Stepnogorsk is a city in Akmola Region, northern Kazakhstan, built from scratch beginning in 1964 as a closed Soviet city to serve the Tselinny Mining and Chemical Combine. The combine processed uranium and related ores from nearby deposits and became the Soviet Union's second-largest uranium processing center, making Stepnogorsk a secret city valued for its role in the Soviet nuclear weapons program; its uranium mine was reported shut down in 2015.
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Founding Year Population Estimate Year Population Estimate Year Latitude52.346944 degrees north 1 Latitude52.346944 degrees north 1 Sources
1. Stepnogorsk (Wikidata)
P571 (inception)
+1959-00-00T00:00:00Z
P1082 (population)
population 46,947 (2016)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 52.346944, longitude 71.881667
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 46947 (2016)
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