Nyonoksa is accessible by land vehicles only during the winter months when the nearby swampland freezes.

[citation needed] While Russian authorities did not disclose what the power source was intended for, some Russian media as well as U.S. President Donald Trump have linked the event to the development of the nuclear-powered cruise missile 9M730 Burevestnik, also known by its NATO reporting name as the SSC-X-9 Skyfall.

[16][17] Nyonoksa hosts 7 objects which are protected as cultural heritage monuments at the federal level.

[9][20] Another ensemble, the salt production complex, is neglected since the Great Patriotic War (WWII).

[21] In 1553, an English ship the Edward Bonaventure in the Hugh Willoughby expedition and captained by Richard Chancellor and Clement Adams arrived during England's search for the Northern Sea Route to China and India and thus opened Russia under Czar Ivan IV to English merchants.

[9] Nyonoksa was Russia's original "window to England" (Russian: «окном в Англию»).