“…Correspondingly, the Volzhskii, Molozhskii, and Sheksninskii Reaches are considered, as is the Glavnyi Reach. The spatial pollution inhomogeneity of the Rybinsk Reservoir ecosystem with various pol lutants, such as heavy metals (HMs), polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), has been demonstrated earlier [8,15,17,18]. The main local source of chemical pollution for this reservoir is the Cherepovets industrial complex (ChIC).…”