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Kyiv is one of the main industrial center of Ukraine, and also the center of Kyiv agglomeration. Leading places in the industrial municipal complex are occupied by complicated machine -building and exact machine-building, metal -working industry radio electronics, optics, transport and technological machine building.

Kyiv has a big power base, building industry, communal economy, developed trade enterprises network, consumer services and catering. Kyiv has big scales and trade variety of industry.

A Êè¿â is a considerable transport knot. A transport infra structure is represented a large transport network. There are speed roads, transport circles, bridges and trestle bridges, bus and railway stations, motor transport buildings in the town. Today there are more than 470 thousand units of motor transport means, including 298 thousand of cars, 42 thousand of loaded lorries and 6 thousand of buses in the town.

While growing of industrial power and transport potentials, the pressure levels of nature environment pollution considerably increase. A level of technogenic pressure and its pollution disposition, composition of pollutants and, finally, natural capacity of public production depends on industrial production structure.

Emissions from industrial enterprises and power units, exhaust cars gases do big damage to human health, to the municipal economy, to historic, cultural and architectural monuments of Kyiv.

 


 

 

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