en.unionpedia.org

Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, the Glossary

49 relations: Administrative divisions of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Al Jazeera Media Network, Becquerel, Carbon-14, Catalytic converter, Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Chernobyl, City 40 (film), City of federal subject significance, Classification of inhabited localities in Russia, Closed city, Cobalt-60, Cold War, Concrete, Cultural depictions of salamanders, Efim P. Slavsky, English language, Felicity Barr, Gasoline, Gymnasium (school), High-level radioactive waste management, Icebreaker, Iridium-192, Kyshtym disaster, Lake Karachay, Lead, Mayak, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Natasha Pulley, Nuclear weapon, Plutonium, Plutopia, Pollution, Pollution of Lake Karachay, Postal code, Radioactive contamination, Radioactive waste, Richland, Washington, Russia, Sievert, Smelting, Soviet atomic bomb project, Submarine, Techa, The Guardian, Weapons-grade nuclear material, World War II, Yekaterinburg.
Cities and towns in Chelyabinsk Oblast

Administrative divisions of Chelyabinsk Oblast

Category:Chelyabinsk Oblast Chelyabinsk Oblast.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Administrative divisions of Chelyabinsk Oblast

Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN; The Peninsula) is a private-media conglomerate headquartered at Wadi Al Sail, Doha, funded in part by the government of Qatar.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Al Jazeera Media Network

Becquerel

The becquerel (symbol: Bq) is the unit of radioactivity in the International System of Units (SI).

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Becquerel

Carbon-14

Carbon-14, C-14, or radiocarbon, is a radioactive isotope of carbon with an atomic nucleus containing 6 protons and 8 neutrons.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Carbon-14

A catalytic converter is an exhaust emission control device which converts toxic gases and pollutants in exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine into less-toxic pollutants by catalyzing a redox reaction.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Catalytic converter

Chelyabinsk

Chelyabinsk is the administrative center and largest city of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Chelyabinsk are Cities and towns in Chelyabinsk Oblast.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Chelyabinsk

Chelyabinsk Oblast

Chelyabinsk Oblast (Chelyabinskaya oblast') is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia in the Ural Mountains region, on the border of Europe and Asia.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Chelyabinsk Oblast

Chernobyl

Chernobyl (Чернобыль) or Chornobyl (Чорнобиль) is a partially abandoned city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, situated in the Vyshhorod Raion of northern Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Chernobyl

City 40 (film)

City 40 (Сороковка) is a 2016 Russian documentary film directed by Samira Goetschel.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and City 40 (film)

City of federal subject significance

City of federal subject significance is an administrative division of a federal subject of Russia which is equal in status to a district but is organized around a large city; occasionally with surrounding rural territories.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and City of federal subject significance

Classification of inhabited localities in Russia

The classification system of inhabited localities in Russia and some other post-Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared with those in other countries.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Classification of inhabited localities in Russia

Closed city

A closed city or town is a settlement where travel or residency restrictions are applied so that specific authorization is required to visit or remain overnight. Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and closed city are closed cities.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Closed city

Cobalt-60

Cobalt-60 (Co) is a synthetic radioactive isotope of cobalt with a half-life of 5.2714 years.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Cobalt-60

Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Cold War

Concrete

Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Concrete

Cultural depictions of salamanders

The salamander is an amphibian of the order Urodela which, as with many real creatures, often has been ascribed fantastic and sometimes occult qualities by pre-modern authors (as in the allegorical descriptions of animals in medieval bestiaries) not possessed by the real organism.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Cultural depictions of salamanders

Efim P. Slavsky

Efim Pavlovich Slavsky (October 26, 1898 – November 8, 1991) was a Soviet statesman, head of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building, and three-time recipient of the Hero of Socialist Labour award.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Efim P. Slavsky

English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and English language

Felicity Barr

Felicity Barr (born 6 September 1970) is an English broadcast journalist, and former Al Jazeera English news presenter.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Felicity Barr

