The following are locations to which program participants will either travel or that they will encounter in reference to program activities and facilities.
Chernogolovka
Chernogolovka was founded in 1956 and has nine research institutes, two specialized laboratories, and an instrument-making factory, all belonging to the Russian Academy of Sciences. Scientific facilities include the following:
- Institute of Chemical Physics [1]
- Institute of Microelectronics Technology and High Purity Materials Research [2]
- Institute of Experimental Mineralogy [3]
- Institute for New Chemical Problems Research
- Branch of the Institute of Energy Problems in Chemical Physics [4]
- Severtsev Institute of Ecology and Evolution [5]
- Institute for Solid State Physics [6]
- Institute of Structural Macrokinetics [7]
- Institute of Physiologically Active Compounds Research [8]
- Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics [9]
- The cosmochemistry laboratory of Moscow’s Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry [10]
- Experimental Factory of Scientific Instrumentation [11]
- Institute for Solid State Physics [12]
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Ekaterinburg is an industrial city surrounded by five formerly secret cities of the nuclear archipelago:
- Sverdlovsk-44 (now Novouralsk)
- Sverdlovsk-45
- Cheliabinsk-65 (formerly Cheliabinsk-40)
- Cheliabinsk-70 (now Snezhinsk [14])
- Zlatoust-36
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Kazakhstan
Location: Central Asia
Kazakhstan is an independent nation with extensive oil and gas reserves. Semipalatinsk was the site of above-ground nuclear testing. Kazakhstan has agreed to sell its stocks of weapons-grade uranium to the U.S.
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Lytkarino
The town of Turaevo is part of Lytkarino and contains experimental units of Moscow research institutes: Trial Centre on the Test and Operational Development of the Air Installation, Research Institute of Devices, and the Lytkarino Factory of Optical Glass [18].
More information about Lytkarino
- Wikipedia—Lytkarino [19]
Nizhniy Novogorod (Gorky)
Major local industries include production facilities for MiG fighter [20] planes, automobile manufacturing by Gorky ActoZavod (GAZ [21]), and ship and submarine building.
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Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk is a regional transportation hub. It is 28 km from Akademgorodok, an academic think tank. It has 23 academic institutes.
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Tomsk
Location: Tomsk is 270 km northeast of Novosibirsk. It is near Tomsk-7, a weapons research center that was the site of a 1993 nuclear accident.
More information about Tomsk
- About.com—Tomsk [26]
Sarov
Sarov is a city near the atomic research center at Arzamas-16, which is the home of one of Russia’s largest nuclear research centers, the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF).
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Snezhinsk (Cheliabinsk-70)
Snezhinsk, fifty miles south of Ekaterinburg, is the site of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics (VNIITF), a design center for nuclear weapons
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Urals Electrochemical Integrated Plant
Also referred to as the Urals Electrochemical Integrated Plant (UEIP)
The UEKhK is now Russia’s leading producer of low enriched uranium fuel for nuclear power stations. It originally produced weapons-grade uranuim, which it now reprocesses for use as fuel. Sverdlovsk-44 (now Novouralsk) grew up around the plant.
