The development of science and technology serving the arms race gave rise to a special type of cities in the Soviet Union-the so-called science city-settlements at research institutes with the initially good, privileged conditions for the lives of their employees. In the suburbs, this is Obninsk (the first nuclear power plant in the world, physical institutions), Dubna (nuclear research), Pushchino (biology), Troitsk (physics), Protvino (synchrophasotron, high -energies physics).