'''Obninsk''' is a city in
Kaluga Oblast of
Russia, 102 km south-west of
Moscow. Population: 108,000. It is one of the major Russian science cities. The first
nuclear reactor in the World for the large scale production of
electricity opened here on June 27th, 1954. Now the city is home to 12 scientific research institutes, their main activities are nuclear power engineering, radiation technology, medical
radiology,
meteorology.
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