Is Yamsk 11 based on a real life location?


The Full Metal Panic series is known to reference various real life location.

For an example the fictional Jindai
([陣代](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SebxL.jpg)) High School is based on the real
life Jindai ([神代](https://i.stack.imgur.com/g0tO4.jpg)) High School in Choufu,
Tokyo.

The closest station to the real life Jindai High School is the Senkawa
station, changed from [仙川](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9TQAN.jpg) to
[泉川](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9eGk6.jpg) (Izumikawa).

Is [Yamsk 11](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lHniW.png) based on a real life
location? If so where is the real like location of Yamsk 11, the secret city
where the Omni-Sphere known as TAROS resides?




According to the Russian [Full Metal Panic wiki's Yamsk-11
article](http://mithril.msk.su/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA-11) (Янск-11, see
reference), it says that Yamsk-11 is here: **60° 8' 10.66" N 153° 54' 20.60"
E** (East Siberia). " _Yamsk-11_ " is not the name of the city, but a postal
code for mail delivery. There is a city, _Yamsk_ , 63 km to the south of "
_Yamsk-11_ ". It was common practice in USSR to give a postal code name with a
number for [closed towns](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_city).
Apparently, there was a town at those coordinates that's been closed. For
another example of this, see [Wikipedia's page for
Arzamas-16](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarov) or
[Chelyabinsk-65/40](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozyorsk,_Chelyabinsk_Oblast).

So looks like there is a real location but not sure if it has anything in
common with the fictional "Yamsk 11" in FMP (but who knows), and the name
"Yamsk 11" is a postal code from the USSR days.




According to the Russian [Full Metal Panic wiki's Yamsk-11
article](http://mithril.msk.su/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA-11) (Янск-11, see
reference), it says that Yamsk-11 is here: **60° 8' 10.66" N 153° 54' 20.60"
E** (East Siberia). " _Yamsk-11_ " is not the name of the city, but a postal
code for mail delivery. There is a city, _Yamsk_ , 63 km to the south of "
_Yamsk-11_ ". It was common practice in USSR to give a postal code name with a
number for [closed towns](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_city).
Apparently, there was a town at those coordinates that's been closed. For
another example of this, see [Wikipedia's page for
Arzamas-16](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarov) or
[Chelyabinsk-65/40](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozyorsk,_Chelyabinsk_Oblast).

So looks like there is a real location but not sure if it has anything in
common with the fictional "Yamsk 11" in FMP (but who knows), and the name
"Yamsk 11" is a postal code from the USSR days.

