As the newspaper Izvestia reports referring to the report on the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the country, the anti-rating of the regions with the most polluted soil was headed by the Primorsky Territory, where 44% of the samples did not meet the sanitary and chemical standards.
It is followed by the Novgorod region - 33%, the Kirov region - 27%, North Ossetia - 23% and the Chelyabinsk region - 21%.
In the dozens of anti-leaders there was also Moscow, where about 13% of the land samples did not meet hygienic standards.
Almost half of the soil samples were collected in the territories of kindergartens, schools and playgrounds.
In some samples, harmful substances such as manganese, lead, mercury, and pesticides were found.
Nevertheless, in Rospotrebnadzor noted that compared with 2012, the proportion of samples that do not meet hygiene standards, decreased by about 3%.
The report also lists regions where there is no excess of standards for sanitary and chemical indicators.
Among the regions with the cleanest soil samples are Sevastopol, Kabardino-Balkaria, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Kalmykia, Adygea, Dagestan, Mari El and Gorny Altai.
Earlier Rospotrebnadzor called the regions with the dirty drinking water.