(This file is no longer being updated.  For information on archived developments in the mining and milling industry, please see the Uranium Mining and Milling Developments section.)

For major recent developments, see the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Developments file.

LOCATION: Yergeninskiy ore region, near Pyatigorsk in the Northern Caucasus
The Directorate was established in the 1960s.
[William N. Szymanski, Uranium Industry Annual 1991, "The Uranium Industry Of The Commonwealth Of Independent States," Washington D.C.: Energy Information Administration, 1992, p. 11. See also Thomas Cochran et al., NUCLEAR WEAPONS DATABOOK, p. 93; Arkadiy Kruglov, HOW THE RUSSIAN NUCLEAR INDUSTRY WAS BUILT, Moscow, TsNIIATOMINFORM, 1994, p. 265.]

Page last updated 5 November 1997

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For major recent developments, see the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Developments file.

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