05:56, 20 April 2026

The Frolovo plant paid for environmental damage after residents complained.

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Following complaints from residents of Frolovo about environmental problems caused by the Donskoy Electrometallurgical Plant, Rosprirodnadzor conducted an inspection and identified environmental damage. The plant paid 172,000 rubles.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," last May, residents of Frolovo recorded a video message to Vladimir Putin and the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, complaining about environmental problems caused by the Donskoy Electrometallurgical Plant. One of the activists, Janos Malinowski, complained about death threats on social media and filed a police report. He claimed that city authorities prefer to ignore the plant's emissions. The director of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastyrkin, instructed an investigation into the residents' allegations.

Residents complained that they had unsuccessfully appealed to various authorities to inspect the plant, which, they claim, makes the city uninhabitable. For his part, Frolovo Mayor Vasily Dankov stated that in March, the plant's director spoke at a meeting attended by city officials and assured them that the environmental situation at the plant had improved. The plant, for its part, reported that it conducted an inspection in 2024 and found no exceedances of permissible pollutant concentrations.

The Donskoy Electrometallurgical Plant LLC in Frolovo paid 172,000 rubles for environmental damage caused by emissions, Vysota 102 reported on April 18.

The Lower Volga Interregional Office of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources previously conducted an unscheduled inspection of the plant's operations following numerous complaints from local residents. The inspection identified numerous violations of environmental legislation and calculated the damage caused. The order to eliminate the identified violations is under the department's control.

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