What are the cleanest cities in Russia?

About what the cleanest cities in Russia,experts try to argue, compiling this or that rating each year. 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 level of crime, etc.

If you look for the cleanest cities in Russia, then inFirst of all, Nizhnevartovsk, which is one of the richest cities in the country (ahead of Yekaterinburg and St. Petersburg), is mentioned in the ecological and natural aspect, and it is ranked 14th in the Forbes rating as a business-friendly city. Here there are large enterprises of the oil and gas complex, which, however, are organized in such a way that they negatively influence the environment. The city is equated with 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 continuesMurmansk, as well as 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 predominantlydeveloped tourist services, agriculture, quite deservedly is in the rating "The cleanest cities in Russia". There are 17 health resorts, 76 boarding houses, 84 sanatoria. 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 made it possible to equip large areas.

Pskov, located in a zone where softwinter and warm summer, 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 inthe rating "The cleanest cities in Russia" marked Smolensk, Rybinsk, Yoshkar-Ola. In Smolensk, according to the latest census, there are about 0.33 million people. Here 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). In the city there are many squares, gardens, sights. The industry is dominated by jewelry production, furniture production, which do not give emissions.

Yoshkar-Ola is, along with Sochi, favorablezone 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.

To say which city of Russia is the cleanest,quite difficult. 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.