Geology, geography and global energy

Scientific and Technical Journal

The influence of air pollution by suspended substances on the health of the population of the Republic of Kalmykia

2013. №4, pp. 112-122

Nastinova Galina E.  - D.Sc. in Geography, Professor, Kalmyk State University, 11 Pushkin st., Elista, 358000, Russian Federation,, nastinova.ge@yandex.ru

Yemelyanenko Dmitriy A.  - Post-graduate student, Kalmyk State University, 11 Pushkin st., Elista, 358000, Russian Federation,, dmitri.emelianenko@bk.ru

The article considers the main sources and level of man-caused pollution of the atmosphere, affecting the health of the Kalmyk Republic,s population. The worsening of the health of the population takes place in the Republic, because it,s territory is characterized by multiple adverse external environmental factors and complex socio-economic conditions. The heat-power engineering makes the main share in the pollution of the atmospheric air on the territory of the Kalmyk Republic: the thermal power stations, industrial and municipal boiler-houses (137 boiler plants, with installed 480 boilers). Carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxide are the most common of gaseous and particulate pollutants. There are no stationary posts of observations of the atmospheric air pollution on the territory of the Kalmyk Republic. The problem of dust in the atmosphere is connected mainly with the fact, that the territory of Kalmykia is one of the most dangerous because of the deflation. The approved and spontaneous dumps of production and consumption wastes are the essential sources of the pollution of atmospheric air and other life-supporting environments. The enterprises of the fuel , metallurgical, chemical and agriculturel complexes of adjacent to Kalmykia Volgograd, Astrakhansky concentration of the most part of heavy metals in an atmospheric dust is slightly lower in summer than that in winter. The main complexity of the problem of an assess of adverse factors of environment on population health consists in reliability of diagnostics of its these or those possible changes.The diseases of organ of respiration form the most part in the structure of incidence of the population.

Key words: industrial pollution,atmosphere,health of the population,Republic of Kalmykia

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