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== Known Closed Cities ==
== Film ==
* In ''[[The Sum of All Fears]]'' movie, agent Cabbot speaks about the closed city called Arzamas (most probably referring to Arzamas-16, now Sarov).

== Literature ==
* In ''[[James Bond (novel)|Devil May Care]]'' {{spoiler|Julius Gorner attempts to destroy Tryokhgorny, referred to by its postal name Zlatoust-36}}.

== 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).

== Real Life: Known Closed Cities ==
* Severomorsk. Administrative base of the Russian Northern Fleet. Still closed.
* Severomorsk. Administrative base of the Russian Northern Fleet. Still closed.
* Gorky, now open and back as Nizhny Novgorod.
* 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.
* 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.
* Mezhgorye, a closed city near Mount Yamantau that hosts some 17,000 residents that work on defence facilities around the mountain.

== Fictional Closed Cities ==
* In ''[[James Bond (novel)|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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