Talk:Semipalatinsk Test Site

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In article wroten "Balapan subcomplex in the STS's southwest" but at the map Balapan subcomplex is in the southeast of area. samething wrong. Stepanovas 15:16, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Yes, well spotted; I fixed and clarified that, and added some more info. A marginally better map is at [1], which also shows another test complex that I'll have to investigate. I think the eastern margin of the STS is formed by the Chagan (Shagan) River (and I believe than the Shagan River site was/is a site used extensively for missile testing). Maps and texts (particularly english ones) are pretty hard to come by for this whole area, so I'd very much welcome input and clarification about the site and its geography. I have the original Inkscape file used to create the maps, so I can fix and augment them as necessary. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 16:41, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

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In the article the following sentence require citation: "The first Soviet bomb, Operation First Lightning (nicknamed Joe One by the Americans) was conducted in 1949 from a tower at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, scattering fallout on nearby villages of Kazakh nomads (which Beria had neglected to evacuate). " Otherwise delete or correct this information. You claim that "scattering fallout on nearby villages of Kazakh nomads". Why is only on "villages of Kazakh nomads"? Do you claim there was no other nationalities living in that area during test? Or all others but Kazakhs were evacuated? My grandparents and my father were living at that exact site which was effected by fallout during First Lightning and other consequent operations. I am not Kazakh. My people had thousand years agricultural history by that time. Also, you claim lacking some logic, you say "villages of ... nomads", how nomads can have villages? According Cambridge Dicionary definition village is "a group of houses and other buildings, such as a church, a school and some shops, which is smaller than a town, usually in the countryside". It assumes settled people living in one place. Nomads do not live in one place by definition: Nomad is "a member of a group of people who move from one place to another rather than living in one place all of the time". Just because of that Kazakn nomads you claim to be stuck during experiments could have easily move to another place to live on their horses as that is what they do and what makes them nomads.