad reminder of how proud the people were of their once beautiful town.
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03/05/2004 3600
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Aral Sea / Kazakhstan
Aralsk was once a flourishing port town at the Aral Sea. But with the sea shore receding more than 50 miles the town has lost its economic basis. Simple signs of the former harbor serve as a sad reminder of how proud the people were of their once beautiful town.
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Baku / Azerbaïjan
Living for dozens of years amongst runoffs from dilapidated and leaky pumps some women in suburban Baku have learned to adjust to the situation by using the old and rusty pipes to tie their clotheslines to.
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Baku / Azerbaïjan
Living for dozens of years amongst runoffs from dilapidated and leaky pumps some women in suburban Baku have learned to adjust to the situation by using the old and rusty pipes to tie their clotheslines to.
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Semipalatinsk / Kazakhstan
A homey decor meant to ease children’s fears gives cold comfort at Semipalatinsk Diagnostic Center. The region’s frequency of cancers and other maladies is primarily due to fallout from the nearby nuclear test site. Some suggest that radiation causes a breakdown of the immune systems similar to AIDS.
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Semipalatinsk / Kazakhstan
A homey decor meant to ease children’s fears gives cold comfort at Semipalatinsk Diagnostic Center. The region’s frequency of cancers and other maladies is primarily due to fallout from the nearby nuclear test site. Some suggest that radiation causes a breakdown of the immune systems similar to AIDS.
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Donetsk / Ukraine
A coal miner scrubs down after a day in the pits. Though relatively well-paid, they risk gas explosions and face frequent equipment breakdown to extract Ukraine’s high-grade coal. One miner, it is estimated, dies for every million tons of coal mined - 10 times the fatality rate of underground coal miners in the U. S. A.
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08/10/2008 3582
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Donetsk / Ukraine
A coal miner scrubs down after a day in the pits. Though relatively well-paid, they risk gas explosions and face frequent equipment breakdown to extract Ukraine’s high-grade coal. One miner, it is estimated, dies for every million tons of coal mined - 10 times the fatality rate of underground coal miners in the U. S. A.
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Semey / Kazakhstan
Atomic Lake, as it is known locally, shimmers in the midday air 65 miles southwest of Semey. To create a reservoir, a shallow underground device was detonated here in 1965. Large amounts of radiation were vented, exposing the downwind population. Over the years, the Soviets used scores of nuclear devices for other “peaceful” purposes like diamond mining and stanching oil-well fires.
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Semey / Kazakhstan
Atomic Lake, as it is known locally, shimmers in the midday air 65 miles southwest of Semey. To create a reservoir, a shallow underground device was detonated here in 1965. Large amounts of radiation were vented, exposing the downwind population. Over the years, the Soviets used scores of nuclear devices for other “peaceful” purposes like diamond mining and stanching oil-well fires.
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Novokuznetsk / Russia
When KMK was originally built by Stalin as a major production facility for bullets to fight the German invaders in World War II ecological aspects were not a priority. Driven by their quest for even higher productivity during the cold war era Soviet technocrats never allowed the situation to improve. The steel plant in Novokuznetsk still belches thick smoke into the Siberian sky.
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Novokuznetsk / Russia
When KMK was originally built by Stalin as a major production facility for bullets to fight the German invaders in World War II ecological aspects were not a priority. Driven by their quest for even higher productivity during the cold war era Soviet technocrats never allowed the situation to improve. The steel plant in Novokuznetsk still belches thick smoke into the Siberian sky.
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Semey (Semipalatinsk) / Kazakhstan
Blind and disfigured from birth, 13-year-old Berik Syzdykov lives downwind of the old Semipalatinsk test site in northeastern Kazakhstan, where inhabitants attribute a plague of birth defects to nuclear fallout. Between 1949 and 1989 nearly 500 nuclear devices were detonated here.
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Semey (Semipalatinsk) / Kazakhstan
Blind and disfigured from birth, 13-year-old Berik Syzdykov lives downwind of the old Semipalatinsk test site in northeastern Kazakhstan, where inhabitants attribute a plague of birth defects to nuclear fallout. Between 1949 and 1989 nearly 500 nuclear devices were detonated here.
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Kiev / Ukraine
Baffling cases of allergies and dermatological diseases among children in Ukraine as in this one afflicted with skin disease, are raisng alarm among parents and doctors who attribute the rise in the number of diseases to the Chernobyl accident and pollutants from nearby industrial centers.
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30/10/2009 3585
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Kiev / Ukraine
Baffling cases of allergies and dermatological diseases among children in Ukraine as in this one afflicted with skin disease, are raisng alarm among parents and doctors who attribute the rise in the number of diseases to the Chernobyl accident and pollutants from nearby industrial centers.
