Closes the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site after decades of Soviet nuclear testing.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Closes the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site after decades of Soviet nuclear testing.
Provenance
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