On the wide Volga № 23 -24 (1991)

Special issue.

Mordovian SSR in the newsreel. "My pain".

Scientist, ecologist, economist Yuri A. Aladyshev defends his first thesis on ecology in Mordovia.

Aladyshev Yuri Ivanovich is speaking.

The city of Saransk in smog.

They say the parents of the children of the patients of Saransk Children's Polyclinic №1. Says Senior Researcher of the Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Moscow Yanin Yevgeny Petrovich.

Ecologists conduct air intake.

Says the scientist, ecologist Yuri Ivanovich Aladyshev.

Environmentalists take water from the reservoirs of Mordovia for analysis.

The laboratory assistant in the laboratory at work.

The head of the municipal hygiene department of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Station of the city of Saransk, Velichko Rostislav Mikhailovich, says.

Garbage dumps in the forest.