Gorlovka Chemical Plant: Addressing a Piece of the Toxic Soviet Legacy

Andrew McCartor, Ira P. May

Abstract


Background. The Gorlovka chemical plant is an abandoned industrial complex in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. The facility produced toxic mononitrochlorobenzene (MNCB) and explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT) until it was abruptly abandoned in 2001. The plant is now the subject of a cleanup project coordinated by a broad group of stakeholders, including the government of Ukraine, regional and municipal authorities, the international not-forprofit
Blacksmith Institute, institutional and private sector donors, and local contractors.

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