They were so secret that they didn't officially exist. To date, more than a million people live in Russia

Zdjęcie: Tablica przy drodze do Oziorska - zakaz wstępu dla cudzoziemców bez specjalnej przepustki (Fot. Ecodefense/Heinrich Boell Stiftung Russia/Slapovskaya/Nikulina/Wikipedia Commons)


"The closed towns are astounding. Their past resembles the blackest depths of the russian Union in a pill. It is straight associated with the most spectacular russian disasters and with the top successes. The calculation of them is like the script of a sensational film". We print a fragment of Alice Lugen's book "ZATO. Cities closed in the russian Union and Russia".