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North-Western Belarus
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Baltic Sea
Kaliningrad RUSSIA
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Smolensk
Vitebsk
Vilnius
Smolenskaya
Minsk an Nem
BELARUS
Warsaw
Bryansk
Polesie Zhlobin
Soligorsk
Brest
Pripyat
POLAND
Gomel
Zhytomyr
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Dnipropetrovsk
Luhansk
Donetsk
Lower Dniester and Pivdennoukrainska Transnistria
Chisinau
Cluj-Napoca
Kharkiv Poltava Donbas and adjacent areas
Vinnitsya
Chernivtsi
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Kyiv
UKRAINE Khmelnitskyi
IvanoFrankivsk Uzhhorod
HUNGARY Debrecen
Ternopil
Novovoronezhskaya
Sumy
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Rivne
Voronezh
Kurskaya
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Chernobyl
Khmelnitska
Lviv
Kursk
Chernihiv
Rivnenska
Lublin West-Ukrainian Lutsk industrial areas and Carpathian Mountains
RUSSIA
Mogilev
Grodno
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LITHUANIA
Moscow
Ignalina
Dnie
Klaipeda
Mykolaiv
Odesa
Zaporizhzhia
Zaporizka
Rostovon-Don
Berdyansk
RUSSIA
Kherson
Sea of Azov
Gagauzia
Brasov
Sevastopol
Bucharest Constanta Kozloduy
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BULGARIA
Krasnodar
Tuzla Island
Simferopol
Zmiinyi Island
Lower Danube
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Sea
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200 km
Map by UNEP/GRID-Arendal, May 2007.
Areas under environmental stress
1
Areas contaminated by the Chernobyl explosion 2
Past / current (frozen) conflicts Land and territorial disputes
Strongly polluted coastal areas
Inter-state disputes in the process of international or bilateral resolution
Important nature: near-border protected areas and transboundary regions of high ecological importance 3
Inter-ethnic disputes
Nuclear power plants (operating / closed)
Environment and security priority areas
Notes: 1 - Medium to high stress according to national indices of environmental conditions. 2 - Caesium-137 activity above 555 kBq/m2. 3 - Shown only outside of areas under medium to strong environmental stress. Sources: Belarus State University. Atlas of Belarus Geography. Minsk 2005; State Committee for Land Resources, Geodesy and Cartography. National Atlas of Belarus. Minsk 2002; Botnaru V. and O. Kazantseva. Republic of Moldova. Atlas. Chisinau 2005; State Committee for Natural Resources. Integrated Atlas of Ukraine. Kyiv 2005. Baloga V.I. (ed.) 20 Years after Chornobyl Catastrophe. National Report of Ukraine. Kyiv 2006; Shevchuk V.E. and V.L. Gurashevsky (eds.) 20 Years after the Chernobyl Catastrophe. National Report. Minsk 2006; Ministry of Environment Protection of Ukraine. On-line environmental maps (www.menr.gov.ua); ENVSEC consultations 2006-7.
THE MAP DOES NOT IMPLY THE EXPRESSION OF ANY OPINION ON THE PART OF ENVSEC PARTNER ORGANISATIONS CONCERNING THE LEGAL STATUS OF ANY COUNTRY, TERRITORY, CITY OR AREA OF ITS AUTHORITY, OR DELINEATION OF ITS FRONTIERS AND BOUNDARIES.