THE STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT OF DONBASS IN EARLY 1990
The article considers the ecological situation that has developed in the Donbass in the early 1990s. The transition from a planned, regulated to a market economy was accompanied by destructive processes in all spheres of the country's economic complex. Under these conditions, environmental problems have become secondary for many enterprises. Based on the analysis of archival documents, statistical materials, a complex of factors negatively affecting the state of the environment was analyzed.