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City 40
2016 · Film · documentary · 72 min
Directed by Samira Goetschel
Hidden in the heart of Russia, there is a Soviet-era city where thousands of people live and work behind barbed-wire fences monitored by armed guards. It is Ozyorsk (Ozersk), located in the Chelyabinsk Oblast, one of the most polluted places on the planet and home to the largest stockpiles of nuclear material. Its code name: City 40.
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That is a leftover after Kyshtym disaster (Кыштымская авария), which is relatively well documented even though it is not well known in the west.
City-40 is the name of the movie about the city, city was named Chelyabinsk-40 (Челябинск-40) at the time of the incident.
>so much nuclear waste that it evaporated entirely from the heat.
That's just bs.
There is an interesting documentary film, "City 40" (2016), about the people who live in Ozersk, the town near the location of the Kyshtym disaster. The documentary features archival and hidden camera footage (because the area is heavily guarded and mostly closed to foreign journalists), as well as interviews with a number of local residents, including Nadezhda Kutepova.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_40_(film)