"Mountain Altai.

There is one object of accumulated harm - the Aktash mercury plant.

If this object is liquidated within the framework of the federal project “General Cleaning”, it will be an absolutely clean region,” Radionova said in an interview with RBC.

According to her, the population of Gorny Altai is just over 200 thousand people.

“Last year, 2 million tourists came to them.

The region and business are happy with such a number of tourists, the development of domestic tourism is good, we support it very much,” she said.

In December, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko announced that the experiment on quotas for harmful emissions into the atmosphere would be expanded to all Russian cities with polluted air from September 1, 2022.