Snezhinsk is a closed

Closed city

A closed city or closed town is a settlement with travel and residency restrictions in the Soviet Union and some of its successor countries. In modern Russia, such places are officially known as "closed administrative-territorial formations" ....

 town in Chelyabinsk Oblast

Chelyabinsk Oblast

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, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

. Population:

It was founded in 1957, and was known as Chelyabinsk-70 until 1991. Town status was granted to it in 1993.

Snezhinsk is one of two centers of the Russian nuclear program (the other one is Sarov

Sarov

Sarov is a closed town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Until 1995 it was known as Kremlyov ., while from 1946 to 1991 it was called Arzamas-16 . The town is off limits to foreigners as it is the Russian center for nuclear research. Population: -History:The history of the town can be divided...

) and is built around a major scientific research institute—"All-Russian Scientific Research Center of Technical Physics—Federal Nuclear Center".

International relations

Snezhinsk is a sister city of Livermore

Livermore, California

Livermore is a city in Alameda County. The population as of 2010 was 80,968. Livermore is located on the eastern edge of California's San Francisco Bay Area....

, California

California

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, United States

United States

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External links

• Website of Snezhinsk