The communities of Sarov, Russia and Los Alamos, NM USA have had a Sister Cities relationship since the early 90’s which has resulted in exchange visits between citizens of Sarov and Los Alamos in the fields of medicine, education, local government, in addition to the many scientific visits between our laboratories through the years. There has been a medical partnership from 1999 to 2004 in areas of asthma, hypertension, and diabetes control, as well as adolescent risk behaviors. One of the most successful of these programs has been the cooperation between dentists in advancing programs of preventive dentistry.

Organization: The Los Alamos Sarov Sister Cities Initiative (LASSCI) is an organization being created to design, implement, and manage programs that will be of mutual benefit to Sarov and Los Alamos. These programs are intended

• to share expertise and experience of individuals in our communities,
• to create opportunities for citizens of each community to learn more about the other’s culture and community, and
• to coordinate our efforts with and organization that is concurrently being organized called the Communities for International Development. This consists of five partnership cities: Sarov/Los Alamos, Zhelezneogorsk/Blount county, Tennessee, Kurgan Shchushye/Fox Cities, Dubna/LaCrosse, and Snezhinsk/Livermore.