The Soviet Union's nuclear test site was built near a city that had a population of over a million, and now only a few ...

This was a primary nuclear explosion test site for the Soviet Union and its radioactive legacy is still present today.

Born by the bomb, the crater formed is meant to be 100 metres deep and 400 metres wide, and this remote lake became part of ...

In an interview with The Astana Times, Seitenova shared how her own journey of self-reflection led her to uncover these untold stories of resilience and resistance.

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Igor Kurchatov, the scientific director of the soviet nuclear bomb program who was ... miles from the weapons lab in Russia to the test site in Kazakhstan. In an effort to minimize the fallout ...

The Zhambyl District of the Almaty Region in Kazakhstan is formally approved ... "The decision on selecting the site for the nuclear facility - the Zhambyl District of the Almaty Region," the ...

The Polygon shines a light on the village of Sarzhal in East Kazakhstan, situated only 18kms from the perimeter of the former Semipalatinsk Test Site, that was home to over 600 nuclear detonations.

A remote lake in Kazakhstan is one of the main features of the place ... as the land around them was irrevocably changed by being a nuclear test site. One of these changes was the development of a ...