Miscellaneous
As of 2006, the city mayor was Nikolay Didenko. As of 2008, the city mayor is Valentina Isayeva.
The 42nd Missile division of Strategic Rocket Forces is based here, equipped with 36 Topol nuclear missiles.
In early 2007, a mass grave with 30 murdered girls and women was found near Nizhny Tagil. They had been abducted in the city by a prostitution gang between 2002 and 2006. See Nizhny Tagil mass murder (2002-2007). A frightful, fictionalized description of Nizhny Tagil and these murders appears in “The Bourne Sanction,” by Eric Van Lustbader, chapters 28, 30, 34 and 39.
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