What are the cleanest cities in Russia?

About what the cleanest cities in Russia, experts try to argue, each year compiling this or that rating. After all, the city can be clean in different ways. On the one hand, it can be street grooming, on the other - a favorable ecological situation, with a third - a low crime rate, etc.

If you look for the cleanest cities in Russia, then in the ecological and natural aspect first of all, Nizhnevartovsk, which is one of the richest cities of the country (ahead of Yekaterinburg and St. Petersburg), is mentioned and is ranked 14th in the Forbes rating as a favorable city for business. Here there are large enterprises of the oil and gas complex, which, however, are organized in such a way that they have a sparing effect on the environment. The city is equal to the territories of the Far North, has dry air (humidity about 73%), a long frosty winter, a short and cool summer.

The rating of the cleanest cities in Russia continues to Murmansk, and also Sochi and Pskov. Favorable situation in the first two settlements is due to the fact that they are close to the large water bodies - the Barents and the Black Sea. In Murmansk, many forests (up to 43% of the city's area), production is mainly directed to fish processing, sea transport, marine geology, food production. The level of dust in the air, as well as the complex level of pollution below the average and sanitary standards.

The city of Sochi, as a territory where tourism services and agriculture are mainly developed, is quite deservedly in the rating "The cleanest cities in Russia". There are 17 health resorts, 76 boarding houses, 84 sanatoriums. The absence of heavy industry makes it possible to keep the curative air of the subtropics clean, and the holding of the Winter Olympics of 2014 allowed the construction of large areas.

Pskov, located in a zone dominated by mild winters and warm summers, is a settlement with a high degree of gardening. In the city there are about 40 hectares of gardens and parks, which favorably affect the environment. In addition, around Pskov there are extensive deciduous and coniferous forests, which contribute a lot to air purification (the degree of atmospheric pollution is calculated as low, IZA = 2.81).

In addition to the above-mentioned settlements, Smolensk, Rybinsk and Yoshkar-Ola were ranked in the "Cleanest cities in Russia" rating. In Smolensk, according to the latest census, there are about 0.33 million people. There is a temperate continental climate with cool summers and long winters, there are a lot of thunderstorms that ozonize the air (up to 25 days per season). There are many squares, gardens and sights in the city. The industry is dominated by jewelry production, furniture production, which do not produce emissions.

Yoshkar-Ola is, along with Sochi, a favorable zone with a warm climate (in summer). Around the city and in its line are many forests, gardens, including the Botanical Garden, groves and forest parks.

It's quite difficult to say which is the cleanest city in Russia. Because In each city there are favorable and unfavorable zones. In the same Yoshkar-Ola, the central areas of the city are overloaded with traffic flows polluting the environment. Some quarters have problems with water quality, while air has a high degree of purity.