Air Pollution of Nature Reserves near Cities in Russia

Table 4

Impact of the nearest settlements on the air of some nature reserves in Russian Federation.

Nature reserve	Nearest populated locality	Distance from the reserve to the locality (km)	Population of the locality (2018)	Air pollution level in the reserve
Norsky	Fevralsk	10	4731	Low [32]
Zeysky	Zeya	10	23 270	Low [33]
Sikhote-Alin	Terney	5	3311	Low [34, 35]
Botchinsky	Sovetskaya Gavan	120	23 816	Average [36]
Bastak	Birobidzhan	15	73 623	High ([30, 31], this study)
Lipoviy Ostrov (natural monument)	Novokuznetsk	50	553 638	Low [37]
Baikal	Baikalsk	78	12 629	Average [38]
	Irkutsk	220	623 869
Stolby	Krasnoyarsk	15	1 090 811	Average [39]
Voronezhsky	Voronezh	47	1 047 549	Low [40]