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State Central Navy Testing Range

Rocket launching site

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 8, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The State Central Navy Testing Range at Nyonoksa is the main rocket launching site of the Soviet Navy and later the Russian Navy. The site is located east of the settlement of Sopka 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of Nyonoksa.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “State Central Navy Testing Range” is rocket launching site. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through State, Central and Navy, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 40-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, State, Central and Navy is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “State Central Navy Testing Range” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.