STRIP MINING POLLUTES DALNEGORSK, MARITIME KRAY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005517795
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-00651
• Publication Date: October 28, 1991

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SUBJ: STRIP MINING POLLUTES DALNEGORSK, MARITIME KRAY
SOURCE: MOSCOW CENTRAL TELEVISION FIRST PROGRAM AND ORBITA NETWORKS
IN RUSSIAN 1030 GMT 28 OCT 91'
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//((A. KRUTOV VIDEO REPORT;' FROM THE "TV INFORM" PROGRAM))
((TEXT)) A TENTH OF THE TOTAL TERRITORY OF OUR COUNTRY, 290
RAYONS, ARE CONSIDERED ECOLOGICALLY DAMAGED. HERE IS A REPORT BY
ALEKSANDR KRUTOV FROM..THE CITY OF DALNEGORSK OF THE MARITIME 'CRAY:
((BEGIN RECORDING)) ((KRUTOV)). SEVERAL YEARS AGO, AN
UNIDENTIFIED- FL.YING.OBJECT CRASHED ON THIS HILL. UNFORTUNATELY, AS
THE EYEWITNESSES WERE CLIMBING TOWARDS THE SCENE OF THE EVENT, IT
DISAPPEARED. AS WE UNDERSTOOD FROM OUR TALKS WITH THE RESIDENTS OF
DALNEGORSK, THE UFOS ARE A COMMON OCCURRENCE HERE. THE LOCAL
UFOLOGISTS HAVE EVEN ESTABLISHED CONTACT WITH OUTER SPACE, AND ONE
DAY EXPECTED THE LANDING OF A UFO IN THE CITY STADIUM. FOR UNKNOWN
REASONS, THE ENCOUNTER DID NOT TAKE PLACE, BUT THE UFOLOGISTS HAVE
NOT LOST HOPE.
? SO WHAT ATTRACTS VISITORS FROM OUTER SPACE TO DALNEGORSK? COULD
THIS DEAD LAND BE IT? ((VIDEO SHOWS SIGHTS IN DALNEGORSK TAKEN FROM
HELICOPTER, CUTS TO SHOW WHAT LOOKS LIKE A-STRIP-MINING SITE)) IT
CERTAINLY IS SUITABLE ONLY FOR THE LANDING-OF A SPACESHIP. THIS
MOON-LIKE LANDSCAPE IS WHAT HAS BEEN LEFT BEHIND BY THE INDUSTRIAL
ASSOCIATION 'BOR'. THEY WERE LOOKING FOR A CHEAP DEAL AT THE TIME,
AND THIS IS HOW THEY MINED, BUILDING TENANT HOUSES AND A HOSPITAL
RIGHT IN THE INDUSTRIAL ZONE, CLOSE TO THE PLACE OF WORK. AS A
RESULT, DUST AND SUSPENDED MATTER COVERS THE TOWN AND CLOGS THE
LUNGS OF ADULTS AND CHILDREN. ((VIDEO SHOWS INTERVIEW WITH G.
PILIPCHUK, A GYNECOLOGIST))
((PILIPCHUK)) THE STATE OF HEALTH OF OUR WOMEN, AND ACTUALLY THE
STATE OF HEALTH OF ALL THE POPULATION OF OUR RAYON, DOES NOT GIVE US
THE MEDICS CAUSE FOR OPTIMISM. LATELY, THE GROWTH OF BIRTH DEFECTS
AMONG THE NEWBORN AND THE HIGH RATE OF MORBIDITY IN THE FIRST MONTHS
OR YEARS OF LIFE HAVE BEEN OBSERVED, AND WE THE MEDICAL WORKERS
CONNECT IT TO THE DAMAGING INFLUENCE OF OUR CHEMICAL AND MINING
INDUSTRY.
((KRUTOV)) CONSTRUCTORS DO NOT EVEN USE WATER FROM THE CITY'S
RIVER, AND I DO NOT MEAN FOR DRINKING -- FOR MIXING CEMENT. THE
WATER IS SO BAD THAT THE CEMENT CRUMBLES. DALNEGORSK IS CALLED THE
CHERNOBYL OF THE FAR EAST. ((VIDEO SHOWS MORE AERIAL SHOTS OF THE
CITY, CUTS TO AN INTERVIEW WITH L. SPITSYN, MACHINIST AT THE 'BOR'
INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION))
((SPITSYN)) THE PREDATORY LOOTING THAT WENT ON ALL OVER THE
COUNTRY-EXISTS HERE TOO. I MEAN THE MAIN THING WAS TO GRAB, NO
MATTER HOW, WHAT, OR WHERE. GRABBING IS THE MAIN GOAL. THE ECONOMY
SHOULD BE ECONOMICAL, SO LET US ECONOMIZE BY STARTING WITH THE
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((KRUTOV)) YOU SAY THAT YOU ARE FIGHTING WINDMILLS. WHOM ARE
YOU FIGHTING?
((SPITSYN)) I HOPE THAT TODAY, AFTER. THE 19TH (OF, AUGUST) THE
SITUATION WILL CHANGE SOMEHOW. BUT BEFORE THAT ...WELL, ATiTHE TIME
WHEN MY CANDIDACY FOR A DEPUTY WAS ADVANCED BY THE FACTORY, I
THOUGHT THAT THE BAD GUYS WERE ALEXHIN, GENERAL DIRECTOR OF THE
ASSOCIATION, OR SIDOROV, OR PETROV. BUT WHEN I SAW ALL OF THIS WITH
MY OWN EYES, WHEN I SAW ALL THESE DOCUMENTS, THE REQUIREMENTS THAT
WERE MADE, I REALIZED THAT NEITHER ALEKHIN, SIDOROV, OR PETROV WERE
TO BLAME; THE SYSTEM WAS TO BLAME. WHAT IT DEMANDS IS BAD, SO IT IS.
NOT FEASIBLE TO DO GOOD 'EITHER ECONOMICALLY 'OR ADMINISTRATIVELY; IF
YOU DO NOT DO THE BAD THING YOU WILL SIMPLY BE KICKED OUT, THE
SYSTEM WILL REJECT YOU. ((VIDEO SHOWS RESIDENTS OF DALNEGORSK))
((KRUTOV)) IT IS DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN AND HOW THE SYSTEM WILL
CHANGE, AND NO CHANGE'S ARE MEANWHILE VISIBLE. NO ONE WANTS TO TAKE
THE RESPONSIBILITY, GIVE UP THE STRIP MINING METHOD AND CONVERT TO
UNDERGROUND MINING. MAYBE THIS IS THE REASON THAT THE RESIDENTS OF
DALNEGORSK ARE. WAITING FOR VISITORS FROM OUTER SPACE, HOPING THAT
THEY CAN HELP SOLVE THE TERRESTRIAL PROBLEMS.' ((END.RECORDING))
((ANNOUNCER)) AND HERE ARE A FEW NUMBERS -- UNTIL RECENTLY, NINE
BILLION ROUBLES WERE INVESTED IN ECOLOGY, WHILE DAMAGE FROM THE
BARBARIC TREATMENT OF NATURE AMOUNT TO 43 BILLION ROUBLES.
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