Specifics of Life in the Closed City of Sarov. Podcast Series (Project-creative Format)

The first closed cities began to appear in 1946 - 1953 when the USSR worked on creating atomic weapons. Such cities were classified, and outsiders could not get into them: military facilities, scientific centres and dangerous enterprises located on their territory. Closed cities had no names and marks on maps, and in documents, they designated by conventional names. One such city (at different times, Kremlev, Arzamas-75, and Arzamas-16) is Sarov, called the centre of the Soviet nuclear project. Information about closed cities is now more readily available, but many are still unaware of their existence or speculate on how life goes on "behind barbed wire". The graduation paper aims to talk about the specifics of life in the closed city of Sarov through audio interviews with its residents. A podcast series were chosen as a convenient and unique format for the disclosure of this topic. The project proposal also opens up opportunities for further illumination and study of life's specifics in closed cities. The project contains the stories of heroes of different generations living in the city of Sarov, allowing the listener to learn from several perspectives and different angles how life in the closed city is. Keywords: closed atomic city, Sarov, peculiarities of life, closed administrative-territorial formations, specifics, podcast