Contemporary Number 40

In the movie "Sovremennik" No. 40 tells about the sad environmental situation in the city of Kuibyshev and the Kuibyshev region. Kuibyshev region, 1989. A man with a fishing rod on the shore of a lake. Young people harvest beets in one of the collective farms. A herd of cows grazes in a meadow near an industrial plant. Kuibyshev city, 1989. A boy at home eats a watermelon and cries. Buyers choose vegetables at the city market. Type of advertisement on the market: “Comrades, buyers! When buying agricultural products on the market, you can check the sanitary pass at the traders, which indicates the presence of nitrates in the products they sell. " The chief sanitary doctor of the Kuibyshev region, Anatoly Mikhailovich Spiridonov, talks about poor ecology, the need to purchase expensive and accurate equipment to determine the amount of heavy metals in the environment, and the great harm of transport to the environment (sinhr.). View of vegetables on the tables in the laboratory of the Kuibyshev Regional Plant Protection Station. The chief toxicologist of the station, Tamara Nikolaevna Lastochkina, speaks about the use of mineral fertilizers by agriculture in large doses, in particular nitrogen, which helps to increase the yield, about the need to tighten control by the state (sinhr.). The head of the toxicological laboratory, Tamara Ivanovna Polinova, says about the absence of farms producing environmentally friendly products, about the need to take appropriate measures (sinhr.). An employee of the radiological laboratory L.F. Lyushina speaks of industrial enterprises as the main environmental pollutants (sync.). View of the building of the Kuibyshev Regional Oncological Dispensary. The chief oncologist of the region, Vladimir Mikhailovich Sukharev, talks about the growth of oncological diseases among the population: out of every ten thousand, forty people fall ill.

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Author B. Kozhin, sound engineer V. Popov, editor B. Kozhin