Monchegorsk
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Monchegorsk
The city of Monchegorsk grew up around its nickel plant, built in 1938 on the orders of Sergey Mironovich Kirov, the Secretary of the Communist Party. The city became one of the most badly polluted areas in Russia during the 1980s thanks to
emissions of zinc, copper, mercury and other metals from the plant. These were so harmful that whole forests were killed, and local mushrooms and berries, so loved by Russians, became unfit for human consumption.
Motherland
January 2005
Chromogenic development print
1/3
Image: 18.4 x 22.8 cm
Overall: 20.3 x 25.3 cm
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2010
2010.0008.0080
Inscriptions verso (handwritten in black ink): edition 1/3 [signed]
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/22 217 +3 +0 +0 +0 217.tif (1) 19:09:13
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/22 217 +3 +0 +0 +0 217.tif (1) 19:09:13
