Zheleznogorsk

Zheleznogorsk is a shut town in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, with a created atomic industry. The town was in the past known as Krasnoyarsk-26. It was set up in 1950 for the generation of weapons-review plutonium. The history of the town and the related guard complex are interwoven. In 1959, the Government made the Eastern office of OKB-1 under the supervision of M.F. Reshetnev. Safeguard plants included atomic offices worked inside natural hollows exhumed in the stone mountain on the northern edge of the city and additionally space investigate undertakings.

It was a mystery town in the Soviet Union until President Boris Yeltsin announced in 1992 that such places could utilize their chronicled names. Prior to at that point, the town had not showed up on any official maps. Just like the convention with Soviet towns containing mystery offices, "Krasnoyarsk-26" is really a P.O. Box number and suggests that the place is found some separation from the city of Krasnoyarsk. The town was otherwise called Soctown, Iron City, the Nine, and Atom Town.

Zheleznogorsk is the area of the Krasnoyarsk Mining and Chemical Combine, a join which assumed a critical job in the early Russian atomic weapons creation crusades. Zheleznogorsk is additionally the area for the creation of plutonium, power and locale warm utilizing graphite-directed water-cooled reactors. The last reactor was closed down for all time in April 2010. It is the area of a military reprocessing office and for a Russian business atomic waste storeroom.