Krasnoyarsk spent under a dense haze for almost a week

The wind left the center a week ago. And immediately the atmospheric air was filled with harmful impurities. Along with oxygen, citizens have to breathe smoke. A dark gray lens hangs over the city, it can be seen with the naked eye. A particularly sad picture opens from the dominant heights that surround the city. Krasnoyarsk residents and guests of the city climb to the observation deck on the Nikolaevskaya hill to enjoy the views. But that is hardly possible now. After all, the whole space was enveloped in a poisonous veil. The NMU regime burst into our lives on Sunday, February 16. It seemed short, because after a day the weather forecasters removed it. But before the poisonous veil had dissipated, full calm was again declared on Tuesday evening, and on Thursday it was extended until Saturday. Margarita is concerned about the quality of atmospheric air. They try to leave the city with their family, because it is dangerous to health in its borders. Margarita: Very bad, breathing hard. The private sector is polluting the air. It's really hard. We live in the private sector and have nothing to breathe. Coal is drowned. Although, I heard that brown coal want to ban, but this is unlikely to happen anytime soon. We try to get out of town on weekends. To keep the children healthy.” Ilya: It's not really breathing. This is especially true in areas where coal is used. When you pass by. I often go there. It's impossible to breathe. Better be at home. In the Sverdlovsk district, October a little better. When you climb the mountain, you see the dome black above the city. During the regime of adverse weather conditions, enterprises must reduce emissions into the atmosphere. This is closely monitored by the inspectors of the Ministry of ecology of the region. At the regional center there are three mobile complexes. Nikolai Yurchenko, Head of the Analytical Laboratory: The mobile environmental laboratory in our country produces measurements and sampling of atmospheric air at specially designated points. Or in hot spots where complaints of air pollution are recorded. These samples are then taken for chemical analysis and the results are then sent to a stationary laboratory.” Aerochemist Daria shows us from the inside how the lab works on wheels. Daria Nechaeva, aerochemist: “Atmospheric air is fed to sampling probes. Next, samples are taken for gas analyzers and pollutants are measured in them at every minute. All this data is averaged over 20 minutes. As a result, the software calculates this data in 20 minutes. And we can determine which substances and how many times the excess.” The Ministry of ecology of the region and the Prosecutor’s office have already caught the hand of two violators: a plant for the production of toilet paper in the area of KrasTETS and a trade and construction company on the Northern highway. Their pipes are not equipped with a gas cleaning system, there are no permits. Anton Pyzhev, head of the Laboratory of Environmental Development of the Siberian Federal University, believes that the main efforts should be directed to the fight against small sources of pollution - there are 15 thousand of them in the city. Anton Pyzhev, Head of the Laboratory for the Economics of Climate Change and Environmental Development of SibFU: Any small steps become clearly visible and visible at a long distance. If we convert a few percent of the same houses to alternative fuels every year, then we will not have a big effect for the city as a whole, only for certain districts. But in the long term, in 5 years, it will be a different situation. I am convinced that sooner or later we will solve this problem. The environment will be greatly improved.” In the meantime, the residents of the city are like medieval navigators, patiently wait out the calm and believe that the wind will soon return to the streets of the city. According to forecasts, gusts of up to 6 meters per second are expected in the first half of next week.

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