Forbidden fruit is sweet. I always want to look at the key hole to find out what’s going on in the room. And it’s not about the doors, but about all the cities hidden from all over the world for a long time. Only after the collapse of the USSR, they began to name and assign maps. There were coordinates that allowed to reach the location and to meet relatives who had been banned from explaining where they were.
Now it’s hard to get into indoor cities, but they don’t keep too many secrets. We talk about the characteristics of the most popular hidden regions, the causes of their insulation and how to reach a simple person there.
How did cities closed
Officially called closed administrative-regional formations (BUD), cities, especially to adapt to important and secret facilities: for example, nuclear research centers, military bases, cosmodromes or weapons production facilities. They were not celebrated on the maps during the Soviet periods and the residents working in local enterprises were banned from explaining their residence address. Symbols were used instead of these names: Arzamas-16, Sverdlovsk-44, Krasnoyarsk-26 and others.
How to enter a closed city
Likewise, it is possible to enter the same way in a special transition of the state model, which is published on the basis of good reasons for the visit: study, visit to relatives, inviting cultural or sports activity. Natives have the right to invite relatives and friends. The deadline of check arrangement may vary between 30 and 45 days. The finished transition is given upon presenting a personality certificate. The territory of a closed city will require administrative penalty, including illegal penetration, fine and immediately deportation.
Some of them, for example, in Sarov. As part of the group, you can only enter the territory of the city. You need to get help from local tour operators and guides to get permission to visit.
The most popular closed cities in Russia
Novourk
Novouralsk (previously Sverdlovsk-44) is a city famous for its chemical industry and engineering, as well as its nuclear energy businesses in the Sverdlovsk region. The main attempt of the city is the Ural Electrochemical Plant (UECC), which plays a key role in the production of uranium isotopes. The city is also known for its attraction centers: the nuclear industry museum, the city’s 40 -ton 19 -meter steel founders and the wooden church of Sarov Seraphim, the house of Kirillov blacksmith, Tavatuy Lake and the rocking remains of the bunar idols.
Why closed: There is a Ural electrochemical plant that produces uranium isotopes in Novourk.
Zheleznogorsk
Zheleznogorsk (previously Krasnoyarsk-26) is located in the Krasnoyarsk region on the Pitoresk coast of Kantatsky reservoir. By visiting the city, you will see the history of the Kursk magnetic anomaly and the world’s most powerful iron ore basin and the Russian analogue of the Eiffel Tower.
Why closed: There is a scientific and production union for the production of mining and chemical plants and satellite plants and chemical plants and chemical plants in Zheleznogorsk.
Severe
Severomorsk (accepted a little status in 1996, did not change his name)-a city famous for the heroes of Sevanerians who defend the North Pole during the Great Patriotic War in the Great Patriotic region. One of the most interesting attraction centers: K-21 submarine museum, which participates in hostility and sinks more than 10 enemy targets.
Why closed: Severomorsk has bases of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation.
Sarov
Sarov is located in the Nizhny Novgorod region on the border of the Republic of Mordovia. During the Soviet periods, the city was under confidentiality scrap, not appeared on maps, code names were used for the name: Gorky-130, Kremlin, Arzamas-16. Andrei Sakharov was here, the creator of the hydrogen bomb – worked. At the end of the 20th century, the city history returned to the name.
Sarov is considered a promising city of science. Parallel, the restoration of churches destroyed during the Soviet period. The place is combined with science and spirituality. The city has an Orthodox gym with apartments and sections in various directions.
There are other interesting attraction centers in Sarov: Sarov Underground Complex, a Hanging Bridge, and of course the Russian Federal Nuclear Center and the Nuclear Arms Museum.
Why Closed: A KB-11 facility was strictly classified in Sarov in Sarov.
Forest
Lesnoy (previously Sverdlovsk-45) is located in the Sverdlovsk region on the eastern slope of the middle urals on the shores of Nizhniturinsky Pond. The place is famous for its large green zone: parks, squares, comfortable old and modern micrdistrices.
The most famous attraction is a 21 -meter magnet and 001 workshop with more than six thousand tons. Another interesting building is Lutheran Kirkh, built in 1901. The place is maintaining its history for many years and now it has moved to the Orthodox Church. Another symbolic architectural monument is that a person’s first flight to space is stepped.
Why closed: It is a “electrochemical” plant engaged in the nuclear industry in the forest.
Previously, another amazing place – we talked about the edge of the world. Learn more about this in our material.
Source: People Talk
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