Ciudad Nuclear
Ciudad Nuclear is the name of a housing estate built between 1980 and 1992 about 9 kilometers south of the center of the Cuban city of Cienfuegos at the sea-side entrance to the large Jagua Bay . It was built as a residence for the Cuban and foreign workers and their families involved in the construction of the Juraguá nuclear power plant .
In connection with the planning for Cuba's first nuclear power plant near the city of Cienfuegos, planning also began for the accommodation of the construction workers and the later power plant employees. In 1976 the location for the settlement was determined: around five kilometers east of the power plant site. 1980 was the official start of construction. 4,200 apartments were planned, of which only a part was completed. The first apartments were handed over to their residents in 1981, and the settlement was officially inaugurated on October 13, 1982. It had numerous public facilities, including, for example, a polyclinic, which opened in 1987 and still exists today in a reduced form, or a cultural center that also still exists. With the suspension of power plant construction in Juraguá announced by President Fidel Castro on September 5, 1992 for cost reasons, the expansion of Ciudad Nuclear, which was directly related to the major project, was canceled, so that there are numerous ruins there. The residents of the settlement came from different parts of Cuba, until 1992 several hundred foreign technical advisers and trainers from the Soviet Union and partly from Bulgaria and other countries of the Eastern Bloc lived here.
In administrative terms, Ciudad Nuclear and the immediately northeastern settlement of Castillo de Jagua form the unit “Castillo-CEN” (CEN as an abbreviation for “central electronuclear”, Spanish for nuclear power plant), which belongs to the municipality of Cienfuegos. Ciudad Nuclear is connected to the city center of Cienfuegos by a passenger ferry that goes to several stations along Jagua Bay and takes around an hour for the entire crossing. The only land connection is a country road with little traffic that leads from Cienfuegos via the village of Juraguá and past the power station to the historic fortress "Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles de Jagua" (known as "Castillo de Jagua") at the entrance to Jagua Bay. Immediately to the east of the housing estate is the small Playa Rancho Club beach, a few meters south of it is Campismo Jagua, a holiday complex built on the bank of the bay entrance with overnight huts of simple standards.
The most prominent inhabitant of the Ciudad Nuclear settlement is the 2012 Olympic flyweight boxing champion, Robeisy Ramírez .
Cinematic processing
- Mónica Discépola: Las tres islas. Documentary, Cuba 2011, 61 minutes ( viewable online on Vimeo , Spanish)
- Carlos Machado Quintela: La obra del siglo. (English title: The Project of the Century ) Feature film, Cuba / Argentina / Germany / Switzerland 2015, 100 minutes
- Adrián Silvestre: Natalia Nikolaevna. Documentary short film, Spain 2014, 30 minutes ( viewable online on Vimeo , Spanish)
- Arturo Sotto: Bretón es un bebé. Documentary, Cuba / Brazil 2008, 52 minutes (nine-minute chapter on Ciudad Nuclear on YouTube , full film on cubainformación.tv , Spanish)
Web links
- Ciudad Nuclear in the Cuban state online encyclopedia EcuRed (Spanish)
- Castillo-CEN in the Cuban state online encyclopedia EcuRed (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Daisy Valera: Cienfuegos: a Tourist and Nuclear City (with photos), in: Havana Times of January 9, 2014, accessed on January 29, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Jorge Domínguez Morado: Photo gallery: Ruta marítima Cienfuegos-Ciudad Nuclear, ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Radio Ciudad del Mar, August 25, 2013, accessed January 29, 2015 (Spanish)
- ↑ Darilys Reyes Sánchez: Reciben en Cienfuegos al campeón olímpico Robeisy Ramírez, ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: 5 de Septiembre of August 15, 2012, accessed on January 29, 2015 (Spanish)
- ↑ The Project of the Century, brief information on the website of the film distributor M-Appeal, accessed on January 29, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Natalia Nikolaevna, ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the production company Dinamia Producciones, accessed January 30, 2015 (Spanish)
