LAND CONTAMINATION IN THE MOSCOW REGION: SCALE AND SPECIFICS
In the Moscow region, as in many other regions of the country, due to historical reasons and incompetent environment management and other activities of a human being the question of ecological safety has become the first-priority task. The article describes functional purpose of the Moscow region lands and general state of the land pollution. The author analyzes results of the bonitation of agricultural soils in the Moscow region within system of the geographic soil division into districts with consideration for the farming land pollution with heavy metals of the 1 <sup>st</sup> and 2 <sup>nd</sup> grade of danger (cadmium, lead, zinc, copper). The article presents indicating rate of the environmental quality loss for agricultural soils of various administrative districts of the region.