page_title: Closed city
section_title: N-V
hierarchical_section_title: Closed city / Closed cities in post-Soviet states / Russia / By oblast / N-V
caption_attribution_description: English: Sarovsky Monastery, Uspensky Sobor Русский: Успенский собор Саровского монастыря
context_page_description: A closed city or closed town is a settlement where travel or residency restrictions are applied so that specific authorization is required to visit or remain overnight. They may be sensitive military establishments or secret research installations that require much more space or freedom than is available in a conventional military base. There may also be a wider variety of permanent residents including close family members of workers or trusted traders who are not directly connected with its clandestine purposes.
  Many closed cities existed in the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991. After 1991, a number of them still existed in the CIS countries, especially Russia. In modern Russia, such places are officially known as "closed administrative-territorial formations".
context_section_description: Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
  Sarov – formerly known as Arzamas-16
  Orenburg Oblast
  Komarovsky
  Penza Oblast
  Zarechny – formerly known as Penza-19
  Pskov Oblast
  Smuravyevo
  Saratov Oblast
  Mikhaylovsky
  Shikhany
  Svetly
  Sverdlovsk Oblast
  Lesnoy – formerly known as Sverdlovsk-45
  Novouralsk – formerly known as Sverdlovsk-44
  Svobodny
  Uralsky
  Tomsk Oblast
  Seversk – formerly known as Tomsk-7
  Tver Oblast
  Ozyorny
  Solnechny
  Vladimir Oblast
  Raduzhny
caption: Sarov Monastery in Sarov (1904)
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