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Touring Syrgaydy in Russia

Syrgaydy in the region of Chelyabinsk Oblast is located in Russia - some 898 mi or ( 1445 km ) East of Moscow , the country's capital city .

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Time in Syrgaydy is now 02:46 PM (Tuesday) . The local timezone is named " Asia/Yekaterinburg " with a UTC offset of 6 hours. Depending on your budget, these more prominent places might be interesting for you: Kungur, Selyayeva, Selezni, Novogornyy, and Moseyeva. Being here already, consider visiting Kungur . We collected some hobby film on the internet . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Check out our recommendations for Syrgaydy ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


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Interesting facts about this location

Lake Karachay

Lake Karachay, sometimes spelled Karachai, is a small lake in the southern Ural mountains in western Russia. Starting in 1951 the Soviet Union used Karachay as a dumping site for radioactive waste from Mayak, the nearby nuclear waste storage and reprocessing facility, located near the town of Ozyorsk.

More reading: Wikipedia Article
Located at 55.68 60.80 (Lat./Long.); Less than 19 km away
Tags: Lakes of Russia, Radioactively contaminated areas

Kyshtym disaster

The Kyshtym disaster was a radiation contamination incident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the Soviet Union. It measured as a Level 6 disaster on the International Nuclear Event Scale, making it the third most serious nuclear accident ever recorded behind the Chernobyl disaster, and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, both Level 7 on the INES. The event occurred in the town of Ozyorsk, a closed city built around the Mayak plant.

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Located at 55.72 60.82 (Lat./Long.); Less than 24 km away
Tags: 1957 disasters, 1957 health disasters, 1957 in the Soviet Union, 1957 in the environment, Disasters in the Soviet Union, Environmental disasters, Military nuclear accidents and incidents, Nuclear energy in Russia, Radiation accidents and incidents, Radioactively contaminated areas, Soviet coverups

Mayak

The Mayak Production Association is an industrial complex which is one of the biggest nuclear facilities in the Russian Federation. It housed plutonium production reactors and a reprocessing plant. Located 150 km south-east of Ekaterinburg between the towns of Kasli and Tatysh 72 km northwest of Chelyabinsk, the closest city to the nuclear complex is Ozyorsk, the central administrative territorial district.

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Located at 55.71 60.85 (Lat./Long.); Less than 24 km away
Tags: Buildings and structures in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Disasters in Russia, Energy in the Soviet Union, Nuclear reprocessing sites, Radioactively contaminated areas, Soviet coverups