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In Novosibirsk oblast, a high level of morbidity with malignant tumors is found in 

 the Maslyanino, Kochenevo, Kolyvan, Chistoozemoye, and Kargat rayons, and also in the 

 city of Novosibirsk (over 250 cases per 100,000 people). 



Mortality from lung cancer is the highest (over 40.0 per 100,000 people) in the 

 Chistoozemoye, Ubinskoye, Bagan, Kochenevo, Ust-Tarka, Ordynskoye, Moshkovo, 

 Toguchin, Kolyvan, Suzun, Maslyanino, Bolotnoye, and 2^dvinsk rayons, and also in the 

 city of Berdsk. A low level (less than 30.0 per 100,000 people) was found in the 

 Barabinsk, Vengerovo, Dovolnoye, Kochki, Sevemoye, Tatarsk, and Chany rayons. In 

 this regard, the Moshkovo Rayon was classified in the group with "very poor" health, 

 and confirmed that cancer of the stomach accounts for much of the mortality fi'om 

 tumors. The Kolyvan Rayon is in the same situation. Negative transitions (to a worse 

 health group) were also made by the Tatarsk (from "medium" to "poor"), Ust-Tarka and 

 Bagan (from "below medium" to "poor"), and Sevemoye (from "good" to "below 

 medium') rayons. 



Comprehensive evaluation of all four indicators (mortality and morbidity in the 

 entire class of mailignant pathology, and also mortality from lung and stomach cancer) 

 provides the most accurate concept of the coimection between environmental factors and 

 the development of tumors. In this case, the Chistoozemoye, Kochenevo, Moshkovo, 

 Kolyvan and Maslyanino rayons come under the "poor" state of health rubric. In 

 addition, according to the previous analysis, pulmonary pathology is the leading factor in 

 the two former rayons, and that of the gastrointestinal tract in the latter two. Various 

 kinds of .malignant tumors are prevalent in the Maslyanino rayon. 



According to recent studies, the unfavorable radiation sitiiation in the city of 

 Novosibirsk and the Moshkovo rayon could be traced to sofl and air contamination with 

 radioactive and chemical substances from the Khimkontsentrat enterprise, in particular 

 to illegal dumping sites for waste from this and other enterprises in the Moshkovo emd 

 Novosibirsk rural areas. In the Maslyanino rayon, the contamination of farmland by 

 mineral fertilizers and pesticides is the highest in the oblast (200-210 kg per {lerson per 

 year and 70-80 kg per hectare of land under cultivation). 



In the city of Tomsk, an increase in the incidence of oncological diseases related 

 to environmental pollution was found. Thus in 1976, the incidence of malignant tumors 

 was 107.9 per 100,000 people, while in 1986 it jumped to 277.4 per 100,000 people, Le. by 

 2J times. TTie Research Institute of Oncology of the Siberian Branch of the Russiiui 

 Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Computer Center of TIASUR analyzed satellite 

 photographs of the city of Tomsk and found that an IR photograph dated June 19, 1988 

 in the 0.8-0.9 micron range superposed on the city map of the same scale indicated that 

 the dark spots matched industrial enterprises of the city. 



In the city of Magadan, the comprehensive index that characterized the degree of 

 atmospheric pollution rose from 7.7 in 1980 to 19.3 in 1988, i.e. it more than doubled. It 



