The Impact of the Economic Development of the Four Northern National Districts on the Environment in the Late XX — Early XXI Century

Abstract

The industry of the USSR in the XX century developed without taking into account the damage caused to nature. In the northern and Arctic regions, the economy is based on mining, which, as a rule, causes significant damage to the environment. Gradually, the attitude of society towards ecology began to change, in the 1980s environmental statistics began to form and gradually increasing environmental restrictions appeared. The purpose of this study is a comparative analysis of the impact of industrial development in the four northern autonomous okrugs on the environment. The research uses general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization, analogy and regression analysis. As a result, it is shown that in the 1990s environmental problems receded into the background and only in the 2000s modernization and active environmental policy contributed to reducing the impact on the environment. Since the mid‑2010s, environmental pollution has been increasing again in some regions.