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Karabash 2013 Polluted Mining Town VR Russia

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Residential housing ten thousand rated most polluted town in Russia declared by Soviet Union as a Disaster Zone remains operational

Karabash 2013 Polluted Mining Town VR Russia

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 Gps Coordinates  /  55.4786679,60.2057283

 

Karabash 2013 Polluted Mining Town VR Russia

Ulitsa Kuznetsova, Karabash, Chelyabinskaya oblast', Russia

 

 

 

1990s Russia’s Environment Ministry declared the town an environmental disaster zone.

 

 

2014 Karabash also had the highest death rate for young people in the region. Karabash town has claimed highest un-natural death rates of entirety of Russia

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Link Location Gps 55.4722412

 

Gps Coordinates  /  55.4722412,60.2004858

 

 

2015 the town had one of the highest death rates from all causes in the country, and in 2014 the highest death rate in the Chelyabinsk region was recorded there.

 

 

Trees stopped growing on the mountain around the plant and the earth turned black. People began to call this place the “bare mountain”.

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 Link Location Gps  /  Gps Link 55.4722069  /  Gps Link 55.4701852  /  Gps Link 55.471739

 

Gps Coordinates  /  55.4722069,60.200473  /  55.4701852,60.2031145  /  55.471739,60.207308

 

 

 

Concentration of arsenic is 279 times the permitted level for copper it’s 368 times and 300 times for lead, while the concentration of copper in the water is 600 times the permitted level. There are also no monitoring stations to check air quality in the town.

 

Sulphur dioxide irritates the mucus lining of the nose and throat and has a harmful effect on teeth. Leads too shortage of breath and loss of consciousness.

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 Link Location Gps  /  Gps Link 55.4723473  /  Gps Link 55.4736326  /  Gps Link 55.4754524

 

Gps Coordinates  /  55.4723473,60.2087786  /  55.4736326,60.2107704  /  55.4754524,60.2133063

 

 

 

According to Russia’s Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights, 100 hectares of land have been contaminated and deposits of iron, zinc and sulphuric acid have been leaching into the river from the slag heaps on the edge of the town. By the 1990s, 14m tonnes of waste had been dumped there.

 

 

 

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 Link Location Gps  /  Gps Link 55.4786099  /  Gps Link 55.4783936  /  Gps Link 55.4743574

 

Gps Coordinates  /  55.4786099,60.2075016  /  55.4783936,60.2031593  /  55.4743574,60.201314

 

In 1989, the authorities finally closed the copper works, leaving a considerable part of the population unemployed. The socio-economic situation in Karabash, already bad, got even worse.

 

Everything seems frozen in time like a Post Apocalyptic scenario whilst everything seems populated with many fresh examples of life

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 Link Location Gps  /  Gps Link 55.4730816  /  Gps Link 55.4827715  /  Gps Link 55.4803769

 

Gps Coordinates  /  55.4730816,60.2008196  /  55.4827715,60.2169424  /  55.4803769,60.216346

 

1990's plant re-opened under a new owner, as Karabashmed Ltd., but in 1996 the Russian environment ministry declared it an environmental disaster zone

 

 

Childrens Play Park entrance gates appear to be heavy industrial insulated copper piping that stretches around the town for many miles

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 Link Location Gps  /  Gps Link 55.4801687  /  Gps Link 55.4814302  /  Gps Link 55.4814446

 

Gps Coordinates  /  55.4801687,60.216367  /  55.4814302,60.214934  /  55.4814446,60.2143973

 

According to the city authorities, one workplace at the smelting plant gives from 3 to 5 new jobs in related industries and services in Karabash.

 

 

  Entrance to a local outskirt nature reserve area called Eco-Hotel Extreme Club has large wooden arches approaching 

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 Link Location Gps  /  Gps Link 55.4813999  /  Gps Link 55.4655943  /  Gps Link 55.4656325

 

Gps Coordinates  /  55.4813999,60.2124341  /  55.4655943,60.101944  /  55.4656325,60.1017868

 

First half of the 2000s the plant acquired a new owner — the Russian Copper Company (RMK)

 

 As you approach the Eco-Hotel Extreme Club there appears to be a Huskie dog, animals fend better than humans in toxic waste dumps it has been studied  

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 Link Location Gps  /  Gps Link 55.466976  /  Gps Link 55.4671926  /  Gps Link 55.4667162

 

Gps Coordinates  /  55.466976,60.1013371  /  55.4671926,60.1011795  /  55.4667162,60.1015908

 

2000's co-owned by two Cypriot offshore companies, Pyracanta Holdings Limited and Tilia Holdings Limited, and produces 30,000 tonnes of crude copper a year.

 

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 Link Location Gps  /  Gps Link 55.4672839  /  Gps Link 55.4673586,60  /  Gps Link 55.4488992

 

Gps Coordinates  /  55.4672839,60.1010994  /  55.4673586,60.1009981  /  55.4488992,60.2150336

 

The plant’s long production history has led to 60% of Karabash being polluted by mercury, while ground and water pollution levels are horrific.

