Аннотация:There are analyzed the factors of changing air pollution from Russian cities' industry during economic growth and the forecast at the initial stage of new crisis. On the basis of the model of real pollution and its changes deviation from the level, which is predetermined by branch structure of cities' industry, the role of technology, structural changes in industry, geographical position, city size, modern insti¬tutional factors in formation of Russia's cities pollution came to light. On the basis of this model, the typology of 1067 cities of Russia according to the level of real emission deviation from hypothetical one is submitted. There are investigated modern (for the period 1990-2008) processes and the tendencies being observed in the Russian industry by means of absolute, relative and complex ecological indicators and estimated by some economic parameters i.e. profitability, dynamics of development of industries during recession and during economic growth as well as factors of changing ecological efficiency of manufactures are revealed. Communication between modern tendencies of anthropogenic pollution from various branches and their inherited path dependency is traced.
Key words: city ecology, socio-ecological problems, production ecology, branch structure,