Russian town Chapaevsk, situated in Samara region, dies off. For several decades there have been produced warfare toxins. As a result for the last 15 years the population of the town has decreased in a quarter. The soil and ground waters are filled with dioxins and other poisons. People die from tuberculosis, throat and liver cancer.
In the 20th there has been constructed a secret plant that would produce the inside part of chemical weapons: sulphur mustard and lewisite. During World War II the chemicals were produced 24 ours a day and all the wastes were dumped into the near river and canals.
After the war the factories continued to produce chemical weapons, projectiles and explosives, which badly damaged the ecology of the town. Since early 90th the defense plants haven’t been producing anything. Soon the chemical plant was also closed down. However even today the citizens find chemical projectiles with strange stinky liquid leaking out of it. The town is situated on the bank of the river Chapaevka, all the wastes have been dumped there, so as a result the river doesn’t meet any ecological demands.
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The town of Chapaevsk is facing problems because of the damage to the environment caused by productions of toxic products in WWII. The plants in the region that produced wartime materials did not take the time to safely destroy the material, but rather just dumped it into the streams and rivers. The towns in the water supplies have long haunted the citizens of this region, and the water is still not safe to drink to this day. In order to promote growth and safety these environmental issues are something that Russia is going to need to address.
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