ASSESSMENT OF THE ECOLOGICAL SITUATION IN TAMBOV TODAY AND WAYS OF ITS IMPROVEMENT IN THE FUTURE
In article authors stated results of field social research of outlook and ecological town-planning consciousness of citizens of Tambov gave aspects of interaction of respondents with the urban environment and the surrounding nature through perception and understanding by residents of Tambov of merits and demerits of the ecological environment of the city and diagnosed potential and degree of readiness of citizens for partnership in formation of town-planning and ecological components of the favorable urban environment. 715 respondents - the residents of Tambov from among population interviewed by a questioning method participated in sociological poll. By results of a research two thirds of respondents live in Tambov in the second and more generations and one third lives in the first generation, i.e. not sound citizens. Respondents live in 9 following main districts of Tambov: «Downtown», «Embankment», «the Northern Hillock», «the White Tank», «Dinamo», «Laski», «Pekhotka», «Letka», «Suburb». Studying at the same time town-planning outlook of citizens, authors recognized that the outlook in general is the most general idea of the person about a peace arrangement, and town-planning outlook - the most general idea about the city device. Authors understand town-planning consciousness of citizens as process of reflection in their thinking of objectively existing urban environment of dwelling, its town-planning problems and reasons on ways of its optimization. Familiarizing of a general population with participation in formation of the habitat as the foreign theory and practice shows, increases the responsibility of the population for the created environment, makes active the public against the vandalism which is usually thriving in a totalitarian way the created habitat of the person. Use of results of a research will promote formation of effective mechanisms of interaction of society with the ecological environment and ways of increase in level of ecological town-planning consciousness of citizens to the highest level - formation of the favorable ecological habitat of citizens, harmonious with the nature.