Man-made processes and disasters and ways to overcome their consequences

Tsvetkova Tatiana Victorovna

Scientific and technological progress, which began after the collapse of primitive society, has led not only to the emergence of tools and complex mechanisms in various fields of production, but also put humanity before the problem of survival due to the inability to exercise full control over their use. This situation was especially noticeable in the late XIX-early XX centuries, in connection with the numerous wars for the redistribution of the world space and, as a result, the growing volumes of production in certain industries of strategic importance. The most illustrative examples of recent decades have been the catastrophes at the Mayak plant and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which affected not only the territories of several republics of the former Soviet Union, but also the adjacent areas of neighboring countries.

Keywords:"technogenic catastrophe"; "diseases of respiratory organs and the whole organism"; "cancer"; "asthma"; "tuberculosis of different etymology"; "statistical data on the state of mortality in certain regions of the Russian Federation"; "recommendations for stabilization of the situation in the areas confirmed by the impact of technogenic factors"