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{{Useful Notes|wppage=Closed city}}
A very Soviet phenomenon, but one still existing in modern Russia, although many cities are now "open". Known as ZATO (''zakrytye administrativno-territorial'nye obrazovaniia'') in Russian.
Appeared from the late 1940s onwards.
These are entire cities that foreigners cannot enter and Russians need a permit to live there, being subject to movement restrictions. Some were physically surrounded by barbed wire, with armed guards. They were referred to only by a postal-code and did not
Note that living there was not necessarily bad - it involved (and to a lesser extent, still involves) reasonably good and prestigious if secret work, lots of cool if sometimes dangerous stuff happening, and various privileges such as a temporary exemption of local businesses from taxes in the Nineties.
Other closed areas existed elsewhere in the [[Warsaw Pact]], especially on the border between [[West Germany]] and [[East Germany]].
{{examples}}
== Known Closed Cities in Russia include: ==▼
== Film ==
* In ''[[The Sum of
== Literature ==
* In ''[[
== Live-Action TV ==
* An episode of ''[[Airwolf]]'', "Proof Through The Night", is set in Sverdlovsk.▼
== Video Games ==
* Possibly non-Russian example: [[Half Life|City 17]]. It wasn't closed by them anyway.▼
* The game ''[[Gorky 17]]'' (a.k.a ''Odium'') takes place in the eponymous closed city (note the error in transcription, as there should be a dash between the name [Gorky is an actual city] and a number).▼
* Severomorsk. Administrative base of the Russian Northern Fleet. Still closed.
* Gorky, now open and back as Nizhny Novgorod.
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* Sverdlovsk, now Ekaterinburg. Not a proper closed city, but it was still practically closed to foreigners because of its status as an industrial center. It was not the only such borderline case.
* Mezhgorye, a closed city near Mount Yamantau that hosts some 17,000 residents that work on defence facilities around the mountain.
▲* In ''[[Literature/Devil May Care|Devil May Care]]'' {{spoiler|Julius Gorner attempts to destroy Tryokhgorny, referred to by its postal name Zlatoust-36}}.
▲* Possibly non-Russian example: [[Half Life|City 17]]. It wasn't closed by them anyway.
▲* An episode of ''[[Airwolf]]'', "Proof Through The Night", is set in Sverdlovsk.
▲* In ''The Sum of all Fears'' movie, agent Cabbot speaks about the closed city called Arzamas (most probably referring to Arzamas-16, now Sarov).
▲* The game ''Gorky 17'' (a.k.a ''Odium'') takes place in the eponymous closed city (note the error in transcription, as there should be a dash between the name [Gorky is an actual city] and a number).
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[[Category:Useful Notes/Russia]]
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