THE SOCIOCULTURAL ENVIRONMENT IN CLOSED ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL FORMATIONS OF THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY IN THE URALS

Abstract

The study of such a complex phenomenon as a closed nuclear town is difficult without highlighting separate logical lines and plots. The process of formation and development of the sociocultural environment in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, determined by a number of macro- and microfactors (secrecy factor, high science intensity of production, and others) is chosen as one of these lines in this article. The authors characterize the sociocultural environment of Ural closed administrative-territorial formations (CATF) of the nuclear industry as a cultural phenomenon, where social and cultural processes closely interact (including activities of various actors in the creation and development of spiritual values, ideas and social norms). Various social institutions - from educational institutions to cultural and leisure institutions - were included in the field of the closed nuclear towns sociocultural environment. Their activities in the period from the second half of the 1940s to the beginning of the 2000s have been studied in this article.