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Ozyorsk

Russia / Cheljabinsk / Chelyabinsk-40, Chelyabinsk-65, Ozyorsk /
 city, closed administrative-territorial entity, district center

Closed city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It has a population of 82,164 as of the 2010 census.
The town was founded on the shores of Lake Irtyash in 1947. Until 1994, it was known as Chelyabinsk-65, and even earlier, as Chelyabinsk-40 (the digits are the last digits of the postal code, and the name is that of the nearest big city, which was a common practice of giving names to closed towns). Codenamed City 40, Ozersk was the birthplace of the Soviet nuclear weapons program after the Second World War.[7][8] In 1994, it was granted town status and renamed Ozyorsk.
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Coordinates:   55°43'29"N   60°44'8"E
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