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Chagan (Чага́н) was a Soviet underground nuclear test conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site on January 15, 1965.
Chagan may refer to:
- Chagan (nuclear test)
- Lake Chagan, a lake formed in the crater of the 1965 Soviet Chagan nuclear test
- Chagan (closed city), an abandoned closed city in Kazakhstan, currently a ghost town
- Chagan River (tributary of Irtysh River), the only surface waterway on the site of the Chagan nuclear test
- Chagan River, a tributary of the Ural River
- Birinci Çağan, Çağan, Shamakhi Rayon, Azerbaijan
- İkinci Çağan, Çağan, Shamakhi Rayon, Azerbaijan
- Chagan, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
- Chagan, Pingyuan County, Guangdong (差干镇), town in Guangdong, China
- Chagan, Da'an, Jilin (叉干镇), town in Jilin, China
- Dolon (air base) in Kazakhstan, also called Chagan
- Khagan, a title of imperial rank in the Mongolian and Turkic languages
Chagan (KAZ. Shaғan, being. Semipalatinsk-4) was an urban-type settlement in the East Kazakhstan region. The settlement is included in the city administration of Semey (former Semipalatinsk). The administrative center and the only locality of Chaganskoy village administration. It is located 74 km from the city of Semey on the bank of the Irtysh River. Code KATO - 632863100.
Railway station, 80 km north-west of Semey. Founded in 1950, abandoned after the withdrawal of Russian troops in 1995.
Before the collapse of the Soviet Union Chagan was a military base, which was home to 10 - 11 thousand residents - mostly staff located in 10 km south-west of the town a military airfield "Chagan", which was based for the long-range strategic aviation.
There was a kindergarten, a secondary school and a stadium. In 1995, all military units were withdrawn to Russia, the town passed to the Republic of Kazakhstan, after which the population declined sharply.
Usage examples of "chagan".
He extolled, by the tongue of his interpreter, the greatness of the chagan, by whose clemency the kingdoms of the South were permitted to exist, whose victorious subjects had traversed the frozen rivers of Scythia, and who now covered the banks of the Danube with innumerable tents.
On the report of his ambassadors, the chagan was awed by the apparent firmness of a Roman emperor of whose character and resources he was ignorant.
When the Roman envoys approached the presence of the chagan, they were commanded to wait at the door of his tent, till, at the end perhaps of ten or twelve days, he condescended to admit them.
As the successor of the Lombards, the chagan asserted his claim to the important city of Sirmium, the ancient bulwark of the Illyrian provinces.
The bishop of Singidunum presented the gospel, which the chagan received with devout reverence.
The Persian alliance restored the troops of the East to the defence of Europe: and Maurice, who had supported ten years the insolence of the chagan, declared his resolution to march in person against the Barbarians.
Romilda was condemned to the embraces of twelve Avars, and the third day the Lombard princess was impaled in the sight of the camp, while the chagan observed with a cruel smile, that such a husband was the fit recompense of her lewdness and perfidy.
Constantinople, and to second the operations of the chagan, with whom the Persian king had ratified a treaty of alliance and partition.
It was thus, after a siege of fifty-three days, that Constantinople, which had defied the power of Chosroes, the Chagan, and the caliphs, was irretrievably subdued by the arms of Mahomet the Second.
Avars, the outer one enclosing the entire realm of Hungary, the inner ones growing successively smaller, the innermost being the central fortification within which dwelt the Chagan, with his palace and his treasures.
Qoyina Bay in the Chagan Sea, through the straights of Garyelloch and south along the Torachan coastline.
I remember the way my former master followed by ship to the Chagan Sea.
It was a long journey by horseback across the Taiga region of Ulus to the forks of Sube off the Chagan Sea, and then an even longer trek southward into the mountains themselves.
Dacian empire of the chagans subsisted with splendor above two hundred and thirty years.
Here was the palace and stronghold of their monarchs, the Chagans, and here they continued a threat to all the surrounding nations, while enjoying the vast spoils which they had wrung from ruined peoples.