SERGEI KOLESNIKOV

1. Introduction Pollution with heavy metals and metalloids makes a significant contribution to the degradation of soil cover and the reduction of crop yields and quality worldwide. They belong to the priority pollutants. However, not all heavy metals and metalloids have been studied equally well. Environmental pollution with Hg, Pb, Cd, Cu, Zn, Cr, Ni, Mo, Co, F, B, Se, As, Mn, Ba, V, Sb, Sr, Sn, and W is more common and has been studied better [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12].