The Most Contaminated Spot on the Planet

The executive body of the association is a committee of 21 members who were elected at the conference. The main body of committee members are volunteers, and the association promotes programs which are created by this body. With only 2 employees on staff , this association also has its own bank account. Louiza Korzhova, a retired nuclear physicist, is a founding member of Kyshtym-57 and the chairman of this association.

The rights of the children born to exposed parents, the inhabitants who have not yet been evacuated from the Techa River, and those from the area of the Eastern-Urals radioactive trace have been lawlessly violated. As such, the main task of this association is the official acknowledgment of the victims of these accidents by the Russian Parliament (Duma) and by the president of the Russia Federation. For these reasons, the association has undertaken great efforts to adopt the complete and valid law of the Russian Federation, on the accidents at the nuclear plants in the Chelyabinsk region.

Kyshtym-57 began their activities by helping families, sick children, and people who have been diagnosed with radiation sickness. Since 1990, the association has helped 15,000 people with financial support and material goods. Due to a lack of funds it is at this time impossible to help the remaining 200,000 victims whose life quality is rapidly decreasing,. These people need social protection and medical aid. There is an obvious shortage of financing being given within the Federal Program for the support of victims and the rehabilitation of contaminated areas. For these reasons, Kyshtym-57 is looking to attract foreign and local investors to help the suffering populace.

Right now, the people are in dire need of medical supplies and equipment. At this moment, the first people in the list of recipients are: Children and teenagers, including those born to exposed parents (special attention must be paid to the generation of children born to parents who have suffered chronic radiation sickness); Inhabitants of the villages along the Techa River who have not yet been evacuated and who are not protected by the Russian Federation law; Inhabitants of the populated areas situated within the 'MAYAK' Plant zone of influence.

Along with the direct support to the families, children, and seriously ill people with the diagnosis of 'chronic radiation sickness', the association created a number of projects different from the State and Federal programs.
Some projects have already been realized.

The main projects approved are...

    

"Social Drug-Store"

It is foreseen in the project to establish a basic drug-store in which drugs and vitamins vital for the exposed population are available. This Project will help to supply the drug-store network of the contaminated areas. Acceptable drug prices are necessary that the Project might be realized. The concept and mechanism of subsidies has already been created.

"Children's Educational and Medical Center"

This Project would like to improve the health of the pupils from the contaminated areas, by taking these children to a school in the forest. It is worthwhile to take whole classes of children to the Center for two or three months. During their stay at the Center, children will have the principals of ecology, endurance and nature protection courses, along with their compulsory subjects. In addition to classes, the children will go through a course of testing and curing procedures. It is possible to improve the health conditions of roughly 3000 pupils. For the realization of this project, the medical service must be fully provided with diagnostic and medical equipment (including dental). The Center must be provided with vitamins and drugs. Foreign doctors can be invited to work at the Center.

"City - Village"

Social support to the populated areas situated on the contaminated sites is forseen in this project. Building hospitals for the population and providing them with first-aid and examination equipment is a necessity. Medical personnel and teachers must be trained, and broad informational and instructional activity must take place.

"College of Ecology"

The program of the humanitarian world-outlook is laid out in this project. The education of children from under school age through highly educated specialists must be undertaken. Within this field there are ecological, economical, and legal areas of study. The schoolchildren from the contaminated areas must be taught the principals of ecology, and that of an ecologically responsible lifestyle. The first students entered college in 1994.

"Aid"

This project will give cost free medical aid to the victims of the accidents at the "MAYAK" nuclear plant and a broad program of a ecologically responsible lifestyle. There is a massage center in which those very sick with 'chronic radiation sickness' are treated first. Each patient receives a full course of massage (at least 10 treatments) during which external use cures and biologically active substances are used. Every month, 150 patients are treated free of charge. Individual conferences are given to a patient by a psychotherapist, and by specialists in nutrition.

All of the projects are open for cooperation. Kyshtym-57 is ready to discuss the possibility of a coordinated action on a wide range of problems, and on the creation of joint projects. They welcome cooperation with organizations, funds, creative teams, and with private people. Those wishing to take part in the coordinated actions or to support them (giving instructive and other materials, consultant help, material support, ect.), can contact Log In Productions, an official representative of Kyshtym-57 in the US and abroad: