Sentence examples for a closed city from inspiring English sources

Slavnikova: Yekaterinburg was a closed city.

Sverdlovsk was a closed city until early this year.

In Soviet times it was a closed city.

Because of its defence industries, Yekaterinburg was a closed city for much of the Soviet era.

Porto had a reputation for being a closed city with a lot of mystery.

Sarov is still a closed city whose inhabitants are subject to travel restrictions.

Our journal quickly became a more closed city than we had intended.

Such is the case in Izhevsk, a once closed city of about 700,000 people that has quietly left its mark on the world and whose museum complex has been drawing on average 10,000 visitors a month.

In a rut and out of favor, the labs are barely wheezing here at Pushchino, once one of the brimming engines of Soviet science, a special closed city devoted to prestigious biological research.

After the war's end, Joseph Stalin called for a crash atomic bomb program and created a top-secret closed city for nuclear research, Arzamas-16.

Thus, Wuhan is a more biased and closed city in the information space with a strong urban culture cohesion and a relatively lower level of openness and inclusiveness.