Environmental and Social Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan

Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Abstract: This study focuses on the social and environmental situation in the city of Almaty in terms of the COVID-19 pandemic. The increased interest in this problem is caused by the rapid spread of the coronavirus infection, which has caused the death of many people and affected the whole world. The pandemic caused considerable damage to the socio-economic development of all states, but at the same time caused a change in the environmental situation in the world. Consideration of the socio-ecological situation during the pandemic will help to identify its consequences for the city’s population and highlight the positive and negative sides. As a result, an assessment and analysis of atmospheric air pollution in 2019 and during the pandemic period, an assessment of the socio-economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the problems of waste disposal are considered, and an analysis is made of the perception of the environmental situation by residents of the city of Almaty in a pandemic.