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Explore Yershovykh in Russia
Yershovykh in the region of Chelyabinsk Oblast is a town in Russia - some 905 mi or ( 1457 km ) East of Moscow , the country's capital city .
Current time in Yershovykh is now 02:40 AM (Friday) . The local timezone is named " Asia/Yekaterinburg " with a UTC offset of 6 hours. Depending on the availability of means of transportation, these more prominent locations might be interesting for you: Zarya, Shalimova, Sarykul'myak, Malyy Kunashak, and Metlino. Since you are here already, make sure to check out Zarya . Where to go and what to see in Yershovykh ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.
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Interesting facts about this location
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.
Located at 55.71 60.85 (Lat./Long.); Less than 10 km away
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.
Located at 55.68 60.80 (Lat./Long.); Less than 12 km away
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.
Located at 55.72 60.82 (Lat./Long.); Less than 12 km away
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