Alpert arrives at the city of secrecy and rumor after long investigations and through special connection to the KGB. Not long ago, the 100,000 inhabitants were allowed to see visitors only once every three months. All of them work as engineers and scientists in subterranean nuclear power plants nearby.
We seem to have entered an alien world, but life here is a privilege not a punishment: tidy streets, sufficient supply, "an atomic, communist Disneyland." But this city has another, radiating secret.