Karabash is a town in the Chelyabinsk region with 15 000 citizens. It was founded when people found gold deposits there in 1822. In the beginning of the 20th century copper started to be extracted as well. After decades of the extraction of copper ore and metal smelting the town became the area of ecological emergency.
Initially there were no treatment facilities – in the USSR no one cared about ecology. Acid rains pose extreme danger to the ecological situation.
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