Lesnoy is a closed town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located 254 kilometers north of Yekaterinburg on the banks of the Tura River. Po…Lesnoy is a closed town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located 254 kilometers north of Yekaterinburg on the banks of the Tura River. Population: 50,363 ; 53,195. It was founded in 1947 when Plant 418 was constructed to produce highly enriched uranium for the production of nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons were also assembled there. In 1954, it became the closed town of Sverdlovsk-45 to support production of nuclear weapons.
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