What town in East Kazakhstan Region was named for the director of the Soviet atomic bomb project
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Kurchatov, Kazakhstan Kurchatov (in Kazakh and Russian: Курча́тов) is a town in East Kazakhstan Region in north-east Kazakhstan. Named after Soviet nuclear physicist Igor Kurchatov, the town was once the centre of operations for the adjoining Semipalatinsk Test Site. With the cessation of nuclear testing and the decommissioning of the test site, Kurchatov's population has fallen from over 20,000 to around 8,000. In its heyday Kurchatov (which was known by its postal code Semipalatinsk-21) was a closed city, one of the most secretive and restricted places in the Soviet Union. The nuclear facilities at Kurchatov are managed by the Kazakhstan Institute of Atomic Energy, a division of the country's National Nuclear Center. Population: (2009 Census results); (1999 Census results)
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Igor Kurchatov Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (Russian: И́горь Васи́льевич Курча́тов ; 8(21) January 1903 – 7 February 1960), was a Soviet nuclear physicist who is widely known as the director of the Soviet atomic bomb project. Along with Georgy Flyorov and Andrei Sakharov, Kurchatov is widely remembered and dubbed as the "father of the Soviet atomic bomb" and later, "the father of the Soviet Nuclear Missile" for his directorial role in the development of the Soviet nuclear program, in a clandestine program during World War II formed in the wake of the USSR's discovery of the Western Allied efforts to develop nuclear weapons. After nine years of covert development, the Soviet Union successfully tested its first nuclear weapon, codenamed "First Lightning" at the Semipalatinsk Test Range in 1949. In 1954 he was awarded the USSR State Prize in physics.
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List of nuclear weapons tests of the Soviet Union The nuclear weapons tests of the Soviet Union were performed between 1949 and 1990 as part of the nuclear arms race. The Soviet Union conducted 715 nuclear tests using 969 total devices by official count, including 219 atmospheric, underwater, and space tests and 124 peaceful use tests. Most of the tests took place at the Southern Test Site in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan and the Northern Test Site at Novaya Zemlya. Other tests took place at various locations within the Soviet Union, including now-independent Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Turkmenistan.
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Uranium mining in Kazakhstan Uranium mining in Kazakhstan is of considerable importance to the national economy. By 2011, Kazakhstan was considered to be the world's largest producer of uranium.
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Kalinkavichy Kalinkavičy (Belarusian: Калінкавічы , Russian: Калинковичи , Polish: "Kalinkowicze" ) is a town in the Gomel Region of south-eastern Belarus. Kalinkavičy is located beside the Pripyat River, opposite the town of Mazyr, and is the site of one of country's most important railway junctions. It has a population of 37,876 (2004 estimate). It has suffered radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster.
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Keshrim Boztayev Keshrim Boztayev (born 25 June 1933, Akchatau, Kazakhstan) is a Kazakh political activist working to attain health care for those affected by the Soviet nuclear test program.
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Yel’sk, Belarus Yel’sk (Belarusian: Ельск , Russian: Ельск "Yelsk", Polish: "Jelsk" , Lithuanian: "Jelskas" ) is a town in Gomel Region, Belarus. The 1986 Chernobyl disaster affected Yel'sk.
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Maylybay Maylybay is a village in Almaty Region, in south-eastern Kazakhstan.
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Akshimrau Akshimrau (also known as Akshynyrau (, "Aqshımırau", "اقشىمىراۋ")) is a town in Mangystau Region, southwest Kazakhstan. It lies at an altitude of 6 m below sea level.
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Grigori Aleksandrov Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov or Alexandrov (Russian: Григо́рий Васи́льевич Алекса́ндров ; original family name was Мормоненко or Mormonenko; 23 January 1903 – 16 December 1983) was a prominent Soviet film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1947 and a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1973. He was awarded the Stalin Prizes for 1941 and 1950.
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Yuri Kara Yuri Viktorovich Kara (Russian: Юрий Викторович Кара), born on 12 November 1954 in Stalino, is a Russian film director, screenwriter and producer.
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Kitab, Uzbekistan Kitab (Uzbek: "Kitob" , Russian: Китаб ) is a town in Kitob District of Qashqadaryo Region in Uzbekistan. It is the administrative center of Kitob District.
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Tokarevka, Kazakhstan Tokarevka (Russian: Токаревка ) is a town in Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan, with a population of 3,997.
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Mamlyutka Mamlyutka () is a town (till 1969 — village), that is the administrative center of Mamlyut District, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan.
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Utery Utery is a village in the Atyrau Region of western Kazakhstan.
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Chernobyl Exclusion Zone The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation (Ukrainian: Зона відчуження Чорнобильської АЕС, "zona vidchuzhennya Chornobyl's'koyi AES" , Russian: Зона отчуждения Чернобыльской АЭС, "zona otchuzhdenya Chernobyl'skoyi AES" ) is an officially designated exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster. It is also commonly known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the 30 Kilometre Zone, or simply The Zone (Ukrainian: Чорнобильська зона, "Chornobyl's'ka zona" , Russian: Чернобыльская зона, "Chernobyl'skaya zona" ).
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Say-Otes Say-Otes (also known as Sayötesh or Say-Utes (, "Say-Ötes", "ساي-وتەس")) is a town in Mangystau Region, southwest Kazakhstan. It lies at an altitude of 206 m . It has a population of 1,571.
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Aksu, Almaty Aksu (Kazakh: Ақсу ) is a village in Almaty Region of south-eastern Kazakhstan. It is located directly north of Zhansugirov.
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Nikolay Dollezhal Nikolay Antonovich Dollezhal (Russian: Николай Антонович Доллежа́ль ; 27 October [O.S. 15 October] 1899 – 20 November 2000) was a Soviet mechanical engineer, a key figure in Soviet atomic bomb project and chief designer of nuclear reactors from the first plutonium production reactor to the RBMK.
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Petropavl Petropavl (Kazakh: Петропавл/Petropavl ) or Petropavlovsk (Russian: Петропавловск, "Petropavlovsk" , not to be confused with Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky), is a city on the Ishim River in northern Kazakhstan close to the border with Russia, about 261 km west of Omsk along the Trans-Siberian Railway. It is the capital of the North Kazakhstan Region. Population: (2009 Census results); (1999 Census results)
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Beyneu Beyneu () is an auyl and the administrative center of Beyneu District in Mangystau Region in western Kazakhstan.
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Munir Ahmad Khan Munir Ahmad Khan (Urdu: ‎ ; b. 20 May 1926 – 22 April 1999; ), was a Pakistani nuclear engineer and a nuclear physicist, who served as the chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) from 1972 to 1991. He is credited among the persons who are called as "father of the Pakistan's atomic bomb project", for their role in Pakistan's integrated atomic bomb project— the clandestine Cold war program. Khan was technical director of the programme to develop nuclear weapons, which led to the Chagai-I nuclear testing in May 1998 in Balochistan.