 

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 Link Location Gps  /  Gps Link 55.4486538  /  Gps Link 55.4485495  /  Gps Link 55.4465095

 

Gps Coordinates  /  55.4486538,60.2153076  /  55.4485495,60.2153986  /  55.4465095,60.2218504

 

Investigations revealed, among other things, that a considerable number of children had a raised metal content (lead, arsenic, cadmium) in their hair, and a higher than average amount of cadmium in their blood.

 

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 Link Location Gps  /  Gps Link 55.4465828  /  Gps Link 55.4286572  /  Gps Link 55.4363141

 

Gps Coordinates  /  55.4465828,60.2217548  /  55.4286572,60.2111517  /  55.4363141,60.2431961

 

 

Rivers all over run red with toxic waste pollution local elected leaders have claimed why bother fixing it now because it unrepairable

 

Rivers, streams and lakes run crimson with copper mining toxic waste with alarming levels of mercury on majority of the cities life veins run blood red

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 Link Location Gps  /  Gps Link 55.4362414  /  Gps Link 55.4362414  /  Gps Link 55.4352355

 

Gps Coordinates  /  55.4362414,60.2433408  /  55.4362414,60.2433408  /  55.4352355,60.2452668

 

All the fish died, and the locals stopped hearing birdsong around the plant. A cross was erected on the “bare” mountain, inscribed with the words “save and protect” in large white letters.

 

The local fishing and bait store in Karabash with drone footage of car meet ups further outside of Karabash borders

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 Link Location Gps  /  Gps Link 55.4937635  /  Gps Link 55.4356591  /  Gps Link 55.4139718

 

Gps Coordinates  /  55.4937635,60.2043426  /  55.4356591,60.265737  /  55.4139718,60.268427

 

Middle aged Karabash woman quote - "Now there are fewer emissions, but whenever the gas reaches us, everything in the garden dies – vegetables, potatoes, even the chicks.”

 

 

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 Link Location Gps  /  Gps Link 55.414082  /  Gps Link 55.4448236  /  Gps Link 55.4448917

 

Gps Coordinates  /  55.414082,60.2685037  /  55.4448236,60.2162258  /  55.4448917,60.2163666

 

“What’s it like living here, with the copper works?” I ask him. “See for yourself,” he says, “the gas is burning out the garden.”

 

As we passby the local hospital in 2013 there appears to be a person what appears to be a nursing uniform or could be summer clothes

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 Link Location Gps  /  Gps Link 55.4449321  /  Gps Link 55.4801238  /  Gps Link 55.4992594

 

Gps Coordinates  /  55.4449321,60.2165106  /  55.4801238,60.2083939  /  55.4992594,60.2125927

 

Everybody we talk to says the same thing: the locals don’t have to pay ground rent, since the soil is so polluted, and after complaints about air quality the plant is paying compensation, average of 3,000-5,000 roubles [£39-64] per person.

 

Lada Car sitting on a protected snowbank stand which prevents a car being drowned in snow, Ladas are a protected motorvehicle class

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 Link Location Gps  /  Gps Link 55.4992141  /  Gps Link 55.4991526  /  Gps Link 55.4897719

 

Gps Coordinates  /  55.4992141,60.2127143  /  55.4991526,60.2128309  /  55.4897719,60.2028165

 

Shabalina has chronic pharyngitis and her child has bronchial asthma, and she blames it on Karabashmed. She has a constant burning sensation in the back of her throat and says she often covers her face with a scarf on the street, the gas makes breathing impossible. She periodically brushes white flecks of chemical compounds from her clothing.

 

Many skylines to get you to love Karabash with extended vistas with the beauty of Karabash on high street

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 Link Location Gps  /  Gps Link 55.4910425  /  Gps Link 55.4980838  /  Gps Link 55.49224

 

Gps Coordinates  /  55.4910425,60.2033303  /  55.4980838,60.2077877  /  55.49224,60.2039122

 

Ten percent of Karabash residents work at the smelting plant. If you take family members into consideration, it works out that one person in three has connections with the company.

 

All Windows tinted, holding two phones with external window exhausts white knuckling it towards 2013 Karabash

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 Link Location Gps  /  Gps Link 55.4927045  /  Gps Link 55.4923378

 

Gps Coordinates  /  55.4927045,60.2017147  /  55.4923378,60.2116346

 

Population “reduced” from fifty thousand to ten thousand in a few decades, all vegetation dead, it rains Sulphur ie:- acid rain on high streets with nearby toxic waste dumps and it shows

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Link Location Gps 55.488641

 

Gps Coordinates  /  55.488641,60.205803

 

It was founded in 1822 as a settlement of gold-miners. Town status was granted to it on June 20, 1933

 

 

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