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Encyclopedia > Dzerzhinsk

Dzerzhinsk, transliterated from Russian, may be the name of one of the following places.

See also Dzerzhinsky Dzerzhinsk (Дзержинск) is a city of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia along the Oka River, about 240km east of Moscow. ... Dzyarzhynsk or Dzerzhinsk (Belarusian: Дзяржы́нск, Dziaržynsk, Russian: Дзержинск), in the Stoubcy district of Belarus, is a city with an ancient history. ... Dzerzhynsk (Ukrainian: ) is a city in Donetsk Oblast (privince) of Ukraine. ... Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский; September 11, 1877 - July 20, 1926) was a Polish Communist revolutionary, famous as the founder of the Bolshevik secret police...


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Dzerzhinsk is everything you could expect from a toxic waste dump and more.
Dzerzhinsk wasn't a closed city until 1990 just because it was one of the main chemical production hubs in the Soviet Union.
For now, the only thing that Dzerzhinsk officials seem to be able to do is to try to keep people from finding out about their hopeless situation.
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Some of these "closed" areas were Dzerzhinsk (300.000 inhabitants) close to Nizhny Novgorod (the former Gorki, with 1.4 million inhabitants), both about 400 km east of Moscow.
Dzerzhinsk is hosting several chemical industries and has been described as one of the most polluted in Russia.
Around Dzerzhinsk they were derived from sandy parent material of 20-50 m thickness over karstic limestone.
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