Moscow Region is a part of a vast agglomeration, thus pollution issues, including soil pollution, are acute. The article tackles the problem of soil pollution with heavy metals, most harmful as soil pollutants. The developed methodological approaches have allowed us to make conclusions concerning the background heavy metal pollution of soil and to bring it out that chromium and nickel content in the soil is within the limit of maximum permissible concentration, while manganese, copper, zinc, and lead content exceeds the limit and that the soil pollution proceeds mostly aerogenically.

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