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Aral Sea / Kazakhstan
Where fish once swam, the camels now tread over the floor of Aral Sea. The seashore has receded by nearly 50 miles leaving behind a dozen rusty shipwrecks locally referred to as the “graveyards of ships” in the once beautiful bay of the fishing village of Zhalanash. Moscow’s decision to irrigate huge cotton and rice crops from the lake’s two feeder rivers caused the Aral Sea to shrink to half of its former size.
© Gerd Ludwig
19/01/2009 3604
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Aral Sea / Kazakhstan
Where fish once swam, the camels now tread over the floor of Aral Sea. The seashore has receded by nearly 50 miles leaving behind a dozen rusty shipwrecks locally referred to as the “graveyards of ships” in the once beautiful bay of the fishing village of Zhalanash. Moscow’s decision to irrigate huge cotton and rice crops from the lake’s two feeder rivers caused the Aral Sea to shrink to half of its former size.
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Aral Sea / Kazakhstan
Aerial shoot of the receding Aral Sea near Aralsk. The beautiful lake has shrunk and is now two shallow lakes far from the old shore. Soviet planners ignored the predictable consequences of over irrigation in order to achieve short term production goals. Hot winds whirl up sand and salt causing the population to suffer from respiratory and stomach diseases, anemia, tuberculosis and throat cancers.
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13/12/2005 4540
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Aral Sea / Kazakhstan
Aerial shoot of the receding Aral Sea near Aralsk. The beautiful lake has shrunk and is now two shallow lakes far from the old shore. Soviet planners ignored the predictable consequences of over irrigation in order to achieve short term production goals. Hot winds whirl up sand and salt causing the population to suffer from respiratory and stomach diseases, anemia, tuberculosis and throat cancers.
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Novokuznetsk / Russia
KMK (Kuznetsk Metallogical Kombinate), a huge steel plant and the main polluter in town, is belching thick smoke filled with carbon monoxide into the Siberian sky.
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01/01/1992 3566
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Novokuznetsk / Russia
KMK (Kuznetsk Metallogical Kombinate), a huge steel plant and the main polluter in town, is belching thick smoke filled with carbon monoxide into the Siberian sky.
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Sillamae / Estonia
Gerd Ludwig’s Russian assistant stands on the shore of a lagoon at the Baltic Sea in the town of Sillamäe. Radioactive waste from a plant that once processed uranium for the Soviet military send the needle of his Geiger counter soaring.
© Gerd Ludwig
03/11/2009 3605
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Sillamae / Estonia
Gerd Ludwig’s Russian assistant stands on the shore of a lagoon at the Baltic Sea in the town of Sillamäe. Radioactive waste from a plant that once processed uranium for the Soviet military send the needle of his Geiger counter soaring.
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Moscow / Russia
Dolgoprudinskaya garbage dump site where people searching for eatables, like breads and fruits or for bottles, construction materials, waste from cigarette factories, etc.
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11/08/2008 3606
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Moscow / Russia
Dolgoprudinskaya garbage dump site where people searching for eatables, like breads and fruits or for bottles, construction materials, waste from cigarette factories, etc.
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Baku / Azerbaïjan
With forests of oil rigs in their back yard the children of suburban Baku have learned to use the viscous pools of runoff from dilapidated and leaky pumps as substitutes for missing play grounds.
© Gerd Ludwig
27/04/2004 3607
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Baku / Azerbaïjan
With forests of oil rigs in their back yard the children of suburban Baku have learned to use the viscous pools of runoff from dilapidated and leaky pumps as substitutes for missing play grounds.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Magnitogorsk / Russia
One half of Magnitogorsk is located in Europe, the other one in Asia. The border is marked by the Ural river. Noxious smoke from the world’s largest steel mill darkens the sky.The volume of the city’s atmospheric pollutants amounts 870.000 per year which is 20 tons per capita per year.
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05/02/2004 3608
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Magnitogorsk / Russia
One half of Magnitogorsk is located in Europe, the other one in Asia. The border is marked by the Ural river. Noxious smoke from the world’s largest steel mill darkens the sky.The volume of the city’s atmospheric pollutants amounts 870.000 per year which is 20 tons per capita per year.
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Aral Sea / Kazakhstan
Children playing on a rusty ship wreck left in the dried up seabed in the former harbor of Aralsk.
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13/12/2005 3567
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Aral Sea / Kazakhstan
Children playing on a rusty ship wreck left in the dried up seabed in the former harbor of Aralsk.
