Kremikovtsi District
Sign in to saveKremikovtsi ( ) is an industrial district of Sofia, Bulgaria. It is located to the northeast of the capital. The Kremikovtsi Steel Complex which is close to the neighbourhood is one of the largest industrial enterprises in Bulgaria and the Balkans. More than 20,000 people used to work there but this has been reduced to 8,500 due to higher efficiency.
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- Country
- Bulgaria
- Located in
- Stolichna Municipality
- Area
- 262.3
- Shares border with
- Novi Iskar District
- Employees
- 66
- Official website
- kremikovtsi.sofia.bg
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- Kremikovtsi Rayon
- catalog code
- 543
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- street address
- София, кв."Ботунец", ул. "Челопешко шосе" № 267 вх. Б
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Kremikovtsi ( ) is an industrial district of Sofia, Bulgaria. It is located to the northeast of the capital. The Kremikovtsi Steel Complex which is close to the neighbourhood is one of the largest industrial enterprises in Bulgaria and the Balkans. More than 20,000 people used to work there but this has been reduced to 8,500 due to higher efficiency.
There has been much dispute over the future of the plant, yet no ecological sanctions have been imposed on the plant owners to bring into accord Kremikovtsi's pollution status by investing in filtering installations. Insofar, no action has been taken to either close the plant or exercise government power to control the level of harmful emissions to the air, which gave rise to concerns of corruption in the government of the Bulgarian Socialist Party's ruling coalition.
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