The lower area in the 14th district Webcam - Aktau

About Live Cam "The lower area in the 14th district" in Aktau

In 1958, uranium mills built on the site of modern Aktau, naming the village of chalk (Cretaceous) in honor of the Bay on which it stood. After the beginning of development of uranium deposits in the settlement was closed and renamed Sasha-20 ( Guryev -20). In 1963, its private status has been canceled, the status of the city was resumed, and the name was changed to Aktau. However, in 1964 it was given another name, Shevchenko(Shevchenko), is the Ukrainian name of the town may have been granted in connection with a large number of Ukrainian workers who settled in the city. Their descendants easy identifitseerida to this day in surnames ending in "-enko". After the collapse of the Soviet Union and Kazakhstan gained independence, the name Aktau was restored in 1991, but the airport still retains the SCO as IATA code. Aktau was once the site of a nuclear power plant. BN-350 FBR opened in 1973 and closed in 1999. In addition to producing plutonium, BN-350 was also used to provide the power and desalination to supply fresh water to the city. Long-term plans of the Government of Kazakhstan include the construction of a new nuclear power plant to be built near the current one. The current station is not considered powerful enough to provide the necessary fresh water and energy at this time, and blackouts were common. Look at modern Bottom area in the 14th district in real time through the computer, there was a webcam broadcast.