The report on the state of the environment and the way environmental factors affected the health of Sverdlovsk Region population indicates that Yekaterinburg-based enterprises that release gases without recycling them first dumped 16,016 tons of pollutants in the air. Only 12.9% of local emission points have gas-purifying facilities. Novo-Sverdlovskaya power station (part of SverdlovEnergo) becomes the major polluter with its 20.1% share in the total amount of emissions.