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Norilsk Nickel: The Soviet Legacy of Industrial Pollution

Authors: Larisa Bronder, Aleksandr Nikitin, Kristin Vibeke Jørgensen, Vladislav Nikifоrov, Igor Kudrik

Publisher: The Bellona Foundation

ISBN: 978-82-993138-3-4

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Norilsk Nickel: The Soviet Legacy of Industrial Pollution

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Norilsk Nickel: The Soviet Legacy of Industrial Pollution

The present report is an update of many years of work by the international environmental foundation Bellona to prevent the negative impacts to the environment and public health caused by plants from Norilsk Nickel Mining and Metallurgical Company (MMC).

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