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The Semipalatinsk Test Site or Semipalatinsk-21 (Russian: Семипалатинск-21; Kazakh: Семей-21, romanized: Semei-21), also known as "The Polygon", was the primary testing venue for the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons.
The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as Soviet Kazakhstan, the Kazakh SSR, KaSSR, or simply Kazakhstan, was one of the transcontinental constituent republics of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1936 to 1991. Located in northern Central Asia, it was created on 5 December 1936 from the Kazakh ASSR, an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR.
Aug 29, 2023 · August 29 marks 32 years since Kazakhstan closed the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, a remote area that was used by the Soviet Union for hundreds of atmospheric and underground nuclear tests...
Aug 26, 2016 · Tornoshenko was born in Soviet-ruled Kazakhstan in 1949, the year the Soviet Union shocked the world with its first atomic test. That blast was detonated at a new, top-secret nuclear testing ground near the city of Semipalatinsk, which was founded amid the start of the US-Soviet arms race.
Dec 30, 2010 · The nearly 50 years of above and below ground nuclear testing in northeast Kazakhstan resulted in a series of environmental legacies on the region’s population, economy, and culture. I trace Cold War nuclear programs and the origins of the SNTS (Semipalatinsk...
The Semipalatinsk nuclear test site (SNTS) covers 18 500 km2 near the city of Semey, previously known as Semipalatinsk, in eastern Kazakhstan, where, in 1949-1989, the Soviet Union conducted 456 nuclear tests.
The Balapan area, where the lake lies, was part of the Semipalatinsk test site (STS), where the former Soviet Union, over a period of four decades, performed a total of 456 nuclear testing explosions, 111 of them in the atmosphere.
