ABSTRACT
Ecological situation on the territory of industrial agglomerations requires the implementation of priority measures aimed at ensuring the minimization and prevention of heavy metal pollution of the environmental objects. Soil pollution occupies a special place; the levels of this type of contamination in some cases reach dangerous values. In the surroundings of large industrial enterprises that are emitting large amounts of harmful substances into the atmosphere ecologically unfavorable areas with heavily contaminated soils are formed. Soil being peculiar biochemical filter is capable to retain heavy metals and inactivate them for a long time. However, with the increasing pollution of environment the protective capacity of the soil are exhausted and heavy metals come in excessive amounts into natural waters, plants and further along the trophic chain into animals and humans (Ubugunov 2004; Gorova et al. 2013; Pavlichenko & Kroik 2013).
