Аннотация:Compression of economic activity to the capitals in recent years has meant that the load is shifted to the
Moscow region, where the environmental situation is assessed as critical. Growing concentration of the
population determines the highest levels of loading on water resources, waste volumes, and the impact of
motor vehicles. In the Moscow capital region there is a growth of water consumption, and the main sources
of pollution of surface water bodies are contaminated household, industrial and storm sewage of cities
and towns and cottage settlements. There is a growing pressure on forests due to illegal logging. Trends in
the ecological situation in the Moscow region for the past 25 years are ambiguous and complicated. When
increasing the region’s share in the production volumes of the country (38% in constant prices from 1991
to 2014) decreased its contribution not only to emissions from stationary sources, but also from vehicles.
Moscow region provides 2.5% of Russia’s emissions from stationary sources, 5% - from motor vehicles
(and taking into account Moscow - 15%), taking on the total index of air emissions in ninth place. At the
same time 1.5 times rose the share of the region in the pollution of water resources of the country, over
the last ten years the area of solid waste landfills and illegal dumping increased 8 times, the forest area has
decreased by 5%. In recent years, in the Moscow capital region have changed not only the proportions
between different types of environmental impact, but also between urban areas and spaces between
roadways. It was strengthened regional differences in the contribution of anthropogenic impacts. The
maximum difference between the areas of emissions into the atmosphere in 2014 compared since 1990
have increased threefold. In the peripheral areas of the region amplified the impact of agriculture, in other
areas exposed to an increasing proportion of human impacts of land as a result of the rapid development
of suburban real estate market and the expansion Moscow territory.