Most of these cities (e.g. Zheleznogorsk [1]) seem to have a stylized atom as part of their coat of arms. I wonder if it was common practice in the USSR to incorporate similar symbols into the coat of arms of other newly founded industrial cities?
Re:Atomgrads
by a-nikolaev on Saturday June 08, 2013 @01:13AM
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Yeah, I have never heard the Atomgrad word, though some people can probably use it.
Btw, cities like that are also commonly called "scinetific cities" ("naukograds"), though "naukograds" are not necessarily closed and don't have to do nuclear physics research.
Re:Atomgrads
by imrehg on Saturday June 08, 2013 @02:33AM
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Was that really necessary?
This results in actual information loss, since the closed cities page does not have the same detail about this particular part. And also, now the original post makes no sense, since the word "atomgrad" is not even present on the closed cities page.
Re:Atomgrads
by martey on Saturday June 08, 2013 @02:46AM
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> This results in actual information loss
The "History" subsection of the "Closed city" article acutally contains more information on such cities that the "Atomgrad" article did. The list of "atomgrads" in the original article were already included in the list of Russian closed cities.
If there are additional important details that you feel are missing from the "Closed city" article, please feel free to add them.
> now the original post makes no sense
I make edits on Wikipedia in order to make Wikipedia a better resource, not to make it more consistent with Hacker News posts. I am not a HN editor, so I cannot edit this post's title to "Closed Cities". I think the added information from the "Closed city" article more than makes up for any confusion that people who click on the link from HN but fail to read this comment thread, the notification at the top of the "Closed city" article that they have been redirected from the "Atomgrads" article, or the edit history of either article.
Re:Atomgrads
by itafroma on Friday June 07, 2013 @11:44PM
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I followed a chain of linked articles from OP and eventually found an explanation on an article for Ozyorsk[1]:
> Until 1994, it was known as Chelyabinsk-65, and even earlier, as Chelyabinsk-40 (the digits are the last digits of the postal code, and the name is that of the nearest big city; which was a common practice of giving names to closed towns).
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheleznogorsk,_Krasnoyarsk_Krai
http://bit.ly/14HIT5f
I think, it was really fun. Sadly, it seems that nowdays, our (Russian) government favors religiouis symols over indistrial/sientific ones..
Btw, cities like that are also commonly called "scinetific cities" ("naukograds"), though "naukograds" are not necessarily closed and don't have to do nuclear physics research.
The "Closed City" article has significantly more information that the Atomgrad article did, and is a more useful resource.
This results in actual information loss, since the closed cities page does not have the same detail about this particular part. And also, now the original post makes no sense, since the word "atomgrad" is not even present on the closed cities page.
The "History" subsection of the "Closed city" article acutally contains more information on such cities that the "Atomgrad" article did. The list of "atomgrads" in the original article were already included in the list of Russian closed cities.
If there are additional important details that you feel are missing from the "Closed city" article, please feel free to add them.
> now the original post makes no sense
I make edits on Wikipedia in order to make Wikipedia a better resource, not to make it more consistent with Hacker News posts. I am not a HN editor, so I cannot edit this post's title to "Closed Cities". I think the added information from the "Closed city" article more than makes up for any confusion that people who click on the link from HN but fail to read this comment thread, the notification at the top of the "Closed city" article that they have been redirected from the "Atomgrads" article, or the edit history of either article.
> Until 1994, it was known as Chelyabinsk-65, and even earlier, as Chelyabinsk-40 (the digits are the last digits of the postal code, and the name is that of the nearest big city; which was a common practice of giving names to closed towns).
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozyorsk,_Chelyabinsk_Oblast