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Sometimes, closed cities are indicated obliquely as a nearby insignificant village, with the name of the stop serving the closed city made equivocal or misleading. For mail delivery, a closed city is usually named as the nearest large city and a special postcode, for example, Arzamas‑16, Chelyabinsk‑65.
Closed cities — Cities and Towns (mostly in the former Soviet Union and/or present day Russian Federation) with travel and/or residency restrictions, and preauthorization requirements to enter and/or remain.
Closed communities may be of a religious, ethnic, or political nature. Governance of closed societies varies. Typically, members of closed communities are either born into the community or are accepted into it. The opposite of a closed community is an open community, which maintains social relations with external communities. [1] [2]
Newton, where the well-known Maytag company closed down in 2006. Numa and its abandoned suburb Martinstown, former home of the Numa Block Coal Company. Severs, south of Colfax camp of the Colfax Consolidated Coal Company, abandoned. Stone City, a town built by local limestone quarry businesses.
A divided city is one which, as a consequence of political changes or border shifts, currently constitutes (or once constituted) two separate entities, or an urban area with a border running through it. Listed below are the localities and the state they belonged to at the time of division.
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). Codenamed City 40, Ozersk was the birthplace of the Soviet nuclear weapons program after the Second World War.
1 Examples. Toggle Examples subsection. 1.1 Canada. 1.2 China. 1.3 ... Some military establishments operate in closed cities, where permission is required to enter ...
The closed cities of Russia are different from the gated communities. The guard duty in closed cities is free to residents (paid by taxes). The public transport in closed cities may go with transit checkpoints or checking passes/passports at technical stops and available to others outside the security area.