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October 12, 2006

Steel Works, Volgograd, Russia, 1992

Photograph by James P. Blair

The Red October Steel Works stands alongside the Volga Matushka, or Mother Volga. Although not much trash can be seen in the water or along the shore, the Volga River is polluted by agrochemicals from farms and heavy metals from the factories that line its banks.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "A Russian Voyage," June 1994, National Geographic magazine)