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- There are currently 44 publicly acknowledged closed cities in Russiawith a total population of about 1.5 million people. 75% are administered by the Russian Ministry of Defence, with the rest being administered by Rosatom, the Russianstate corporation that oversees the country’s nuclear energy industry.
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Mar 25, 2021 · There are currently 44 publicly acknowledged closed cities in Russia with a total population of about 1.5 million people. 75% are administered by the Russian Ministry of Defence, with the rest being administered by Rosatom, the Russian state corporation that oversees the country
Jun 11, 2017 · Currently, it is estimated that there are about 44 closed cities in existence in Russia with about 1.5 million people living in them. It is speculated that around 15 other closed cities exist in the Russian territory.
- Mezhgorye (Republic of Bashkortostan)
- Sibirsky (Altai Krai)
- Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk Krai)
- Zelenogorsk (Krasnoyarsk Krai)
Currently there are still 44 publically acknowledged closed cities in Russia, and it is suspected that more remain under wraps. Russia’s first closed cities were built in the late 1940s, and...
- 10 Zelenogorsk
- 9 Tsiolkovsky
- 8 Mirny
- 7 Kapustin Yar
- 6 Snezhinsk
- 5 Krasnoznamensk
- 4 Ostrovnoy
- 3 Severomorsk
- 2 Sarov
- 1 Ozersk
This Russian city, located on the bank of the Kan River, currently has a population of around 66,000. It was constructed with the purpose of enriching uranium for the Soviet nuclear weapons program in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Like other closed cities, Zelenogorsk was widely known under a code name, in this case Krasnoyarsk-45. In 1992, it wa...
Tsiolkovsky is located next to the Bolyshaya Pyora River. Its present name, Tsiolkovsky, was given to the city in 2015 by President Vladimir Putin, after the Soviet rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Konstantin, born in 1857, wrote more than 400 works on space travel, inspiring later scientists and greatly contributing to the success of the S...
Mirny was established in 1960 close to the Yemsta and Mekhrenga Rivers in the western part of Arkhangelsk Oblast as a ballistic missile launch site. Six years later, however, a spaceport was developed here, known as the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. Despite its establishment in 1960, Mirny was only mentioned in the media 23 years later. It currently has a p...
Kapustin Yar was built as a Soviet missile testing site in 1946. It was home to the first launch of a ballistic missile in the Soviet Union on October 18, 1947, about one year after its establishment. In addition to this, between 1957 and 1961, five atmospheric nuclear testsof small power were conducted here. Evidence of Kapustin Yar’s existence wa...
This city was founded in 1957 under the code name Chelyabinsk-70. It was granted town status in 1993. It is located near Lake Sinara and serves as one of the two centers of the Russian nuclear program. A thermonuclear device was designed and tested only a few months after Snezhinsk’s establishment. In 1997, Snezhinsk ironically imported a supercomp...
Unlike most of the other cities on this list, which were built close to a large body of water in order to deposit radioactive waste, Krasnoznamensk only contains a couple of very small lakes. This city is very close to the Russian capital of Moscow and serves as a space systems control center, a reserve mission control center, and the main center f...
Ostrovnoy was founded as a Russian naval base in 1915. It is located next to the Arctic Oceanin Murmansk Oblast and is not connected to a rail network or a highway. As a result, it can only be reached by ship, helicopter, or small plane. Its code name was Gremikha, and it served as one of the main facilities for serving nuclear submarines. In the 2...
Severomorsk, previously known as Vayenga, was first settled in 1896. It is located on the Kola Peninsula along the coast of the Barents Sea. As a result of its advantageous location, it was named the main base of the Russian Northern Fleet. Several military installationswere built in Severomorsk starting in 1934, and it was used during World War II...
This city, located in Western Russia, relatively close to Moscow, was named after the Sarov Monastery, which was founded in 1706 in the site of the present city. It was a holy place for the Russian Orthodox Church until the monastery was closed in 1923. During World War II, the monastery buildings were used as factories to produce rockets. Afterwar...
This closed city was founded next to Lake Irtyash and the Techa River in 1947, under the code name Chelyabinsk-40 or City-40 and then later Chelyabinsk-65. As a result of its proximity to Mayak, a plutonium plant, Ozersk (aka Ozyorsk) became the birthplace of the Russian nuclear weaponsprogram. This city and its inhabitants have been frequently exp...
Today, Russia has 38 closed administrative-territorial entities (figures as of January 1, 2021).
Mar 4, 2016 · Currently there are still 44 publically acknowledged closed cities in Russia, and it is suspected that more remain under wraps. Russia’s first closed cities were built in the late 1940s, and the...
