ECOLOGICAL STATE OF SOILS OF SEMIPALATINSK REGION

Abstract

   The article assesses the pollution, ecological state and mechanical composition of the soils of the city of Semipalatinsk. Study and analysis of soil composition. Ecological activity of soils is connected with its chemical, physical and biological features. In the East Kazakhstan industrial zone with technogenic damage to the soil cover is contaminated with toxic chemicals. It is also written about radioactive contamination.
   When people first began to use land for agriculture, there was no concept of soil, and soil was formed as a concept of land. This simple explanation would have taken several thousand years, for the problems that had been born to humanity in the last hundred years were not there at that time. In recent centuries, attention has been paid to the soil to solve such problems as famine in some regions, lack of land, erosion, dryness, reduced soil fertility, and so on.