Gasoline

Gasoline or petrol is a petrochemical product characterized as a transparent, yellowish, and flammable liquid normally used as a fuel for spark-ignited internal combustion engines.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Gasoline

Gymnasium (school)

Gymnasium (and variations of the word) is a term in various European languages for a secondary school that prepares students for higher education at a university.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Gymnasium (school)

High-level radioactive waste management

High-level radioactive waste management addresses the handling of radioactive materials generated from nuclear power production and nuclear weapons manufacture.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and High-level radioactive waste management

Icebreaker

An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Icebreaker

Iridium-192

Iridium-192 (symbol 192Ir) is a radioactive isotope of iridium, with a half-life of 73.827 days.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Iridium-192

Kyshtym disaster

The Kyshtym disaster, sometimes referred to as the Mayak disaster or Ozyorsk disaster in newer sources, was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium production site for nuclear weapons and nuclear fuel reprocessing plant located in the closed city of Chelyabinsk-40 (now Ozyorsk) in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Kyshtym disaster

Lake Karachay

Lake Karachay (Карача́й), sometimes spelled Karachai or Karachaj, was a small lake in the southern Ural Mountains in central Russia.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Lake Karachay

Lead

Lead is a chemical element; it has symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Lead

Mayak

The Mayak Production Association (Производственное объединение «Маяк», Proizvodstvennoye ob′yedineniye "Mayak", from Маяк 'lighthouse') is one of the largest nuclear facilities in the Russian Federation, housing a reprocessing plant.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Mayak

Moscow Engineering Physics Institute

National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) (Национальный исследовательский ядерный университет "МИФИ") is a public technical university in Moscow, Russia.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Moscow Engineering Physics Institute

Natasha Pulley

Natasha Pulley (born 4 December 1988) is a British author.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Natasha Pulley

Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Nuclear weapon

Plutonium

Plutonium is a chemical element; it has symbol Pu and atomic number 94.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Plutonium

Plutopia

Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters is a 2013 book by American environmental historian Kate Brown.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Plutopia

Pollution

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Pollution

Pollution of Lake Karachay

Lake Karachay was a small natural lake in eastern Russia.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Pollution of Lake Karachay

Postal code

A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, PIN or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, included in a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Postal code

Radioactive contamination

Radioactive contamination, also called radiological pollution, is the deposition of, or presence of radioactive substances on surfaces or within solids, liquids, or gases (including the human body), where their presence is unintended or undesirable (from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) definition).

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Radioactive contamination

Radioactive waste

Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Radioactive waste

Richland, Washington

Richland is a city in Benton County, Washington, United States.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Richland, Washington

Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Russia

Sievert

The sievert (symbol: SvPlease note there are two non-SI units that use the same Sv abbreviation: the sverdrup and svedberg.) is a unit in the International System of Units (SI) intended to represent the stochastic health risk of ionizing radiation, which is defined as the probability of causing radiation-induced cancer and genetic damage.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Sievert

Smelting

Smelting is a process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Smelting

Soviet atomic bomb project

The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during and after World War II.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Soviet atomic bomb project

Submarine

A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Submarine

Techa

The Techa (p) is an eastward river on the eastern flank of the southern Ural Mountains noted for its nuclear contamination.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Techa

The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and The Guardian

Weapons-grade nuclear material

Weapons-grade nuclear material is any fissionable nuclear material that is pure enough to make a nuclear weapon and has properties that make it particularly suitable for nuclear weapons use.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Weapons-grade nuclear material

World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and World War II

Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The city is located on the Iset River between the Volga-Ural region and Siberia, with a population of roughly 1.5 million residents, up to 2.2 million residents in the urban agglomeration.

See Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Yekaterinburg

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozyorsk,_Chelyabinsk_Oblast

Also known as Chelyabinsk-40, Chelyabinsk-65, City 40, Ozersky Urban Okrug, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Ozyorsky Urban Okrug, Chelyabinsk Oblast.

Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, the Glossary

Table of Contents

See also

Cities and towns in Chelyabinsk Oblast

References