Uchquduq
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Uchquduq is a city (pop est 27,000) in the north of the Navoiy Province, Uzbekistan. The city's name means "three draw-wells" in Uzbek. It is located at 42°9′24″N, 63°33′20″E, at an altitude of 193 meters. Located in the middle of the Kyzyl Kum Desert, Uchkuduk was a "closed city" in Soviet times due to its strategic open pit uranium mines, which supplied the raw material for the nuclear weapons in the Soviet military arsenal.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchquduq
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 42°8'54"N 63°33'19"E
- Orenburg 1268 km
- Makhachkala 1335 km
- Kopeysk 1466 km
- Chelyabinsk 1477 km
- Kurgan 1494 km
- Ufa 1535 km
- Samara 1630 km
- Saratov 1709 km
- Ulyanovsk 1778 km
- Kazan 1864 km
- 13 Microdistrict 2 km
- Uranium mine 3.9 km
- Uchkuduk Airport 11 km
- old airfield 14 km
- Altouta Mountain 24 km
- Kokpatas Gold Mine 31 km
- Bukantov Range 44 km