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Active interference of man into nature and scientific-technical progre
ss leave a notably negative trace on the surface of the Earth. Here we
can refer radioactive interments, mines for launching cosmical object
s and etc. We, the inhabitants of Tajikistan are worried with radioact
ive (solid, fluid) interments and agents in the north of the country.
It is known that Northern Tajikistan was a main purveyor of uranium fo
r the atomic units of the former USSR. Here there were being intensely
wrought out the uranium layers. If in 1945 they had got 7 tons of pur
e uranium, to the year 1953 the volume of the metal output was amplifi
ed up to 400 tons per year. Because of it there had been accumulated a
certain store of radio-active agents both in the mines and on the roa
ds, along which the ore being transported, for the hundreds of years a
head (Murtazaev et al., 1994). The ex-USSR having created its own migh
t and glory left us alone with radioactive interments, agents, contami
nations; thus it added new ecological problems of international level
to those of social order we have had already. Some of these solid radi
oactive agents which are around the towns of Khujand and Chkalovsk, ar
e strewn with inert soil, the thickness of the latter being 0,5 m; oth
ers need strewing, but as for fluid radioactive agents, a lot of probl
ems are caused. There fore, in our opinion, constant observance over a
lpha, beta, gamma backgrounds of fluid radioactive agents is necessary
.