The Semipalatinsk Test Site
Kazakhstan /
Pavlodar /
Lebyazhye /
World
/ Kazakhstan
/ Pavlodar
/ Lebyazhye
World / Kazakhstan / Pavlodar
military, radioactive, interesting place, nuclear testing area
The Semipalatinsk Test Site (STS) was the primary testing venue for the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons.The site is also known variously by its postcode Semipalatinsk-21 (it was common practice for secret Soviet installations to be referred to only by their nondescript postcode), the Semipalatinsk Polygon, and latterly the National Nuclear Center of Kazakhstan.The first Soviet bomb, Operation First Lightning (nicknamed Joe One by the Americans) was conducted in 1949 from a tower at the Semipalatinsk Test Site.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semipalatinsk_Test_Site
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 50°26'16"N 77°48'50"E
- Surface safety test site 6.3 km
- Площадка "Ш" 14 km
- Former soviet S-75 position 52 km
- Former explosives warehouse (translation per Google) 54 km
- Shelters 60 km
- Shelters 61 km
- Semipalatinsk-21 (aka Degelen Mountain) Underground Nuclear Test Site 64 km
- Semipalatinsk Test Site 112 km
- Air Forse Base 610 330 km
- Sary-Arka Airport 333 km
- IGR Reactor Complex 14 km
- Mounts Saryadyr 42 km
- Transformer Station 52 km
- Lake Akbota 56 km
- Cemetery 59 km
- Столовая в\ч 55115 60 km
- KURK Station 65 km
- Platform of Balapan (Б-2) 73 km
- Semipalatinsk-21 (aka Degelen Mountain) Underground Nuclear Test Site 75 km
- Karazhrya Coal Mine 81 km