42° 44’00” N; 75° 37’10” E Tailings storage facility of the Orlovsky Chemical and Metallurgical Plant Ownership of the facility: Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Kyrgyz Republic Location of the facility: valley of the Taldy-Bulak River Period of operation and conservation: 1969-1994 Current technical condition of the facility: unsatisfactory, surface not reclaimed, anti-filtration screen damaged. Characteristics of the facility: tailings storage of the ravine-beam type. Volume of waste

74°28’2″E 41°39’31″N In the village of Min-Kush in the Naryn region, there are four tailings storage facilities and four ore and waste dumps. Those located near rivers are the most dangerous. All tailings storage facilities and waste dumps, except for the tailings storage facility in the village of Kadji-Sai, are situated in the basins of the Naryn and Maili-Sai rivers. For example, the burial site "Tuyuk-Suu" is located by the river of the same name near the village of Min-Kush. A

74°28’28″E 41°41’19″N Wastewater from uranium mines in Min-Kush. Natural waters flowing through the territory of the Min-Kush geochemical province are highly enriched with uranium and are a source of environmental pollution, carrying it over significant distances and reaching the territories of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and the Aral Sea. Drinking water in the settlement of Min-Kush contains a high concentration of uranium and is a source of its intake into the bodies of animals and humans.

77°13’2″E 42°9’15″N The largest half-century radioactive waste cemetery in Kyrgyzstan. Equipment saturated with radiation and small layers of uranium were buried underground. During Soviet times, the village of Kadji-Sai on the southern shore of Issyk-Kul was famous for its strategically important enterprise – the Kadji-Sai Experimental Electrical Engineering Plant, which exported products to many countries around the world and also served domestic military industry enterprises. A uranium mine