Planting of Greenery in Large Cities of the Baikal Region: Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, Chita and Ulaanbaatar

Almost all big cities have similar problems, first of all, environmental ones, concerning planting of greenery. The Baikal Region cities are not an exception. To estimate the state of greening of the capital cities Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, Chita, Ulaanbaatar, situated within the Baikal natural area, the results of the inspection of more than one thousand objects (chosen randomly), of their greening with regard to the structure, state and maintenance with the use of land-based field technique (description, trees inspection records, frame scripts) and remote Earth sensing techniques. Solely woody plants (more than 2,5 m high) and brushwood (more than 1 m high) were taken for plantings. At the moment of inspection only 13 % of 1 118 planting objects in nine types (parks, public facilities, educational and public health facilities, residential construction, water and sanitary protection areas, etc.) conditionally conformed with the structure and state regulations. About 20 % were considered almost conforming, i. e. the plantings and the structure of the green area 50 % conformed with regulations. About 40 % of the inspected objects did not have any plantings at all and in the rest 27 % single plantings were pointed out.