Ozyorsk
Russia /
Cheljabinsk /
Chelyabinsk-40, Chelyabinsk-65, Ozyorsk /
World
/ Russia
/ Cheljabinsk
/ Chelyabinsk-40, Chelyabinsk-65, Ozyorsk
, 4 km from center (Озёрск)
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.
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.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozyorsk,_Chelyabinsk_Oblast
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 55°43'29"N 60°44'8"E
- Chelyabinsk 52 km
- Kopeysk 68 km
- Kurgan 277 km
- Ufa 325 km
- Orenburg 565 km
- Kazan 744 km
- Samara 748 km
- Ulyanovsk 819 km
- Saratov 1078 km
- Makhachkala 1700 km
- Kyzyltash Lake 2.5 km
- Plutonium Production Reactor A 3.9 km
- Ozyorsk 4.1 km
- Cement Plant 4.6 km
- Plutonium Production Reactor 4.8 km
- Plutonium Separation Plant 5.5 km
- "Mayak", Plant 235, department 3 (Zavod 235, Cekh 3) 5.6 km
- The real Lake Karachay (Reservoir 9) 6.4 km
- Chelyabinsk-65 Plutonium Plant 10 km
- East Ural Radioactive Trace 43 km