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Due to unsafe Soviet biological weapons testing on Vozrozhdeniya (“vuz-rahzh-DYAY-nee-yuh”) Island, smallpox broke out around this lake in 1971. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this former lake that dried up due to Soviet policies that encouraged a cotton monoculture in Central Asia, like the diversion of the Āmu Daryā and Syr (“seer”) Daryā and the construction of the Karakum Canal.
ANSWER: Aral Sea [or Aral teñızı or Orol dengizi or Aral’skoye more; accept Aralkum Desert or Aralqūm Şölı or Orolqum Cho’li or Pustynya Aralkum]
[10m] In 1958, a tailings dam in this Soviet republic failed, flooding the uranium mining town of Mayluu-Suu with radioactive waste. After independence, this republic was led by Askar Akayev until the 2005 Tulip Revolution.
ANSWER: Kyrgyzstan [accept Kirghizia or Kirgiziya or Qyrghyzstan; accept Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic or Kirghiz SSR or Kirgizskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika or Qyrghyz Sovettik Sotsialisttik Respublikasy; accept Kyrgyz Republic or Qyrghyz Respublikasy or Kyrgyzskaya Respublika]
[10h] Soviet nuclear weapons testing exposed an estimated 1.5 million people to radiation in this Kazakh city. Operation First Lightning, the first Soviet bomb test, took place at The Polygon in this city.
ANSWER: Semipalatinsk (“seh-mee-puh-LAH-tinsk”) [or Semei]
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Cornell ARIT A100010
Cornell CRIT B0000