Quality of Drinking Water in the Cities of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug — Yugra (1960s — 1990s)

Abstract

The article analyzes the work of the administration and sanitary and hygienic institutions of the cities of KhMAO-Yugra to improve the hydrochemical condition of the reservoirs of the settlements of the district during the years of its oil and gas development. Its purpose is to reconstruct the real history of the influence of natural, climatic and geographical conditions of the north of Western Siberia, as well as the consequences of the man-made impact of industrial oil production and its transportation on the quality of water consumed by residents of the region. Among the main tasks, the author seeks to identify the causes of poor water quality and exceeding the maximum permissible concentration of harmful substances in it.Based on the modernization methodological paradigm and using ideographic, historical-comparative and other concrete historical methods, as well as historical and logical principles of research, the author shows for the first time in Russian historiography how, as a result of the comprehensive measures taken to restore old and build new structures for water intake and transportation of drinking water, as well as the use of effective means and methods of its purification during the study period, it was possible to significantly improve its environmental and sanitary-hygienic characteristics.