The substation handles power for local oil pipeline pumping infrastructure and the Gorky Railway. But Sarov is also close. Arzamas-16 is VNIIEF, aka rassian's biggest nuke lab.
October 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The substation handles power for local oil pipeline pumping infrastructure and the Gorky Railway. But Sarov is also close. Arzamas-16 is VNIIEF, aka rassian's biggest nuke lab.
Want to know how #heritage was used to open up the #secret #atomic #cities in #Russia? See my article on #NuclearCulturalHeritage in #Sarov/Arzamas-16 that has just been published in @urbanhistory.bsky.social as part of special issue edited by Victoria Fomina www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The politics of nuclear cultural heritage in a closed city: layering the past | Urban History | Cambridge Core
The politics of nuclear cultural heritage in a closed city: layering the past
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October 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Want to know how #heritage was used to open up the #secret #atomic #cities in #Russia? See my article on #NuclearCulturalHeritage in #Sarov/Arzamas-16 that has just been published in @urbanhistory.bsky.social as part of special issue edited by Victoria Fomina www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
3/ Sarov, formerly Arzamas-16, is a closed city with restricted access, requiring specific authorization for residency or visits. It hosts research and production facilities linked to the military-industrial complex, focusing on nuclear warhead development and related projects.
December 5, 2023 at 7:26 PM
3/ Sarov, formerly Arzamas-16, is a closed city with restricted access, requiring specific authorization for residency or visits. It hosts research and production facilities linked to the military-industrial complex, focusing on nuclear warhead development and related projects.
Scientific collaborations can span surprising political divides, though often with complex fine print. I remember when Los Alamos National Laboratory and its Sarov/Arzamas-16 equivalent in Russia cooperated after the Cold War ended. But some divides are too hard to bridge, evidently.
Last week, an agreement holding together seven decades of Russian-European scientific collaboration expired due to a mix of sanctions over the Ukraine invasion and Putin’s personal science whisperer (another damned Kovalchuk), who thinks Russia is better off on its own. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Concerning CERN Russia’s Ukraine invasion and Putin’s top science whisperer end 70 years of nuclear research collaboration with Europe — Meduza
Last month, the five-year agreement between the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and Russia expired, ending seven decades of close collaboration between Soviet (and later Russian) phy...
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December 2, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Scientific collaborations can span surprising political divides, though often with complex fine print. I remember when Los Alamos National Laboratory and its Sarov/Arzamas-16 equivalent in Russia cooperated after the Cold War ended. But some divides are too hard to bridge, evidently.
While exploring recent developments in one of Russia's most secretive zones, our team “Frontelligence Insight” has spotted facility expansions and new constructions on the grounds of Sarov, formerly known as Arzamas-16, the birthplace of the Soviet Nuclear Project. 🧵Thread:
December 5, 2023 at 7:26 PM
While exploring recent developments in one of Russia's most secretive zones, our team “Frontelligence Insight” has spotted facility expansions and new constructions on the grounds of Sarov, formerly known as Arzamas-16, the birthplace of the Soviet Nuclear Project. 🧵Thread:
putin🤮 arrived in the closed city of Sarov in the Nizhny Novgorod region, where the enterprises of the Russian nuclear weapons complex are located/
Arzamas-16.Coordinates: 54°57′ N. lat. 43°19′ E.
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Arzamas-16.Coordinates: 54°57′ N. lat. 43°19′ E.
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August 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
putin🤮 arrived in the closed city of Sarov in the Nizhny Novgorod region, where the enterprises of the Russian nuclear weapons complex are located/
Arzamas-16.Coordinates: 54°57′ N. lat. 43°19′ E.
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Arzamas-16.Coordinates: 54°57′ N. lat. 43°19′ E.
If you have the opportunity, support our project!
More drones - less orcs!
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