Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]

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  • The Soviet Union and Russia use numbers as designation for many of its projects under development

    Which clandestine Soviet projects used the naming convention ‘Project [n]’, where n is some number?
    If you are trying to imply that other states do not use numbers in the naming conventions of their projects in general, then this is silly and you can look for all your M1s, Types, etc. all across the globe.

    Here’s an example of Soviet ship project numbers that follows this convention

    Notably, not a naming convention for clandestine projects, but for military engineering ones.

    This extends beyond military projects though. In the USSR/Russia, research institutes are designated by number

    None of those names follow the naming convention of ‘Project [n]’.

    Also, those are not research institutes you are linking to - those are constructor bureaus.

    as well as hospitals and schools etc. You don’t go to Libertyville High School, instead in Russia you go to “School 57” (Школа № 57)

    As an aside, this naming happens locally, and it actually doesn’t quite apply to all (primary and secondary level) schools.

    Also, I don’t quite see what the relation is. I’m pretty sure that I can find similar naming conventions used for schools elsewhere.

    China also largely follows the same numbering conventions for military projects, institutions, hospitals and schools

    Which makes the soft-implication that it’s just the USSR+Russia that use that naming convention more silly.