Ozyorny (), formerly known as Bologoye-4
(), is a
closed urban locality (an
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ...
) in
Tver Oblast
Tver Oblast (, ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Tver. From 1935 to 1990, it was known as Kalinin Oblast (). Population:
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,
Russia
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. Population:
History
The settlement was founded in the 1930s as a military unit serving
Vypolzovo (air base) (the name of the airfield was taken from the nearby settlement of
Vypolzovo).
In the 1960s, the
7th Guards Rocket Division, operating strategic missiles, was relocated to the settlement and became the major employer.
The settlement was known as Bologoye-4 since. In 1992 the urban-type settlement was renamed Ozyorny and officially was granted a status of a closed urban locality.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the
framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as Ozyorny
Okrug
An okrug is a type of administrative division in some Slavic-speaking states. The word ''okrug'' is a loanword in English, alternatively translated as area, district, county, or region.
Etymologically, ''okrug'' literally means ' circuit', der ...
—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the
districts
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.
[Law #34-ZO] As a
municipal division, Ozyorny Okrug is incorporated as Ozyorny Urban Okrug.
[Law #4-ZO]
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Urban-type settlements in Tver Oblast
Closed cities