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  Atom Town Krasnoyarsk - 26 by Vladimir Medvedev Soviet Siberian Plutonium Facility
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Make/Author/Artist: Vladimir Medvedev
Edition/ Material: 1990
Details: Hard Cover

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Product Code: ATMTWN

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Krasnoyarsk-26, currently Zheleznogorsk, was established in 1950 to produce plutonium for weapons. The facility’s original name was the Combine 815. At present it is known as the Mining and Chemical Combine. This is a good will book by town fathers published in 1990s, around the time of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Excerpt: Soctown, Iron-city, Krasnoyarsk-26, the Nine, Atom town - these are only a few of the names attributed to a small restricted settlement which is to be found near the enisei river, between great forest-covered hills. The town history cannot be separated from that of the Mining Chemistry Plant, the Space Research Enterprise of Applied Mechanics of Siberia Chemical Building Company and of many other industries whose stories are to be told later.

In the year 1950, the CPSU, Central Committee together with the Consil of Ministers had issued decree N 326-302, 25.02.50, concerning the building of a Mining Chemistry plant near the Enisei river. The years of cold war had dictated the necessity to build such industries in order to increase the defense potential of Russia... Forty years had passed by and now Krasnoyarsk-26 is no longer a tiny settlement but a well developed town. This is the story in pictures and text of the people and this town.

Here is a link to a 1992 article on this town in the NY times, fascinating

CONDITION: Hard Cover, USED with some wear, Good +, 191 pages, clean. Text in English and Russian

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