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Nenoksa
64°37'60"N 39°10'60"E

The State Central Marine Test Site at Nenoksa [sometimes mis-spelled Nenoska] is an inspectable SLBM facility under the START-1 agreement. The United States and the Soviet Union signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) on 31 July 1991. When START entered into force on 05 December 1994, the signatories began to implement the Treaty's complex set of intrusive inspection and verification measures. As part of START's verification provisions, each signatory was required to declare all facilities related to ICBMs, submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), and heavy bombers. The former Soviet Union (FSU) has declared over five dozen START-inspectable sites in all categories, including five SLBM facilities and six submarine facilities.

Vera Nikolaevna Figner arrived in Nenoksa, a revolutionary, a member of the executive committee of the Narodnaya Volya organization. Here she spent about a year in exile, which became relative freedom for her after 22 years spent in the Shlisselburg fortress. In Nenoks, Vera Nikolaevna talked with local residents, delving into their lifestyle, needs and aspirations. She organized courses on weaving baskets, tried to establish a clay pottery factory. She captured the details of her stay in Nenoks in her memoirs.

The Severodvinsk City Museum of Local Lore offers visits to the ancient village of Nenoksa, located 40 km from Severodvinsk. The Museum of the History of the Village of Nenoksa opens for individual visits upon request. Enterprises of Severodvinsk keep secrets more than military units in Nyonoks. However, no one has the idea of making the city closed because of this. Visitors can walk along the Administrative Highway along the fence of Sevmash for at least a day, or sit on a bench opposite the Central Watch. There is no steam heating in Nenok. Due to the access regime, applications for excursions are accepted 3 weeks before the trip (the museum draws up passes through the military unit).

The ancient Pomeranian village of Nenoksa, located near Severodvinsk, has become a center for the study of Russian traditional culture, folklore and ethnography. The first Petrovsky festival, which took place here on July 11 and 12, was evidence of this. July 12 is a memorial day for the holy apostles Peter and Paul. Since ancient times, the inhabitants of Nenoksa have considered this day “their own”: they traditionally gather for the Petrovsky Kruzhany festival with songs, dances and games.

In 2015, for the first time, the village day was celebrated so widely - the Petrovsky Festival entered the calendar of tourist events in the Arkhangelsk region. According to the Severodvinsk City Museum of Local Lore, more than 230 guests came to it, and about a thousand people gathered together with local residents. The Nenok folk choir “Pomeranian Pearl” and the Arkhangelsk folk duet “Girlfriends” performed by Sophia Syrovatskaya and Galina Pigaleva performed with a concert program . Residents of Nenoksa warmly welcomed the children's folklore ensemble "Zorenka" from the city of Luga, Leningrad Region.

Another event of the festival was the round table "History of expeditions to the village of Nenoksa." The event was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the first expedition of Olga Ozarovskaya to Nenoks. And the supplementer and collector of folklore wrote many books on folklore. One of them is dedicated to the Pomeranian village. It was possible to take the festival to a new level thanks to the implementation of the project “Nenoxa - the birthplace of northern salt”, which became the winner of the All-Russian contest “The cultural mosaic of small towns and villages” organized by the Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

Trinity Church is the only wooden five-hipped church in Russia, located in one of the most ancient villages of Pomorie - Nenoks, the central object of the complex, consisting of three wooden monuments of federal significance of the XVIII century. The restoration of one of the most outstanding monuments of wooden architecture of the Russian North - the Trinity Church - was resumed in 2018 after an almost three-year break. “The completion of the restoration, begun back in the 1990s, will allow revealing the outstanding historical and architectural value of the monuments, documenting the technology of traditional construction, preserving the historical environment, using it as a basis for creating new values,” said the head of the Inspection for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Arkhangelsk Region Anna Ivchenko. The monograph “The Winged Trail of the Meteorite” (issued by the NPO Mashinostroeniya is devoted to the development and testing of the KR “Meteorite”). In the section where the tests are described, there is an interesting diagram. Judging by the above chart, tests of the marine version of the Meteorite were carried out from the Nenox training ground. The rocket flew a difficult route to a special target field located beyond Vorkuta. Nenox was used quite actively for testing long-range cruise missiles. True, the Meteorite was launched not from the launcher, but from the board of the specially upgraded project 667 Andromeda submarine missile carrier.

The test launch of a cruise missile, some of which fell on a residential building in the village of Nenoksa, was carried out by NPO Mashinostroenie. Now at the scene of the incident, a commission of industry representatives is working. On December 15, 2015, in the Arkhangelsk region at the training ground of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, industry experts (NPO Mashinostroyenie ) carried out test firing with a cruise missile. After launch, as a result of an emergency, the missile deviated from the given trajectory and fell near Nenoks. An official representative of the Northern Fleet said that the incident did not occur as a result of the actions of the Russian fleet.

The commission investigated the reasons for the emergency launch of a cruise missile in the Arkhangelsk region. It is emphasized that as a result of the state of emergency there are no injuries. This was reported to the Ministry of Defense. The department emphasized that an emergency occurred during the tests of the rocket by the Scientific and Production Association " Engineering ". It is reported that the military-industrial corporation NPO Mashinostroyeniya promises to pay for the repair of a house in the village of Nenoksa, on which the rocket stage fell.

On 08 August 2019, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that an incident with human casualties occurred at the Nenoks training ground. Rosatom State Corporation later reported that an explosion occurred during a test on a marine platform of a rocket with a radioisotope power source. As a result , seven people died - five Rosatom employees and two representatives of the Ministry of Defense. Three soldiers and three Rosatom specialists were injured.

According to investigators of Radio Liberty , the explosion occurred under one of the marine pontoons (platforms) that were at sea at the time of the test. This version is confirmed by the conversation that took place on August 12 among the residents of the village of Nenoksa with the head of the marine missile training range of the Ministry of Defense, captain of the first rank Vladimir Bosym, as well as photos and videos of two pontoons that were on the coast near the training ground shortly after the accident. One of the pontoons is flooded and noticeably damaged.

The meeting between the residents of Nenoksa and the commander of military unit 09703, to which the training ground belongs, took place on August 12 directly on the territory of the military unit. Despite the closed format, the recording of the conversation still got on the video.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 21 said that the accident at the training ground near Severodvinsk occurred during work on promising weapons systems. The authorities of Severodvinsk on August 8 and later Roshydromet reported that on the day of the emergency in Severodvinsk, the radiation background increased briefly, then returned to normal.

The Russian Ministry of Defense plans to dismantle several sites in Nenoks and Severodvinsk where the currently disposed weapons were stored, follows from materials on the government procurement portal.

The Russian military department announced a closed tender for "the dismantling of weapons and military equipment storage and operation facilities liberated as a result of weapons disposal in military unit 09703". The document indicates the objects in the military camp #17 in the city of Severodvinsk and military camp #24 in the village of Nenoksa, Arkhangelsk region. As reported, near the Nenoksa is the state central naval test site of the Russian Navy, where in August an explosion occurred during tests on a marine platform of a rocket with a radioisotope power source. According to the documentation, dismantling work with a total value of more than 87.5 million rubles should be completed before November 10, 2020.

The road under construction to the village of Nenoksa was funded as part of the event "Development of a network of roads leading to socially significant objects of rural settlements, objects of production and processing of agricultural products" under the state program of the Arkhangelsk region "Sustainable development of rural territories of the Arkhangelsk region", designed for 2014-2020. A fully fifth-category road with a length of about 12 kilometers and a width of eight meters should be ready by the end of 2020.