POST-SOVIET MONOTOWN LEGACY FACING THREATS– CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES
In the 20th century, accelerated urbanization prompted the development of industrial monotowns, settlements closely tied to single enterprises. Characteristic of the Soviet Union, these towns were designed according to modernist planning principles and served state-driven economic objectives. Visaginas in Lithuania exemplifies such a town, constructed during the 1970s–1980s to house personnel of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant.