  Coherent photoproduction of heavy quarkonia on nuclear targets is studied
within the QCD color dipole formalism including several main phenomena: i) The
correlation between impact parameter of a collision $\vec b$ and dipole
orientation $\vec r$; ii) The higher-twist nuclear shadowing related to the
$\bar QQ$ Fock state of the photon; iii) The leading-twist gluon shadowing
corresponding to higher Fock components of the photon containing gluons; iv)
Reduced effects of quantum coherence in a popular Balitsky-Kovchegov equation
compared to calculations, which are frequently presented in the literature. Our
calculations of differential cross sections are in good agreement with recent
ALICE data on charmonium production in ultra-peripheral nuclear collisions. We
present also predictions for coherent photoproduction of other quarkonium
states ($\psi^{\,\prime}$(2S), $\Upsilon$(1S) and $\Upsilon^{\,\prime}$(2S))
that can be verified by future measurements at the LHC.
