Estonia; Ida-Viru County; city of Sillam鋏: event hall and stage with reliefs of Karl Marx (left) and Lenin (right) and decoration for first schoolday on 1st of September 2019 with inscription "Tere Kool!" (Welcome to school) in the Culture House; built 1949 in style of socialist classicism; After World War II; Sillam鋏 became a hot spot for Soviet military activites and a "forbidden city"; not even mentioned on maps. As in Sillam鋏; there could be found oil shale; from which Uranium oxyde could be extracted; the village; which gained city rights in 1957; became very important for the realization of the Soviet atomic bomb. The whole village was re-designed in the Stalinist architecture style; also called socialist classicism; or Stalinist Empire Style; in late 1940s and 1950s. Best examples of this new town architecture are the town hall with tower in form of a Lutheran church tower; the culture house; built 1949; and the buildings along the Mere Boulevard (Sea Boulevard). As well; the Sillam鋏 Museum of Soviet time in the atomic shelter under the Culture House re-evokes this Soviet time. Sillam鋏 (German: Sillam鋑i; also Sillam鋑gi); literally meaning "hill at the bridge"; was first mentioned; in 1502; as "tor bruggen" (at the bridge). Nearby was the German Baltic manor T黵sel (Estonian: T黵sam鋏). In 19th century; Sillam鋏 became a popular summer resort with prominent guests (Pjotr Tchaikovsky; Paul Ehrenfest). Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936); in 1891; built a summer datcha; here. Starting in 1927; oil shale was mined; in Sillam鋏. During German occupation (1941 - 1944); there was also an outpost of the Vaivara concentraiton camp; here on the spot. After 1947; Soviet GULAG prisoners worked here. In 1948; the uranium enrichment started which closed the town; hermetically. // Estland; Kreis Ida-Viru; Stadt Sillam鋏: Veranstaltungssaal und B黨ne mit Reliefs von Karl Marx (links) und Lenin (rechts) sowie Dekoration zum ersten Schultag am 1.9.2019 mit Inschrift