Ecological Systems and Devices Annotation << Back Geochemical characteristics of local and natural municipal landfills in Ulyanovsk Razin A.D. Kazdym A.A. Our civilization is alive and exists in a world of «technogenic», and in spite of the polynomial environmental programs (both public and private), the calls of various environmental organizations and environmentalists, governments of various countries to reduce the anthropogenic impact on the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, lithosphere and pedosphere planet Earth, no special improvements, and most likely is not expected. The intensive development of industry and transport, the increase in landfill sites, the problems of urbanization, degradation pedosphere and a number of other problems – a consequence technogenesis. Humanity is not able to stop the man-made society, and we can only observe or attempt to do (very weak) to minimize the impact of man-made. This article presents the results of the geochemical analysis of local and unauthorized dumps waste (NBO), the estimation of geochemical anomalies and cluttered group of sites on the degree of violation. The objects of study are unauthorized (natural) Landfills unorganized placement of household waste, defined as the open method of waste disposal in bulk, bulk, in the mixture. The subject of the study are geochemical properties of urban soils (so-called «urbanozem»), also known as man-made soil, cultural layer, or pochvogruntovym material emerging at the facilities of the study. The aim of the work is to assess the ecological and geochemical characteristics of these soil and man-made objects in the field of local and informal placement of household waste. Keywords: ecology; urbanization; technogenesis; the city dump; geochemistry; geochemical anomalies; heavy metals; urban soil; cultural layer; municipal waste. Contacts: E-mail: kazdym@mail.ru Pp. 44-52.