Seversk is a city (since 1954) in the Tomsk region. The administrative center of the closed administrative-territorial entity Seversk. Population - 106 516 people. (2020).
A giant monument to V.I. Lenin (on the square in front of the BUT
administration).
A stele with the name of the city at the entrance
to it through the Central checkpoint.
Seversky Museum.
Seversky
Musical Theatre.
Seversky Nature Park.
Seversky Zoo is the only
one in the Tomsk region
Museum of the History of the Siberian
Chemical Plant.
theater for children and youth (former puppet
theater).
The Mir cinema.
The Closed Administrative-territorial Formation of Seversk, in addition to the closed city of the same name, includes extra-urban territories, which consist of the settlements: Samus (the administrative center of the extra-urban territories), Orlovka, villages: Kizhirovo, Semiozerki and Inkilshchikova. These towns and villages were part of the Tomsk region until 1997 and a pass is not required to visit them. You can get to these towns and villages (except for Chernilshchikova) from the Tomsk bus station by the Tomsk-Orlovka route (makes several additional stops in Tomsk) and from Seversk by bus route 145. Both bus routes make several trips a day. As for Inkilshchikova, only two pensioners remain from the permanent population there, the rest of the houses are occupied by summer residents. On the territory of BUT there are several more former villages that have already completely turned into holiday villages. Buses from Seversk run to these holiday villages (including Inkilshchikova), and to some, in addition, the same bus "Tomsk-Orlovka". Near the village of Samus and the village of Semiozerki, which are almost fused, there are several large lakes suitable for swimming. Next to one of them there is a boarding house "Seven Lakes", a sauna and a ski base.
The only way to Seversk is through Tomsk.
By plane
At Tomsk
airport, take bus No. 119, take it to Yuzhnaya Square, Tomsk-1 train
station, take bus routes 401 or 442. Or take the same 119 bus to any
stop on the section of the avenue. Lenin from the ave. Kirov to Lenin
Square and transfer to bus number 400, 405 or 442. The travel time
depends on the place where you board the bus in Tomsk, the traffic
situation (there is a railway crossing on the way), the queue at the
checkpoint and where you are going in Seversk (approximately forty
minutes to two and a half hours).
By train
At Tomsk-1 train
station, take the bus route 401 or 442.
By car
There are
nuances here: in addition to the fact that all persons entering the city
by car over the age of 12 must have a pass with them, and children must
have birth certificates, the driver must have a special "Automatic
checkpoint" mark in the pass, without which entry into the city of the
vehicle is impossible. If you plan to enter the city by private car,
then indicate this in the application for a pass, and upon receipt, ask
the issuing person to make this mark in your pass.
Taxi: Most
Tomsk taxi companies provide services for the delivery of passengers to
Seversk, but it is necessary to inform the dispatcher about the place of
travel when placing an order.
By bus
Buses No. 400, 401, 405
and 442 run between Seversk and Tomsk.
On the ship
From the
Tomsk river station, the motor ship (flight Tomsk — Krasny Yar) to the
Beloborodovo pier. Nuance: Passes to Seversk for new arrivals are issued
only at the Central checkpoint, and from the pier, without entering the
city, it can only be reached by walking many kilometers along the
guarded perimeter. For those who already have a pass, there is a
separate checkpoint in the marina area. That is, if you left for Tomsk
during the validity period of your pass, you may well return to Seversk
by river.
There are regular buses in the city. The bus service interval during
the day is 3-4 minutes, during rush hour — 1-2 minutes. There are major
bus routes in the city:
17: village Iglakovo — Pervomaiskaya
street — ave. Kommunisticheskiy — Leningradskaya street
29: PATP —
Pervomaiskaya street — ave. Kommunisticheskiy — Pobedy str. —
Sanatorium-dispensary
30: PATP ave. Kommunisticheskiy —
Leningradskaya street
31: PATP — Lesnaya street — Kalinina street —
ave. Communist — PATP (ring)
32: PATP — Komsomolskaya str. — ave.
Kommunisticheskiy — Kalinina str. — Lesnaya str. — PATP (koltsevoy)
33: village Iglakovo — PATP — Lesnaya str. — Kalinina str. — Pobedy str.
— Leningradskaya str. — Pobedy str. — Kommunisticheskiy ave. —
Pervomaiskaya str. — village Iglakovo
34: village Iglakovo — PATP —
Komsomolskaya str. — ave. Kommunisticheskiy — Pobedy Street —
Leningradskaya Street — Pobedy Street — Kalinina Street — Lesnaya Street
— PATP
On the site of the future city in 1933, a youth labor
commune "Chekist" was created, which gave its name to the village in
which the first builders of the city lived. After that, this name
passed to the area of the city located here today.
The
village of Beloborodovo on the territory of the city ceased to exist
in the 1980s. The village of Iglakovo still exists today and
acquired the status of a microdistrict of the city.
On March
26, 1949, the Council of Ministers of the USSR made a decision to
establish a plant near Tomsk for the production of highly enriched
uranium-235 and plutonium-239. The new industrial complex was
originally called Zauralskaya office of Glavpromstroy or Combine No.
816.
For the construction of the plant, by order of the
Minister of Internal Affairs, forced labor camps were organized
(correctional labor colony No. 1 of Siblag of the Directorate of
Forced Labor Camps and Colonies of the NKVD of the USSR). The
prisoners worked not only in industrial facilities, their labor was
also used in the construction of residential buildings and urban
infrastructure. About 20 thousand prisoners worked on the
construction of the closed city and the plant.
The original
code name of the city was Mailbox No. 5, because the construction of
the city-forming plant was named: PO Box No. 5, in this regard, in
common parlance, the city was called "Fifth Postal" or simply
"Postal".
Since 1951 - the village of Berezki, where on July
26, 1953, the first Siberian uranium was obtained at the isotope
separation plant, part of the Siberian Chemical Combine.
In
1954, the closed settlement was named Seversk, but later in
documents for secrecy purposes it was called Tomsk-7.
The
second in the world after Obninsk industrial nuclear power plant
(NPP-1, also known as the Siberian NPP) with a capacity of 100
megawatts, was built in Seversk in 1958.
The secrecy status
was removed from the city in 1989.
In 1993, a radiation
accident occurred at the Siberian Chemical Combine, as a result of
which radioactive substances were released into the atmosphere, and
1946 people were exposed to radiation. Index on the international
scale of nuclear events INES - 4.
Since 1997 - ZATO, which
includes, in addition to Seversk, the villages of Samus, Orlovka,
Chernilshchikovo, the villages of Kizhirovo, Semiozerki.
The city is located on the right bank of the Tom River,
northwest of Tomsk.
The total area of ZATO is 486 km².
The climate in Seversk is close to moderately cold. Seversk is a city with a significant amount of rainfall, even in the dry months it often rains. According to the Köppen climate classification, it is a humid continental climate (Dfb index). The average air temperature for the year is 0.6 ° С. The average rainfall for the year is 530 mm.