42° 42’12” N; 75° 35’10” E Name of the facility: Tailings Storage of the Orlovsky Chemical and Metallurgical Plant Ownership (owner) of the facility: Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Kyrgyz Republic Location of the facility: valley of the Berkut River Region: Chui Geographic coordinates of the facility or settlement: Elevation (m): 1446 Period of operation and conservation: 1969-1994 Current technical condition of the facility: unsatisfactory, surface not reclaimed, integrity of the

73°8’30″E 42°17’9″N The Otmok Pass (elevation 3330) is located in the Talas region and stretches from Susamyr to Talas, connecting the region with the Suusamyr Valley and the Bishkek — Osh highway. The alpine highlands around the summit of the Otmok Pass are intensively used as summer pastures. Here, as well as on almost all major high-altitude pastures (dzhailoo), the skins of sheep, cows, and horses are discarded as unnecessary waste due to a lack of basic demand for them. The same situation

72°55’20″E 42°9’56″N The Bishkek-Osh road experiences dozens of ecological disasters every year involving overturned fuel tankers, resulting in hundreds of tons of highly toxic petroleum products: kerosene, fuel oil, gasoline spilled into high-altitude transboundary water intake rivers: Ablu-Naryn-Kara-Baltinka, Chychkan, and cubic meters of contaminated soil with complete destruction of flora and fauna in the tens of meters around.

76°12’13″E 42°27’14″N Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan is facing an ecological disaster. A slowly advancing underground oil slick, resulting from a spill back in the 1990s, is now just a few meters away from the lake. During Soviet times, an oil depot was built in Balakchy, a city on the shores of Issyk-Kul. After the collapse of the USSR, both Balakchy, once a bustling railway hub, and the oil depot fell into disrepair. As a result of the deterioration of worn-out pipes at the oil depot, oil