Ivankovo

…it absorbed the town of Ivankovo on the opposite bank. It is one of several planned “science cities,” its existence depending on the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, which employs scientists from many countries. Dubna University opened in 1994. The city includes much open green area. Pop. (2006 est.) 61,699.

…complex on the Volga, the Ivankovo, with a reservoir covering 126 square miles, was completed in 1937, and the next complex, at Uglich (96 square miles), was put into operation in 1939. The Rybinsk Reservoir, completed in 1941 and encompassing an area of about 1,750 square miles, was the first…