Uchkuduk
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Uchkuduk (Uzbek: Uchquduq, Russian: Учкудук) is a city (pop est 27,000) in the north of the Navoiy Province, Uzbekistan. The city's name means "three draw-wells" in Uzbek. It is located at , at an altitude of 193 meters. Located in the middle of the Kyzyl Kum Desert, Uchkuduk was a "closed city" in Soviet times due to its strategic open pit uranium mines, which supplied the raw material for the nuclear weapons in the Soviet military arsenal.
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