Kantubek
Kantubek is a ghost town on Vozrozhdeniya Island in the Aral Sea. The town is still found on maps but was abandoned in 1992 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Abandoned locality
- Description: ghost town on Vozrozhdeniya Island in the Aral Sea
- Also known as: “Kontyubek” and “Rybachiy Posëlok”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rebirth Island.
Rebirth Island
Locality
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Vozrozhdeniya Island is a peninsula and former lake island in the Aral Sea. The former island's territory is split between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. In 1954, the Soviet Union constructed a biological weapons test site called Aralsk-7 there and on the neighbouring Komsomolskiy Island, which also no longer exists as an island. Rebirth Island is situated 4 km west of Kantubek.
Kantubek
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Uzbek—“Kantubek” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Кантубек”
- Catalan: “Kantubek”
- Chinese: “凯图巴克”
- Chinese: “凱圖巴克”
- Czech: “Kantubek”
- Dutch: “Kantubek”
- French: “Kantoubek”
- French: “Kantubek”
- German: “Kantubek”
- Irish: “Kantubek”
- Italian: “Kantubek”
- Lithuanian: “Kantubekas”
- Polish: “Kantubek”
- Romanian: “Kahtubek”
- Romanian: “Kantubek”
- Russian: “Кантубек”
- Spanish: “Kantubek”
- Uzbek: “Kantubek (shaharcha)”
- Uzbek: “Kantubek”
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