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title: "Chagan"
description: "Closed, Abandoned and Looted"
url: "https://michael-k.uk/chagan"
published: "2024-03-22T16:33:00Z"
updated: "2025-06-09T15:46:10Z"
authors: ["Michael-K"]
---

# Chagan

Closed, Abandoned and Looted

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Chagan was a closed city in Kazakhstan during the Soviet period. Before the collapse of the USSR it was a military base and home to around 10 - 11 thousand residents. It is now mostly abandoned.

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