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Semipalatinsk Test Site

Soviet nuclear test site in eastern Kazakhstan, where 456 tests were fired between 1949 and 1989.

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Closure of Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site is a historical decision of Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazinform), Kazakhstan Today, 29 Aug 2019. Scholarship & press
Nuclear weapons testing has been carried out in the territory of the Kazakh SSR since 1949. Approximately 500 nuclear explosions were fired during this period which occurred to be harmful for people’s health and lives.
The lasting toll of Semipalatinsk's nuclear testing (Togzhan Kassenova), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 28 Sep 2009. Scholarship & press
In 1991, Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev officially closed the site and ordered that medical help and compensation be provided to those suffering from illness due to testing.
During the rainy, windy early morning of August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear explosion–code-named “First Lightning”–at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in eastern Kazakhstan.
In all, the Soviet Union conducted 456 nuclear tests at Semipalatinsk (340 underground and 116 aboveground), starting with that first one in August 1949 and ending with the final test on October 19, 1989.
Kazakhstan renounced nuclear legacy in spite of tough opposition of the USSR military headquarters: President Nazarbayev, Tengrinews.kz, 29 Aug 2012. Scholarship & press
The Day was suggested by Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev at the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly and was unanimously adopted in a resolution dated December 2009.

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