Assessment of Soil Heavy Metal Pollution by Land Use Zones in Small Towns of the Industrialized Arctic Region, Russia

• Main Authors: Saltan N., Slukovskaya M., Mikhaylova I., Zarov E., Skripnikov P., Gorbov S., Khvostova A., Drogobuzhskaya S., Shirokaya A., Kremenetskaya I.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer
• Subjects: Arctic; Heavy metals; Hot-water extracted carbon; Total contamination index; Urban soils; Apatity; Kirovsk; Monchegorsk; Murmansk
• Online Access: https://repository.rudn.ru/records/article/record/77269/

The European part of the Arctic zone of Russia is one of the most industrially developed regions with a high level of urbanization and many mining enterprises. Soil pollution of different land use zones (parks, urban forests, traffic zones) in three small towns of Murmansk region of Russia (Monchego...