page_title: Obninsk
section_title: Science and education
hierarchical_section_title: Obninsk / Science and education
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Метеомачта Федорова
context_page_description: Obninsk is a city in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the bank of the Protva River 100 kilometers southwest of Moscow and 80 kilometers northeast of Kaluga.
context_section_description: Obninsk is one of the major Russian science cities. In 2000, it was awarded the status of the First Science City of Russia. The city is home to twelve scientific research institutes. Their main activities are nuclear power engineering, nuclear methods and radiation technology, technology of non-metallic materials, medical radiology, meteorology and ecology and environmental protection.
  The first nuclear power plant in the world for the large-scale production of electricity opened here on June 27, 1954, and it also doubled as a training base for the crew of the Soviet Union's first nuclear submarine, the K-3 Leninsky Komsomol.
  Obninsk is famous for its meteorological tower which was built to study spreading of radiation from the nuclear station.
  The following institutes are located in the city:
  State Scientific Center of Russian Federation Institute for Physics and Power Engineering
  State Scientific Center of Russian Federation Obninsk Scientific Production Enterprise "Tekhnologiya"
  Medical Radiological Research Center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences
  Obninsk Branch of the State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation "Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry"
  Obninsk Institute for Nuclear Power Engineering
  Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information (World Data Center)
  Central Pilot Expedition of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  Russian Research Institute of Agricultural Radiology and Agroecology
  Central Design Bureau of Hydrometeorological Instrumentation
  Russian Research Institute of Agricultural Meteorology
  Scientific Production Association TYPHOON
caption: Obninsk Meteorological tower is an official landmark of Obninsk
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