[Malignant neoplasms in the Republic of Altai]. / Zlokachestvennye novoobrazovaniia v Respublike Altai.

Mortality due to malignant neoplasms was studied in the Republic of Altai (RA) in 1993-1998. Males and females in RA die from cancer at a younger age than those in other regions of Russia. By the main cancer sites, the mean age of deceased males is 2.3-9.1 years less than that of females. Comparison of mortality rates in Russia and RA revealed increased proportion of cancer of the trachea, bronchus, lung in males and females, as well as greater proportion of gastric cancer in males and of esophageal cancer in females. Maps of the standardized index of cancer mortality was made, which clearly show the distribution of mortality rates by the administrative RA districts. High cancer risk districts were identified due to the ranging the territory by the rates of deaths from all cancer sites, from cancer of the trachea, bronchus, lung, stomach, liver, blood, and lymphatic.

[Land and space hygienic monitoring of environment quality]. / Nazemno-kosmicheskii gigienicheskii monitoring kachestva okruzhaiushchei sredy.

Monitoring of changes occurring in the environment and human health is a basic way of solving the problem of the optimal society-biosphere interaction. The initiated ecological and hygienic studies using the space facilities and techniques of remote probing of the Earth's surface create prerequisites for the land and space monitoring of biospheric solution, for the assessment of the anthropoecological situation and for the prediction environment-related diseases in the population.

[Data bank on post-stroke patients: experience in organization and use]. / Bank dannykh postinsul'tnykh bol'nykh: opyt sozdaniia i ispol'zovaniia.

The bank of clinical data concerning restorative therapy of neurological patients was characterized. These data were included in computer program "System of management of data bank on poststroke patients" which was elaborated in the department of V.M.Bekhterev's St-Petersburg Psychoneurological Institute. Information obtained in process of answering special questionnaire formed this data bank which included social-, demographic, anamnestic, clinical-anatomical data, information about both initial functional state of the patient and its dynamics as well as therapeutic methods applied and follow-up data about the patients which entered the hospital repeatedly, 450 case reports were accumulated in the bank. Practice proved informative value of the bank's materials and its suitability for statistic analysis. Data bank may be used for scientific and statistic purposes as well for control and prognosis of efficiency of treatment of the patients with consequences of cerebral strokes.

[Identification of zones with various levels of industrial air pollution based on space photography data]. / Identifikatsiia zon s razlichnym urovnem tekhnogennogo zagriazneniia atmosfernogo vozdukha po dannym kosmicheskoi s"ëmki territorii.

A methodological approaches and use of aerospace information for atmospheric air purity control are described. Image brightness was used as a major parameter for distinction of zones with different contamination levels. An optic contrast level of tested town zones was found changing in accordance with index of atmospheric pollution determined by ground means.