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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 104. Not illustrated. Chapters: Dimona, Lincoln Village, Ohio, Bilibino, Chaykovsky, Perm Krai, Tiszaujvaros, Havi ov, Beberibe, Elizabeth, South Australia, Atalaia Do Norte, Nir Oz, Ledge Point, Western Australia, Mirny, Sakha Republic, Komaki, Aichi, Poria Illit, Amatzia, Israel, Sasunik, Hashimoto, Wakayama, Gagarin, Armenia, Nehusha, Latakia, Aratiba, Peki'in Hahadasha, Molodohvardiysk, Lakhish, Israel, No'am, Luzit, Yaupon Beach, North Carolina, Otzem, Sdot Micha, Tirosh, Eitan, Israel, Yad Rambam, Gefen, Long Beach, North Carolina, Horshim, Sde David, Nehora, Shahar, Israel, Noga, Israel. Excerpt: Bilibino - Bilibino is sited at the transition zone between the conifer forest and the tundra, in the Chuvan Mountains. As with large portions of Chukotka, the earliest human remains found in the region around Bilibino have been dated to the Early Neolithic, with camp sites having been excavated at Orlovka 2, a site on the banks of the Orlovka River as well as at Lake Tytyl and Lake Illirney. Interest in the area around the present day site of the town began in the 1920s when prospectors including Soviet geologist Yuri Bilibin discovered gold in the region and began to make assessments regarding the commercial viability of its extraction. In 1955, the town was officially founded, though at this stage it was little more than a collection of geologists' and prospectors' tents, who had originally been based in Semchan. Because of his discovery of the gold in the region, particularly within the vicinity of the Bolshoy Anyuy and Maly Anyuy rivers, the geologists decided to name the town after Yuri Bilibin. The town began to develop in the early 1960s, when Bilibino was joined to the Pevek power gird and in 1965, the Soviet government decided to build a nuclear power station, aided by several hundred volunteers from the Komsomol and by...
