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The article contains primary results of sociological survey among adult residents of the East Kazakhstan region. With the help of population the sociologists managed to examine one of urgent problems of the civil society – distribution of corruption in governmental authorities. Sociologists have reached the research objective and have detected specific conditions and common social factors of distribution of corruption at the regional level. The article may be interesting for experts researching the distribution of corruption in the system of regional governmental authorities and for those interested in «survivability» of this phenomenon.

The authors of this paper explored the history of negative consequences of tests at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site (SNTS). A lot of atomic and hydrogen explosions had a devastating impact on ecology of three regions of Kazakhstan and part of the Russian Federation adjacent to the East Kazakhstan region. This has adversely affected the health of the population, has created global preconditions for emergence of cancers the extent of which is to be studied. Even today, only at the outpatient clinic of the East Kazakhstan regional oncologic dispensary hundreds of people are diagnosed for cancerous diseases. In the late 80s, with the beginning of perestroika, among the population adjacent to the testing area, there have actively occurred protests in connection with activities of the SNTS. They turned into the anti-nuclear movement. As a result, in 1991 the SNTS was closed for military purposes.