What town in East Kazakhstan Region was named for the director of the Soviet atomic bomb project
Kurchatov, Kazakhstan Kurchatov (in Kazakh and Russian: Курча́тов) is a town in East Kazakhstan Region in north-east Kazakhstan. Named after Soviet nuclear physicist Igor Kurchatov, the town was once the centre of operations for the adjoining Semipalatinsk Test Site. With the cessation of nuclear testing and the decommissioning of the test site, Kurchatov's population has fallen from over 20,000 to around 8,000. In its heyday Kurchatov (which was known by its postal code Semipalatinsk-21) was a closed city, one of the most secretive and restricted places in the Soviet Union. The nuclear facilities at Kurchatov are managed by the Kazakhstan Institute of Atomic Energy, a division of the country's National Nuclear Center. Population: (2009 Census results); (1999 Census results)
Yel’sk, Belarus Yel’sk (Belarusian: Ельск , Russian: Ельск "Yelsk", Polish: "Jelsk" , Lithuanian: "Jelskas" ) is a town in Gomel Region, Belarus. The 1986 Chernobyl disaster affected Yel'sk.