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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.