Area of disturbed, worked-out and reclaimed lands in Russia
per year; hectares
The area of disturbed, exhausted, and reclaimed lands in Russia from 2019 to 2023 is recorded in hectares per year. Rows are categorized by the causes of soil impact: mineral resource development, oil or gas transit leaks, and other factors. The total area of disturbed land changed from 35481 hectares in 2019 to 18806 hectares in 2023. The data is annual and covers the entire country
- Total
- during mineral extraction (including common minerals)
- Total
- during logging operations — Total
- during logging operations — during mineral resource extraction (including common minerals)
- during construction work
- during mineral extraction (including common minerals)
- during survey work
- during logging operations — during survey works
- during logging operations — during survey works
Chart of the area of disturbed, exhausted, and reclaimed lands from 2019 to 2023, in hectares
Who grew, who fell: 2019 → 2023
Set in numbers
23 series are published here in per year; hectares, from 2019 to 2023, 5 reporting periods. 101 values in total.
Between 2019 and 2023 “Total” declined from 35,481 to 18,806 — 47%. The lowest value in the series is 18,126 in 2022.
All table numbers are series: 23
How to read this table
Different types of activities and incidents are listed in separate rows to allow for comparison between the scale of damage from mining and the consequences of accidents during resource transportation. This approach shows which factor contributes most to the total area of disturbed land in a given year. Data is presented in hectares and allows for tracking land condition dynamics over a five-year period
What is visible in these numbers
The largest value belongs to “Total” — 9,010 per year; hectares; the smallest is “during logging operations — during disposal of industrial (including construction) and solid municipal waste” at 0.5 per year; hectares. The gap between them is 18,020-fold.
The table is 88% filled: Rosstat does not publish every cell, and the gaps are left as they are rather than interpolated.
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Period and application
Statistics are published annually and cover a five-year period from 2019 to 2023. This information is useful for ecologists, land management specialists, representatives of extractive industries, and government agencies to assess the scale of environmental impact
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