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Prokoyevsk / Russia
Miner Sasha Balaganov has removed the coal dust covered snow from the roof of his small house located near a coal enrichment plant.
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23/02/2011 3578
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Prokoyevsk / Russia
Miner Sasha Balaganov has removed the coal dust covered snow from the roof of his small house located near a coal enrichment plant.
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Magnitogorsk / Russia
On winter Sundays many men drill holes in the ice of the Ural River for fishing just outside of the Lenin Steel Work although they know that the river is highly polluted by the plants waste water.
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06/02/2003 3568
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Magnitogorsk / Russia
On winter Sundays many men drill holes in the ice of the Ural River for fishing just outside of the Lenin Steel Work although they know that the river is highly polluted by the plants waste water.
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Magnitogorsk / Russia
The Lenin steel works are situated in the center of Magnitogorsk. They can be seen from most of the cities suburbs.
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03/11/2009 3569
03/11/2009
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Magnitogorsk / Russia
The Lenin steel works are situated in the center of Magnitogorsk. They can be seen from most of the cities suburbs.
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Moscow / Russia
Several clusters of children with missing forearms were discovered in Moscow. All these hemi-melia births, as scientist call them, occured between 1985-1990 in two neighborhoods. Also no certain links can be drawn between these births defects and Moscow’s bewildering mix of pollutants (dioxin, military plants, trash incinerators etc), most scientific research points to pollution as a cause.
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Moscow / Russia
Several clusters of children with missing forearms were discovered in Moscow. All these hemi-melia births, as scientist call them, occured between 1985-1990 in two neighborhoods. Also no certain links can be drawn between these births defects and Moscow’s bewildering mix of pollutants (dioxin, military plants, trash incinerators etc), most scientific research points to pollution as a cause.
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Siauliai / Lithuania
Siauliai, a small town of about 80.000, in the center of Lithuania, was the largest soviet air base in Europe. The last Soviet military personnel left in 1993, leaving behind environmental damages which would cost up to $ 250 million to clean up. The largest threat to the environment comes from years of leaking kerosene tanks into the undergroung water system. It is that much kerosene that people have started to dig wells and ditches into the ground and collect about 600 liters of kerosene per day in total. The “kerosene-exploration” has become a commercial venture. Students or pensioners are employed to work in shifts around the clock, and a certain part of profit goes to local mafia. A teacher said that 2 days of collecting kerosene equals his monthly salary.
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23/02/2011 3571
23/02/2011
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Siauliai / Lithuania
Siauliai, a small town of about 80.000, in the center of Lithuania, was the largest soviet air base in Europe. The last Soviet military personnel left in 1993, leaving behind environmental damages which would cost up to $ 250 million to clean up. The largest threat to the environment comes from years of leaking kerosene tanks into the undergroung water system. It is that much kerosene that people have started to dig wells and ditches into the ground and collect about 600 liters of kerosene per day in total. The “kerosene-exploration” has become a commercial venture. Students or pensioners are employed to work in shifts around the clock, and a certain part of profit goes to local mafia. A teacher said that 2 days of collecting kerosene equals his monthly salary.
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Narva / Estonia
Narvas Baltiskaya power-station alone accounts for nearly 50% of all Estonian power.Waste management is very poor. The higly alkaline runoffs from the station pollute the Narva River and increase its level of calcium, potassium and other minerals.
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Narva / Estonia
Narvas Baltiskaya power-station alone accounts for nearly 50% of all Estonian power.Waste management is very poor. The higly alkaline runoffs from the station pollute the Narva River and increase its level of calcium, potassium and other minerals.
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Baku / Azerbaïjan
Oil fires in the outskirts of Baku have become so frequent that this shepherd who is herding his sheeps in Bibicheybet is not even taking much notice of the black cloud temming from the burning oil nearby.
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Baku / Azerbaïjan
Oil fires in the outskirts of Baku have become so frequent that this shepherd who is herding his sheeps in Bibicheybet is not even taking much notice of the black cloud temming from the burning oil nearby.
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Baku / Azerbaïjan
According to firemen major oil fires in the Baku area ignite on average about once a week, caused by playing of children, default of powerlines, sparks from electric trains etc. Often, all that firemen can do is to try to extinguish the fire by throwing stones in the water in order to create some sort of waves.
© Gerd Ludwig
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23/02/2011
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Baku / Azerbaïjan
According to firemen major oil fires in the Baku area ignite on average about once a week, caused by playing of children, default of powerlines, sparks from electric trains etc. Often, all that firemen can do is to try to extinguish the fire by throwing stones in the water in order to create some sort of waves.
© Gerd Ludwig