Talk:Naukograd

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[edit] Unoffical vs official

Please clarify what exactly this phrase means.

The first town to be officially made a "Naukograd" in 2000

Before that the article spoke about Soviet Union. Was this term used in Soviet times? In what sense? certainly, secret cities were not known as "naukograds": they were secret, weren't they? So some parts of this article better suit for a tabloid, (like, "slave labor" phrases (removed)), rather than for encyclopedia. mikka (t) 18:26, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Slave labor

After some tweaking of the intro, the Gulag phrase does not look sensationalist, and I will not object, although the quoted reference is not authoritative. I am well aware that Gulag labor was used in their construction; just as it was used in thousands of other locations in the Soviet Union. I will think how to non-obtrusively say this in the article, otherwise it looks like something: "Whoah! They were so secret that they were built by slaves! (Did they slaughter the builders in the best traditions of Dark Ages?)" mikka (t) 20:23, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sounds fine to me. —thames 22:12, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)