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On 29 August 1991, forty-two years after the first test there, Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree closing the Semipalatinsk Test Site.

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29 Aug 1991

Closure of the Semipalatinsk Test Site, 1991. On 29 August 1991, forty-two years after the first test there, Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree closing the Semipalatinsk Test Site.

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