Химия в интересах устойчивого развития 24 (2016) 483489 UDC 551.511.61+551.578.46 DOI: 10.15372/KhUR20160408 Organic Carbon in the City Territories of the South of West Siberia V. F. RAPUTA1, V. V. KOKOVKIN2,5, S. V. MOROZOV3,5 and T. V. YAROSLAVTSEVA4 1Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia E-mail: raputa@sscc.ru 2Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia E-mail: basil@niic.nsc.ru 3Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia 4Novosibirsk Institute of Science Research in Hygiene, Novosibirsk, Russia 5Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia Abstract The results of conjugated studies of contaminations of snowpack and atmosphere air by polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and soot in a number of major cities of the south of West Siberia are presented. <...> Snow samples selected at the stationary observation stations were analyzed by the method of gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) on the content of PAH. <...> The results obtained were compared with the data of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring of Russia (Roshydromet) on soot and benzo(a)pyrene in air. <...> Linear correlations between concentrations of considered impurities in conjugated environments were established. <...> The data of ground monitoring snowpack contamination by PAH were compared with the results of winter space image processing by tones of the grey colour. <...> Key words: atmosphere, snowpack, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, soot, observational data, correlation analysis INTRODUCTION The organization of systematic instrumental observations of atmospheric air long-term contamination at urban territories present certain difficulties [14]. <...> Its presence is traced in the composition of the deposited aerosols at different types of anthropogenic sources as coal boiler-houses and CHP plants, industrial plants, highways. <...> In the composition of fallouts of OC, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are also present [913]. <...> An especially large amount of PAH emissions is observed in the winter season after burning coal and mazut at thermal power plants and in private sector housing. <...> Auto transport also makes a significant contribution into the urban atmosphere contamination. <...> The structure of the space-time distribution of sources of PAH emissions into the city atmosphere is a quite heterogeneous. <...> Levels <...>